[英语园地] GRE 句子填空题型

51.That the new group was unable to weather its first staff meeting  without  evidence of the same ____ that its creation was intended to abolish  did not  ___future harmony among coworkers.    Factions ..augur(key)  这个新团体不能预测他们第一次全体会议,没有证据表明分歧的建立是为了废止分歧,因此, 将不能预测到将来的共同工作中的和谐。  that引起长长的从句做主语，绕了好多圈  unable to  weather后面也应该是did not augur，既然不能harmony所以是factions abolish without  evidence      52.The prevailing union of passionate interest in detailed facts with  equal  devotion to abstract ____ is a hallmark of our present society; in  the past  this union appeared, at best , ____ and as if by chance.    generalization.. sporadically(key)目前流行的联合会，是一些关于细节事实的热情的兴趣，这些事实都被同等的致力于抽象概括，这    些联合会使我们现代社会的象征；在过去，这些联合会看起来，最多是零星的，就像偶然的出现。    现在与过去比较：现在prevailing，过去就是sporadically and by chance;第一个空  abstract generalization很好    53.The author did not see the ___ inherent in her scathing criticism  of a  writing style so similar to her own.    incongruity(key)  symbolism 象征主义；synbiosis共生  作家没有看出内在的不同，在他对一个和她自己的很相似的风格的伤害性的批评。  有人模仿他的风格，他就骂，实际上incongruity inherent    54.The author is ____ to identify any particular principle as  fundamental,  insisting instead that it is only when viewed within specific  contexts that  principles can be ____.    loathe .. assessed(key)  作家憎恨把所有特别的原理认为是基本的，作为代替的是，他坚持仅仅当在特定的上下文时被考虑，原理才能被评定。Instead表转折，就是特定情况specific can be assessed;而且前者显然是表现主语的主观状态，应该选reluctant或者loathe这样的词      55.As ___ as she was to the widespread dissatisfaction with her  performance  on  the job, it is no wonder that she greeted the news of her dismissal  with  ____.    Oblivious .astonishment(key)  就像她对广泛得对她在工作中的表现不满不知晓的情况一样，她对她被解职的消息表现的震惊就一点也不奇怪了。  As ___ as，前后必然同义  56.The scientist found it puzzling that his rival's theory retained  its  ____despite widespread suggestions that it was now ____.    currency. .moribund(key)  该科学家奇怪的发现她对手的理论仍然保持流行，尽管流行的说法说它是垂死的。despite显然应该是相反的意思.      57.In keeping with the well-established custom（传统） that even the  most  favorable review should include some ____, the reviewer follows her  _____ the  book's  prose with some objections to its implementations of  theory.    reservations .. praise of(key)  为了和建立的很好的习惯保持一致，最好的评论也该保持一些节制，这个评论家在批评了该散文集的一些理论的实施之后，又赞扬了它。 （Customer顾客Follow BA  ）  58.Even among those findings in the field of nuclear physics that  have ___,  many have been subject to repeated challenges on the basis of new  evidence.    arisen  survived(key)  declined  been proposed  been questioned    即使这些发现是在存在很久的核科学领域中，许多人已经确定的在一些新证据的基础上不断地提出挑战。  Even 表转折，new对survived    59.The economists were ____ to find that the theory that they had  considered  _____crumbled when modern techniques for economic modeling made it  possible to  make new kinds of observation that contradicted its fundamental  assumptions.    stunned. .invulnerable(key)    经济学家吃惊的发现这样一个理论，当现代对经济模型的技术使得建立一个和原来基本的假设相矛盾的新的观察成为可能的时候，他们原来认为坚不可摧的理论，事实是脆的。Considered AB  invulnerable和crumbled相对，所以吃惊          60.One reason for the development of junior high schools in the  United States  was ____: these schools provided an efficient and inexpensive way to  avoid  overcrowding in the high schools.    expediency(key)  在美国，低级高中的发展的一个原因是方便：这些学校提供一个有效的便宜的方法，从而避免高中的人口爆满。 （ Expediency方便；权宜之计  ）    61.Even though some of the variables identified in Chang's study of  personality  types are inherently ____, the application of that study's results  predicts  human behavior with considerable ____.    nebulous..specificity(key)    尽管一些辨别chang对于人格类型的研究的参数从本质上是模糊的，这个研究结果的对于人类行为预测的采用被认为是明确的。Even though表转折，两个空填反义词。        62.Just as the author' book on eels is often a key text for courses  in marine  vertebrate zoology, their ideas on animal development and phylogeny  ___  teaching in this area    inform(key)  就像这些作者关于鳗鱼的书通常是关于海洋脊椎动物学的关键的课本，他们关于动物发展和发展史的观点为这个领域提供了教学。 just as并列      63. Many more eighteenth-century novels were written by women than by  men, but  this dominance has, until very recently, been regarded merely as ___  fact, a  bit of arcane knowledge noted only by bibliographers.    18世纪的小说女作家写的比男作家多，但是直到最近，这些优势才被认为仅仅是统计学上的事实，一种有点神秘的指导仅仅被书志学家所记载。开始看见recently以为是时间对比题，后看见bibliographer当然选statistical        64.Often the difficulties of growing up in the public eye cause child  prodigies  to ____ the world of achievement before reaching adulthood; happily,  they  sometimes later return to competition and succeed brilliantly.    retire from(key)  通常在公众眼中成长的困难使少年天才在成年之前就消隐了；让人高兴的是，他们后来又回到了竞争并且取得成功。    return to 和retire from 相对应。    65.That many lawyers have acquired a reputation for ____ even the  most solemn  and binding undertakings does not ____ discovery of attorneys devoted  to both  legal and ethical right.    subverting.. preclude(key)    许多律师因为推翻了最神圣和束缚的重压，赢得了一个名声，这些并不能排除这样一个发现，律师致力于法律和伦理两个方面的合理性。    律师致力于legal使显然的，是否致力于ethical,前后意思相反 （难题找词）  66.While some argue that imposing tolls on highway users circumvents  the need  to raise public taxes for road maintenance, the phenomenal expense  of  maintaining a vast net work of roads ____reliance on these general  taxes.    necessitates(key)  有些认证论说对高速公路的用于征加通行费用将避免提高关于公路维护的公众税收的需要，然而，保持一个庞大的公路网的明显的使得依赖于一个通常的税收是必须的。while转折，前面说circumvent后面就是necessitate        67.The skeleton of ____ bird that was recently discovered indicated  that this  ancient creature ____ today's birds in that, unlike earlier birds and  unlike  reptilian ancestors, it had not a tooth in its head    a primeval.. obscured  a primitive.. anticipated (key)  早期鸟的骨架的最近被发现，指出古代生物预示了今天的鸟类，和更加早的鸟类和爬虫类的祖先不同，它头部没有牙齿。ancient后者modern，第一个空显然选择primeval,或者primitive，看后面这个鸟和earlier  birds不同，和today的相同了        68.According to one political theorist, a regime that has as its goal  absolute  ____, without any ____ law or principle, has declared war on  justice.    supremacy.. suppression of    autonomy.. accountability to(key)    通过一个政治理论家可以知道，一个政体如果以它自己的目的为绝对权威，对于法律或者准则无任何责任，就已经在像正义宣战了。 That引出一个分句，后面还有一个without应该意思一样的；declare war on justice必然是没有服从法律和准则      69.The remark was only slightly ____, inviting a chuckle, perhaps,  but  certainly not a ____.    humorous.. guffaw(key)    这些话仅仅有一点点幽默，或许导致了一些轻笑，但肯定不是哄堂大笑。chuckle前面就是slightly humor,后面not guffaw        70.Estimating the risks of radiation escaping from a nuclear power  plant is    ___ question, but one whose answer then becomes part of a value- laden,  emotionally charged policy debate about whether to construct such a  plant.    a technical(key)    估计从一个核电厂逸出的辐射的危险是一个技术问题,但是一个答案变成了部分价值负担，在情绪上是充满的感情提出政策的关于是否修建这样一个点场的讨论。  71.Our highly ____ vocabulary for street crime contrasts sharply to  our ____  vocabulary for corporate crime, a fact that corresponds to the  general public's  unawareness of the extent of corporate crime.    differentiated.. limited(key)    我们高度丰富的关于街道犯罪的词汇，和我们十分有限的团体犯罪词汇相对照，是一个和普通大众对法人犯罪的程度的不关心的事实。  contrast to前后相对，从后面句子看出，highly---  contrasts ---limited      72.In modern English very few verb forms can be surely identified as  subjunctives, and the use of those few is so irregular that ____

criteria for  appropriate usage are hard to infer.    definite(key)    在现代英语中，很少有动词形式能被肯定的用作虚拟语态，如此少的用途是如此的不规则以至于(确定的)合适用途的标准是很难被推断的。irregular和definite相对，so … that 结构        73.Professional photographers generally regard inadvertent surrealism  in a  photograph as a curse rather than a blessing; magazine photographers,  in  particular, consider themselves ____ to the extent that they can ____  its  presence in their photographs.    Fortunate .. minimize(key)  专业摄影师一般把想偏重不谨慎的超现实主义看作是一个诅咒而不是一个祝福；特别是杂志摄影师，认为在他们的摄影中能够尽可能减少超现实主义的存在时非常的幸运的。      magazine是一种professional photographer，所以他们的态度是一样的。    74.Doors were closing on our past, and soon the values we had lived  by would  become so obsolete that we would seem to people of the new age as ___  as  travelers from an ancient land.    quaint(key)    时间对比题关于我们过去的门正在被关闭，不久我们曾经所习惯的价值观将变得如此过时，以至于我们被新时代的人看作是古代来的古怪的旅行者。  obsolete, ancient的东西对于new age 选quaint比较合适        75.Mechanisms develop whereby every successful species can ____ its  innate  capacity for population growth with the constraints that arise  through its  interactions with the natural environment.    enhance  replace  produce  surpass  reconcile(key)    机制的发展使得每一个品种能够调和它内在的人口增长的容量和来自于它和自然环境之间的相互作用的限制。 reconcile ...with....    76.It was not the ___ of great wealth-jewels, limousines, palatial  houses-that  enticed him; rather, he was ___ by the illusion of complete freedom  that  unlimited financial resources created.    trappings. .seduced(key)  并不是那些巨大的财富，比如珠宝，汽车，洋房吸引了他；然而，他是被完全的无限的财政资源的创造所吸引。  entice显然前后都应该是吸引。    77.Ability to ___ is the test of the perceptive historian; a  history , after  all, consists not only of what the historian has included, but  also ,in some  sense, of what has been left out.    select(key)  选择的能力是历史学家洞察力的检测；一段历史毕竟不仅仅包括历史学家所需要的，而且，某种意义上来说是要被抛弃的。  not only ..but also的意思既是select    78.Although the ____ of cases of measles has ___, researchers fear  that  eradication of the disease, once believed to be imminent, may not  come soon.    incidence. declined(key)    虽然麻疹病例的一项范围已经减小（即可研究的项目以不多），但是研究者还是害怕这种疾病的消灭，曾经被相信是即将来临的，可能不会那么快到来。从researchers的担心可知，前半句就应该是incidence decline ，researchers要研究病，所以怕它消失      79.Although it seems ____ that there would be a greater risk of  serious  automobile accidents in densely populated areas, such accidents are  more likely  to occur in sparsely populated regions.    axiomatic(Key)    尽管看起来是显而易见的，在人口稠密的地区将会有更大的严重的汽车事故的危险，然而，这样的事故更容易在人口稀疏的地方发生。    Although表转折    80.Because art is a ____ form of human expression ,the artist's  approach to  creation is ____ personal experience.    Dispassionate （平心静气的）.. influenced  Subjective ..colored  因为艺术是人类感情的主观形式，艺术家创作的方法时受到个人经历的影响的。  art和 personal experience有关，所以是subjective          81.When a person suddenly loses consciousness, a bystander is not  expected  to  ___ the problem but to attempt to ____ its effects by starting vital  functions  if they are absent.    Diagnose ..counter(key)    一个人突然失去知觉时，旁观者并没有被指望来诊断问题但是如果他们在场，就要努力通过激起生命功能来消减它的效果。    But引起的一个转折对应      82.To label the 1950's in the United States a "golden age" is  somewhat ____;  general prosperity increased but the gains made by women in the  workplace  during the Second World War were ____.    misleading. .eroded(key)  把50年代的美国标记成黄金时代稍微有点错误；大众繁荣增长了，但是二战中妇女在工作岗位中获得的利益削弱了。后半句本身有个转折but------- increased 对应 eroded      83.Many of the towns that have voted to keep incinerators in the  county's solid  waste plan have done so not because they necessarily ____  incinerators,  but  because they are ____ to narrow their waste-disposal options.    favor. .inclined  approve of .. loath(key)  这个镇的很多人支持保持县处理垃圾计划中的焚烧场，并不是他们必须赞成焚烧场，而是因为他们不情愿削减他们的垃圾处理的选择权。    but引起一个转折  84.It was lack of ecological awareness that initially allowed  physicians to    view the new "miracle-cure" antibiotics as a permanent ___ to  bacterial  infections rather than ____ victory over such diseases.    alternative.. a major    solution .. an interim(key)    reaction.. a strategic    最初医师们把新的奇迹般医疗效果的抗生素看作使细菌感染的永久解决方案，而不是再这样的疾病上的阶段性胜利，这样做是缺乏生态学警惕性的。  permanent对interim  85.The senator's attempt to convince the public that he is not  interested in    running for a second term is ____ given the extremely ___ fund- raising  activities of his campaign committee.    futile..clandestine    specious（外观美丽，实际不好）apathetic （不感兴趣）  disingenuous..public(key)    该参议员企图使公众相信他对在任一期不感兴趣使虚伪的，特别是他的竞选委员会公开的筹募资金活动说明了这一点。  从第一个空上来讲，futile和disingenuous都可以；只是第二空选clandestine使得逻辑上稍微不合理了。        86.The essays gathered in the volume are characterized by ___ that  ____ their  disparate origins.    unity.. belies(key)    an incompatibility. .disguises （二空改成reveal就对了）（两空一起填的题）收集在这一册中的文章被赋予一致特性的，这一点说明他们分散的来源是假的。          87.Though he refused any responsibility for the failure of the  negotiations,    Stevenson had no right to ____ himself: it was his ____ that had  caused the    debacle.    absolve. .acrimony(key)    尽管Stevenson拒绝承担任何关于这次协商失败的责任，他没有权力赦免他自己；就是因为它的尖刻导致了这次协商崩溃。Though引起一个转折，所以应该选absolve；后面好选。        88.To this reviewer, Esterman's play was a thoroughly ____ exercise:  both its  laughter and its tears seemed equally ___.      artificial. .specious(key)  对于这个评论家来说，Esterman's的剧本一个彻底的虚伪的练习：它欢乐和它的眼泪两者都同样的表面上的。  前后同义  （两空一起填的题）  89.Although a change in management may appear to ____ a shift in a  company's  fortunes, more often than not its impact is _____.    augur inconsiderable(key)    although引起前后意思转折  尽管在管理上的一个改革可能会预测到公司命运的转变, 它的冲击是不值得考虑的  more often than not = more often    90.Journalists often described the incumbent senator as politically  ____,  despite the fact that his record had established him as a more ____  assessor of political possibilities and personalities than either of his  opponents had    shown themselves to be.    naive..shrewd(key)    inept..inexperienced    Despite引起前后反义，naive<>shrewd （两空一起填的题）新闻记者经常把在位的议员描述成政治上的新手，尽管这样一个事实存在，他的档案已经使他成为一个政治事件和人格特征上的精明的顾问，而不是像他的反对者们所显示的一样。        91.During a period of protracted illness, people who are sick can  become  infirm, ____ both the strength to work and many of the specific  skills they  once possessed  regaining  denying  pursuing  insuring  losing(key)    在一段长期的病痛中，病人变得很虚弱，失去了原来具有的工作能力和很多特别的技能。 Become infirm，losing ……一个意思。      92.For centuries animals have been used as ___ for people in  experiments to    assess the effects of therapeutic and other agents that might later  be used  in  humans.    precedents ---法律上的先例  surrogates(key)---代用品； 代理人    几个世纪以来，动物在试验中被作为人的替代者来评估医疗措施和其他方法的有效性，这些有可能以后被用在人的身上。  动物代替人。    93.Candidates who oppose the present state income tax must be able to  propose  ____ ways to ____ the financing of state operations.    innovative. .alleviate    alternate. .continue(key)    那些反对现在的州立税收收入的候选人，必须能够挤出一个替代的方法来维持现在的政府的经济运行。    94.Social tensions among adult factions can be ____ by politics, but  adolescents and children have no such ____ for resolving their  conflict with  the exclusive world of adults.    adjusted. .mechanism(Key)    在成人派系种的紧张压力可以被政治所调节，但是青少年们没有这样的机制来解决他们与排外的成人世界的冲突。    But转折，adult和adolescents对应，adjusted和resolving对应    95.Exposure to low-intensity gamma radiation slows the rate of growth  of the  spoilage microorganisms in food in much the same way that the low  heat used in  pasteurization ____ the spoilage action of the microorganisms in  milk.    inhibits(key)  暴露在低密度的嘎玛射线中，减缓了在食品中起腐蚀作用的微生物的生长速度，这和在巴氏杀菌法中用较低的热量来阻止在牛奶中微生物的破坏活动，基本上是一样的。  The  same way所以slow和inhibit对应      96.In some cultures the essence of magic is its traditional  integrity: it can  be efficient only if it has been ___ without loss from primeval times  to the  present practitioner.    Conventionalized  transmitted (key)    manipulated  在一些文化中，魔术的精华来自于他传统的完整性：仅仅在从古代到现代的从业者的传送中没有损失的条件下，才能有效。  Transmit from … Too…冒号之后对前面的解释    97.Kagan maintains that an infant's reactions to its first stressful  experiences are part of a natural process of development, not  harbingers of  childhood unhappiness or ____ signs of adolescent anxiety.    Prophetic(key)  normal  monotonous  virtual  typical    Kagan坚持说婴儿对于首次压力的反映部分来自于自然的发展过程，而并不是童年痛苦的预兆，也不是青春期焦虑的预兆。  Harbinger = prophetic signs关系简单    98.Physicists rejected the innovative experimental technique because,  although  it ____ some problems, it also produced new ____.    resolved. .complications  物理学家丢弃了这种新颖的试验技术，因为尽管它解决了一些问题，它也执照了一些新的麻烦。

99.Marison was a scientist of unusual ____ and imagination who had  startling  success in ____ new and fundamental principles well in advance of  their general  recognition.    insight..discerning(key)    Marison是一个有非凡洞察力和想象力的科学家，他在辨别一些新的和基础的理 论并且推动了他们的一般认识上取得了惊人的成就。  Insight，imagination大大赞扬的意思，简单。      100.Documenting science's ____ philosophy would be ____, since it is  almost    axiomatic that many philosophers use scientific concepts as the  foundations    for their speculations.    influence on ..superfluous(key)    印证科学对于哲学的影响是多余的，因为很多哲学家采用科学概念作为他们研究 的基础是显而易见的。  Axiomatic和superfluous对应      区别于superficial 表面的      101.Her ____ should not be confused with miserliness; as long as I  have known  her, she has always been willing to assist those who are in need.    frugality(key)    她的节俭不能和吝啬混淆起来；据我我知，她一直很愿意帮助那些需要帮助的人。  Frugality和miserliness褒贬相对应，as long as 是一个注释  区别于mercy仁慈；profusion 丰富，浪费      102.Although ancient tools were ___ preserved, enough have survived  to allow us  to demonstrate an occasionally interrupted but generally ____  progress through  prehistory    rarely.. continual(key)    尽管古代的工具很少被保存下来，足够的工具已经保存下来使我们能够证实史前是时代一个偶尔的中断但是一般是连续的过程。  although,引起一个转折，后面but又是一个折      103.In parts of the Arctic, the land grades into the land fast ice so  ____ that  you can walk off the coast and not know you are over the hidden  sea.    imperceptibly(key)  在北极的部分地区，陆地逐渐变化成和陆地一样坚硬的冰是如此的不能被察觉到，以至于你能够沿着海滩走，但是不知道你已经在隐藏的海上了。So… that : not know 所以前面选择so imperceptibly        104.It is puzzling to observe that Jones's novel has recently been  criticized  for its _____ structure, since commentators have traditionally argued  that    its most obvious ____ is its relentlessly rigid, indeed schematic,  framework（结构）.    lack of . .flaw(key)    令人吃惊的是，约翰的小说最近被批评说缺乏结构，然而，评论者传统的认为它最明显的错误是无情的僵化，真正有系统的，有结构的。  Traditionally认为是rigid  framework，令人吃惊的是现在lack of structure    105.The spellings of many Old English words have been ____ in the  living  language, although their pronunciations have changed.    Preserved(key)  许多旧英语中的词汇的拼写在现存的语言中被保留了下来，尽管他们的发音已经改变了。Although表转折， 保留和改变相对应      106.In the machinelike world of classical physics, the human  intellect appears  ____, since the mechanical nature of classical physics does not ____  creative  reasoning, the very ability that had made the formulation of  classical    principles possible.    anomalous..allow for(key)    在经典物理像机器一样的世界中，人类智慧显得如此反常，因为经典物理的自然机制不允许创造性的推理，这是一种使经典原理可能性系统化的能力。 machinelike一样的经典物理classical physics，所以dose not allow for creative  reasoning      107.For some time now, _____ has been presumed not to exist: the  cynical  conviction that every body has an angle is considered wisdom.    disinterestedness(key)  对现代来说，无私被认为是不存在的：最愤世疾俗的想法认为每一个人都有一个缺点被认为是至理名言。  每个人都有angle，所以disinterestedness不存在    108.Unfortunately, his damaging attacks on the ramifications of the  economic  policy have been ____ by his wholehearted acceptance of that policy's  under  lying assumptions.    undermined(key)  不幸的是，他对于经济政策的分歧的毁灭性的攻击被他对该政策基本假设的全心全意的接受推翻了。  前后意思相反，加上unfortunately的提示，选择undermined比较好!    109.The characterization of historical analysis as a form of fiction  is not  likely to be received ____ by either historians or literary critics,  who agree  that history and fiction deal with ____ orders of experience.    enthusiastically..shifting    passively（被动，顺从的）..unusual    sympathetically..distinct(key)    contentious（有争议的）..realistic    把历史分析描述成一种小说虚构将不会被历史学家和文学评论家同情的接受，他们都同意历史和小说处理完全不同的经验规则。  XXX不能被接受，也就是XX和XX是distinct的!      110.The state is a network of exchanged benefits and beliefs, ____  between  rulers and citizens based on those laws and procedures that are ____  to the  maintenance of community.    a reciprocity.. conducive(key)    政府是一个利益和思想的交换网络机构，在那些有利于维持这个社会的法律和程序的基础上的一种互惠主义。  Network of exchanged benefits和reciprocity对应，而且是conducive(有益于)    111.An investigation that is ____ can occasionally yield new facts,  even  notable ones , but typically the appearance of such facts is the  result of a  search in a definite direction.    unguided(key)    一个没有指导的调查偶尔也能够产生新的事实，甚至是一些著名的事实，但是这些事实的出现典型的是一个明确方向的研究的结果。    A→B ,but B by C  所以Unguided和definite direction对应                        A            C  112.In come as no surprise that societies have codes of behavior; the  character  of the codes, on the other hand, can often be ____.    predictable    unexpected(key)  社会有行为准则并不让人吃惊；另外一个方面，这些行为的特征通常可能是未料到的。  No  surprise和unexpected对应，注意到on the other hand表转折    113.In a ____ society that worships efficiency, it is difficult for a  sensitive  and idealistic person to make the kinds of ____ decisions that alone  spell  success as it is defined by such a society.    pragmatic. .hardheaded(key)      在一个崇尚效率的实际的社会中，对于一个敏感而且又理想化的人来时做出一能够保证想这个社  个会所定义的那样的成功的精明的决定是不可能的。  Worship efficiency既是pragmatic， alone spell success是个hardheaded decisions  worship崇拜;崇拜仪式    114.During the 1960's assessments of the family shifted remarkably,  from  general endorsement of it as a worthwhile, stable institution  to  widespread  ____ it as an oppressive and bankrupt one whose _____  was both  imminent and  welcome.    censure of ... dissolution  (key)    60年代，对家庭评价改变的非常显著，从普遍的认为其是一个有价值，稳定的机够到广为传播的将其责难为一个令人压抑的，毫无价值的机构，并且家庭的解体被认为迫在眉睫而且大受欢迎shift from .... to  从general endorsement 到 , widespread ____ ，可以得到 censure          115.The ___ of mass literacy coincided with the first industrial  revolution；  in turn, the new expansion in literacy, as well as cheaper printing,  helped    to nurture the ___ of popular literature.    emergence. .rise(key)    大众文学出现和第一次工业革命时间上是一致的；在顺序上，在文学上新的膨胀，就像更加便宜的印刷一样，帮助支持了流行文学的增长。  分号前后两个句子是一个意思.  in  turn ---依次， 表并列递近    116.The pressure of population on available resources is the key to  understanding history; consequently, any historical writing that  takes no  cognizance of ___ facts is ___ flawed    demographic. .intrinsically(key)    了解人口的压力on可利用资源是理解历史的关键；因此，一些历史作品没有认识到人口现象本质上是错误的。  Population对应demographic，关系明确A→B, ~A→~B      117.Like many eighteenth-century scholars who lived by cultivating  those in  power, Winckelmann neglected to neutralize, by some ____ gesture of  comradeship, the resentment his peers were bound to feel because of  his ____  the high and mighty.    propitiatory.. involvement with(key)      像很多18世纪通过排那些有权力的人马屁的学者一样，Winckelmann通过一些同志般的，和解的姿态，忘记了调和因为他和高层有权力的人纠缠而他的同僚产生的怨恨。Neutralize the  resentment既是propitiatory( 安抚，和解)      118.During the opera's most famous aria the tempo chosen by the  orchestra's    conductor seemed ____, without necessary relation to what had gone  before    capricious (key)    在这个歌剧大多数著名的独唱曲中，被这个乐队指挥家所选的拍子，因为没有那些必要的和以前的联系，看来是多变且不可预料的。  Without relation所以capricious    119.The sheer diversity of tropical plants represents a seemingly  ____ source  of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.    inexhaustible(key)  热带雨林绝对的种类繁多，代表了一个诱人的取之不尽的未加工资源，仅仅一部分已经被利用了。  A seemingly inexhaustible 和 a few相对应    120.Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened  intellectual,

historians of the 1960's portrayed him as ____ thinker, eager to fill  the young  with his political orthodoxy while censuring ideas he did not like.    a doctrinaire(key)    和把Jefferson看作是怀疑的但是进步的知识分子不同，60年的的历史学家把他描述成一个教条主义的思想家，喜欢把他的政治上正统的观点灌输给青年们，而谴责那些他不喜欢的思想。  Fill  … with …orthodoxy说明选择doctrinaire好一些    --      121.Natural selection tends to eliminate genes that cause inherited  diseases,  acting most strongly against the most severe diseases; consequently,  hereditary  diseases that are ____ would be expected to be very ____, but,  surprisingly,  they are not.    lethal..rare(Key)        自然选择看起来要消灭那些引起遗传疾病的遗传因子，在最大程度上抵抗那些严重的疾病；结果是，那些致命遗传病，被认为是很少的，但是，令人吃惊的是，却不是这样的。  Natural  selection使得lethal diseases expected to be rare..    122.To have true disciples, a thinker must not be too _______: any  effective  intellectual leader depends on the ability of other people to _______  thought  processes that did not originate with them.    idiosyncratic .. reenact （重组，在制定）(key)  为了有真正的信徒，思想家不能太古怪了：任何有效的聪明的领导人依赖于其他人的重组那些不属于他们的思想过程的能力。  Not originate with them所以reenact，总之选别的都不是很好！    123.In the midst of so many evasive comments, this forthright  statement,  whatever its intrinsic merit, plainly stands out as ____.    an anomaly(key)    在中世纪如此多的普遍的评论中间，这个直接的评论，无论他的内在价值如何，很清楚的展现象一个反常的东西。  Whatever引出一个转折，forthright和anomaly相对应    124.Our biological uniqueness requires that the effects of a  substance must be  verified by ____ experiments, even after thousands of tests of the  effects of  that substance on animals.    human(human)    我们的生物唯一性要求一种物质的效用必须被人类实验所证明，甚至是再经过的对该物质在动物身上千万次的试验以后。  Human和animals对应    125.For years manufacturers have tried to make chocolate  synthetically,  with____ success, because chocolate contains hundreds of substances  and no one  knows which are responsible for its ____ flavor.    little.. distinctive(key)  多少年以来，制造商已经努力综合巧克力，但是取得的成功不大，因为巧克力含有千百种的物质，没人知道那一种对他独特的味道起作用。  No one knows说明little success，而且have  tried也暗示了little success    126.By forcing our surrender to the authority of the clock,  systematic  timekeeping has imposed a form of ____ on society    tyranny(key)  通过强迫我们屈从于时钟的权威，系统时间保持法已经把一种压迫强加给了社会。  Authority和 tyranny对应    127.The meeting seemed ____, not just because decisions were made  with  excessive deliberation, but also because the director was so ____ as  to provoke  extremely lengthy debate.    interminable. .tendentious(key)  无尽头….有偏见  endless. .amenable（有责任的）    该会议看起来没有尽头了，不仅仅是因为制定决定需要过多的考虑，而且是因为指导者是如此的偏见激发了特别长的争论。  Not just ，but also并列，同时指出前一个空是interminable    128.The reception given to Kimura's radical theory of molecular  evolution shows  that when ____ fights orthodoxy to a draw, then novelty has seized a  ood chunk  of space from convention.    invention (key)    对于Kimura激进的分子演化理论的态度表明，当创新和正统斗争到一个结论，创新就从传统中得到了大块的空间。  Invention fights orthodoxy    129.Although they were not direct ___, the new arts of the Classical  period  were clearly created in the spirit of older Roman models and thus  ____ many  features of the older style.    copies.. maintained(key)    尽管他们不是直接的拷贝，这个经典时期的新的艺术很明显的在古老的罗马精神基础上创造的，因此保留了很多旧时代风格的特征。  Although引起一个转折，虽然没直接的copies但间接的拷贝了，还是maintain了原来的很多特征。    130.Overall, the evidence was inconclusive as to whether the  adjustment to the  inflated estimates would ____ their accuracy or instead ____ the  actual  amount.    improve. .understate(key)    总的来说，该证据是不完整是因为这个夸张评估的调节是是提高了他们的精确性，还是低估了事实的数据。  看到adjustment 就应考虑选一个“变”的词，要么变好，要么“变”坏，所以肯定是 improve  和understate 又因为，Instead前后意思相反！  131.Perhaps there is a shortcoming in the script, but the film's poor  reviews  may also be a function of one or two _____ casting decisions in an  otherwise  ____ production.    faulty. .solid(key)      在剧本上可能有一个错误，这个电影的可怜的评论也能也起到了一两个错误的作用，导致了在某种意义上僵化生产的决定。  Shortcoming和faulty对应，后面就应该是贬义的词 ，虽然但是。  132.As a means of ____ a tempestuous confrontation, the labor  arbitrator  advised the opposing parties to ____ their positions.    Appraising（评价）..soften    Defusing（去掉…雷管）. .moderate(key)    作为一种缓和暴乱冲突的的方法，劳工仲裁者建议反对党节制一下他们的立场。  Defuse a  tempestuous confrontation既是moderate positions    133.One of archaeology's central dilemmas is how to reconstruct the  ___ of  complex ancient societies from meager and often _____ physical  evidence.    riddles. .obsolete    intricacies. .equivocal(key)  patterns.. flawless      一个考古学上的中心困境是如何从少量而且经常模糊不清的物质证据上来重建复杂的古代社会的精细之处。  Dilemmas，所以后面的intricacies和meager and often equivocal对应      134.That she seemed to prefer ____ to concentrated effort is  undeniable;  nevertheless, the impressive quality of her finished paintings  suggests that  her actual relationship to her art was anything but ____.    dabbling.. superficial(key)  她宁愿浅尝则止而不愿努力的倾向是不可否认的，然而，它所完成作品的动人的质量暗示她真正的艺术关系不是肤浅的。  Was anything but ____. (否定空格)  was nothing but ____. （肯定空格）  135.Unenlightened authoritarian managers rarely recognize a crucial  reason for  the low levels of serious conflict among members of democratically  run work  groups: a modicum of tolerance for dissent of ten prevents ____.    Schism (key)    cooperation    落后的独裁的经历很少认识到这样一个关键性的原因，在被民主运行的工作组里严重的冲突在低的水平之上：稍微容忍一下不同一下将会防止严重分歧。  Schism是一个严重的conflict      136.The natures of social history and lyric poetry are ____, social  history  always recounting the ____ and lyric poetry speaking for unchanging  human

.【中文释义】因为商界变得清醒意识到他们的广告必须着眼于消费者日常关心之物，所以他们的商业广告将会有更多的现实主义的特征。 【解题分析】as引导一个简单的因果关系 ，第二空格应与上文的everyday concerns相关，同义或反义取决于第一个空格，但在五个选项中, everyday concerns的同义词或反义词只出现一个b的realism, 故直接选b即可。 【重点词条】allay 1: to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity:alleviate <expect a breeze to ~ the heat> 2: to make quiet: calm ~    vi, obs: to diminish in strength: subside syn see relieve address 1 archaic a: direct, aim b: to direct to go: send 2 a: to  direct the efforts or attention of (oneself) <will ~ himself to the  problem> b: to deal with: treat <intrigued by the chance to ~  important issues --I. L. Horowitz> 3 archaic: to make ready; esp:dress 4 a: to communicate directly <~es his thanks to his host> b: to  speak or write directly to; esp: to deliver a formal speech to 5 a:    to mark directions for delivery on <~ a letter> b: to consign to the  care of another (as an agent or factor) 6: to greet by a prescribed  form 7: to adjust the club preparatory to hitting (a golf ball) 8: to  identify (as a peripheral or memory location) by an address or a name  for information transfer ~ vi, obs: to direct one's speech or  attentions -- ad.dress.er n 2ad.dress n (1539) 1: dutiful and  courteous attention esp. in courtship--usu. used in pl. 2 a:  readiness and capability for dealing (as with a person or problem)  skillfully and smoothly: adroitness b obs: a making ready; also: a  state of preparedness 3 a: manner of bearing oneself <a man of rude  ~> b: manner of speaking or singing: delivery 4: a formal  communication; esp: a prepared speech delivered to a special audience  or on a special occasion 5 a: a place where a person or organization  may be communicated with b: directions for delivery on the outside of  an object (as a letter or package) c: the designation of place of  delivery placed between the heading and salutation on a business  letter 6: a preparatory position of the player and club in golf 7: a  location (as in the memory of a computer) where particular  information is stored; also: the digits that identify such a location  syn see tact 2.【中文释义】因为这个律师的方法被查明是很无耻的，所以纪律委员会废除了他的特权。 【重点词条】unscrupulous not scrupulous: unprincipled --  un.scru.pu.lous.ly adv -- un.scru.pu.lous.ness n revoke 1: to annul by recalling or taking back: rescind <~ a will> 2:  to bring or call back ~ vi: to fail to follow suit when able in a  card game in violation of the rules -- re.vok.er n 2revoke n (1709):  an act or instance of revoking in a card game reprehensible : worthy of or deserving reprehension: culpable --  rep.re.hen.si.bil.i.ty n -- rep.re.hen.si.ble.ness n --  rep.re.hen.si.bly adv augment 1: to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense  <the impact of the report was ~ed by its timing> 2: to add an augment  to 3: supplement <~ed her scholarship by working nights> ~ vi: to  become augmented syn see increase -- aug.ment.er or aug.men.tor n  2aug.ment n (ca. 1771): a vowel prefixed or a lengthening of the  initial vowel to mark past time esp. in Greek and Sanskrit verbs 　 3.【中文释义】如此具有智慧和成就的人居然会如此贪婪并且缺乏正直感，以至于他们不惜违反法律，以它们的声誉为赌注来进一步推进他们自己最终成就。 【解题分析】nonetheless表转折，所以第一空格应填贬义，第二空格褒义，再由so--that 结构，可得答案e。 【重点词条】devious 1: out-of-the-way, remote 2 a: wandering,  roundabout <a ~ path> b: moving without a fixed course: errant <~  breezes> 3 a: deviating from a right, accepted, or common course b:  not straightforward: cunning; also: deceptive -- de.vi.ous.ly adv --  de.vi.ous.ness n  integrity 1: firm adherence to a code of esp. moral or artistic  values: incorruptibility 2: an unimpaired condition: soundness 3: the  quality or state of being complete or undivided: completeness 　 4.【中文释义】一些科学家发表文章来揭示全球变暖的真相，断然指出并没有充分的科学论据支持这个理论 由于温室气体的增加，地球正在变暖。 【解题分析】第二空格填副词，可以不予考虑，直接由这一段文字知学者们认为温室效应并无根据，这一段分隔就是对前文的重复，可选出a.b.d,而b.d第二个副词又不对，故选a。 【重点词条】debunk : to expose the sham or falseness of <~ a legend> - - de.bunk.er categorical 1: absolute, unqualified <a ~ denial> 2 a:  of, relating to, or constituting a category b: involving, according  with, or considered with respect to specific categories --  cat.e.gor.i.cal.ly adv deplore 1 a: to feel or express grief for b: to regret strongly 2: to  consider unfortunate or deserving of deprecation -- 5.【中文释义】这个议员企图使公众确信她对参加第二届连任竞选毫无兴趣，这种企图与她的对手希望掩盖自己与她竞选的企图一样不成功。 【解题分析】这个句子已经是第三次出现了，又少许变了点花样，句子简化后为the attempt is as unsuccessful as her opponent's attempt. 事实上只要挑一个能修饰主语attempt的形容词就可以了，答案b。 【重点词条】inadvertent 1: not focusing the mind on a matter:  inattentive 2: unintentional -- in.ad.ver.tent.ly adv remote 1: separated by an interval or space greater than usual <an  involucre ~ from the flower> 2: far removed in space, time, or  relation: divergent <the ~ past> <comments ~ from the truth> 3: out- of-the-way, secluded <a ~ cabin in the hills> 4: acting, acted on, or  controlled indirectly or from a distance <~ computer 6.【中文释义】默克莱里的谈话展示着自己的愚蠢：她从来不能讲一个故事，主要因为她总是忘记，并且，除非是意外情况，她从来都没有能力理解一个俏皮话。 【解题分析】冒号前后表示解释，冒号后显然是在展示她的各种愚蠢的表现。be guilty of 的含义在这一句子中知“理解了或意识到了...". 【重点词条】stultify 1: to allege or prove to be of unsound mind and  hence not responsible 2: to cause to appear or be stupid, foolish, or  absurdly illogical 3 a: to impair, invalidate, or make ineffective:  negate b: to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on --  stul.ti.fi.ca.tion n guilty: syn conscious, cognizant Page 1010 Webster's Third New  International Dictionary 　 7.【中文释义】不管不顾对它的许多批评，阅读教学法的纯文本宗旨继续在教育 家中获得主流地位。 【解题分析】两个空格应为反义词，正确答案c。 【重点词条】detractor 1 archaic: to speak ill of 2 archaic: to take  away 3: divert <~ attention> ~ vi: to diminish the importance, value,  or effectiveness of something--often used with from -- de.trac.tor n notoriety 1: the quality or state of being notorious 2: a notorious  person prevalence 1: the quality or state of being prevalent 2: the degree  to which something is prevalent; esp: the percentage of a population  that is affected with a particular disease at a given time credibility 1: the quality or power of inspiring belief <an account  lacking in ~> 2: capacity for belief <strains her reader's ~ --Times  Lit. Supp.> 　 99年4月section 5 1.【中文释义】她对攀岩很害怕，这并没有动摇她去参加朋友们攀岩历险的决心。

【重点词条】aspiration 1 a: audible breath that accompanies or  comprises a speech sound b: the pronunciation or addition of an  aspiration; also: the symbol of an aspiration 2: a drawing of  something in, out, up, or through by or as if by suction: as a: the  act of breathing and esp. of breathing in b: the withdrawal of fluid  or tissue from the body c: the taking of foreign matter into the  lungs with the respiratory current 3 a: a strong desire to achieve  something high or great b: an object of such desire syn see ambition - - as.pi.ra.tion.al adj knowledgeable ): having or exhibiting knowledge or intelligence:  keen -- knowl.edge.abil.i.ty n -- knowl.edge.able.ness n --  knowl.edge.ably adv 　 2.【中文释义】关于高浓度的具有潜在危险的化学物对少量人口的效果的数据总是频繁地被用来预测更低的同种化学物在更大数量人口中的影响。 【解题分析】句子主干为data are used to predict (c) the effects 能和data构成搭配的是c 【重点词条】augment 1: to make greater, more numerous, larger, or  more intense <the impact of the report was ~ed by its timing> 2: to  add an augment to 3: supplement <~ed her scholarship by working  nights> ~ vi: to become 3.【中文释义】从概念上来看，很难调和这两个概念：其一是辩护律师的责任来确保不会故意地提供虚假证词，其二是律师的被授予的权利来为当事人准备令人信服的最有力的辩护词。 【解题分析】只要分清主干reconcile a defense attorney's ( ) with the  attorney's mandate即可知空格应填mandate的反义词。 【重点词条】mandate 1: an authoritative command; esp: a formal order  from a superior court or official to an inferior one 2: an  authorization to act given to a representative <accepted the ~ of the  people> 3 a: an order or commission granted by the League of Nations  to a member nation for the establishment of a responsible government  over a former German colony or other conquered territory b: a  mandated territory 2mandate vt man.dat.ed  man.dat.ing (1919) 1: to  administer or assign (as a territory) under a mandate 2: to make  mandatory: order; also: direct, require mount 1: a high hill: mountain--used esp. before an identifying name  <Mount Everest> 2 archaic: a protective earthwork 3: mound 2a(1)  2mount vb [ME, fr. MF monter, fr. (assumed) VL montare, fr. L mont-,  mons] vi (14c) 1: rise, ascend 2: to increase in amount or extent  <expenses began to ~> 3: to get up on something above the level of  the ground; esp: to seat oneself (as on a horse) for riding ~ vt 1 a:  to go up: climb b (1): to seat or place oneself on (2): cover 6a 2 a:  to lift up: raise b (1): to put or have (as artillery) in position  (2): to have as equipment c (1): to organize and equip (an attacking  force) <~ an army> (2): to launch and carry out (as an assault or a  campaign) 3: to set on something that elevates 4 a: to cause to get  on a means of conveyance b: to furnish with animals for riding 5: to  post or set up for defense or observation <~ed some guards> 6 a: to  attach to a support b: to arrange or assemble for use or display 7 a:  to prepare (as a specimen) for examination or display b: to prepare  and supply with the materials necessary for performance or execution:  produce <~ an opera> -- mount.able adj -- mount.er n 3mount n (15c)  1: an act or instance of mounting; specif: an opportunity to ride a  horse in a race 2: frame, support: as a: the material (as cardboard)  on which a picture is mounted b: a jewelry setting c (1): an  undercarriage or part on which a device (as a motor or an artillery  piece) rests in service (2): an attachment for an accessory d: a  hinge, card, or acetate envelope for mounting a stamp e: a glass  slide with its accessories on which objects are placed for  examination with a microscope 3: a means of conveyance; esp: saddle  horse 4.【中文释义】“现代”这个词汇被历史学家们用得非常广泛，最近的汇报表明，它得含义已经变得比以往任何时候都更不确定。 【解题分析】由be used broadly可推断"modern"的含义现在变得“不确定” 【重点词条】pejorative a pejorative word or phrase 2pejorative adj  [LL pejoratus, pp. of pejorare to make or become worse, fr. L pejor  worse; akin to Skt padyate he falls, L ped-, pes foot--more at foot]  (ca. 1888): having negative connotations; esp: tending to disparage  or belittle: depreciatory -- pe.jo.ra.tive.ly adv \ amorphous 1 a: having no definite form: shapeless <an ~ cloud mass>  b: being without definite character or nature: unclassifiable <an ~  segment of society> c: lacking organization or unity <an ~ style> 2:  having no real or apparent crystalline form: uncrystallized <an ~  mineral> -- amor.phous.ly adv -- amor.phous.ness n 5.【中文释义】他不会容忍任何讨论，最终他命令我们沉默。 【解题分析】and前后表因果，符合因果关系得只有a。 【重点词条】fathom 1: a unit of length equal to six feet (1.83  meters) used esp. for measuring the depth of water 2: comprehension  2fathom vi (1607) 1: probe 2: to take soundings ~ vt 1: to measure by  a sounding line 2: to penetrate and come to understand <couldn't ~  the problem> -- fath.om.able adj 6.【中文释义】从体质上说，大多数对通俗文化的理性批判在其内涵上是可笑的，它们建立在这样的假设之上，即吸引力越广泛，作品越受欢迎。 【解题分析】后半句的假设实际上就是通俗文化的精神实质，所以理性批判的前提假设实际上与通俗文化一致，故理性批判对通俗文化的批判就变成了对自己的根本前提的批判，所以非常可笑。 【重点词条】appeal 1: a legal proceeding by which a case is brought  before a higher court for review of the decision of a lower court 2:  a criminal accusation 3 a: an application (as to a recognized  authority) for corroboration, vindication, or decision b: an earnest  plea: entreaty 4: the power of arousing a sympathetic response:  attraction <movies had a great ~ for him> 2appeal vb [ME appelen to  accuse, appeal, fr. MF apeler, fr. L appellare, fr. appellere to  drive to, fr. ad- + pellere to drive--more at felt] vt (14c) 1: to  charge with a crime: accuse 2: to take proceedings to have (a lower  court's decision) reviewed in a higher court ~ vi 1: to take a lower  court's decision to a higher court for review 2: to call upon another  for corroboration, vindication, or decision 3: to make an earnest  request 4: to arouse a sympathetic response -- ap.peal.abil.i.ty n --  ap.peal.able adj -- ap.peal.er n outlandish 1: of or relating to another country: foreign 2 a:  strikingly out of the ordinary: bizarre <an ~ costume> b: exceeding  proper or reasonable limits or standards 3: remote from civilization  syn see strange -- out.land.ish.ly adv -- out.land.ish.ness n shoddy 1 a: a reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that  is of better quality and longer staple than mungo b: a fabric often  of inferior quality manufactured wholly or partly from reclaimed wool  2 a: inferior, imitative, or pretentious articles or matter b:  pretentious vulgarity 2shoddy adj shod.di.er  -est (1847) 1: made  wholly or partly of shoddy 2 a: cheaply imitative: vulgarly  pretentious b: hastily or poorly done: inferior c: shabby --  shod.di.ly adv -- shod.di.ness n 7.【中文释义】让人吃惊的是，考虑到稻谷只承受了如此少的降雨，收成是相当令人欢欣鼓舞的；随之而来的是这个国家的稻谷储量并没有减少。 【解题分析】由given 因果关系可得b,d,再由consequently可得b。

重点词条】 replenish 1 a: to fill with persons or animals: stock b  archaic: to supply fully: perfect c: to fill with inspiration or  power: nourish 2 a: to fill or build up again <~ed his glass> b: to  make good: replace ~ vi: to become full: fill up again --  re.plen.ish.able adj -- re.plen.ish.er n -- re.plen.ish.ment n

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原帖由 晓风残月 于 2007-7-20 14:28:00 发表 我晕~楚楚你太厉害了!!!

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