GRE词汇考试试题测试――填空题(2)

　　1. A______acceptance of contemporary forms of social behavior has misled a few into believing that values in conflict with the present age are for all practical purposes______.

　　 casual.. reliable

　　 superficial.. trenchant

　　 complacent.. superseded

　　 cautious.. redemptive

　　 plaintive.. redundant

　　2. Aalto, like other modernists, believed that form follows function; consequently, his furniture designs asserted the______of human needs, and the furnitures form was______human use.

　　 universality.. refined by

　　 importance.. relegated to

　　 rationale.. emphasized by

　　 primacy.. determined by

　　 variability.. reflected in

　　3. According to the newspaper critic, the performances at the talent contest last night______ from acceptable to excellent.

　　 varied

　　 receded

　　 swept

　　 averaged

　　 declined

　　4. Actual events in the history of life on Earth are accidental in that any outcome embodies just one______ among millions; yet each outcome can be______ interpreted.

　　 coincidence.. randomly

　　 relationship. predictably

　　 fact.. readily

　　 happening.. uniquely

　　 possibility.. rationally

　　5. Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations is still worth reading, more to appreciate the current- -of Smiths valid contributions to economics than to see those contributions as the ______of present-day economics.

　　 disregard.. outgrowths

　　 reaffirmation.. concerns

　　 relevance.. precursors

　　 acceptance.. byproducts

　　 importance.. vestiges

　　6. After a slow sales start early in the year, mobile homes have been gaining favor as______to increasingly expensive conventional housing.

　　 reaction

　　 an addition

　　 an introduction

　　 an alternative

　　 a challenge

　　7. After thirty years of television, people have become speed watchers consequently, if the camera lingers, the interest of the audience______.

　　 broadens

　　 begins

　　 varies

　　 flags

　　 clears

　　8. Agronomists are increasingly worried about desertification, the phenomenon that is turning many of the worlds ______fields and pastures into______wastelands, unable to support the people living on them.

　　 fertile.. barren

　　 productive.. blooming

　　 arid.. thriving

　　 poorest.. marginal

　　 largest.. saturated

　　9. All______ biological traits fall into one of two categories: those giving their possessors greater______ the environment and those rendering them more independent of it.

　　 widespread.. detachment from

　　 beneficial.. control over

　　 successful.. freedom from

　　 neutral.. compatibility with

　　 harmful.. advantage in

　　10. Although ______ in her own responses to the plays she reviewed, the theatre critic was, paradoxically, ______ those who would deny that a reviewer must have a single method of interpretation.

　　 dogmatic.. impatient with

　　 eclectic.. suspicious of

　　 partisan.. hostile toward

　　 capricious.. intrigued by

　　 indulgent.. indebted to