GRE网络课堂词汇填空笔记-沈辉主讲(三)

　　15.Under ethical guidelines recently adopted by the NationalInstitutes of Health, human genes are to be manipulated only to correctdiseases for which ____ treatments are unsatisfactory.

　　 similar

　　 most

　　 dangerous

　　 uncommon

　　 alternative

　　16.The significance of the Magna Carta lies not in its ____ provisions, but in its broader impact: it made the king subject to the law.

　　 specific

　　 revolutionary

　　 implicit

　　 controversial

　　 finite

　　17.Because many of the minerals found on the ocean floor are still ____ on land, where mining is relatively inexpensive, mining the ocean floor has yet to become a ____ enterprise.

　　 scarce. . common

　　 accessible.. marginal

　　 unidentified.. subsidized

　　 conserved . . public

　　 plentiful.. profitable

　　18.Although the passage of years has softened the initially hostile reaction to his poetry, even now only a few independent observers ____ his works.

　　 praise

　　 revile

　　 scrutinize

　　 criticize

　　 neglect

　　19.Once a duckling has identified a parent, the instinctive bond becomes a powerful ____ for additional learning since, by ____ the parent, the duckling can acquire further information that is not genetically transmitted.

　　 impulse.. surpassing

　　 referent.. recognizing

　　 force.. acknowledging

　　 inspiration.. emulating

　　 channel.. mimicking

　　20.It is ____ for a government to fail to do whatever it can to eliminate a totally ____ disease.

　　 folly.. innocuous

　　 irresponsible.. preventable

　　 crucial.. fatal

　　 instinctive.. devastating

　　 detrimental.. insignificant

　　21.The legislators of 1563 realized the ____ of trying to regulate the flow of labor without securing its reasonable remuneration, and so the second part of the statute dealt with establishing wages.

　　 intricacy

　　 anxiety

　　 futility

　　 necessity

　　 decadence

　　22.The ____ with which the French aristocracy greeted the middle-class Rousseau was all the more ____ because he showed so little respect for them.

　　 deference.. remarkable

　　 suspicion.. uncanny

　　 reserve.. unexpected

　　 anger.. ironic

　　 appreciation.. deserved

　　23.The action and characters in a melodrama can be so immediately ____ that all observers can hiss the villain with an air of smug but enjoyable ____.

　　 spurned.. boredom

　　 forgotten.. condescension

　　 classified. .self-righteousness

　　 plausible.. guilt

　　 gripping. .skepticism

　　24.In the design of medical experiments, the need for ____ assignment of treatments to patients must be ____ the difficulty of persuading patients to participate in an experiment in which their treatment is decided by chance.

　　 independent.. amended by

　　 competent.. emphasized by

　　 mechanical.. controlled by

　　 swift. .associated with

　　 random.. reconciled with