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1、GRE模拟试题及答案卷七2020年GRE模拟试题及答案（卷七）Retrofitted with stabilizing devices, some of which _ its aesthetics, the bridge has been reopened, no longer prone to excessive swaying but not quitethe breathtaking structure it originally was.A：impairB：resistC：improveD：enhanceE：restoreF：compromise答案：AFAlthough cosmi

2、c objects have struck Earth since the planets very formation, humanity has only recently become aware of these events: two centuries ago the idea that objects orbiting the Sun could collide with Earth was widely_ .A：ridiculedB：doubtedC：disseminatedD：promulgatedE：marginalizedF：disbelieved答案：BFThat pe

3、ople _ the musical features of birdsongs suggests that despite the vast evolutionary gulf between birds and mammals, songbirds and humans share some common auditory perceptual abilities.A：mimicB：recognizeC：relishD：are confounded byE：can make outF：are puzzled by答案：BETorpeys study has turned a seeming

4、ly _ topic, the passport, into a fascinating one by making an original contribution to the sociology of the state.A：ironicB：banalC：provocativeD：wittyE：insipidF：stimulating答案：BEBritain is attractive to worldwide advertisers because it is _ market, so there is no need to tailor advertisements for diff

5、erent parts ofthe country.A：a globalB：an uncomplicatedC：a vastD：a homogeneousE：a uniformF：an immense答案：DEInstant celebrity is often (i) _ asset because if there is no (ii) _ to interest the publicno stage or screen triumphs,no interesting books, no heroic exploitspeople quickly become bored.Blank (I

6、)Blank (II)A：a fleeting D：competing attractionB：an incomparable E：continuity of exposureC：an untapped F：real achievement答案：AFAt their best, (i) _book reviews are written in defense of value and in the tacit hope that the author, having had his or her (ii) _ pointed out, might secretly agree that the

7、 book could be improved.Blank (I)Blank (II)A：abstruse D：strengthsB：adverse E：transgressionsC：hortatory F：assumptions答案：BEThe gaps in existing accounts of the playwrights life are not (i) _ , since much of the documentary evidence on which historians have relied is (ii) _Blank (I)Blank (II)A：trifling

8、 D：credibleB：obvious E：extantC：implicit F：incomplete答案：AFThat todays students of American culture tend to (i) _ classical music is understandable. In our own time, Americas musical high culture has degenerated into a formulaic entertainment divorced from the contemporary moment. Thus, to miss out on

9、 what our orchestras are up to is not to (ii) _ much. In the late Gilded Age, however, music was widely esteemed as the “queen of the arts.” Classical music was in its American heyday, (iii) _ the culture at large.Blank (I)Blank (II)Blank (III)A：promote D：sacrifice G：antagonistic towardB：reinterpret

10、 E：appreciate H：generally rejected byC：ignore F：malign I：centrally embedded in答案：CDIThe serious study of popular culture by intellectuals is regularly credited with having rendered obsolete aonce-dominant view that popular culture is inherently inferior to high art. Yet this alteration of attitudes

11、may be somewhat (i) _ . Although it is now academically respectable to analyze popular culture, the fact that many intellectuals feel compelled to rationalize their own (ii) _ action movies or mass-market fiction reveals,perhaps unwittingly, their continued (iii) _ the old hierarchy of high and low

12、culture.Blank (I)Blank (II)Blank (III)A：counterproductive D：penchant for G：aversion toB：underappreciated E：distaste for H：investment inC：overstated F：indifference to I：misunderstanding of答案：CDHStem borers are insect pests that often ruin North American corn crops. On some other continents, crop dama

13、ge by stem borers is controlled by a certain species of wasp. Since these wasps eat nothing but stem borers, importing them into North America will keep crop damage from stem borers under control without endangering other North American insect species.Which of the following is an assumption on which

14、 the argument depends?(A) Corn is the principal food of stem borers that live on continents other than North America.(B) The wasps are capable of surviving in North America long enough to eat significant numbers of stem borers.(C) No wasp in North America is closely related to the species of wasp th

15、at eats stem borers.(D) On continent other than North America, the wasps control stem borers more effectively than does any other pest control measure.(E) Corn crops on continents other than North America are not damaged by any insect pests other than stem borers.答案：BFrom a newspaper editorial:Many

16、people who are addicted to heroin will eventually attempt to overcome their addiction, principally for two reasons:the expense of maintaining a heroin addiction and the fear of arrest. If heroin were legalized and made available cheaply, as some people advocate, neither of these reasons would apply.

17、The considerations above can best serve as part of an argument that(A) legalizing the sale of heroin would cause the price of this drug to go down(B) making it easier for heroin addicts to obtain treatment for their addiction would encourage many heroin addicts to attempt to overcome their addiction

18、(C) legalizing the sale of heroin would increase the number of crimes committed by heroin addicts to support their addiction(D) making heroin available legally and cheaply would make it less likely that heroin addicts will attempt to overcome their addiction(E) decreasing the severity of penalties f

19、or individuals who use heroin would not increase the number of new heroin addicts答案：DSome recent historians have argued that life in the British colonies in America from approximately 1763 to 1789 was marked by internal conflicts among colonists. Inheritors of some of the viewpoints of early twentie

20、th-century Progressive historians such as Beard and Becker, these recent historians have put forward arguments that deserve evaluation.The kind of conflict most emphasized by these historians is class conflict. Yet with the Revolutionary War dominating these years, how does one distinguish class con

21、flict within that larger conflict? Certainly not by the side a person supported. Although many of these historians have accepted the earlier assumption that Loyalists represented an upper class, new evidence indicates that Loyalists, like rebels, were drawn from all socioeconomic classes. (It is non

22、etheless probably true that a larger percentage of the well-to-do joined the Loyalists than joined the rebels.) looking at the rebel side, we find little evidence for the contention that lower-class rebels were in conflict with upper-class rebels. Indeed, the war effort against Britain tended to sup

23、press class conflicts. Where it did not, the disputing rebels of one or another class usually became Loyalists. Loyalism thus operated as a safety valve to remove socioeconomic discontent that existed among the rebels. Disputes occurred, of course, among those who remained on the rebel side, but the

24、 extraordinary social mobility of eighteenth-century American society (with the obvious exception of slaves) usually prevented such disputes from hardening along class lines. Social structure was in fact so fluid-though recent statistics suggest a narrowing of economic opportunity as the latter half

25、 of the century progressed-that to talk about social classes at all requires the use of loose economic categories such as rich, poor, and middle class, or eighteenth-century designations like the better sort. Despite these vague categories, one should not claim unequivocally that hostility between r

26、ecognizable classes cannot be legitimately observed. Outside of New York, however, there were very few instances of openly expressed class antagonism.Having said this, however, one must add that there is much evidence to support the further claim of recent historians that sectional conflicts were co

27、mmon between 1763 and 1789. The Paxton Boys incident and the Regulator movement are representative examples of the widespread, and justified, discontent of western settlers against colonial or state governments dominated by eastern interests. Although undertones of class conflict existed beneath suc

28、h hostility, the opposition was primarily geographical. Sectional conflict-which also existed between North and South-deserves further investigation.In summary, historians must be careful about the kind of conflict they emphasize in eighteenth-century America. Yet those who stress the achievement of

29、 a general consensus among the colonists cannot fully understand that consensus without understanding the conflicts that had to be overcome or repressed in order to reach it.The author suggests which of the following about the representativeness of colonial or state governments in America from 1763

30、to 1789?A.The governments inadequately represented the interests of people in western regions.B.The governments more often represented class interests than sectional interests.C.The governments were less representative than they had been before 1763D.The governments were dominated by the interests o

31、f people of an upper socioeconomic class.E.The governments of the northern colonies were less representative than were the governments of the southern colonies.According to the passage, which of the following is a true statement about sectional conflicts in America between 1763 and 1789?A.These conflicts were instigated by eastern interests against western settlers.B.These conflicts were the most serious kind of conflict in America.C.The conflicts eventually led to openly expressed class antagonism.D.These confli