GRE出国考试模拟试题10
1. Though ____ to some degree, telling a small lie sometimes enables one to avoid ____ another's feelings.
(A) necessary.. mollifying
(B) regrettable.. harming
(C) unfortunate.. exaggerating
(D) attractive.. considering
(E) difficult.. resisting
2. Perhaps because scientists have been so intrigued by dogs' superior senses of smell and hearing, researchers have long ____ their eyesight, assuming that they inhabit a drab, black-and-white world, devoid of color.
(A) studied
(B) coveted
(C) appreciated
(D) resented
(E) underestimated
3. Despite a string of dismal earnings reports, the two-year-old strategy to return the company to
profitability is beginning to ____.
(A) falter
(B) disappoint
(C) compete
(D) work
(E) circulate
4. The President reached a decision only after lengthy ____, painstakingly weighing the ____opinions
expressed by cabinet members.
(A) deliberation.. divergent
(B) confrontation.. unanimous
(C) relegation.. consistent
(D) speculation.. conciliatory
(E) canvassing.. arbitrary
5. Although just barely ____ as a writer of lucid prose, Jones was an extremely ____ editor who worked superbly with other writers in helping them improve the clarity of their writing.
(A) deficient.. muddling
(B) proficient.. contentious
(C) adequate.. capable
(D) appalling.. competent
(E) engaging.. inept
6. The accusations we bring against others should be
____ ourselves; they should not ____ complacency
and easy judgments on our part concerning our own
moral conduct.
(A) definitions of.. produce
(B) instructions to.. equate
(C) denigrations of.. exclude
(D) warnings to.. justify
(E) parodies of.. satirize
7. Although the meanings of words may necessarily be liable to change, it does not follow that the lexicographer is therefore unable to render spelling, in a great measure, ____.
(A) arbitrary
(B) superfluous
(C) interesting
(D) flexible
(E) constant
8. ELEGIAC: SORROW::
(A) polemical: resolution
(B) fictional: humor
(C) devotional: reverence
(D) didactic: inspiration
(E) literary: emotion
9. ROSTRUM: ORATOR::
(A) stage: audience
(B) bench: judge
(C) shelf: clerk
(D) municipality: citizen
(E) crosswalk: pedestrian
10. MISUNDERSTOOD: CLARIFY
(A) fanatical: espouse
(B) popular: renounce
(C) fantastic: shock
(D) erroneous: retract
(E) conspicuous: flaunt
11. REFINERY: PETROLEUM:
(A) mill: grain
(B) mine: ore