十道GRE填空三空練習題

　　從GRE的Verbal Reasoning(語文部門)的角度來看，填空題型產生了較大的變更，個中最為別致的變更在於增長了曩昔從未湧現過的三空題，下面給考生帶來的是十道GRE填空三空演習題，供考生演習之用。

　　1. In Democracies and its Critics, Robert Dahl defends both democraticvalue and pluralist democracies, or polyarchies. Dahl argues convincingly thatthe idea of democracy rests on political equality—the equality capacity of allcitizens to determine or (i)___ collective decisions. Of course, as Dahlrecognizes, if hierarchical ordering is (ii)___ in any structure of government,and if no society can guarantee perfect equality in the resources that may giverise to political influence, the democratic principle of political equality is(iii)___ of full realization. So actual systems can be deemed democratic onlyas approximations to the ideal.

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　　A .hamper D. circumstantial G. incapable

　　B .influence E. inevitable H .determined

　　C. incorporate F .neutral I .possible

　　2. Although the legal systems of England and the United States are superficiallysimilar, they (i)___in their approaches to and uses of legal reasons:substantive reasons in the United States, whereas in England the (ii) ___ istrue. This (iii)___ reflects a difference in the visions of law that prevail inthe two counties. In England the law has traditionally been viewed as a systemof rules; the United States favors a vision of law as an outward expression ofthe community’s sense of right and justice.

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　　A. differ profoundly D. reverse G .distinction

　　B. convergent E.conventionality H. equilibrium

　　C. slightly differentiate F. similarity I .dissemination

　　3. Although some censure became (i)___ during the 1980s, Dahl himselfseems to support some of such earlier criticism. Although he (ii)___ that someWestern intellectuals demand more democracy from polyarchies than is possible,he nevertheless ends his book by asking what changes in structures andconsciousness might make political life more (iii)___ in present polyarchies.

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　　A. characterized D. monocratic G. reveals

　　B. subdued E. gerontocracic H. regrets

　　C. overruled F. democratic I. approves

　　4. A major tenet of the neurosciences has been that all neurons (nervecells) in the brains of vertebrate animals are formed early in development. Anadult vertebrate, it was believed, must make do with (i)___ neurons: those lostthrough (ii)___ or injury are not replaced, and adult learning takes place notthrough generation of new cells but through (iii)___ among existing ones.

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　　A. a fixed number of D. revolution

　　H. reproduction of older ones

　　B. abundant E. disease

　　G.modification of connections

　　C. minimal F. generation

　　I.deduction of similarities

　　5. Evidence that the defendant in a criminal prosecution has a priorconviction may (i)___ jurors to presume the defendant’s guilt, because of theirpreconception that a person previously convicted of a crime must be inclinedtoward repeated criminal behavior. That commonly held belief is at least a(ii)___; not all former convicts engage in repeated criminal behavior. Also,jury may give more probative weight than objective analysis would allow tovivid photographic evidence depicting a shooting victim’s wounds, or may(iii)___ the weight of defense testimony that is not delivered in asufficiently forceful or persuasive manner.

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　　A. encourage D. partial distortion of reality G.underestimate

　　B. deter E. vivid reflection ofimagination

　　H. exaggerate

　　C.participate F. precise calculation of certainty

　　I. reflect

　　6. The usage suggests that the creation and critical interpretation ofliterature are not (i)___ but mechanical processes; that the author of anypiece of writing is not (ii)___ artist, but merely a laborer who cobblesexisting materials (words) into more or less conventional structures. The termdeconstruction implies that the text has been put together like a building or apiece of machinery, and that it is in need of being taken apart, not so much inorder to (iii)___ it as to demonstrate underlying inadequacies, falseassumptions, and inherent contradictions.

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　　A. instructive D. a derivative G. repair

　　B. literal E. an insipid H. qualify

　　C. organic F. an inspired I.construct

　　7. Most psychologists, perplexed by the feelings they acknowledge arearoused by aesthetic experience, have claimed that these emotions are genuine,but different in kind from nonaesthetic emotions. This, however, is (i)___rather than an empirical observation and consequently lacks explanatory value.On the other hand, Gombrich argues that emotional responses to art are (ii)___;art triggers remembrances of previously experienced emotions. These debateshave prompted the psychologist Radford to argue that people do experience realmelancholy or joy in responding to art, but that these are (iii)___ responses preciselybecause people know they are reacting to illusory stimuli.

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　　A. a descriptive distinction D. vivacious

　　G .zealous

　　B. a body of profound knowledge E. synonymous

　　H. lugubrious

　　C. a valid evidence F.ersatz

　　I. irrational

　　8. Until recently many astronomers believed that asteroids travel aboutthe solar system (i)___ satellites. These astronomers assumed this because theyconsidered asteroid-satellite systems inherently (ii)___. Theoreticians couldhave told them otherwise: even minuscule bodies in the solar system cantheoretically have satellites, as long as everything is in proper scale. If abowling ball were orbiting about the Sun in the asteroid belt, it could have apebble orbiting it as far away as a few hundred radii (or about 50 meters)(iii)___ the pebble to the Sun’s gravitational pull.

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　　A. unaccompanied by D. scathing

　　G. without losing

　　B. unprecedented by E .unstable

　　H. beforereaping

　　C. unparalleled by F. soporific

　　I. as well as easing

　　9. For analytical purposes (i)___ political conduct has traditionally beendivided into two categories. However, there are some common crimes that are so(ii)___ from a political act that the entire offense is regarded as political.These crimes, which are called "(iii)___" political offenses, aregenerally nonextraditable.

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　　A. illegal D. inseparable G.ambiguous

　　B. political E. distinct H.vague

　　C. licit F. capricous I.relative

　　10. Social democracy is a general ethical ideal, looking to human (i)___and brotherhood, and inconsistent, in its radical form, with such institutionsas the family and (ii)___ property. Democratic government, on the contrary, ismerely a means to an end, an (iii)___ for the better and smoother government ofcertain states at certain junctures. It involves no special ideals of life; itis a question of policy, namely, whether the general interest will be betterserved by granting all people an equal voice in elections.

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　　A. salutary D. unpredictable G. aristocracy

　　B. equality E. general H. promotion

　　C. complicated F.efficacious I. grandiloquence

　　準確謎底：　　BDG AEG BHF AEG ADG CFG AEG AEG ADI BEG

　　上面十道GRE填空三空演習題，願望考生在拿到以後能好好的應用，同時，在文章的末了小編將這些演習題的謎底給考生做了分享，願望考生在做完演習以後能實時的對謎底，對付做錯的標題能賣力剖析，找出毛病的緣故原由，以便更好的提高。