历年试题:GRE试题(二)
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19. Which of the following is most closely analogous to 
Job Legh in Mary Barton, as that character is 
described in the passage?
(A) An entomologist who collected butterflies as a 
child 
(B) A small-town attorney whose hobby is nature 
photography
(C) A young man who leaves his family’s dairy 
farm to start his own business 
(D) A city dweller who raises exotic plants on the 
roof of his apartment building 
(E) A union organizer who works in a textile mill 
under dangerous conditions 

20. It can be inferred from examples given in the last 
paragraph of the passage that which of the following 
was part of "the new and crushing experience of 
industrialism" (lines 46-47) for many members of 
the English working class in the nineteenth century?
(A) Extortionate food prices 
(B) Geographical displacement 
(C) Hazardous working conditions 
(D) Alienation from fellow workers 
(E) Dissolution of family ties 
21. It can be inferred that the author of the passage 
believes that Mary Barton might have been an 
even better novel if Gaskell had 
(A) concentrated on the emotions of a single 
character 
(B) made no attempt to re-create experiences of 
which she had no firsthand knowledge 
(C) made no attempt to reproduce working-class 
dialects 
(D) grown up in an industrial city 
(E) managed to transcend her position as an outsider 

22. Which of the following phrases could best be 
substituted for the phrase "this aspect of Mary 
Barton" in line 29 without changing the meaning 
of the passage as a whole?
(A) the material details in an urban working-class 
environment 
(B) the influence of Mary Barton on lawrence’s 
early work
(C) the place of Mary Barton in the development 
of the English novel 
(D) the extent of the poverty and physical 
suffering among England’s industrial 
workers in the 1840’s.
(E) the portrayal of the particular feelings and 
responses of working-class characters 

23. The author of the passage describes Mary Barton 
as each of the following EXCEPT 
(A) insightful 
(B) meticulous 
(C) vivid 
(D) poignant 
(E) lyrical 

As of the late 1980’s. neither theorists nor large-
scale computer climate models could accurately predict 
whether cloud systems would help or hurt a warming 
globe. Some studies suggested that a four percent 
(5)increase in stratocumulus clouds over the ocean could 
compensate for a doubling in atmospheric carbon diox-
ide, preventing a potentially disastrous planetwide temp-
erature increase. On the other hand, an increase in cirrus 
clouds could increase global warming.
(10) That clouds represented the weakest element in cli-
mate models was illustrated by a study of fourteen such 
models. Comparing climate forecasts for a world with 
double the current amount of carbon dioxide, researchers 
found that the models agreed quite well if clouds were 
(15)not included. But when clouds were incorporated, a wide 
range of forecasts was produced. With such discrepancies
plaguing the models, scientists could not easily predict 
how quickly the world’s climate would change, nor could 
they tell which regions would face dustier droughts or 
deadlier monsoons. 

24.The author of the passage is primarily concerned 
with 
(A) confirming a theory 
(B) supporting a statement 
(C) presenting new information 
(D) predicting future discoveries 
(E) reconciling discrepant findings 

25. It can be inferred that one reason the fourteen models 
described in the passage failed to agree was that 
(A) they failed to incorporate the most up-to-date 
information about the effect of clouds on 
climate 
(B) they were based on faulty information about 
factors other than clouds that affect climate.
(C) they were based on different assumptions about 
the overall effects of clouds on climate 
(D) their originators disagreed about the kinds of 
forecasts the models should provide 
(E) their originators disagreed about the factors 
other than clouds that should be included in 
the models 


26. It can be inferred that the primary purpose of the 
models included in the study discussed in the second 
paragraph of the passage was to 
(A) predict future changes in the world’s climate 
(B) predict the effects of cloud systems on the 
world’s climate 
(C) find a way to prevent a disastrous planetwide 
temperature increase 
(D) assess the percentage of the Earth’s surface 
covered by cloud systems 
(E) estimate by how much the amount of carbon 
dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere will 
increase 

27. The information in the passage suggests that sci-
entists would have to answer which of the following 
questions in order to predict the effect of clouds on 
the warming of the globe? 
(A) What kinds of cloud systems will form over the 
Earth?
(B) How can cloud systems be encouraged to form 
over the ocean? 
(C) What are the causes of the projected planetwide 
temperature increase? 
(D) What proportion of cloud systems are currently 
composed of cirrus of clouds? 
(E) What proportion of the clouds in the atmosphere 
form over land masses? 

28. SUSPEND: 
(A) force 
(B) split 
(C) tilt 
(D) slide down 
(E) let fall 

29. CREDULITY: 
(A) originality 
(B) skepticism 
(C) diligence 
(D) animation 
(E) stoicism 

30. MILD: 
(A) toxic 
(B) uniform 
(C) maximal 
(D) asymptomatic 
(E) acute 

31. IMPLEMENT: 
(A) distort 
(B) foil 
(C) overlook 
(D) aggravate 
(E) misinterpret 
32. DIFFIDENCE:: 
(A) trustworthiness 
(B) assertiveness 
(C) lack of preparation 
(D) resistance to change 
(E) willingness to blame 

33. BYZANTINE: 
(A) symmetrical
(B) variegated 
(C) discordant 
(D) straightforward 
(E) unblemished 

34. PROCLIVITY: 
(A) confusion 
(B) deprivation 
(C) obstruction 
(D) aversion 
(E) hardship 

35. PROTRACT:
(A) treat fairly 
(B) request hesitantly 
(C) take back 
(D) cut short 
(E) make accurate 

36. VAUNTING: 
(A) plucky 
(B) meek 
(C) chaste 
(D) cowardly 
(E) ardent

37. HALE: 
(A) unenthusiastic 
(B) staid 
(C) odious 
(D) infirm 
(E) uncharacteristic 

38. SEMINAL: 
(A) derivative 
(B) substantiated 
(C) reductive 
(D) ambiguous 
(E) extremist

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