2017年GRE填空模拟题(18)

Like Bela Bartok, Ruth Crawford not only brought a composer’s acumen to the notation of folk music, she also had a marked (i) ______ the task. This was clear in her agonizing over how far to try to represent the minute details of a performance in a written text, and this (ii) ______ makes her work a landmark in ethnomusicology.

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A：reverence for D：fastidiousness

B：detachment from E：didacticism

C：curiosity about F：iconoclasm

答案：AD

The (i) ______ of Vladimir Nabokov as one of North America’s literary giants has thrown the spotlight on his peripheral activities and has thus served to (ii) ______ his efforts as an amateur entomologist.

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A：stigmatization D：foreground

B：lionization E：transcend

C：marginalization F：obscure

答案：BD

There is nothing quite like this movie, and indeed I am not altogether sure there is much more to it than its lovely (i) ______. At a moment when so many films strive to be as (ii) ______ as possible, it is gratifying to find one that is so subtle and puzzling.

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A：peculiarity D：indirect

B：pellucidity E：assertive

C：conventionality F：enigmatic

答案：AE

There has been much hand-wringing about how unprepared American students are for college. Graff reverses this perspective, suggesting that colleges are unprepared for students. In his analysis, the university culture is largely (i) ______ entering students because academic culture fails to make connections to the kinds of arguments and cultural references that students grasp. Understandably, many students view academic life as (ii) ______ ritual.

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A：primed for D：an arcane

B：opaque to E：a laudable

C：essential for F：a painstaking

答案：BD

The narratives that vanquished peoples have created of their defeat have, according to Schivelbusch, fallen into several identifiable types. In one of these, the vanquished manage to (i) ______ the victor’s triumph as the result of some spurious advantage, the victors being truly inferior where it counts. Often the winners (ii) ______ this interpretation, worrying about the cultural or moral costs of their triumph and so giving some credence to the losers’ story.

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A：construe D：take issue with

B：anoint E：disregard

C：acknowledge F：collude in

答案：AF