Revised GRE 三空題匯總18道題 　　OG 三空題目 　　GRE Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions 　　SET 3 Discrete Question: Medium 　　【1】4 Richard M. Russell said 52 percent of the nation’s growth since the Second World War had (i)_________ invention. He said, (ii)_________ research, the government’s greatest role in assuring continuing innovation is promoting a strong, modern patent office. “Unless we can (iii)_________ original ideas, we will not have invention.” Mr. Russell said. Speculating on the state of innovation over the next century, several inventors agreed that the future lay in giving children the tools to think creatively and the motivation to invent. BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A been at the expense ofD in addition to restrictingG evaluate B no bearing onE aside from supportingH protect C come throughF far from exaggeratingI disseminate 　　【2】5 Statements presented as fact in a patent application are (i)_________ unless a good reason for doubt is found. The invention has only to be deemed “more likely than not” to work in order to receive initial approval. And, although thousands of patents are challenged in court for other reasons, no incentive exists for anyone to expend effort (ii)_________ the science of an erroneous patent. For this reason the endless stream of (iii)_________ devices will continue to yield occasional patent. BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A presumed verifiableD corroboratingG novel B carefully scrutinizedE advancingH bogus C considered capriciousF debunkingI obsolete 　　SET 5 Discrete Question: Hard 　　【3】4 No other contemporary poet’s work has such a well-earned reputation for (i)_________ ， and there are few whose moral vision is so imperiously unsparing. Of late, however, the almost belligerent demands of his severe and densely forbidding poetry have taken an improbable turn. This new collection is the poet’s fourth book in six years—an ample output even for poets of sunny disposition, let alone for one of such (ii)_________ over the previous 50 years. Yet for all his newfound (iii)_________ , his poetry is as thorny as ever. BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A patent accessibilityD penitential austerityG taciturnity B intrinsic frivolityE intractable prolixityH volubility C near impenetrabilityF impetuous prodigalityI pellucidity 　　【4】5 Managers who think that strong environmental performance will (i)_________ their company’s financial performance often (ii)_________ claims that systems designed to help them manage environmental concerns are valuable tools. By contrast, managers who perceive environmental performance to be (iii)_________ to financial success may view an environmental management system as extraneous. In either situation, and whatever their perceptions, it is a manager’s commitment to achieving environmental improvement rather than the mere presence of a system that determines environmental performance. BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A eclipseD uncritically acceptG complementary B bolsterE appropriately acknowledgeH intrinsic C degradeF hotly disputeI peripheral 　　【5】6 Philosophy, unlike most other subjects, dose not try to extend our knowledge by discovering new information about the world. Instead it tries to deepen our understanding through (i)_________ what is already closest to us—the experiences, thoughts, concepts, and activities that make up our lives but that ordinarily escape our notice precisely because they are so familiar. Philosophy begins by finding(ii)_________ the things that are (iii)_________ . BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A attainment ofD essentially irrelevantG most prosaic B rumination onE utterly mysteriousH somewhat hackneyed C detachment fromF thoroughly commonplaceI refreshingly novel 　　Practice Test 　　Section 3 　　17 　　【6】The most striking thing about the politician is how often his politics have been (i)_________ rather than ideological, as he adapts his political positions at any particular moment to the political realities that constrain him. He does not, however, piously (ii)_________ political principles only to betray them in practice. Rather, he attempts in subtle ways to balance his political self-interest with a (iii)_________ ， viewing himself as an instrument of some unchanging higher purpose.　 BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A quixoticD brandishG profound cynicism B self-righteousE floutH deeply felt moral code C strategicF followI thoroughgoing pragmatism 　　Section 411 　　【7】What readers most commonly remember about John Stuart Mill’s classic exploration of the liberty of thought and discussion concerns the danger of (i)_________ : in the absence of challenge, one’s opinions, even when they are correct, grow weak and flabby. Yet Mill had another reason for encouraging the liberty of thought and discussion: the danger of partiality and incompleteness. Since one’s opinions, even under the best circumstances, tend to (ii)_________，and because opinions opposed to one’s own rarely turn out to be completely (iii)_________ ， it is crucial to supplement one’s opinions with alternative points of view.　　 BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A tendentiousnessD embrace only a portion of the truthG erroneous B complacencyE change over timeH antithetical C fractiousnessF focus on matters close at handI immutable 　　20 　　【8】Wills argues that certain malarial parasites are especially (i)_________ because they have more recently entered humans than other species and therefore have had (ii)_________ time to evolve toward (iii)_________ . Yet there is no reliable evidence that the most harmful Plasmodium species has been in humans for a shorter time than less harmful species. BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A populousD ampleG virulence B malignantE insufficientH benignity C threatenedF adequateI variability 　　PREP 三空題目 　　【9】SECTION1-6 The question of (i)_________ in photography has lately become nontrivial. Prices for vintage prints(those make by a photographer soon after he or she made the negative)_________ so drastically (ii)_________ in the 1990s that one of these photographs might fetch a hundred times as much as a nonvintage print of the same image. It was perhaps only a matter of time before someone took advantage of the(iii)_________ to peddle newly created “vintage”prints for profit. BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A forgeryD balloonedG discrepancy B influenceE weakenedH ambiguity C styleF variedI duplicity 　　SECTION3 　　【10】4 I’ve long anticipated this retrospective of the artist’s work, hoping it would make 　　(i)_________ judgments about him possible, but greater familiarity with his paintings highlights their inherent (ii)_________ and actually makes one’s assessment(iii)_________ . 　 BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A modishD gloomG similarly equivocal B settledE ambiguityH less sanguine C detachedF delicacyI more cynical 　　【11】5 Higher energy prices would have many(i)_________ effects on society as a whole. Besides encouraging consumers to be more(ii)_________ in their use of gasoline, they would encourage the development of renewable alternative energy sources that are not(iii)_________ at current prices. BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A perniciousD aggressiveG unstable B counterintuitiveE predictableH adaptable C salubriousF sparingI viable 　　【12】6 But they pay little attention to the opposite and more treacherous failing: false certainty, refusing to confess their mistakes and implicitly claiming(i)_________ ,thereby embarrassing the nation and undermining the Constitution, which established various mechanisms of self-correction on the premise that even the wisest men are sometimes wrong and need, precisely when they find it most(ii)_________ , the benefit of(iii)_________ process.　 BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A infallibilityD discomfitingG an adaptable B immunityE expedientH a remedial C impartialityF imminentI an injudicious 　　原ETS 題目 　　【13】It is refreshing to read a book about our planet by an author who does not allow facts to be (i)_________ by politics: well aware of the political disputes about the effects of human activities on climate and biodiversity, this author does not permit them to(ii)_________ his comprehensive description of what we know about our biosphere. He emphasizes the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations, and the(iii)_________ , calling attention to the many aspects of planetary evolution that must be better understood before we can accurately diagnose the condition of our planet.　 BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A overshadowedD enhanceG plausibility of our hypotheses B invalidatedE obscureH certainty of our entitlement C illuminatedF underscoreI superficiality of our theories 　　【14】2006題目 Murray, whose show of recent paintings and drawings is her best in many years, has been eminent hereabouts for a quarter century, although often regarded with (i)___________________, but the most (ii)___________________ of these paintings (iii)___________________ all doubts. BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A partialityD problematicG exculpate B credulityE successfulH assuage C ambivalenceF disparagedI whet 　　【15】2007題目 Having displayed his art collection in a vast modernist white space in (i)_______________ former warehouse, Mr. Saatchi has chosen for his new site its polar opposite, a riverside monument to civic pomposity that once housed the local government. There is nothing (ii)_______________ about the new location: the building’s design is bureaucratic baroque, (iii)_______________ style that is as declamatory as a task-force report and as self-regarding as a campaign speech. BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A a decadentD atavisticG an ascetic B a claustrophobicE spareH a grandiose C an unprepossessingF pretentiousI an understated 　　PRACTICE BOOK 題目 　　【16】That the President manages the economy is an assumption (i)______________ the prevailing wisdom that dominates electoral politics in the United States. As a result, presidential elections have become referenda on the business cycle, whose fortuitous turnings are (ii)______________ the President. Presidents are properly accountable for their executive and legislative performance, and certainly their actions may have profound effects on the economy. But these effects are (iii)______________. Unfortunately, modern political campaigns are fought on the untenable premise that Presidents can deliberately produce precise economic results. BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A peripheral toD justifiably personified inG usually long-lasting B central toE erroneously attributed toH regrettably unnoticeable C at odds withF occasionally associated withI largely unpredictable 　　【17】Room acoustics design criteria are determined according to the room’s intended use. Music, for example, is best (i)______________ in spaces that are reverberant, a condition that generally makes speech less (ii)________________. Acoustics suitable for both speech and music can sometimes be created in the same space, although the result is never perfect, each having to be (iii)_______________ to some extent. BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A controlledD abrasiveG compromised B appreciatedE intelligibleH eliminated C employedF ubiquitousI considered 　　【18】To the untutored eye the tightly forested Ardennes hills around Sedan look quite (i)_______________， (ii)________________place through which to advance a modern army; even with today’s more numerous and better roads and bridges, the woods and the river Meuse form a significant (iii)_______________. BLANK1BLANK2BLANK3 A impenetrableD a makeshiftG resource B inconsiderableE an unpropitiousH impediment C uncultivatedF an unremarkableI passage 　　答案： 　　【1】CEH　【2】AFH　【3】CDH　【4】BDI　　【5】BEG　【6】CDH
    【7】BDG　【8】BEH　　【9】ADG　【10】BEG　【11】CFI　【12】ADH
    【13】AEI　【14】CEH　【15】CEH　【16】BEI　　【17】BEG　【18】AEH