GRE英语考试试题

GRE试题

23.According to the passage, Piaget and Keasey would not

have agreed on which of the following points?

(A) The kinds of excuses children give for harmful

acts they commit

(B) The age at which children begin to discriminate

between intentional and unintentional harm

(C) The intentions children have in perpetrating harm

(D) The circumstances under which children punish

harmful acts

(E) The justifications children recognize for mitigating

punishment for harmful acts

24.It can be inferred that the term "public duty" (line 33)

in the context of the passage, means which of the fol-

lowing?

(A) The necessity to apprehend perpetrators.

(B) The responsibility to punish transgressors

(C) An obligation to prevent harm to another

(D) The assignment of punishment for harmful action

(E) A justification for punishing transgressions

25.According to the passage, Keasey’s findings support

which of the following conclusions about six-year-old

children?

(A)They have the ability to make autonomous moral

judgments.

(B)They regard moral absolutism as a threat to their

moral autonomy.

(C)They do not understand the concept of public duty.

(D)They accept moral judgment made by their peers

more easily than do older children.

(E)They make arbitrary moral judgments.

26.It can be inferred form the passage that Piaget would

be likely to agree with which of the following state-

ments about the punishment that children under seven

assign to wrongdoing?

(A) The severity of the assigned punishment is deter-

mined by the perceived magnitude of negative

consequences more than by any other factor.

(B) The punishment is to be administered immediately

following the transgression.

(C) The children assign punishment less arbitrarily

than they do when they reach the age of moral

autonomy.

(D) The punishment for acts of unintentional harm is

less severe than it is for acts involving accidental

harm.

(E) The more developmentally immature a child, the

more severe the punishment that the child will

assign.

27.According to the passage, the research of Nesdale and

Rule suggests which of the following about five-year-

old children?

(A) Their reactions to intentional and accidental harm

determine the severity of the punishments they assign.

(B) They, as perpetrators of harmful acts, disregard

the feelings of the children they harm.

(C) They take into account the motivations of actions

when judging the behavior of other children.

(D) They view public duty as a justification for acci-

dental, but not intentional, harm.

(E) They justify any action that protects them from

harm.

28. DEBUT:

(A) collaboration

(B) monologue

(C) farewell performance

(D) repertoire standard

(E) starring role

29. WHER:

(A) disagree

(B) shine

(C) plant

(D) adhere

(E) revive

30. BUCK:

(A) cover over

(B) assent to

(C) brag about

(D) improve

(E) repair

31. MEAN:

(A) trusting

(B) ardent

(C) clever

(D) incautious

(E) noble

32. ADJUNCT:

(A) expert appraisal

(B) generous donation

(C) essential element

(D) mild reproof

(E) impartial judgment

33. CANONICAL:

(A) imprecise

(B) ubiquitous

(C) superfluous

(D) nontraditional

(E) divisive

34. TICKLISH:

(A) heavy-handed

(B) significant

(C) tolerant

(D) impartial

(E) imperturbable

35. PREVALENT:

(A) invasive

(B) inconsistent

(C) indistinct

(D) unpalatable

(E) unusual

36. PENURY:

(A) approbation

(B) affluence

(C) objectivity

(D) compensation

(E) grandiosity

37. MINATORY:

(A) convenient

(B) nonthreatening

(C) straightforward

(D) fastidious

(E) rational

38. CALUMNIOUS:

(A) adept

(B) aloof

(C) quaint

(D) decorous

(E) flattering