2017年GRE填空模拟题(27)

Some social insects, such as bees and ants, are celebrated for their industriousness and engineering feat, but popular culture has not generally _____ termites for theirs—even though they can build mounds twenty feet high.

A：considered

B：reprehended

C：applauded

D：deprecated

E：exonerated

F：extolled

答案：CF

In the nineteenth century, geology became so respected among middle-class Britons that the science came to be seen as _____ a yardstick by which other disciplines measured their scientific rigor and imaginative power.

A：accessible

B：derivative

C：pragmatic

D：empirical

E：paradigmatic

答案：E

The sailors realized too late that winds had shifted the ice in such a way as to obstruct the ship’s path; this process had been so _____ that it was completed by the time they discovered the effect.

A：gradual

B：negligible

C：unpredictable

D：time-consuming

E：inconsequential

F：imperceptible

答案：AF

He defended the government’s equivocations regarding the mysterious contrail as resulting not from _____ as critics say, but from a benightedness about its own doings that is almost inevitable, given the multitudinous- ness of its agencies.

A：obtuseness

B：mendacity

C：abnegation

D：guilelessness

E：trenchancy

答案：B

Knowing how (i)_____ she was at work, her colleagues were surprised at her (ii)_____ throughout the dinner.

Blank (I)Blank (II)

A：dependable D：timidity

B：diffident E：assertiveness

C：diligent F：punctiliousness

答案：BE