今天大全【Section29】，一些GRE填空难题的典型特点就是在题目原句中就带有一些包含了褒义贬义感情色彩的词汇，考生只要细心读题审题，就能比较容易地发现这些词汇。
Section 29
1. The Labrador duck is one of the most ________ extinct birds : although there are a fair number of specimens, few have yield reliable data and little is known about the species' breeding patterns.
A. anomalous
B. controversial
C. enigmatic
D. misrepresented
E. cherished
2. People frequently attempt to relieve their workplace frustrations via surreptitious comments around the water cooler but would be better able to resolve their resentment if they were less (i)________ about their problem and imitated a more (ii)________ dialogue.
Blank (i)
A. vexatious
B. clandestine
C. opportunistic
Blank (ii)
D. equitable
E. sincere
F. open
3. Pioneering medical research scientist’ (i)________ claims regarding the (ii)________ new researchers make the public wonder their own doctors are not dispensing miracles. There’re forces both external and internal, on scientists that most require them to (iii)________. Without money, there is no science. Researchers must constantly convince administrators who control tax dollars, investors, and individual donors that the work they are doing will make a difference.
Blank (i)
A. modest
B. inflated
C. fastidious
Blank (ii)
D. serious constrains on
E. overblown interpretations of
F. potential benefits of
Blank (iii)
G. improvise
H. oversell
I. generalize
4. Traditional Vietnamese culture has long promoted the idea of gender equality. Founding myths (i)________the equal division of labor in child care for mothers and fathers. As is often the case, however, theoretical commitments are (ii)________ actual processes. In reality, gender-based (iii) ________ persists.
Blank (i)
A. obscure
B. celebrate
C. countermand
Blank (ii)
D. incommensurate with
E. surpassed by
F. inspired by
Blank (iii)
G. parity
H. inclusiveness
I. stratification
5. Despite the occasional (i)________ of their venus, the culture of corporate conferences is a deeply (ii)________ conference, each day consisted of nearly nine hours of continuous lectures and panels enlivened by pleasantries or anything that could be construed as a joke. The only (iii)________ sensory deprivation of the sessions came from the handsome color slides favored by the corporate presenters.
Blank (i)
A. seclusion
B. opulence
C. enormity
Blank (ii)
D. sycophantic
E. ascetic
F. mercenary
Blank (iii)
G. allusion to
H. ramification of
I. respite from
6. Galaxy Zoo set a standard for citizen-scientist participation project, zealous volunteers (i) ________ the project’s organizers by classifying an entire catalog of galaxies years head of schedule, (ii) ________ by (iii) ________ of the Galaxy Zoo team was inspired to pursue lines of research they had never even imagined.
Blank (i)
A. beguiled
B. forestalled
C. astonished
Blank (ii)
D. baffled
E. buoyed
F. embarrassed
Blank (iii)
G. insouciance
H. stoicism
I. alacrity
7. The professor’s habitual air of ________ was misleading front, concealing amazing reserves of patience and a deep commitment to his students’ learning.
A. cordiality
B. irascibility
C. disorganization
D. conviviality
E. diffidence
F. exasperation
8. Apparent flaws in the sculptor’s work have not ________ its respectful reception by most modern critics.
A. determined
B. controlled
C. undermined
D. prevented
E. overshadowed
F. precluded
9. Historically, the depletion of soil’s nitrogen has been one of the most ________ problems faced by farmers: an essential nutrient, nitrogen is quickly leached from soil, and farmers have struggled to find ways to replenish it.
A. capricious
B. ubiquitous
C. worrisome
D. stubborn
E. intractable
F. unpredictable
10. The town's air was consistently ________: depending in the breeze, one might be greeted with the sour effluvia of twenty breweries, choking fumes from the local factory, or brackish smell from the nearby river.
A. malodorous
B. toxic
C. benign
D. redolent
E. noisome
F. anodyne