2017年GRE填空模拟题(32)

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The painter’s problem, like that of an author whose early literary masterpiece exhausts the themes it embodies, is how to_____his first highly acclaimed efforts with works of comparable significance and presence.

A：combine

B：illuminate

C：realize

D：amend

E：follow

答案：E

Since many African farmers face a soil fertility problem, providing funding for fertilizer seems_____ ; closer examination of the data raises some troubling questions, however.

A：imprudent

B：expensive

C：unimpeachable

D：modern

E：worrisome

答案：C

In years prior to the Civil War, Philadelphia’s African American press encouraged readers to be vaccinated against the smallpox.This journalistic campain was initially (i)_____,appealing to readers’ sense of communal duty, and became even more(ii)_____once the war started, as smallpox outbreaks began to occur on Philadelphia’s city skirts.

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A：hortatory D：controversial

B：ineffective E：urgent

C：widespread F：inopportune

答案：AE

A hallmark of certain nineteenth-century mystery novels was the reform agenda of their authors, who ostensibly sought to expose economic injustice while depicting the seamy underside of urban life. In reality, however,these claims to a radical political agenda were often (i)_____, meant to give lurid thrillers the appearance of (ii)_____.

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A：authentic D：escapist appeal

B：complicated E：high-minded purpose

C：disingenuous F：gripping suspense

答案：CE

It remains a mystery how Theobroma cacao, which scholars believe originated in lowland Amazonia, was introduced to tropical Mesoarnerica. It must have been a (i)_____process: cacao trees do not easily sprout from seed,need years to mature, and grow only in humid lowland forest. Moreover, in a tropical climate, cacao pods spoil quickly,rendering their transport from lowland Amazonia to tropical Mesoamerica in a single journey by foot or canoe (ii)_____.

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A：clandestine D：unlikely

B：protracted E：redundant

C：spontaneous F：expeditious

答案：BD

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