GRE网络课堂词汇填空笔记-沈辉主讲[5]

11. In response to the follies¹ of today's commercial and political worlds, the
author does not ____ inflamed² indignation, but rather ____ the
detachment and smooth aphoristic³ prose of an eighteenth-century wit.
(A) display.. rails at
(B) rely on.. avoids
(C) suppress.. clings to
(D) express.. affects
(E) resort to.. spurns⁴

12. Vaillant, who has been particularly interested in the means by which people
attain mental health, seems to be looking for ____ answers: a way to
close the book on at least a few questions about human nature.
(A) definitive
(B) confused
(C) temporary
(D) personal
(E) derivative⁵

13. Imposing⁶ steep fines on employers for on-the-job injuries to workers could

be an effective ____ to creating a safer workplace, especially in the case of
employers with poor safety records.
(A) antidote
(B) alternative
(C) addition
(D) deterrent
(E) incentive⁷

14. In retrospect⁸, Gordon's students appreciated her ____ assignments,
realizing that such assignments were specifically designed to ____ original
thought rather than to review the content of her course.
(A) didactic.. ingrain
(B) intimidating⁹.. thwart
(C) difficult.. discourage
(D) conventional.. explicate
(E) enigmatic.. stimulate¹⁰

15.The insecticide proved ____; by killing¹¹ the weak adults of a species, it
assured that the strong ones would mate among themselves and produce
offspring still more ____ to its effects.
(A) ineffective.. hostile
(B) cruel.. vulnerable
(C) feasible.. susceptible
(D) necessary.. immune
(E) counterproductive.. resistant¹²

16. She writes across generational lines, making the past so ____ that our
belief that the present is the true locus¹³ of experience is undermined.
(A) complex
(B) distant
(C) vivid
(D) mysterious
(E) mundane¹⁴

17. The technical know-how¹⁵, if not the political ____, appears already at hand
to feed the world's exploding population and so to ____ at last the ancient
scourges¹⁶ of malnutrition¹⁷ and famine.
(A) will.. weaken
(B) expertise¹⁸.. articulate
(C) doubt.. banish
(D) power.. denounce
(E) commitment.. eradicate¹⁹

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 one's own actions.
(A) conspiracy²⁰ against.. assume
(B) claim against.. elude
(C) boon²¹ for.. minimize
(D) distinction for.. shift
(E) trauma²² for.. proclaim

19. The pungent²³ verbal give-and-take among the characters makes the novel
____ reading, and this very ____ suggests to me that some of the opinions
voiced may be the author's.
(A) disturbing.. flatness
(B) tedious. inventiveness
(C) lively.. spiritedness
(D) necessary.. steadiness
(E) rewarding.. frivolousness²⁴

20. The fortresslike facade²⁵ of the Museum of Cartoon Art seems calculated to
remind visitors that the comic strip is an art form that has often been ____
by critics.
(A) charmed
(B) assailed
(C) unnoticed
(D) exhilarated
(E) overwhelmed

21. It is difficult to distinguish between the things that charismatic figures do

____ and those that are carefully contrived²⁶ for effect.
(A) formally
(B) publicly
(C) prolifically
(D) spontaneously
(E) willfully

22. The development of containers, possibly made from bark or the skins of
animals, although this is a matter of ____, allowed the extensive sharing of
forage²⁷ foods in prehistoric²⁸ human societies.
(A) record
(B) fact
(C) degree
(D) importance
(E) conjecture

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