GRE网络课堂词汇填空笔记-沈辉主讲(二)

　　8.Because they have been so dazzled by the calendars and theknowledge of astronomy possessed by the Mayan civilization, someanthropologists have ____ achievements like the sophisticated carvedcalendar sticks of the Winnebago people.

　　 described

　　 acknowledged

　　 overlooked

　　 defended

　　 authenticated

　　9.Aptly enough, this work so imbued with the notion of changingtimes and styles has been constantly ____ over the years, therebyreflecting its own mutability.

　　 appreciated

　　 emulated

　　 criticized

　　 revised

　　 reprinted

　　10.Even though formidable winters are the norm in the Dakotas, many people were unprepared for the ____ of the blizzard of 1888.

　　 inevitability

　　 ferocity

　　 importance

　　 probability

　　 mildness

　　11.The architects of New Yorks early skyscrapers, hinting here at atwelfth-century cathedral, there at a fifteenth-century palace, soughtto legitimize the citys social strivings by ____ a history the citydid not truly ____.

　　 revealing.. deserve

　　 displaying.. desire

　　 evoking.. possess

　　 preserving.. experience

　　 flouting.. believe

　　12.Early critics of Emily Dickinsons poetry mistook forsimplemindedness the surface of artlessness that in fact sheconstructed with such ____.

　　 astonishment

　　 vexation

　　 allusion

　　 innocence

　　 cunning

　　13.The techniques now available to livestock breeders will continueto be ____,but will probably be ____ by new ones under development.

　　 fruitful.. reversed

　　 refined.. upgraded

　　 inconvenient.. reassessed

　　 used.. supplemented

　　 harmless.. improved

　　14.There are, as yet, no vegetation types or ecosystems whose studyhas been ____ to the extent that they no longer ____ ecologists.

　　 perfected.. hinder

　　 exhausted.. interest

　　 prolonged.. require

　　 prevented.. challenge

　　 delayed.. benefit