2017年GRE填空模拟题(12)

.In film studies—a visually oriented discipline that is _____ backlit close-ups, eyeline matches,and voyeuristic gazes—scholars have often been tone-deaf to the sounds of music.

A：fixated on

B：obsessed with

C：unconcerned with

D：amused by

E：bothered by

F：indifferent to

答案：AB

Consumers may think that genetic engineering of foods is something new, but humans have been modifying plants for ages; the _____ is not that new genes are introduced but that genes can now be moved from one species to another.

A：novelty

B：quandary

C：advantage

D：innovation

E：discrepancy

F：predicament

答案：AD

Although the compound is abundant in the environment at large, its presence in the air is not _____ ; only in the form of underwater sediment does it cause damage.

A：trivial

B：detectable

C：deleterious

D：substantive

E：detrimental

F：inconsequential

答案：CE

Deacon attempts what seems impossible: a book rich in scientific insights, in a demanding discipline,that nevertheless is accessible to _____ .

A：skeptics

B：experts

C：nonspecialists

D：zealots

E：authorities

F：laypersons

答案：CF

.Despite relying on the well-to-do for commissions,the portrait painter was no _____ : he depicted the character of those he painted as he perceived it.

A：hypocrite

B：egotist

C：sycophant

D：adulator

E：braggart

F：coward

答案：CD