GRE填空真题回忆

2. Despite the occasional (i)_____ of their venues, the culture of corporate conferences is a deeply (ii)_____ conference, each day consisted of nearly nine hours of continuous lectures and panels enlivened by pleasantries or anything that could be construed as a joke. The only (iii)_____ sensory deprivation of the sessions came from the handsome color slides favored by the corporate presenters.

A. seclusion

D. sycophantic

G. allusion to

B. opulence

E. ascetic

H. ramification of

C. enormity

F. mercenary

I. respite from

3.There are great _____ in countries’ greenhouse gas emissions, especially in per capita terms: while the United States and China are similar in aggregate emissions, United States per capita emissions are a huge multiple of China’s.

A. distortions

B. disparities

C. fluctuations

D. advances

E. variances

F. vacillations

4. The building affairs minister rightly recognizes that the current planning system—under which the government controls every aspect of construction—creates disastrous developments, but she is wrong to propose the opposite: the wholesale (i)_____ of the building market. Such a complete (ii)_____ of responsibility on the part of the state can hardly be in the public’s interest.

A. liberalization

D. abnegation

B. preservation

E. recapitulation

C. regulation

F. accretion

5. Motivation is the hardest of all managerial tasks, and it is _____ to expect a single memo, no matter how well crafted, to have much effect on the staff’s attitude.

A. ingenious

B. reasonable

C. fanciful

D. scrupulous

E. radical

6. The notion of film producers as the ogres of the movie business has proved an (i)_____ one, but according to The Producers by Tim Adler, it is not always grounded in reality. Attacking what he calls the “auteur myth”—the idea of the director as the single purveyor of art in an industry otherwise peopled with (ii)_____—he places at the heart of his book an image of the producer, not the director, as the primary (iii)_____ force in the development and production of a movie.(此题在考试时已经改成了双空题)

A. accurate

D. visionaries

G. financial

B. hypocritic

E. profitmongers

H. inertial

C. enduring

F. innocents

I. creative

7. Since the 1920s, historical fiction writers in China have emancipated the genre from the traditional notion that (i)_____ was the ultimate goal of history writing. Yet the traditional commitment to (ii)_____ was not simply (iii)_____: this new genre was expected to capture the essence of historical truth even as it allowed space for the writer’s imagination.

A. comprehensiveness

D. veracity

G. jettisoned

B. factuality

E. thoroughness

H. rationalized

C. entertainment

F. pleasure

I. acknowledged

2016年10月12日GRE填空真题回忆

单空题

1. The children’s ______ natures were in sharp contrast to the even-tempered dispositions of their 　　parents.

A. mercurial 　　B. blithe 　　C. phlegmatic 　　D. apathetic 　　E. cunning

2. Having regarded Marcus relationship to their boss as entirely _____, Jo was flabbergasted when Marcus publicly made clear his objections to some changes the boss was introducing.

A. professional 　　B. sycophantic 　　C. prosaic 　　D. dissident 　　E. collegial

3. My grandma has a strong belief in all things _____: she insists, for example, that the house in which she lived as a child was haunted.

A. clamorous 　　B. invidious 　　C. numinous 　　D. empirical 　　E. sonorous

双空题

1. In the discussions on international patent law, many (i)______ issues will probably be pushed far into the future. This cautious approach makes diplomatic sense, since attempts over the past 15 years to reach international agreements on patents have (ii)______ just such sensitive issues.

Blank (i) Blank (ii)

A. contentious D. approached 　　B. stimulating E. articulated 　　C. subjective F. foundered on

2. As cheaper imports drove most California potteries out of business during the 1950s, one 　　company (i)______. The substantial size and weight of the specialized products produced by 　　Architectural Pottery helped (ii)______ the company, because it was uneconomical for foreign 　　companies to ship similarly large objects to California.

Blank (i) Blank (ii)

A. stagnated D. transform

B. diversified E. insulate

C. flourished F. finance

3. While acknowledging behaviors the Prime Minster took in order to remain in office were 　　(i)_____, some politicians nevertheless believed this small amount of (ii)_____ was justified to 　　keep reforming government in office.

A. unethical D. skullduggery

B. impractical E. indolence

C. quixotic F. incivility

4. There has been great enthusiasm in the United States for reducing fossil fuel dependence by 　　increasing production of biofuels from crops such as corn and switchgrass, but this (i)_____ about 　　biofuels potential should be (ii)_____ by a realistic appraisal of the costs and challenges of biofuel 　　production.

A. forbearance D. tempered

B. exuberance E. delineated

C. obduracy F. exacerbated

句子等价题(六选二)

1. The ______ nature of the approval process for new drugs suggests that incentives to promote 　　more expeditious decision making may be necessary.

A. pecuniary 　　B. commercial 　　C. arbitrary 　　D. sluggish 　　E. capricious 　　F. dilatory

2. Anne Carson’s book Nax is, very deliberately, ______ literary object—the opposite of an E-reader, 　　which is designed to vanish in your palm as you read on a train.

A. an evanescent 　　B. a cumbersome 　　C. an immutable 　　D. an unwieldy 　　E. an ephemeral 　　F. a flexible

3. Peoples ‘decisions about childbearing depend on innumerable personal considerations and societal factors, yet even knowing this, demographers are often ______: their projections of birth rates frequently turn out to be embarrassingly at odds with reality.

A. sanguine 　　B. flummoxed 　　C. inconsistent 　　D. overconfident 　　E. heartened 　　F. confounded

4. In matters of taste, the art patron and collector Peggy Guggenheim was _____, she was for the 　　strangest, the most surprising, the most satisfying, the best, the unique.

A. a neophyte 　　B. a novice 　　C. a realist 　　D. an extremist 　　E. a pragmatist 　　F. a zealot

5. Miller reminded his clients that labor relationship are inherently _____; the interests of 　　business owners are diametrically opposed to those of employees.

A. adversarial 　　B. exploitative 　　C. mercenary 　　D. antagonistic 　　E. variable 　　F. changeable

6. The concert hall’s suspended ceiling is two-inch-thick plaster that reflects low-frequency sound 　　energy; similarly, all wall surfaces are angled and shaped to _____ sound from the stage 　　throughout the audience area.

A. diffuse 　　B. amplify 　　C. spread 　　D. dampen 　　E. eclipse 　　F. deaden

7. Scientists should hope the faults in their theories will be _____ their peers since the refutation 　　of one hypothesis can free its originator to develop a better one.

A. discerned by 　　B. disregarded by 　　C. discovered by 　　D. ignored by 　　E. opaque to 　　F. inspiring to

8. After rising continuously over the summer, commodity prices fell, leaving analyst wondering 　　whether the downward trend is a turning point or merely a _____ before demand picks up in the 　　winter months.

A. spike 　　B. upsurge 　　C. harbinger 　　D. portent 　　E. lull 　　F. respite

下面是填空新题，脑子记住题的思路和选项词尽可能的回忆给大家!

1. 单空：尽管女权主义逐渐实现，但是现在gender equality性别歧视现象依然存在：persist

2. 双空：Pro vs Amateur，专家认为历史写的是精确的precise，应该影响文化走向的事情shaped culture，而业余爱好者,worse, fans 都是看自己的兴趣 self-interested，并且关注的往往都是minor的历史

3. 双空：high-esteemed 自尊被认为上很contradictory的，on one hand, 我们认为可以很好有利于我们发展;on the other hand, 可能会让人非常的高冷impersonal。

4.双空：我们限制自己吃的时候想吃的东西看上去是counterintuitive 和 contradict，就比如,我们常见的相反观点认为：我们想吃好吃的东西这件事儿就会使我们很开心。

5. 六选二：a white dwarf白矮星的描述，专家的描述认为是essential，对应其他人是simplicity。

6. 有个NN的双空题，还没挖到题源，但是好像再哪儿见过。

7. 六选二：记忆的特点不是怎么样的，实际上是分散成了碎片fragment，并且各个部分也是分散的：atomize

8. 火星三空：我们在火星表面水的研究已经不再是一个不可行的事儿了practical，pragmatic因为现在我们认为人类移民居住火星不是一个不可能impossible，所以我们现在关注的不再是水的问题，other than water

9. 忘记题了，但是六选二选项：infringe contravene ;tentative minor。

10. 生词：佛脚基本都有，稍微难点儿的词：eviscerate提取出，skullduggery欺诈欺骗，flummoxed=confound令人困惑的， sycophantic 谄媚的，antagonistic 敌对的， exuberance 繁茂，大量。

2016年10月30日GRE填空真题回忆

1. Anthropologist Jane Goodall was _____ in her determination to anthropomorphize the animals she observed with such empathy, and so resisted her editors’ attempts to recast her descriptions in more dispassionate language.

A. fickle 

B. stalwart

C. solicitous

D. pretentious

E. whimsical

答案：B

解析：and 前后方向一致。And后面Jane Goodall 拒绝编辑以一种更不带感情的语言去编辑她的描述，因此前面半句也要体现她反对不带感情，即她支持要带有感情，因此选B—坚定她决心将那些(怀着共如此共情情绪去观察的)动物人格化的想法。

2. Though acquaintances are first overwhelmed by his ______, they soon appreciate that, contrary to appearances, he is not without self-interest.

A. egotism 

B. magnanimity

C. ambition 

D. profligacy 