GRE10月考前冲刺指导（三）
——97-4题目分析
97-4
SECTION(:VERB) 1
1.(:SENTENCE) We first became aware that her support for the new program was less than---- when she
declined to make a speech in its favor.
(A) qualified
(B) haphazard
(C) fleeting
(D) unwarranted
(E) wholehearted
分析：下文说的是她拒绝谈到他的好处，所以上文也得说这层含义，less than 表示否定，所以空格所填的是正评价的词。表示好favor同义词。
答案：E
2.(:SENTENCE) When a person suddenly loses consciousness, a bystander is not expected to ---- the problem but to attempt to ---- its effects by starting vital functions if they are absent
(A) cure.. precipitate
(B) minimize.. predict
(C) determine.. detect
(D) diagnose.. counter
(E) magnify.. evaluate
分析：因为出现了by，所以encouraged by encouragement，所以 by starting vital functions if they are absent ，所以前面应该出现消除效果。 Counter its effects。
答案：D
3.(:SENTENCE) The remark was only slightly ----, inviting a chuckle, perhaps, but certainly not a ----.
(A) audible.. reward
(B) hostile.. shrug
(C) amusing.. rebuke
(D) coherent.. reaction
(E) humorous.. guffaw
分析：inviting a chuckle，离空格最近的短语将决定空格方向，所以 remark was only slightly____应加入的是高兴，humorous, amusing，从二空来看，前面出现but所以上下文相反，下文出现了not，所以空格与chuckle相同，所以答案选E。
答案：E
4.(:SENTENCE) Doors were closing on our past, and soon the values we had lived by would become so
obsolete that we would seem to people of the new age as ----as travelers from an ancient land.
(A) elegant
(B) ambitious
(C) interesting
(D) comfortable
(E) quaint
分析：so…that 如此，以致于，so+ obsolete that 所以选择负评价的词，本题答案为E。
答案：E
5.(:SENTENCE) Ability to ---- is the test of the perceptive historian： a history, after all, consists not only
of what the historian has included, but also, in some sense, of what has been left out.
(A) defer
(B) select
(C) confer
(D) devise
(E) reflect
分析：冒号为解释说明，后边说的历史是由不但历史学家所选择的，还有被省略的。所以这是个选择的过程，所以选select。
答案：B
6.(:SENTENCE) Some artists immodestly idealize or exaggerate the significance of their work, yet others ---- to
exalt the role of the artist, reject a transcendent view of art
(A) appearing
(B) disdaining
(C) seeking
(D) failing
(E) tending
分析：以逗号为分割点，逗号右边出现了yet，上下文相反，但reject 与idealize 构成了相反。所以只能看其他线索，而上文出现了immodestly exaggerate，与下文exalt同义词，所以要加的词与immodestly同义，所以本题选B。
答案：B
7.(:SENTENCE) Estimating the risks of radiation escaping from a nuclear power plant is ---- questions, but one
whose answer then becomes part of a value-laden, emotionally charged policy debate about whether to construct such a plant.
(A) an incomprehensible
(B) an undefined
(C) an irresponsible
(D) a divisive
(E) a technical
分析：以逗号为分隔点，逗号but上下文相反，下边说的情感方向，所以上文应该说的技术方面。
答案：E
SECTION(:VERB) 5
1.(:SENTENCE) Because modern scientists find the ancient Greek view of the cosmos outdated and irrelevant, they now perceive it as only of --------- interest.
(A) historical
(B) intrinsic
(C) astronomical
(D) experimental
(E) superfluous
分析：因果关系同义重复，上文说的是古代的观点过时且无关，所以下文这种观点依然是这样的，只有historical 与ancient同义词，所以本题选A。
答案：A
2.(:SENTENCE) Religious philosopher that he was. Henry More derived his conception of an infinite universe from the Infinite God in whom he believed, a benevolent God of -------whosenature was to create---------
(A) plenitude abundance
(B) vengeance justice
(C) indifference suffering
(D) indulgence temperance
(E) rectitude havoc
分析：因为都是在描述god，所以god的特点是infinite，下面的两个空都是说god的，所以为同义词plentitude abundance是同义词=infinite.
答案：A
3.(:SENTENCE) While some argue that imposing tolls on highway users circumvents the need to raise public taxes for road maintenance, the phenomenal expense of maintaining a vast network of roads------reliance on these general taxes.
(A) avoids
(B) diminishes
(C) Necessitates
(D) discourages
(E)ameliorates
分析：以逗号为分隔点，出现了while上下文相反，上文说高速公路收费，阻碍提高公众维路费，下文则应说未阻碍，所以填的是not circumvent。
答案：C
4.(:SENTENCE) Although they were not direct------,the new arts of the Classical period were clearly created in the spirit of older Roman models and thus------many features of the older style.
(A) impressions introduced
(B) translations accentuated
(C) copies maintained
(D) masterpieces depicted
(E) borrowings improvised
分析：and 并列关系，and 之前提到了古罗马精神下创制的，后边要继续有这种风格，所以答案可能选的是BCD。继续有这种风格，所以上文什么风格，下文刚好相反。而上文已经出现了not，所以空格是对下文同义重复，所以本题答案为C。
答案：C
5.(:SENTENCE) In spite of the increasing--------of their opinions, the group knew they had to arrive at a consensus so thatthe award could be presented
(A) impartiality
(B) consistency
(C) judiciousness
(D) incisiveness
(E) polarity
分析：以逗号为分隔点，左边出现了in spite of ，右边表达一致意见，所以左边则不一致，所以选E两极化意见。
答案：E
6.(:SENTENCE) By forcing our surrender to the authority of the clock systematic timekeeping has imposed a form of-------on society.
(A) anarchy
(B) permanence
(C) provincialism
(D) tyranny
(E) autonomy
分析：by forcing our surrender to the authority，本题by前后同义重复关系，所以本题选D。
答案：D
7. (:SENTENCE)Our high-------vocabulary for street crime contrasts sharply with our------vocabulary for corporate crime, a fact that corresponds to the general public's unawareness of the extent of corporate crime.
(A) nuanced ..subtle
(B) uninformative ..misleading
© euphemistic ..abstract
(D) differentiated ..limited
(E) technical ..jargon-laden
分析：因为in contrast with ，说明上下文相反且都修饰了同一个词vocabulary，所以应是一对反义词，有这种关系的选项是D。
答案：D（编辑：胡慧）