新GRE网考样题B(txt)

　　C, F. multifaceted, extraneous: The multifaceted nature of classical tragedy in Athens belies the modern image of tragedy:  in the modern view tragedy is austere and stripped down, its representations of ideological and emotional conflicts so superbly compressed that there's nothing extraneous for time to erode.

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　　Indicate your two answer choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

　　Question 12.

　　This question has three blanks.

　　Murray, whose show of recent paintings and drawings is her best in many years, has been eminent hereabouts for a quarter century, although often regarded with BLANK, but the most BLANK of these paintings BLANK all doubts.

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

　　Murray, whose show of recent paintings and drawings is her best in many years, has been eminent hereabouts for a quarter century, although often regarded with (a. partiality; b. credulity; c. ambivalence) but the most (d. problematic; e. successful; f. disparaged) of these paintings (g. exculpate; h. assuage; i. whet) all doubts.

　　Indicate your three answer choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best competes the text.

　　Directions for questions 13 through 16:

　　Each of the following questions includes a short text with a blank, indicating that something has been omitted. Select the word or phrase that best fits the corresponding blank in the text.

　　For each question, first will be the text with the word "BLANK" indicating that a word or phrase is omitted. There are five answer choices, each consisting of a word or phrase, for filling in the blank.  Next will be the five lettered options for filling in the blank. You may then go on to the options in context, or skip that material (labeled as skippable content) and select your answer.

　　Question 13.

　　Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960's portrayed him as BLANK thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like.

　　A. an adventurous

　　B. a doctrinaire

　　C. an eclectic

　　D. a judicious

　　E. a cynical

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　　Answer Choices in Context:

　　A. an adventurous: Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960's portrayed him as an adventurous thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like.

　　B. a doctrinaire: Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960's portrayed him as a doctrinaire thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like.

　　C. an eclectic: Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960's portrayed him as an eclectic thinker, eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like.