歷年試題:GRE試題(二)

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SECTION 7
    Time –30 minutes
    38 Questions
    1. In the nineteenth century, novelists and unsympathetic
    travelers portrayed the American West as a land of
    ---- adversity, whereas promoters and idealists
    created ---- image of a land of infinite promise.
    (A) lurid.. a mundane
    (B) incredible.. an underplayed
    (C) dispiriting.. an identical
    (D) intriguing.. a luxuriant
    (E) unremitting.. a compelling
    2. Honeybees tend to be more ---- than earth bees:
    the former, unlike the latter, search for food together
    and signal their individual findings to one another.
    (A) insular
    (B) aggressive
    (C) differentiated
    (D) mobile
    (E) social
    3. Joe spoke of superfluous and ---- matters with
    exactly the same degree of intensity, as though for
    him serious issues mattered neither more nor less
    than did ----.
    (A) vital.. trivialities
    (B) redundant.. superficialities
    (C) important.. necessities
    (D) impractical.. outcomes
    (E) humdrum.. essentials
    4. The value of Davis’ sociological research is com-
    promised by his unscrupulous tendency to use
    materials---- in order to substantiate his own
    claims, while ---- information that points to other
    possible conclusions.
    (A) haphazardly.. deploying
    (B) selectively.. disregarding
    (C) cleverly.. weighing
    (D) modestly.. refuting
    (E) arbitrarily.. emphasizing
    5. Once Renaissance painters discovered how to ----
    volume and depth, they were able to replace the
    medieval convention of symbolic, two-dimensional
    space with the more ---- illusion of actual space.
    (A) reverse.. conventional
    (B) portray.. abstract
    (C) deny.. concrete
    (D) adumbrate.. fragmented
    (E) render.. realistic
    6. He had expected gratitude for his disclosure, but
    instead he encountered ---- bordering on hostility.
    (A) patience
    (B) discretion
    (C) openness
    (D) ineptitude
    (E) indifference
    7. The diplomat, selected for her demonstrated patience
    and skill in conducting such delicate negotiations,
    ---- to make a decision during the talks because any
    sudden commitment at that time would have been ----.
    (A) resolved.. detrimental
    (B) refused.. apropos
    (C) declined.. inopportune
    (D) struggled.. unconscionable
    (E) hesitated.. warranted
    8. CONDUCTOR: INSTRUMENTALIST::
    (A) director: actor
    (B) sculptor: painter
    (C) choreographer: composer
    (D) virtuoso: amateur
    (E) poet: listener
    9. QUARRY: ROCK
    (A) silt: gravel
    (B) sky: rain
    (C) cold: ice
    (D) mine: ore
    (E) jewel: diamond
    10. STICKLER: EXACTING::
    (A) charlatan: forthright
    (B) malcontent: solicitous
    (C) misanthrope: expressive
    (D) defeatist: resigned
    (E) braggart: unassuming
    11. WALK: AMBLE::
    (A) dream: imagine
    (B) talk: chat
    (C) swim: float
    (D) look: stare
    (E) speak: whisper
    12. JAZZ: MUSIC::
    (A) act: play
    (B) variety: vaudeville
    (C) portraiture: painting
    (D) menu: restaurant
    (E) species: biology
    13. REPATRIATE: EMIGRATION::
    (A) reinstate: election
    (B) recall: impeachment
    (C) appropriate: taxation
    (D) repeal: ratification
    (E) appeal: adjudication
    14. PLACEBO: INNOCUOUS::
    (A) antibiotic: viral
    (B) vapor: opaque
    (C) salve: unctuous
    (D) anesthetic: astringent
    (E) vitamin: synthetic
    15. DISSEMINATE: INFORMATION::
    (A) amend: testimony
    (B) analyze: evidence
    (C) investigate: crime
    (D) prevaricate: confirmation
    (E) foment: discontentment
    16. VOICE: QUAVER::
    (A) pace: quicken
    (B) cheeks: dimple
    (C) concentration: focus
    (D) hand: tremble
    (E) eye: blink
    Mary Barton, particularly in its early chapters, is a
    moving response to the suffering of the industrial worker
    in the England of the 1840’s. What is most impressive
    about the book is the intense and painstaking effort made
    (5) by the author, Elizabeth Gaskell, to convey the experi-
    ence of everyday life in working-class homes. Her method
    is partly documentary in nature: the novel includes such
    features as a carefully annotated reproduction of dialect,
    the exact details of food prices in an account of a tea
    (10)party, an itemized description of the furniture of the
    Bartons’ living room, and a transcription (again anno-
    tated) of the ballad "The Oldham Weaver." The interest
    of this record is considerable, even though the method
    has a slightly distancing effect.
    (15) As a member of the middle class, Gaskell could
    hardly help approaching working-class life as an outside
    observer and a reporter, and the reader of the novel is
    always conscious of this fact. But there is genuine imag-
    inative re-creation in her accounts of the walk in Green
    (20)Heys Fields, of tea at the Bartons’ house, and of John
    Barton and his friend’s discovery of the starving family
    in the cellar in the chapter "Poverty and Death." Indeed,
    for a similarly convincing re-creation of such families’
    emotions and responses (which are more crucial than the
    (25)material details on which the mere reporter is apt to con-
    centrate), the English novel had to wait 60 years for the
    early writing of D. H. Lawrence. If Gaskell never quite
    conveys the sense of full participation that would
    completely authenticate this aspect of Mary Barton, she
    (30)still brings to these scenes an intuitive recognition of
    feelings that has its own sufficient conviction.
    The chapter "Old Alice’s History " brilliantly drama-
    tizes the situation of that early generation of workers
    brought from the villages and the countryside to the
    (35)urban industrial centers. The account of Job Legh, the
    weaver and naturalist who is devoted to the study of
    biology, vividly embodies one kind of response to an
    urban industrial environment: an affinity for living
    things that hardens, by its very contrast with its environ-
    (40)ment,into a kind of crankiness. The early chapters―
    about factory workers walking out in spring into Green
    Heys Fields; about Alice Wilson, remembering in her
    cellar the twig- gathering for brooms in the native village
    that she will never again see; about Job Legh, intent on
    (45)his impaled insects― capture the characteristic responses
    of a generation to the new and crushing experience of
    industrialism. The other early chapters eloquently por-
    tray the development of the instinctive cooperation with
    each other that was already becoming an important
    tradition among workers.
    17.Which of the following best describes the author’s
    attitude toward Gaskell’s use of the method of
    documentary record in Mary Barton?
    (A) Uncritical enthusiasm
    (B) Unresolved ambivalence
    (C) Qualified approval
    (D) Resigned acceptance
    (E) Mild irritation
    18. According to the passage, Mary Barton and the
    early novels of D. H. Lawrence share which of the
    following?
    (A) Depiction of the feelings of working-class families
    (B) Documentary objectivity about working-class
    circumstances
    (C) Richly detailed description of working-class
    adjustment to urban life
    (D) Imaginatively structured plots about working-
    class characters
    (E) Experimental prose style based on working-
    class dialect