2017年GRE填空模拟题(44)

A new television documentary focuses on one of the prime ministers defining contradictions,portraying her as a woman who cultivated an image of_____ but who liked to live grandly.

A：irascibility

B：abstemiousness

C：contentiousness

D：insouciance

E：surreptitiousness

答案：B

There are no_____ criteria of excellence in art: works that once were ignored or even reviled now fetch millions of dollars at auction, while those that were most highly praised in their day now languish in storage.

A：subjective

B：dubious

C：transitory

D：immutable

E：uncontroversial

答案：D

The students seeking undergraduate representation on the board of trustees viewed the impasse in their negotiations with the administration as (i)_____ since it promised to (ii)_____ the administrations belief that students should take no part in running the university.

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A：unfortunate D：undermine

B：inevitable E：fuel

C：unprecedented F：distort

答案：BD

The report is admittedly (i) _____: it is intended to suggest new lines of research rather than to deal with the subject in a (ii)_____ manner.

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A：sketchy D：cavalier

B：exculpatory E：deceptive

C：flippant F：thorough

答案：AF

Memoirs are inherently (i)_____ , but Larry McMurtrys volume of reminiscences about his life with books—not as a novelist but as a reader and bookstore owner—is especially (ii)_____ :nearly every page sounds a note of farewell to an age of books that he sees as passing.

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A：unreliable D：whimsical

B：wistful E：ungracious

C：self-serving F：valedictory

答案：BF