2017年GRE填空模拟题(34) 

The brain has become, for many people, _____ the biological machinations of the self, and the self-knowledge promised by neuroscience has ignited a hunger to understand how new findings weigh in on age-old questions.

A：tantamount to

B：synonymous with

C：implicated in

D：divorced from

E：detached from

F：subservient to

答案：AB

If you follow your intuition, you will more often than not err by misclassifying a random event as (i)_____. We are far too willing to (ii)_____ the belief that much of what we see in life is random.

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A：uncharacteristic D：countenance

B：systematic E：reject

C：arbitrary F：champion

答案：BE

Within the culture as a whole, the natural sciences have been so successful that the word “scientific” is often used in (i)_____ manner: it is often assumed that to call something “scientific” is to imply that its reliability has been (ii)_____ by methods whose results cannot reasonably be (iii)_____.

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A：an ironic D：maligned G：exaggerated

B：a literal E：challenged H：anticipated

C：an honorific F：established I：disputed

答案：CFI

The researcher found that in assessing others, many people hold an unconscious view that competence and warmth are (i)_____: when they perceive a person to be highly capable, they infer that he or she must have a tendency to be (ii)_____.

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A：equally important D：ambitious

B：mutually reinforcing E：unfeeling

C：inversely related F：disingenuous

答案：CE

The era’s examples of _____ that are cited by the author can be balanced in part by certain examples of dissent during the same period.

A：diversity

B：authoritarianism

C：forbearance

D：volatility

E：lucidity

答案：B