1992年4月GRE考试真题.doc

1992年4月 GRE考试真题 SECTION 1 1. It was a war the queen and her more prudent coun- selors wished to ------- if they could and were determined in any event to ------- as long as possible. (A) provoke.. delay (B) denounce.. deny (C) instigate.. conceal (D) curtail.. promote (E) avoid.. postpone 2. Despite many decades of research on the gasification of coal, the data accumulated are not directly --------- to environmental questions; thus a new program of research specifically addressing such questions is----- (A) analogous.. promising (B) transferable.. contradictory (C) antithetical.. unremarkable (D) applicable.. warranted (E) pertinent.. unnecessary 3. Unlike other creatures, who are shaped largely by their ------- environment, human beings are products of a culture accumulated over centuries, yet one that is constantly being ----- by massive infusions of new information from everywhere. (A) harsh.. unconfirmed (B) surrounding.. upheld (C) immediate.. transformed (D) natural.. mechanized (E) limited. Superseded 4. Edith Wharton sought in her memoir to present herself as having achieved a harmonious wholeness by having -------the conflicting elements of her life. (A) affirmed (B) highlighted (C) reconciled (D) confined (E) identified 5. In their preface, the collections editors plead that certain of the important articles they --------- were published too recently for inclusion, but in the case of many such articles, this ------- is not valid. (A) discussed.. replacement (B) omitted.. excuse (C) revised.. clarification (D) disparaged.. justification (E) ignored.. endorsement 6. The labor union and the companys management, despite their long history of unfailingly acerbic disagreement on nearly every issue, have nevertheless reached an unexpectedly -------, albeit still tentative, agreement on next years contract. (A) swift (B) onerous (C) hesitant (D) reluctant (E) conclusive 7. In response to the follies of todays commercial and political worlds, the author does not --