2016年GRE词汇专项模拟试题及答案(九)

Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look ; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the of natural beauty and human glory.

(A) Cheerful

(B) Luxuriant

(C) Collusive

(D) Transitoriness

(E) taciturnity

(F) frivolity

Answer: A D

A result from B = B lead to A，agreeable与natural beauty and human glory同义，melancholy与第2空同义。

Cheerful高兴的，luxuriant茂盛的，collusive共谋的，transitoriness暂时，taciturnity沉默寡言，frivolity轻浮。

翻译：部分的17世纪的中国的娱乐花园，并非一定要让你看起来高兴;他们刻意设计出来为了唤醒一种令人愉悦的忧伤，它来自于自然的美丽和人类的光荣的转瞬即逝的感觉。

The new biological psychiatry does not deny the contributing role of psychological factors in mental illnesses, but posits that these factors may act as a catalyst on existing physiological conditions and such illnesses.

(A) Disguise

(B) Impede

(C) Constrain

(D) Precipitate

(E) Consummate

Answer: D

描述同一主体同一状态时，转折只能表示程度递进或递减，若同一主体不同状态或不同主体同一状态，转折就为直接的转折。此题的not A but B描述psychological factors和mental illness，是同一主体同一状态，是递进关系，并非直接的转折。

Disguise掩饰，impede阻止，constrain抑制，precipitate促进，consummate完成。

翻译：全新的生物精神病学，并不否认心理因素在精神类疾病中的作用，而且还假设此类因素会像催化剂一样促进此类疾病。

As painted by Constable, the scene is not one of bucolic ; rather it shows a striking emotional and intellectual .

(A) Intensity

(B) Serenity

(C) Nostalgia

(D) Tension

(E) Detachment

(F) Placidity

Answer: B D

修辞的一致性为避免句子产生歧义，第1空与bucolic同义。第2空与第1空反义。

Intensity强化、紧张，serenity平静，nostalgia思乡，tension紧张，detachment分开，placidity平静。

翻译：正如C的作品所描绘的，这个风景不是一派田园风光的平静;而是展示一个引人注目的情绪和理智的冲突。

Artificial light the respiratory activity of some microorganisms in the winter but not in the summer, in part because in the summer their respiration is already at its peak and thus cannot be .

(A) Inhibits

(B) Reflects

(C) Enhances

(D) Lessened

(E) Measured

(F) Increased

Answer: C F

Inhibit禁止，reflect反射、反映，enhance提升，lessen减少，measure测量，increase增多。

翻译：人造光在冬天，而不能在夏天，增加某些微生物的呼吸作用，部分原因是在夏天它们的呼吸作用早就处于顶峰因而不能再被增加了。