GRE填空备考最新500题大全【Section30】。
Section 30
1. One view of historicism holds that systems of belief prevalent during different period in history are ________ and therefore cannot be understand except in there own term.
A. discriminatory
B. incommensurable
C. anachronistic
D. cosmopolitan
E. objective
2. Neuroscientists are excited by technological progress that facilitates brain mapping, the most ________ of them comparing their growing abilities to tremendous advances that led to unimaginable success of the Human Genome Project.
A. rigorous
B. sanguine
C. punctilious
D. unorthodox
E. sophisticated
3. At Cerro Portezuelo the task of separating grinding tools from the larger collection of excavated stone objects was (i)________ the ancient practice of recycling grinding tool fragments for building materials, hammer stones and other purpose that (ii)________ their original use.
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A. complicated by
B. important to
C. independent from
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D. complemented
E. obscured
F. underscored
4. The genius of the scientific method is that it (i)________ the dictum of Aristotle that the goal of science is knowledge of the ultimate cause of things. True science, we now know, advances human knowledge by (ii)________ ultimate causes and focusing instead on the testing of empirical
hypotheses.
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A. qualifies
B. jettisons
C. affirms
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D. ignoring
E. predicting
F. confirming
5. Unquestionably, the particular forms that folly and cruelty take in Jane Austen’s novels are (i)________ the character’s social milieu, which was also Austen’s own; but to realize that one’s society motivates people in unfortunate ways is not necessarily to (ii)________ it, for the alternatives, though different, might be no more (iii)________.
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A. shaped by
B. removed from
C. unrecognizable in
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D. expose
E. condemn
F. rationalize
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G. salutary
H. corrosive
I. realistic
6. To label Hamilton a foreigner because he was born outside what later became the United States is to assume anachronistically the existence of the nation before the fact. It is true that Hamilton came to believe that he was a (i)________ the United States, but his (ii)________ was stemmed not from his (iii)________ but from his confrontation with American democracy, which he considered to be a disease afflicting the nation.
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A. symbol of
B. stranger in
C. citizen of
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D. alienation
E. ambition
F. patriotism
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G. ideology
H. profession
I. birthplace
7. Some experts estimate that the recreational salmon fishery in British Columbia contributes more to the province’s economy than the commercial salmon fishery does - a surprising statistic given the political commercial ________ of the fishery in the province.
A. naivete
B. prominence
C. supremacy
D. ingenuousness
E. salience
F. resurgence
8. The jazz style called bebop was born and nurtured in New York City, and despite a ________ initial reception. It resonated three thousand miles away on the West Coast.
A. wary
B. warm
C. confused
D. muddled
E. convivial
F. hostile
9. In 1884, Sewall and Dow agreed to Join Roosevelt in the Dakota territory for reasons that appear to have been ________: Sewell later recalled that Roosevelt guaranteed them a share of anything made in the cattle business.
A. pecuniary
B. straightforward
C. economic
D. selfless
E. quixotic
F. altruistic
10. Estimating demographic parameters in marine mammals is challenging, often requiring many years of data to achieve sufficient precision to ________ biologically meaningful change.
A. effect
B. tolerate
C. discern
D. envisage
E. withstand
F. detect