新GRE考前词汇串讲练习题第六套03

　　21. When Adolph Ochs became the publisher of The New York Times, he endowed the paper with a uniquely__________ tone, avoiding the__________editorials that characterized other major papers of the time.
　　A. abstruse….scholarly
　　B. dispassionate……..shrill
　　C. argumentative…….tendentious
　　D. whimsical…..capricious
　　E. cosmopolitan…….timely
　　22. Despite the fact that the amateur runner trained rigorously for six months before the race, he failed to__________ it: the course was so__________that even professional runners struggled to finish.
　　A. complete……..demanding
　　B. win………manageable
　　C. master…….short
　　D. concede…….formidable
　　E. underestimate…..unusual
　　23. In linking geographically disparate people, the Internet is arguably helping millions of spontaneous communities to bloom: communities defined by common interests rather than by the accident of__________ .
　　A. compatibility
　　B. affluence
　　C. reciprocity
　　D. contemporaneousness
　　E. proximity
　　24. It is as if Woodward could not bear to leave anything out; if he had__________some of his material, the resulting increase in focus would have more than__________ any loss in comprehensiveness.
　　A. elaborated…….justified
　　B. condensed………exaggerated
　　C. expanded………offset
　　D. edited……..pointed up
　　E. pruned……..compensated for 　
　　25. The hesitancy of many countries to embrace market reform is unfortunate, because many national success stories suggest that far from__________ such reform, countries should be eager to__________ its benefits.
　　A. implementing…….document
　　B. pursuing…………seek
　　C. eschewing……..reap
　　D. needing……..realize
　　E. understanding…….question
　　26. Contemporary lawmakers’ preoccupation with regulating the Internet is __________ the way lawmakers treated many young industries in the past; United States railroads, for instance, were in business for 60 years before the federal government _______ regulations.
　　A. antithetical to……….eased
　　B. faithful to……..levied
　　C. reminiscent of……..enforced
　　D. in conflict with ….lifted
　　E. at odds with…….introduced
　　27. Despite the fact that the book’s title suggests__________, the author is not a charlatan claiming to offer a ; rather, her book assessed all possible treatments of certain diseases without identifying any cures.
　　A. fraud……critique
　　B. sincerity…….nostrum
　　C. hyperbole…..warning
　　D. expertise…….prescription
　　E. quackery……panacea
　　28. The profits that the corporation earns from the exclusive-supplier agreements with the universities are__________ , because the terms of agreements that they are inclined to protect the universities’ interests are generally__________ .
　　A. inexplicable……..flouted
　　B. unclear……….publicized
　　C. predictable……….scrutinized
　　D. declining…….ignored
　　E. surprising…..enforced