2017年GRE填空模拟题(35) 

The automation of many of the functions performed at the factory, although initially inspiring_____ in many of the company’s employees, has had none of the deleterious effects forecast either within or beyond the organization.

A：indifference

B：optimism

C：ambition

D：arrogance

E：trepidation

答案：E

One thing both authors have in common is a striking amount of _____: they claim to know how massive institutions, some of them richly endowed, all of them central to American society and culture, should be reshaped.

A：hubris

B：propriety

C：bias

D：prescience

E：indolence

答案：A

Making the shift to the 90-nanometer manufacturing process has been (i) _____for semiconductor companies. This process effectively doubles the manufacturing capacity of the industry, but it (ii)_____ enormous technical challenges because some components of the new semiconductor chips are no more than five to seven molecules thick.

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A：an unanticipated boon D：circumvents

B：a routine accomplishment E：entails

C：a significant struggle F：resolves

答案：CE

There has been (i) _____elephant’s fabled mental capacities until recently, when these behavioral observations have begun to be (ii) _____by brain science. MRI scans of an elephant’s brain suggest that even relative to its overall size it has a large hippocampus, the component in the mammalian brain linked to memory and an important part of its limbic system, which is involved in processing emotions.

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A：surprising credence given to D：buttressed

B：a widespread dismissal of E：anticipated

C：only anecdotal evidence for F：overwhelmed

答案：CD

The description of Green’s scholarship as (i)_____ is grossly misleading: while her research on interstellar particles is not especially novel, the conclusions she draws from her data are (ii)_____

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A：esoteric D：remarkably pioneering

B：tendentious E：dubiously supported

C：derivative F：strangely comforting

答案：CD