2018年1月22日GRE填空机经预测 gre填空机经1100题
1. The cognitive flexibility of successful fictional detectives is often ____ by their cultural ambivalence: detectives" intellectual acumen, it seems, exists in direct proportion to their uneasy place in society.
A. spurned
B. spaded
C. spurred
D. matched
E. emaciated
答案：C
解析：这道题的意思是说成功的侦探非常灵活，这是他们的文化矛盾所____：他们的社会地位越是动荡，他们就越发敏锐。(a)唾弃(b)铲除(c)激励(d)匹配(e)消瘦。我们通过后半句可以知道，是社会地位的动荡使得侦探日益敏锐和灵活，对应选项C中：spurred。
2. Professor Ramfield describes in his recent book publishing as dark as it is deep, even as one hidebound industry, indeed, it is facing a profound change in its product model, but is so (i)___ its past as to be (ii)____opportunities offered by technological change.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. indebted in D. unable to seize
B. encumbered by E. capable of seeking
C. irrelevant with F. definite to circumvent
答案：BD
解析：这道题是说Ramfield教授在书里描述说，呆板的产业正在面临产品模型的巨大改变，但是它们太过(i)____过去，以至于(ii)______科技改变带来的机会。
空白(i) 空白(ii)
A负债的 D.不能抓住
B.被阻碍 E.可以寻找
C.无关 F.明确避免
可以看出i为B，ii为D，答案符合逻辑。
3. The history of the region"s natural resources has been one of initial (i)___ followed by (ii)___; as such the region has over time gone from a resource-rich to a resource-dependent economy.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. abundance D.rapacious depletion
B. depletion E.vain endeavor
C. scarcity F.one-sided reciprocity
答案：AD
解析：这道题是说该地区自然资源一开始(i)____，然后(ii)______;因为这个地区逐渐从资源丰富型经济转变到了资源依赖型经济。
空白(i) 空白(ii)
A.丰富 D.贪婪的耗尽
B.耗尽 E.徒劳的努力
C.稀少 F.单方面的互惠
可以看出i为A，ii为D，答案符合逻辑。
4. People accustomed to thinking that the human lifespan (i)_____________the outer bounds of animal longevity tend to dismiss tales of musket balls being found in the shells of living turtles. Samantha Romney，however，argues that while such stories may be (ii) ______________, some turtles do indeed exhibit a phenomenon known as “negligible (iii) _____________,” showing nosigns of aging even as they pass