1991年2月GRE考试真题.doc

1991年2月GRE考试真题 SECTION 1 1. The Chinese, who began systematic astronomical and weather observations shortly after the ancient Egyptians, were assiduous record-keepers, and because of this, can claim humanitys longest continuous -------- of natural events. (A) defiance (B) documentation (C) maintenance (D) theory (E) domination 2. Because many of the minerals found on the ocean floor are still ------- on land, where mining is relatively inexpensive, mining the ocean floor has yet to become a ------- enterprise. (A) scarce. . common (B) accessible.. marginal (C) unidentified.. subsidized (D) conserved . . public (E) plentiful.. profitable 3. The valedictory address, as it has developed in American colleges and universities over the years, has become a very strict form, a literary ------- that permits very little-------. (A) text.. clarity (B) work.. tradition (C) genre.. deviation (D) oration.. grandiloquence (E) achievement.. rigidity 4. A human being is quite ------- creature, for the gloss of rationality that covers his or her fears and ------- is thin and often easily breached. (A) a logical.. problems (B) a frail.. insecurity (C) a valiant.. phobias (D) an ambitious.. morality (E) a ludicrous.. laughter 5. Although the passage of years has softened the initially hostile reaction to his poetry, even now only a few independent observers ------- his works. (A) praise (B) revile (C) scrutinize (D)criticize (E) neglect 6. Unlike philosophers who constructed theoretically ideal states, she built a theory based on -------; thus, although her constructs may have been inelegant, they were ------sound. (A) reality.. aesthetically (B) intuition.. intellectually (C) surmise.. scientifically (D) experience.. empirically (E) conjecture.. factually 7. Once a duckling has identified a parent, the instinctive bond becomes a powerful ------- for additional learning since, by ------- the parent, the duckling can acquire further information that is not genetically transmitted. (A)