精選GRE模擬試題及分析

GRE模擬試題：

Usually the first to spot data that were inconsistent with other findings, in this particular experiment she let a number of______results slip by. (A) inaccurate (B) verifiable (C) redundant (D) salient (E) anomalous

2. Many artists believe that successful imitation, far from being symptomatic of a lack of______, is the first step in learning to be creative. (A) elegance (B) resolution (C) goodness (D) originality (E) sympathy

3. The sheer diversity of tropical plants represents a seemingly______source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized. (A) exploited (B) quantifiable (C) controversial (D) inexhaustible (E) remarkable

4. Because no comprehensive______exist regarding personal reading practices, we do not know, for example, the greatest number of books read in an individual lifetime. (A) records (B) instincts (C) accounts (D) remedies (E) proposals

5. It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of______. (A) maturity (B) fiction (C) inventiveness (D) art (E) brilliance

6. Demonstrating a mastery of innuendo, he issued several______insults in the course of the evening’s conversation. (A) blunt (B) veiled (C) fallacious (D) boisterous (E) disguised

7. Edith Wharton sought in her memoir to present herself as having achieved a harmonious wholeness by having______the conflicting elements of her life. (A) affirmed (B) reconciled (C) highlighted (D) resolved (E) identified

als that have tasted unpalatable plants tend to______them afterward on the basis of their most conspicuous features, such as their flowers. (A) recognize (B) hoard (C) trample (D) retrieve (E) identify

9. The notion that cultural and biological influences______determine cross-cultural diversity is discredited by the fact that, in countless aspects of human existence, it is cultural programming that overwhelmingly accounts for cross-population variance. (A) jointly (B) completely (C) directly (D) equally (E) evenly

分析：空格填入一個副詞，修飾“決定(determine)”，並且與“文化和生物影響(cultural and biological influences)”以及“跨文化多樣性(cross-cultural diversity)”有關。Is discredited by表示前後是對比關係，所以空格應該體現和“壓倒性的(overwhelmingly)”相反的含義。A共同地;B完全地;C直接地;D平等地;E最終地。D選項為正確答案。需要提醒的是，A選項是不對的，因為“共同”也存在某一個因素“壓倒性”的情況。 翻譯：文化和生物的影響相同程度地決定了跨文化的'多樣性，這個觀念被另外的一個事實挑戰，即在人類存在的無數方面，只是文化的因素壓倒一切地解釋了羣體之間的差異。 擴展：本題涉及到關於跨文化多樣性的問題。實際上，文化和生物本性都對羣體多樣性有影響，這也是學術界一直在爭論的話題。比如不同民族的生活習慣，可能跟文化背景有關，也可能跟遺傳和身體狀況有關。我們可以積累一些關於羣體差異和文化多樣性的例子，並分析這種多樣性存在的原因。