GRE（VERBAL）模拟试卷35 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1. PART ONE 2. PART TWO
PART ONE （Time：30 minutes 38 Questions）
SECTION 1Directions: Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
1． The intern, while ______ , proved too unskilled to be permitted to work on his own ______ project.
A．reckless .. unsupervised B．enthusiastic.. dedicated C．competent.. autonomous
D．excitable.. subsidiaryE．responsible.. obscure
正确答案：C
2． I put a bandage on the child’s finger to ______ the flow of blood from his cut.
A．irrigate B．expose C．stanch
D．pluckE．obviate
正确答案：C
3． France and Spain, while actually very ______ , share a common reputation for a more ______ way of life than that experienced by the average harried American.
A．similar.. tranquil B．genteel.. guarded C．informal.. substantial
D．dissimilar.. sereneE．diverse.. traditional
正确答案：D
4． Both discipline-based and affection-based parenting methods stand the chance of undermining their own assumptions: Overreliance on external discipline through punishment may (i) ______ the child’s independent moral development, while an overly (ii) ______ parenting style may provide the child with the false impression that no one else’s needs matter.
正确答案：Too much discipline may stunt a child’s moral development; too much leniency may make the child self- centered. Occlude means “to block,” while indulgent means “lenient.” To anticipate is to “come before,” to repudiate is to “denounce”; obstreperous means “noisy,” while lachrymose means “tearful.”
SECTION 2Directions: In each of the following questions, a related pair of words or phrases is followed by five lettered pairs of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
5． AGITATOR : FIREBRAND :: A．miser : spendthrift B．renegade : turncoat C．anarchist : backslider
D．maverick : scapegoatE．reprobate : hothead
正确答案：B
6． DISPASSIONATE : PARTISANSHIP :: A．enthusiastic : zealousness B．disconsolate : sorrow C．intemperate : moderation
D．volatile : immobilityE．ardent : involvement
正确答案：C
SECTION 3Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its content. After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
How is a newborn star formed? For the answer to this question, we must look to the familiar physical concept of gravitational instability. It is aLine simple concept, long-known to scientists, having(5) been first recognized by Isaac Newton in the late 1600s. Let us envision a cloud of interstellar atoms and molecules, slightly admixed with dust. This cloud of interstellar gas is static and uniform.(10) Suddenly, something occurs to disturb the gas, causing one small area within it to condense. As this small area increases in density, becoming slightly denser than the gas around it, its gravita- tional field likewise increases somewhat in(15) strength. More matter now is attracted to the area, and its gravity becomes even stronger; as a result, it starts to contract, in the process increasing in den- sity even more. This in turn further increases its gravity, so that it accumulates still more matter(20) and contracts further still. And so the process
continues, until finally the small area of gas gives birth to a gravitationally bound object, a newborn star.
7． It can be inferred from the passage that the author views the information contained within it as
A．controversial but irrefutable B．speculative and unprofitable C．uncomplicated and traditional
D．original but obscureE．sadly lacking in elaboration
正确答案：C
8． The author provides information that answers which of the following questions? Ⅰ. How does the small area’s increasing density affect its gravitational field? Ⅱ. What causes the disturbance that changes the cloud from its original static state? Ⅲ. What is the end result of the gradually increas-ing concentration of the small area of gas?
A．Ⅰ only B．Ⅱ only
C．Ⅰ and Ⅱ only
D．Ⅰ and Ⅲ onlyE．Ⅰ, Ⅱ and Ⅲ
正确答案：D
This passage is adapted from The American Republic: Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny by O. A. Brownson, 1866. The ancients summed up the whole of human wisdom in the maxim “Know Thyself,”Line and certainly there is for an individual no more important and no more difficult knowledge, than knowledge of himself. Nations are only individuals on a larger scale. They have a life, an individuality, a reason, a conscience, and instincts of their own,(5) and have the same general laws of development and growth, and, perhaps, of decay, as the individual man. Equally important, and no less difficult than for the individual, is it for a nation to know itself, understand its own existence, its own powers and faculties, rights and duties, constitution, instincts, tendencies, and destiny. A nation has a spiritual as well as a material existence, a moral as well as a physical existence, and is(10) subjected to internal as well as external conditions of health and virtue, greatness and grandeur, which it must in some measure understand and observe, or become lethargic and infirm, stunted in its growth, and end in premature decay and death.Among nations, no one has more need of full knowledge of itself than the United States, and no one has, to this point, had less. It has hardly had a distinct(35) consciousness of its own national existence, and has lived the naive life of the child, with no severe trial, till the recent civil
war, to throw it back on itself and compel it to reflect on its own constitution, its own separate existence, individuality, tendencies, and end. The defection of the slaveholding States, and the fearful struggle that has followed for national unity and integrity, have(20) brought the United States at once to a distinct recognition of itself, and forced it to pass from thoughtless, careless, heedless, reckless adolescence to grave and reflecting manhood. The nation has been suddenly compelled to study itself, and from now on must act from reflection, understanding, science, and statesmanship, not from instinct, impulse, passion, or caprice, knowing well what it does, and(25) why it does it. The change that four years of civil war have wrought in the nation is great, and is sure to give it the seriousness, the gravity, and the dignity it has so far lacked.
9． Which of the following statements best summarizes the main point of the first paragraph?
A．Understanding one’s own strengths and weaknesses is a difficult yet important task, not only for individuals, but for nations as a whole.
B．The spirituality of individuals should be dictated by the nation’s government. C．The comparing of a nation to a person is inaccurate and leads only to confusion and misrepresentation.
D．The United States was founded upon a principle of law that originated from the ancient world.E．A nation’s moral existence is governed by external conditions only.
正确答案：A
10． The author’s argument is developed primarily by the use of A．an example of one nation’s success B．an analogy between man and nation
C．a critique of the United States Constitution
D．a warning against civil warE．a personal account of self-realization
正确答案：B
11． The editors of the magazine are often criticized for the ______ of their opinion column, which frequently ______ from one side of an issue to the other.
A．monotony.. continues B．ingenuity.. settles
C．unpredictability.. scuttles
D．inconsistency .. vacillatesE．rigidity.. dithers
正确答案：D
12． DEPLORABLE:
A．eligible B．miserable C．irreproachable
D．reprehensibleE．intractable
正确答案：C
13． CIRCUMSPECT: A．intricate B．reckless C．dissonant
D．formativeE．prudent
正确答案：B
14． RESERVOIR : LAKE :: A．dam : river B．hub : wheel
C．canal : waterway
D．bank : streamE．window : door
正确答案：C
SECTION 4Directions: Each question below consists of a word printed in capital letters followed by five lettered words or phrases. Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters. Since some of the questions require you to distinguish fine shades of meaning, be sure to consider all the choices before deciding which one is best.
15． ABATE: A．abdicate B．augment C．annihilate
D．lessenE．contradict
正确答案：B
16． PLACATE: A．to pacify B．to infuriate C．to percolate
D．to promulgateE．to manipulate
正确答案：B
17． SKEPTICISM: A．intricacy B．qualmishness C．credulity
D．disbeliefE．narcissism
正确答案：C
18． WARY: A．waning B．vigilant C．arbitrary
D．cautiousE．foolhardy
正确答案：E
19． ABROGATE: A．to institute B．to annul C．to abate
D．to abuseE．to bargain for
正确答案：A
20． ASSIMILATE: A．to ascertain B．to befuddle C．to suffocate
D．to dissipateE．to incorporate into
正确答案：D
PART TWO （Time：30 minutes 38 Questions）
SECTION 2Directions: In each of the following questions, a related pair of words or phrases is followed by five lettered pairs of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.
21． INOCULATION : IMMUNITY :: A．talisman : charm B．serum : antidote
C．exposure : weathering
D．indoctrination : disloyaltyE．invasion : fortification
正确答案：C
22． CALLOW : MATURITY :: A．incipient: fruition B．eager : anxiety C．youthful : senility
D．apathetic : disinterestE．pallid : purity
正确答案：A
23． DAMPEN : ENTHUSIASM :: A．moisten : throat B．test : commitment C．distract : attention
D．reverse : directionE．mute : sound
正确答案：E
24． BURST : SOUND :: A．ebb : tide B．tinder : fire C．blast : wind
D．glimmer : lightE．shard : pottery
正确答案：C
SECTION 3Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its content. After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
With Meredith’s The Egoist we enter into a critical problem that we have not yet before faced in these studies. That is the problem offered by aLine writer of recognizably impressive stature, whose (5) work is informed by a muscular intelligence, whose language has splendor, whose “view of life” wins our respect, and yet for whom we are at best able to feel only a passive appreciation which amounts, practically, to indifference. We should(10) be unjust to Meredith and to criticism if we should, giving in to the inertia of indifference, simply avoid dealing with him and thus avoid the problem along with him. He does not “speak to us,” we might say; his meaning is not a “meaning(15) for us”; he “leaves us cold.” But do not the chal- lenge and the excitement of the critical problem as such lie in that ambivalence of attitude
which allows us to recognize the intelligence and even the splendor of
Meredith’ s work, while, at the(20) same time, we experience a lack of sympathy, a failure of any enthusiasm of response?
25． According to the passage, the work of Meredith is noteworthy for its elements of
A．sensibility and artistic fervor
B．ambivalence and moral ambiguity C．tension and sense of vitality
D．brilliance and linguistic grandeurE．wit and whimsical frivolity
正确答案：D
26． All of the following can be found in the author’s discussion of Meredith EXCEPT
A．an indication of Meredith’s customary effect on readers B．an enumeration of the admirable qualities in his work
C．a selection of hypothetical comments at Meredith’ s expense
D．an analysis of the critical ramifications of Meredith’s effect on readersE．a refutation of the claim that Meredith evokes no sympathy
正确答案：E
27． It can be inferred from the passage that the author finds the prospect of appraising Meredith’s work critically to be
A．counterproductive B．overly formidable C．somewhat tolerable
D．markedly unpalatableE．clearly invigorating
正确答案：E
28． It can be inferred from the passage that the author would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about the role of criticism?
A．Its prime office should be to make our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as conscious as possible.
B．It should be a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
C．It should enable us to go beyond personal prejudice to appreciate the virtues of works antipathetic to our own tastes.
D．It should dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, ignoring such deficiencies as irrelevant.E．It should strive both to purify literature and to elevate the literary standards of the reading public.
正确答案：C
The Quechua world is submerged, so to speak, in a cosmic magma that weighs heavily upon it. It possesses the rare quality of being as it wereLine interjected into the midst of antagonistic forces, (5) which in turn implies a whole body of social and aesthetic structures whose innermost meaning must be the administration of energy. This gives rise to the social organism known as the ayllu, the agrarian community that regulates the procure-(10) ment
of food. The ayllu formed the basic struc- ture of the whole Inca empire. The central idea of this organization was a kind of closed economy, just the opposite of our economic practices, which can be described as(15) open. The closed economy rested on the fact that the Inca controlled both the production and con- sumption of food. When one adds to this fact the religious ideas noted in the Quechua texts cited by the chronicler Santa Cruz Pachacuti, one(20) comes to the conclusion that in the Andean zone the margin of life was minimal and was made possible only by the system of magic the Quechua constructed through his religion. Adversities, moreover, were numerous, for the harvest might(25) fail at any time and bring starvation to millions. Hence the whole purpose of the Quechua admin- istrative and ideological system was to carry on the arduous task of achieving abundance and staving off shortages. This kind of structure pre-(30) supposes a state of unremitting anxiety, which could not be resolved by action. The Quechua could not do so because his primordial response to problems was the use of magic, that is, recourse to the unconscious for the solution of(35) external problems. Thus the struggle against the world was a struggle against the dark depths of the Quechua’s own psyche, where the solution was found. By overcoming the unconscious, the outer world was also vanquished.(40) These considerations permit us to classify Quechua culture as absolutely static or, more accurately, as the expression of a mere state of being. Only in this way can we understand the refuge that it took in the germinative center of the(45) cosmic mandala as revealed by Quechua art. The Quechua empire was nothing more than a man- dala, for it was divided into four zones, with Cuzco in the center. Here the Quechua ensconced himself to contemplate the decline of the world as(50) though it were caused by an alien and autonomous force.
29． The term “mandala” as used in the last paragraph most likely means A．an agrarian community B．a kind of superstition C．a closed economic pattern
D．a philosophy or way of regarding the worldE．a figure composed of four divisions
正确答案：E
30． The author implies that the Quechua world was A．uncivilized
B．highly introspective C．vitally energetic
D．free of major worriesE．well organized
正确答案：B 31． With which of the following statements would the author most likely agree? A．Only psychological solutions can remedy economic ills. B．The Quechua were renowned for equanimity and unconcern. C．The Quechua limited themselves to realizable goals.
D．Much of Quechua existence was harsh and frustrating.E．Modern Western society should adopt some Quechua economic ideas.
正确答案：D
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