GRE网络课堂词汇填空笔记-沈辉主讲(四)

　　25.Though dealers insist that professional art dealers can make money in the art market, even an ____ knowledge is not enough: the art world is so fickle that stock-market prices are ____ by comparison.

　　 amateurs. .sensible

　　 experts.. erratic

　　 investors.. booming

　　 insiders.. predictable

　　 artists.. irrational

　　26.Reads apology to Heflin was not exactly abject and did little to ____ their decades-long quarrel, which had been as ____ as the academic etiquette of scholarly journals permitted.

　　 encourage.. sporadic

　　 dampen.. courteous

　　 obscure.. ceremonious

　　 resolve.. acrimonious

　　 blur.. sarcastic

　　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 outdated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