2017年GRE填空模拟题(11)

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To label Hamilton a foreigner because he was born outside what later became the United States is to assume anachronistically the existence of the nation before the fact. It is true that Hamilton came to believe that he was a (i)______ the United States, but his (ii)______ was stemmed not from his (iii)______ but from his confrontation with American democracy, which he considered to be a disease afflicting the nation.

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A：symbol of D：alienation G：ideology

B：stranger in E：ambition H：profession

C：citizen of F：patriotism I：birthplace

答案：BDI

While some commentators suggest that abstraction and complexity in scientific research are signs that a given direction is misguided. Lisa Randall, a professor of physics at Harvard, counters that these qualities instead reflect the success of human ingenuity in (i)______ the increasingly (ii)______ challenges that nature presents. They can, however, make it more (iii)______ to communicate scientific developments, even to colleague.

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A：creating D：difficult G：challenging

B：meeting E：conspicuous H：unproductive

C：eschewing F：pragmatic I：advantageous

答案：BDG

Gravitational waves—ripples in the geometry of space-time—are analogous to electromagnetic waves. The challenge in trying to observe these waves directly is that they are extremely weak. To make waves large enough to be (i)______, the most (ii)______ events in the universe are required: supernova explosions, the formation of black holes, or the collision of stars. Even so, the effects are (iii)______. The geometry changes so little that a distance of several kilometers changes by less than the diameter of a proton.

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A：detectable D：obvious G：masked

B：usable E：subtle H：disastrous

C：explicable F： violent I：minuscule

答案：AFI

Cultures can shape attitudes and beliefs in ways that (i)______ conscious awareness or control; in other words, cultural orientations may develop from processes that do not entail (ii)______ participation, and cultures may pervade subtle psychological dynamics in ways that individuals may not be able to (iii)______. Thus, theories and tools developed to study implicit cognition may increase our understanding of the complex interplay between culture and individuals.

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A：operate outside of D：active G：report

B： tend to facilitate E：random H： maintain

C：may not alter F：rote I：condone

答案：ADG

A transformative scientific idea that emerged in the eighteenth century was the realization that slow, inexorable geological processes follow the basic laws of physics and chemistry. This seems (i)______ conclusion in hindsight, but its implication—that geological processes in the distant past must have (ii)______ these very same laws—was (iii)______ geologists in the eighteenth and nineteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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A：an obvious D：followed G：evident to

B：a significant E：preceded H：overlooked by

C：a controversial F：entailed I：revolutionary for

答案：ADI

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