2017年GRE填空模拟题(19)

The playwright’s approach is (i) ______ in that her works (ii) ______ the theatrical devices normally used to create drama on the stage.

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A：pedestrian D：jettison

B：startling E：experiment with

C：celebrated F：distill

答案：BD

Television promotes (i) ______ of emotion in viewers through an unnatural evocation, every five minutes, of different and (ii) ______ feelings.

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A：a withdrawal D：incompatible

B：an obscuring E：sympathetic

C：a discontinuity F：interminable

答案：CD

The Parisian Ecole des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts) was (i) ______ many nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists, so that by 1930 the associated term “academic art” had become a (ii) ______.

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A： influential among D：pejorative

B：ridiculed by E：conundrum

C：attended by F：misnomer

答案：BD

Repression of painful memories is sometimes called “willed forgetting.” Yet true forgetting is (i)______ than the phenomenon of repressed memory. In spite of the effort that it (ii) ______, repressing unwanted memories is less (iii) ______ than truly forgetting them, for repressed memories are prone to come back.

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A：less controlled D：eases G：permanent

B：different in its effect E：conveys H：arduous

C：far more common F：entails I：immediate

答案：BFG

Statements presented as fact in a patent application are (i) ______ unless a good reason for doubt is found. The invention has only to be deemed “more likely than not” to work in order to receive initial approval. And, although thousands of patents are challenged in court for other reasons, no incentive exists for anyone to expend effort (ii) ______ the science of an erroneous patent. For this reason the endless stream of (iii) ______ devices will continue to yield occasional patents.

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A：presumed verifiable D：corroborating G：novel

B：carefully scrutinized E：advancing H：bogus

C：considered capricious F：debunking I：obsolete

答案：AFH