1. Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ________ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage.
(A) connoisseur
(B) critic
(C) friend
(D) scourge
(E) judge
2. The commissions criticized the legislature for making college attendance dependent on the ability to pay, charging that, as a result, hundreds of qualified young people would be ________ further education.
(A) entitled to
(B) striving for
(C) deprived of
(D) uninterested in
(E) participating in
3. Broadway audiences have become inured to ________ and so ________ to be pleased as to make their ready ovations meaningless as an indicator of the quality of the production before them.
(A) sentimentality ... reluctant
(B) condescension ... disinclined
(C) histrionics ... unlikely
(D) cleverness ... eager
(E) mediocrity ... desperate
4. Any language is a conspiracy against experience in the sense that it is a collective attempt to ________ experience by reducing it into discrete parcels.
(A) extrapolate
(B) transcribe
(C) complicate
(D) amplify
(E) manage
5. Given the evidence of Egyptian and Babylonian ________ later Greek civilization, it would be incorrect to view the work of Greek scientists as an entirely independent creation.
(A) disdain for
(B) imitation of
(C) ambivalence about
(D) deference to
(E) influence on
6. Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his statement had been ________.
(A) irrelevant
(B) facetious
(C) mistaken
(D) critical
(E) insincere
7. The struggle of the generations is one of the obvious constants of human affairs; therefore, it may be presumptuous to suggest that the rivalry between young and old in Western society during the current decade is ________ critical.
(A) perennially
(B) disturbingly
(C) uniquely
(D) archetypally
(E) captiously
GRE填空的因果关系
1.内容一致
2.色彩一致 好原因推出好结果 坏原因推出坏结果
3.肯定否定一致
四种句型结构
1.简明因果
3.从句表原因
4.分词表原因
简单因果
because; because of; since; for
1. friend 朋友
答案:C
connoisseur 鉴赏家
2. charging 指责
答案:C
deprived of 被剥夺
as a result
3. be inured to 对……感到适应 对……感到麻木,以致失去判断能力
and 并列关系
so as to 因果关系
to be pleased 被高兴
as 引导名词短语
ovations
质量标识物
1. ready ovations 心甘情愿
2. meaningless 没有意义
reluctant 不情愿的
disinclined 不倾向于被高兴
unlikely 不可能高兴
eager 急切的 中性词
desperate 极度渴望的 令人绝望的
答案:E
mediocrity 平庸
4. in the sense that 从某个意义上来说 = in that 因果关系
conspiracy 阴谋 谋划
by doing
extrapolate 精确的推断
transcribe 改写
complicate 使复杂
amplify 放大
答案:E
manage 管理 操纵
语言是为经验服务的
把经验加以拆解
