【绿皮】新GRE填空补充练习题Exercise4

　　Exercise 4
 

　　1. Although Darwinism was a profoundly ______ world view, it was essentially

　　passive, since it prescribed no steps to be taken, no victories over nature to be

　　celebrated, no program of triumphs of be successively gained.

　　(A limited

　　(B repressive

　　(C debatable

　　(D innovative

　　(E paradoxical
 

　　2. The concept of timelessness is paradoxical from the start, for adult

　　consciousness is ______ by the awareness of duration.

　　(A intrigued

　　(B repelled

　　(C measured

　　(D accelerated

　　(E permeated
 

　　3. There are simply no ______ for buying stock in certain industries since

　　rapidly changing environmental restrictions will make a profitable return on any

　　investment very unlikely.

　　(A incentives

　　(B arrangements

　　(C explanations

　　(D conditions

　　(E procedures
 

　　4.

　　The reduction of noise has been approached in terms of ______ its sources,

　　but the alternative of canceling noise out by adding sound with the opposite

　　wave pattern may be more useful in practice.

　　(A diffusing

　　(B tracking

　　(C concealing

　　(D isolating

　　(E eliminating
 

　　5.

　　The poet W. H. Auden believed that the greatest poets of his age were

　　almost necessarily irresponsible, that the possession of great gifts ______ the

　　propensity to abuse them.

　　(A negates

　　(B controls

　　(C engenders

　　(D tempers

　　(E obviates
 

　　6.

　　If duty is the natural outgrowth of one’s ______the course of future events,

　　then people who are powerful have duty placed on them whether they like it or

　　not.

　　(A understanding of

　　(B control over

　　(C involvement in

　　(D preoccupation with

　　(E responsibility for
 

　　7.

　　Before the Second World War, academics still questioned whether the body

　　of literature produced in the United States truly constituted a _________

　　literature, or whether such literature was only a provincial branch of English

　　literature.

　　(A local

　　(B national

　　(C historical

　　(D good

　　(E meaningful
 

　　8.

　　The sea was not an ________the diffusion of the windmill; on the contrary,

　　while the concept of the new invention passed quickly from seaport to seaport, it

　　made little headway inland.

　　(A element in

　　(B issue in

　　(C aid to

　　(D obstacle to

　　(E promotion of

 

 

　　答案：

　　Exercise4: D E A E C B B D