GRE网络课堂词汇填空笔记

　　1.Although the architects concept at first sounded too ____ to be ____ , his

　　careful analysis of every aspect of the project convinced the panel that the

　　proposed building was indeed, structurally feasible.

　　 mundane.. attractive

　　 eclectic.. appealing

　　 grandiose.. affordable

　　 innovative.. ignored

　　 visionary.. practicable

　　2.If efficacious new medicines have side effects that are commonly observed

　　and ____, such medicines are too often considered ____, even when

　　laboratory tests suggest caution.

　　 unremarkable.. safe

　　 unpredictable.. reliable

　　 frequent.. outdated

　　 salutary.. experimental

　　 complicated.. useful

　　3. The idealized paintings of nature produced in the eighteenth century are

　　evidence that the medieval ____ natural settings had been ____ and that

　　the outdoors now could be enjoyed without trepidation.

　　 fear of.. exorcised

　　 concerns about.. regained

　　 affection for.. surmounted

　　 disinterest in.. alleviated

　　 enthusiasm for.. confronted

　　4. Some paleontologists debate whether the diversity of species has ____

　　since the Cambrian period, or whether imperfections in the fossil record

　　only suggest greater diversity today, while in actuality there has been

　　either ____ or decreased diversity.

　　 changed.. escalation

　　 increased.. stasis

　　 expanded.. discontinuity

　　 declined.. reduction

　　 improved.. deviation

　　5. Manipulating laboratory tissue cultures with hormones is one thing; using

　　hormones to treat human beings, however, is contingent on whether

　　hormones that ____ in the laboratory can affect ____ organisms, and in

　　predictable ways.

　　 develop.. similar

　　 succeed.. simple

　　 fail.. cellular

　　 work.. whole

　　 reproduce.. unknown

　　6. The astronomer and feminist Maria Mitchells own prodigious activity and

　　the vigor of the Association for the Advancement of Women during the

　　1870s ____ any assertion that feminism was ____ in that period.

　　 exclude.. thriving

　　 contradict.. prospering

　　 pervade.. remote

　　 buttress.. dormant

　　 belie.. quiescent

　　7. Jones was unable to recognize, the contradictions in his attitudes that were

　　obvious to everyone else; even the hint of an untruth was ____ to him, but

　　he ____ serious trouble by always cheating on his taxes.

　　 acceptable.. risked

　　 exciting.. averted

　　 repugnant.. courted

　　 anathema.. evaded

　　 tempting.. hazarded

　　8. Though feminist in its implications, Yvonne Rainers 1974 film ____ the

　　filmmakers active involvement in feminist politics.

　　 preserved

　　 portrayed

　　 encouraged

　　 renewed

　　 antedated

　　9. The chances that a species will ____ are reduced if any vital function is

　　restricted to a single kind of organ;____ by itself possesses an enormous

　　survival advantage.

　　 degenerate.. complexity

　　 expire.. size

　　 disappear.. variety

　　 flourish.. symmetry

　　 persist.. redundancy

　　10. Despite many decades of research on the gasification of coal, the data

　　accumulated are not directly ____ to environmental questions; thus a new

　　program of research specifically addressing such questions is ____.

　　 analogous.. promising

　　 transferable.. contradictory

　　 antithetical.. unremarkable

　　 applicable.. warranted

　　 pertinent.. unnecessary