GRE网络课堂词汇填空笔记沈辉主讲

　　1.The popularity of pseudoscience and quack medicines in the nineteenth century suggests that people were very ____, but the gullibility of the public today makes citizens of yesterday look like hard-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 life as 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 to draw 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 the results of Dr. Johnsons experiment, only the most ____ supporters of her hypothesis would be foolish enough to claim that it had been adequately ____

　　fastidious.. defined

　　partisan.. verified

　　vigilant.. publicized

　　enlightened.. researched

　　fervent.. undermined

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

　　suggesting

　　intensifying

　　elucidating

　　satisfying

　　obviating

　　6.Artificial light ____ the respiratory activity of some microorganisms in the winter but not in the summer, in part because in the 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 and intense rivalry for their parents affection can nevertheless develop congenial and even ____ relationships with each other in their adult lives.

　　scarred by.. vitriolic

　　dominated by.. intimate

　　filled with.. truculent

　　replete with.. competitive

　　devoid of.. tolerant

　　8.Because they have been so dazzled by the calendars and the knowledge of astronomy possessed by the Mayan civilization, some anthropologists have ____ achievements like the sophisticated carved calendar sticks of the Winnebago people.

　　described

　　acknowledged

　　overlooked

　　defended

　　authenticated

　　9.Aptly enough, this work so imbued with the notion of changing times and styles has been constantly ____ over the years, thereby reflecting 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