大全【Section46】!准备GRE填空部分，同学们要注意几个问题：提升填空题审题能力、坚持词汇积累、确保充足练习量，很多时候在练习的过程中，大家就可以总结很多GRE填空做题技巧，所以大家要注意练习的重要性。
Section 46
1. The modest but functional new wing finally gives the museum the ________ to serve its visitors properly, including multiple entrances to eliminate the lines that used to snake around the building.
A. visibility
B. wherewithal
C. reputation
D. solemnity
E. panache
2. Collecting such fragment of contemporary popular culture as postcards, newspaper clippings, and wallpaper patterns, Susan Hiller transforms these seemingly (i)______ artifacts into objectic (ii)______ by making them the centerpieces in her compositions.
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A. extravagant D. importance
B. trivial E. uniformity
C. archaic F. banality
3. Conventional deposits of oil and gas are actually the final resting place of far-traveled hydrocarbons that were (i)________ deeper source beds of organic-rich rock. By contrast, shale gas (ii)________ its birthplace, remaining in the source bed whose organic matter produced the gas.
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A. trapped in D. never leaves
B. generated in E. swiftly escapes from
C. bound for F. rarely stays in
4. The usual (i)________ spending public monies on scientific projects is that such projects have the potential to make our lives healthier, safer, and more productive. However, the fact that science---even “pure” science---can strengthen democracy and promote public participation in the political process is hardly ever (ii)________. It should be Scientific literacy (iii)________ democracy, and this is an important ancillary benefit of the promotion of science.
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A. argument against D. denied G. stifles
B. rationale for E. mentioned H. energizes
C. precedent for F. gainsaid I. disregards
5. One sometimes hears that Marco Polo introduced pasta to the Western world, having encountered it in China. This durable myth, which (i)________ that nothing should have been known of pasta in Italy until 1295, when Marco Polo returned from the Far East, can easily be (ii)________ by pointing out that there are Italian references to pasta that (iii)________.
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A. requires D. augmented G. praise its virtues
B. demonstrates E. debunked H. can be authenticated
C. symbolizes F. traced I. predate that event
6. Publishers, publicists, and broadcasters love anniversaries, those occasions when historical events become (i)________ in (ii)________ culture of celebration. On such occasions patriotic sentiment and national pride wrapped in the panoply of history to manufacture a mythical past that is serviceable for public (iii)________.
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A. elusive moments D. an authentic G. consumption
B. marketable artifacts E. a commercial H. scrutiny
C. raging controversies F. an elitist I. censure
7. The difficulty of reforming electoral politics is not lack of the right tools but the need to put them into the hands of impartial agents: the goal should be to build capacity while ______.
A. expediting
B. constraining
C. facilitating
D. deterring
E. exacerbating
F. lamenting
8. Readers have long considered Lawd Today! , Richard Wright’s first written and last published novel, _______; the novel simply seems inconsistent with the image of what a Wright text should do or be.
A. an artifact
B. a prototype
C. an anomaly
D. a mainstay
E. an aberration
F. a model
9. The book aims to illuminate how science has changed the meaning of nothingness from________ philosophical concept to something we can almost put under a microscope.
A. a tangible
B. a palpable
C. a nebulous
D. a nettlesome
E. an incontrovertible
F. a vague
10. The company is so old-fashioned and opposed to innovation that it can seem
downright________.
A. antediluvian
B. flighty
C. archaic
D. chauvinistic
E. capricious
F. patronizing