GRE网络课堂词汇填空笔记-沈辉主讲(一)

　　1.The popularity of pseudoscience and quack medicines in thenineteenth century suggests that people were very ____, but thegullibility of the public today makes citizens of yesterday look likehard-nosed ____.

　　 cautious.. educators

　　 sophisticated.. realists

　　 rational.. pragmatists

　　 naive.. idealists

　　 credulous.. skeptics

　　2.Having sufficient income of her own constituted for Alice ____independence that made possible a degree of ____ in her emotional lifeas well.

　　 a material.. security

　　 a profound.. conformity

　　 a financial.. economy

　　 a psychological.. extravagance

　　 an unexpected.. uncertainty

　　3.The success of science is due in great part to its emphasis on____ : the reliance on evidence rather than ____ and the willingness todraw conclusions even when they conflict with traditional beliefs.

　　 causality.. experimentation

　　 empiricism.. facts

　　 objectivity.. preconceptions

　　 creativity.. observation

　　 conservatism.. assumptions

　　4.Given the failure of independent laboratories to replicate theresults of Dr. Johnsons experiment, only the most ____ supporters ofher hypothesis would be foolish enough to claim that it had beenadequately ____

　　 fastidious.. defined

　　 partisan.. verified

　　 vigilant.. publicized

　　 enlightened.. researched

　　 fervent.. undermined

　　5.One virus strain that may help gene therapists cure genetic braindiseases can enter the peripheral nervous system and travel to thebrain, ____ the need to inject the therapeutic virus directly into thebrain.

　　 suggesting

　　 intensifying

　　 elucidating

　　 satisfying

　　 obviating

　　6.Artificial light ____ the respiratory activity of somemicroorganisms in the winter but not in the summer, in part because inthe summer their respiration is already at its peak and thus cannot be____

　　 stimulates.. lessened

　　 inhibits.. quickened

　　 reflects.. expanded

　　 elevates.. measured

　　 enhances.. increased

　　7.Even those siblings whose childhood was ____ familial feuding andintense rivalry for their parents affection can nevertheless developcongenial and even ____ relationships with each other in their adultlives.

　　 scarred by.. vitriolic

　　 dominated by.. intimate

　　 filled with.. truculent

　　 replete with.. competitive

　　 devoid of.. tolerant