GRE网络课堂填空笔记-陈圣元主讲2

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Part VI.
1. Unlike the easily studied neutral and ionized___ that compose the primary disk of the Milky Way itself, the components of the ___surrounding our galaxy have proved more resistant to study.
(A) figments.. envelope
(B) essences.. fluctuations
(C) elements. .problems
(D) calculations. .perimeter
(E) materials.. region

2. As Juanita argued, this new code of conduct is laughable. its principles are either ___, offering no wisdom but the obvious, or are so devoid of specific advice as to make almost any action ___.
(A) irresolute.. unlikely
(B) corroborative. .redundant
(C) platitudinous.. justifiable
(D) homogeneous.. impartial
(E) labyrinthine.. unacceptable

3. The self-important cant of musicologists on record jackets often suggests that true appreciation of the music is an ___process closed to the uninitiated listener, however enthusiastic.
(A) unreliable
(B) arcane
(C) arrogant
(D) elementary
(E) intuitive

4. It is strange how words shape our thoughts and trap us at the bottom of deeply ___canyons of thinking, their imprisoning sides carved out by the___ of past usage.
(A) cleaved.. eruptions
(B) rooted.. flood
(C) incised. .river
(D) ridged.. ocean
(E) notched.. mountains

5. Cezannes delicate watercolor sketches often served as___ of a subject, way of gathering fuller knowledge before the artists final engagement of the subject in an oil painting.
(A) an abstraction
(B) an enhancement
(C) a synthesis
(D) a reconnaissance
(E) a transcription

6. Without seeming unworldly, William James appeared wholly removed from the _____ of society, the conventionality of academe.
(A) ethos
(B) idealism
(C) romance
(D) paradoxes
(E) commonplaces

7. Just as astrology was for centuries _____faith, countering the strength of established churches, so today believing in astrology is an act of_____ the professional sciences.
(A) an individual.. rebellion by
(B) an accepted.. antagonism toward
(C) an underground.. defiance against
(D) a heretical.. support for
(E) an unknown.. concern about

8. Some scientists argue that carbon compounds play such a central role in life on Earth because of the possibility of___ resulting from the carbon atoms ability to form an unending series of different molecules.

(A) deviation
(B) stability
(C) reproduction
(D) variety
(E) invigoration

9. Aptly enough, this work so imbued with the notion of changing times and styles has been constantly___ over the years, thereby reflecting its own mutability.
(A) appreciated
(B) emulated
(C) criticized
(D) revised
(E) reprinted

10. Nineteenth-century scholars, by examining earlier geometric Greek art, found that classical Greek art was not magical___ or a brilliant ___blending Egyptian and Assyrian art, but was independently evolved by Greeks in Greece.
(A) stratagem.. appropriation
(B) exemplar.. synthesis
(C) conversion.. annexation
(D) paradigm.. construct
(E) apparition. .amalgam