新GRE考试历年填空真题六

1. Her lecture gave a sense of how empty the universe

is, in spite of the ---- number of stars within it.

(A) diminishing

(B) varying

(C) enormous

(D) unusual

(E) limited

2. The wilderness is ---- in that it permits people

to face an important reality—one that demands

much of them as thinking, reacting, working individuals,

not ---- as human machines.

(A) foreign.. necessarily

(B) intangible.. physically

(C) stimulating.. creatively

(D) discouraging.. neutrally

(E) valuable.. merely

3. Ambrose Blerce’s biographers agree that the Civil

War was the central experience of his life, the

event to which be constantly returned and the

---- that brought some ---- to the hitherto

random pattern of his youth.

(A) ordeal.. coherence

(B) interruption.. continuity

(C) climax.. confusion

(D) escape.. diversion

(E) hiatus.. rigidity

4. The constitutional guarantee or tree speech may

have been aimed at protecting native speakers of

English from censorship, but it is not a great

---- to interpret it as protecting the right to

express oneself in any natural language or dialect.

(A) enigma

(B) extension

(C) sacrifice

(D) condemnation

(E) attenuation

5. Although Darwinism was a profoundly ----

world view, it was essentially passive, since it

prescribed no steps to be taken, no victories

over nature to be celebrated, no program of wｗw.ExamＷ.CoM

triumphs of be successively gained.

(A) limited

(B) repressive

(C) debatable

(D) innovative

(E) paradoxical