GRE网络课堂词汇填空笔记-沈辉主讲(七)

　　14. In retrospect, Gordons students appreciated her ____ assignments,realizing that such assignments were specifically designed to ____ original thought rather than to review the content of her course.

　　 didactic.. ingrain

　　 intimidating.. thwart

　　 difficult.. discourage

　　 conventional.. explicate

　　 enigmatic.. stimulate

　　15.The insecticide proved ____; by killing the weak adults of a species, it assured that the strong ones would mate among themselves and produce offspring still more ____ to its effects.

　　 ineffective.. hostile

　　 cruel.. vulnerable

　　 feasible.. susceptible

　　 necessary.. immune

　　 counterproductive.. resistant

　　16. She writes across generational lines, making the past so ____ that our belief that the present is the true locus of experience is undermined.

　　 complex

　　 distant

　　 vivid

　　 mysterious

　　 mundane

　　17. The technical know-how, if not the political ____, appears already at hand to feed the worlds exploding population and so to ____ at last the ancient scourges of malnutrition and famine.

　　 will.. weaken

　　 expertise.. articulate

　　 doubt.. banish

　　 power.. denounce

　　 commitment.. eradicate

　　18. In small farming communities, accident victims rarely sue or demand compensation: transforming a personal injury into a ____ someone else is viewed as an attempt to ____ responsibility for ones own actions.

　　 conspiracy against.. assume

　　 claim against.. elude

　　 boon for.. minimize

　　 distinction for.. shift

　　 trauma for.. proclaim