2017年GRE填空模拟题(17)

Rather than viewing the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s antinomian controversy as the inevitable (i)______ of the intransigent opposing forces of radical and (ii) ______ beliefs, male and female piety,(iii) ______ and secular power, and the like, as other critics have, Winship argues that the crisis was not “fixed and structural.”

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A：dissolution D：revolutionary G：clerical

B：melding E：orthodox H：civil

C：collision F：questionable I：cerebral

答案：CEG

While in many ways their personalities could not have been more different─she was ebullient where he was glum, relaxed where he was awkward, garrulous where he was ______─they were surprisingly well suited.

A：solicitous

B：munificent

C：irresolute

D：laconic

E：fastidious

F：taciturn

答案：DF

Although he has long had a reputation for (i) ______, his behavior toward his coworkers has always been (ii) ______, suggesting he may not be as insolent as people generally think.

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A：inscrutability D：brazen

B：venality E：courteous

C：impudence F：predictable

答案：CE

In stark contrast to his later (i) ______, Simpson was largely (ii) ______ politics during his college years, despite the fact that the campus he attended was rife with political activity.

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A：activism D：devoted to

B：apathy E：indifferent to

C：affability F：shaped by

答案：AE

Mathematicians have a distinctive sense of beauty: they strive to present their ideas and results in a clear and compelling fashion, dictated by ______ as well as by logic.

A：caprice

B：aesthetics

C：obligation

D：methodologies

E：intellect

答案：B