GRE网络课堂填空笔记-梁宏才主讲[4]

11. Our new tools of systems analysis, powerful though they may be, lead to----theories, especially, and predictably, in economics and political science, where productive approaches have long been highly----.

(A) pragmatic.. speculative
(B) inelegant.. efficacious
(C) explanatory.. intuitional
(D) wrongheaded.. convergent
(E) simplistic.. elusive

12. Nineteenth-century scholars, by examining earlier geometric Greek art, found that classical Greek art was not a magical----or a brilliant---- blending Egyptian and Assyrian art, but was independently evolved by Greeks in Greece.
(A) stratagem.. appropriation
(B) exemplar.. synthesis
(C) conversion.. annexation
(D) paradigm.. construct
(E) apparition.. amalgam

13. Dreams are----in and of themselves, but, when combined with other data, they can tell us much about the dreamer.
(A) uninformative
(B) startling
(C) harmless
(D) unregulated
(E) uncontrollable

14. The Muses are----deities: they avenge themselves without mercy on those who weary of their charms.
(A) rueful
(B) ingenuous
(C) solicitous
(D) vindictive
(E) dispassionate

15. Without the psychiatrist's promise of confidentiality, trust is----and the patient's communication limited; even though confidentiality can thus be seen to be precious in therapy, moral responsibility sometimes requires a willingness to----it.
(A) implicit.. extend
(B) ambiguous.. apply
(C) prevented.. uphold
(D) assumed.. examine
(E) impaired.. sacrifice

16. Having fully embraced the belief that government by persuasion is preferable to government by----, the leaders of the movement have recently----most of their previous statements supporting totalitarianism.
(A) intimidation.. issued
(B) participation.. moderated
(C) proclamation.. codified
(D) demonstration.. deliberated
(E) coercion.. repudiated

17. The powers and satisfactions of primeval people, though few and meager, were----- their few and simple desires.
(A) simultaneous with
(B) commensurate with
(C) substantiated by
(D) circumscribed by
(E) ruined by

18. Some scientists argue that carbon compounds play such a central role in life on Earth because of the possibility of----resulting from the carbon atom's ability to form an unending series of different molecules.
(A) deviation
(B) stability
(C) reproduction

(E) invigoration

19. Whereas the art critic Vasari saw the painting entitled the Mona Lisa as an original and wonderful----feat, the reproduction of a natural object, the aesthetes saw it as----that required deciphering.
(A) collaborative.. an aberration
(B) historical.. a symbol
(C) technical.. a hieroglyph
(D) mechanical.. an imitation
(E) visual.. an illusion

20. As late as 1891 a speaker assured his audience that since profitable farming was the result of natural ability rather than----, an education in agriculture was----.
(A) instruction.. vital
(B) effort.. difficult
(C) learning.. useless
(D) science.. intellectual
(E) luck.. senseless