GRE试题SECTION 1

SECTION 1

Time - 30 minutes

38 Questions

Directions: Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that

something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered words or sets

of words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning

of the sentence as a whole.

1. Nonviolent demonstrations often create such ten- sions that a community that has

constantly refused to ------- its injustices is forced to correct them: the injustices

can no longer be -------.

(A) acknowledge..ignored

(B) decrease..verified

(C) tolerate..accepted

(D) address..eliminated

(E) explain..discussed

2. Since 1813 reaction to Jane Austen's novels has oscillated between -------

and condescension; but in general later writers have esteemed her works more highly than

did most of her literary -------.

(A) dismissal..admirers

(B) adoration. .contemporaries

(C) disapprpval..readers

(D) indifference..followers

(E) approbation..precursors

3. There are, as yet, no vegetation types or ecosystems whose study has been -------

to the extent that they no longer ------- ecologists.

(A) perfected..hinder

(B) exhausted..interest

(C) prolonged..require

(D) prevented..challenge

(E) delayed..benefit

4. Under ethical guidelines recently adopted by the National lnstitutes of Health,

human genes are to be manipulated only to correct diseases for which -------

treatments are unsatisfactory.

(A)similar

(B)most

(C)dangerous

(D) uncommon