文档介绍：91年10月GRE考试题
SECTION 1
1. Contrary to the popular conception that it is powered by
conscious objectivity, science often operates through
error, happy accidents, ______ and persistence in spite
of mistakes.
(A) facts (B) controls (C) hunches
(D) deductions (E) calculations
2. The transition from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic era is
viewed by most art historians as a ____ , because, instead
of an increasingly ______ pictorial art, we find
degeneration.
(A) milestone.. debased
(B) consolidation.. diverse
(C) calamity.. aberrant
(D) regression.. sophisticated
(E) continuation.. improved
3. Salazar’s presence in the group was so _____ the others
that they lost most of their earlier ______; failure, for
them, became all but unthinkable.
(A) reassuring to .. trepidation
(B) unnoticed by.. curiosity
(C) unusual to.. harmony
(D) endearing to.. confidence
(E) unexpected by.. exhilaration
4. The eradication of pollution is not merely a matter of
___, though the majestic beauty of nature is indeed an
important consideration.
(A) economics (B) legislation
(C) cleanliness (D) aesthetics (E) cleanliness
5. Despite an agreement between labor and management to
keep the print and electronic media ______
developments, the details of the negotiations were
______ all but a few journalists from the major
metropolitan newspapers.
(A) abreast of.. disclosed to
(B) involved in.. leaded to
(C) apprised of.. withheld from
(D) speculating about.. denied to
(E) ignorant of .. suppressed by
6. Word order in a sentence was much freer in Old French
than it is in French today, this _______disappeared as the
French language gradually lost its case distinctions.
(A) restriction (B) license (C) similarity
(D) rigidity (E) imperative
biologists must maintain a _____attitude toward
the subjects of their research, social scientists must,
paradoxically, combine personal involvement and