2016年GRE词汇专项模拟试题及答案(三)

Our young people, whose sensitivities have not yet become , have a purer and more immediate response than we do to our environment.

(A) Native

(B) Keen

(C) Sophisticated

(D) Calloused

(E) Objective

(F) Perceptive

Answer: B D

第1空与immediate response同义，第2空与第1空反义。

Native本地的，keen锋利的，sophisticated老练的，calloused麻木的，objective客观的，perceptive感知的、敏锐的。

翻译：我们的年轻一代，其敏锐的感受力还尚未变得麻木迟钝，与我们相比，对我们的环境具有一种更为纯洁和更为直接的反应。

Experienced employers recognize that business students who can different points of view are ultimately more effective as managers than are the brilliant and original students who dogmatically to their own formulations.

(A) Assimilate

(B) Discredit

(C) Impose

(D) Revert

(E) Adhere

(F) Relinquish

Answer: A E

第1空与dogmatically to their formulation反义，第2空填正评价词汇。

Assimilate消化吸收、使同化，discredit怀疑、羞辱，impose强加于，revert恢复、重新考虑，adhere坚持，relinquish放弃、移交。

翻译：有经验的雇主认识到那些能吸收不同观点的商学院的学生作管理人员时比那些聪明而有独创性但却教条地坚持自己观点的学生更有效果。

Many more eighteenth-century novels were written by women than by men, but this dominance has, until very recently, been regarded merely as fact, a bit of arcane knowledge noted only by bibliographers.

(A) a controversial

(B) a statistical

(C) an analytical

(D) an explicit

(E) an unimpeachable

Answer: B

只有bibliographer才会对18世纪小说加以分类、整理、统计，一般人绝不会出于兴趣而去全面统计19世纪小说，因而只有bibliographer所知晓的知识，选statistical。

Controversial争论的，statistical统计的，analytical分析的，explicit清楚明确的、成熟的，unimpeachable无可指责的。

翻译：更多的18世纪小说是女性而不是男性写的，但是这种优势直到最近都仅仅被看成是一个统计数据，一种只被文献目录学家所知道的密不外传的知识。

Carruthers’ latest literary criticism her reputation for trenchant commentary; despite its intriguing title and the fulsome praise on its dust jacket, it is nothing more than a collection of .

(A) belies

(B) advances

(C) reinforces

(D) judgments

(E) aphorisms

(F) platitudes

Answer: A F

Nothing more than仅仅。

belie错误的描述(揭示)、证明…为假、掩饰、与…对立，矛盾，advance促进，reinforce加强，judgment判断，aphorism格言警句，platitude陈词滥调。

翻译：C的最新的文学评论辜负了她具有深刻批评能力的声誉;除了吸引人的标题和防尘封皮上的过誉之词之外，这本书只不过是一个陈词滥调的文集而已。

Species with relatively _____ metabolic rates, including hibernator, generally live longer than those whose metabolic rates are more rapid.

(A) prolific

(B) sedentary

(C) sluggish

(D) measured

(E) restive

Answer: C

Prolific多产的，sedentary固定不动的，sluggish懒惰的，measured精确慎重的，restive急躁难管束的。

翻译：新陈代谢速度相对比较慢的物种，包括有冬眠习性的动物，通常会比那些代谢速度较快的物种长寿。