新GRE考前词汇串讲练习题第七套12

　　111. Until quite recently research on diabetes had, as a kind of holding action, attempted to refine the_________ of the disease, primarily because no preventive strategy seemed at all likely to be_________ .
　　(A) definition .. necessary
　　(B) anticipation .. acceptable
　　(C) understanding .. costly
　　(D) treatment .. practicable
　　(E) symptoms .. feasible
　　112. Most plant species exhibit_________ in their geographical distribution: often, a given species is found over a large geographical area, but individual populations within that range are widely_________.
　　(A) discontinuity .. separated
　　(B) density .. dispersed
　　(C) symmetry .. observed
　　(D) uniformity .. scattered
　　(E) concentration .. adaptable
　　113. There is hardly a generalization that can be made about people’s social behavior and the values informing it that cannot be_________ from one or another point of view, or even_________ as simplistic or vapid.
　　(A) accepted…praised
　　(B) intuited…exposed
　　(C) harangued…retracted
　　(D) defended…glorified
　　(E) challenged…dismissed
　　114. Although any destruction of vitamins caused by food irradiation could be ____________ the use of diet supplements, there may be no protection from carcinogens that some fear might be introduced into foods by the process.
　　(A) counterbalanced by
　　(B) attributed to
　　(C) inferred from
　　(D) augmented with
　　(E) stimulated by
　　115. Though he refused any responsibility for the failure of the negotiations, Stevenson had no right to_________ himself: it was his_________ that had caused the debacle.
　　(A) blame… skill
　　(B) congratulate…modesty
　　(C) berate…largesse
　　(D) accuse…obstinacy
　　(E) absolve…acrimony
　　116. The prevailing union of passionate interest in detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract_________ is a hallmark of our present society; in the past this union appeared, at best,_________ and as if by chance.
　　(A) data…extensively
　　(B) philosophy…cyclically
　　(C) generalization…sporadically
　　(D) evaluation…opportunely
　　(E) intuition….selectively
　　117. A century ago the physician’s word was_________ to doubt it was considered almost sacrilegious
　　(A) inevitable
　　(B) intractable
　　(C) incontrovertible
　　(D) objective
　　(E) respectable
　　118. So much of modern fiction in the United States is autobiographical, and so much of the auto-biography fictionalized, that the_________ sometimes seem largely ______.
　　(A) authors…ignored
　　(B) needs…unrecognized
　　(C) genres…interchangeable
　　(D) intentions…misunderstood
　　(E) misapprehensions…uncorrected
　　119. Robin’s words were not without emotion: they retained their level tone only by a careful__________________ imminent extremes.
　　(A) equipoise between
　　(B) embrace of
　　(C) oscillation between
　　(D) limitation to
　　(E) subjection to
　　120. That she seemed to prefer_________ to concentrated effort is undeniable; nevertheless, the impressive quality of her finished paintings suggests that her actual relationship to her art was anything but_________ .
　　(A) preparation…passionate
　　(B) artfulness…disengaged
　　(C) dabbling…superficial
　　(D) caprice…considered
　　(E) indecision…lighthearted