90年4月GRE 真题.doc

90年4月SECTION 1 Time-30 minutes 38 Questions 1. Even though formidable winters are the norm in the Dakotas, many people were unprepared for the ------- of the blizzard of 1888. (A) inevitability (B) ferocity (C) importance (D) probability (E) mildness 2. As the first streamlined car, the Airflow represented a ------- in automotive development, and although its sales were -------, it had an immense influence on automobile design. (A)milestone.. disappointing (B)breakthrough.. significant (C)regression.. unimportant (D)misjudgment.. calculable (E)revolution.. tolerable 3. While nurturing parents can compensate for adversity, cold or inconsistent parents may ------ it. (A)exacerbate (B) neutralize (C) eradicate (D) ameliorate (E) relieve 4. The architects of New Yorks early skyscrapers, hinting here at a twelfth-century cathedral, there at a fifteenth-century palace, sought to legitimize the citys social strivings by ----- a history the city did not truly -----. (A)revealing.. deserve (B)displaying.. desire (C)evoking.. possess (D)preserving.. experience (E)flouting.. believe 5. Actual events in the history of life on Earth are accidental in that any outcome embodies just one ----- among millions; yet each out-come can be ----- interpreted. (A)coincidence.. randomly (B)relationship.. predictably (C)fact.. readily (D)happening.. uniquely (E)possibility.. rationally 6. Although some of her fellow scientists ------ the unorthodox laboratory methodology that others found innovative, unanimous praise greeted her experimental results: at once pioneering and -------. (A)ignored.. untrustworthy (B)complimented.. foreseeable (C)welcomed.. mundane (D)decried.. unexceptionable (E)attacked.. inconclusive 7. Early critics of Emily Dickinsons poetry mistook for simplemindedness the surface of artlessness that in fact she constructed with such -------. (A) astonishment (B) vexation (C) allusion (D) innocence (E) cunning 8. MICROSCOPE: SMALL:: telescope : distant monocle: single lens :