新GRE网考样题B(txt)

　C, F…… . mimicking, incorporated into

　　New technologies often begin by mimicking what has gone before, and they change the world later.  Think how long it took power-using companies to recognize that with electricity they did not need to cluster their machinery around the power source, as in the days of steam.  Instead, power could be incorporated into their processes.  In that sense, many of today's computer networks are still in the steam age.  Their full potential remains unrealized.

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　　Indicate your two  answer choices.

　　Question 22.

　　This question has two blanks.

　　There has been much hand-wringing about how uNPRepared American students are for college.  Graff reverses this perspective, suggesting that colleges are uNPRepared for students.  In his analysis, the university culture is largely BLANK entering students because academic culture fails to make connections to the kinds of arguments and cultural references that students grasp.  Understandably, many students view academic life as BLANK ritual.

　　Now consider the text with the three options inserted in place of each blank.

　　There has been much hand-wringing about how uNPRepared American students are for college.  Graff reverses this perspective, suggesting that colleges are uNPRepared for students.  In his analysis, the university culture is largely (a. primed for, b. opaque to, c. essential for) entering students because academic culture fails to make connections to the kinds of arguments and cultural references that students grasp.  Understandably, many students view academic life as (d. an arcane, e. a laudable, f. a painstaking) ritual.

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　　A, D…… primed for, an arcane.

　　. There has been much hand-wringing about how uNPRepared American students are for college.  Graff reverses this perspective, suggesting that colleges are uNPRepared for students.  In his analysis, the university culture is largely primed for entering students because academic culture fails to make connections to the kinds of arguments and cultural references that students grasp.  Understandably, many students view academic life as an arcane ritual.

　　A, E…… . primed for, a laudable.

　　. There has been much hand-wringing about how uNPRepared American students are for college.  Graff reverses this perspective, suggesting that colleges are uNPRepared for students.  In his analysis, the university culture is largely primed for entering students because academic culture fails to make connections to the kinds of arguments and cultural references that students grasp.  Understandably, many students view academic life as a laudable ritual.

　　A, F…… . primed for, a painstaking.

　　. There has been much hand-wringing about how uNPRepared American students are for college.  Graff reverses this perspective, suggesting that colleges are uNPRepared for students.  In his analysis, the university culture is largely primed for entering students because academic culture fails to make connections to the kinds of arguments and cultural references that students grasp.  Understandably, many students view academic life as  a painstaking ritual.