试卷详情
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GRE9
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[填空题]Smith is________, to the degree that he seldom disguises his contempt towards________activities.
A. A.a firebrand ... religious
B.a dilettante ... convivial
C.a philistine ... intellectual
D.a misanthrope ... individualistic
E.a plebian ... common
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[单项选择] Electronic computer speeds are restricted not only by the speed of electrons in matter but also by the escalating density of interconnections necessary to connect the electronic gates on microchips. Electrical engineers and physicists have been developing and augmenting the technologies of analog and digital optical computing, in which the information is primarily carried by photons rather than by electrons. Optical computing could, in principle, generate much higher computer speeds, but one of the problems it has encountered lies in accuracy, for these devices have practical limits of 8 to 11 bits of accuracy in basic operations. Recent research has evinced that digital partitioning algorithms in tandem with error-correction codes, can substantially enhance the accuracy of optical computing operations. In the near term optical computers will most likely be hybrid optical/electronic systems that preprocess input data for computation and post-process output data via electronic circuit
A. Researchers have not yet discovered a means of transporting photons more efficiently.
B. Their primary limitation is the density of connections required between electronic microchip gates.
C. Their accuracy level is poor at 8 to 11 bits, but still superior to that Of electronic computers.
D. They invariably rely on electronic circuits to preprocess input data for computation.
E. Both analog and digital forms of optic computing are presently being developed by scientists.
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[单项选择]RECEPTIVE: GULLIBLE : :
A. secretive: stealthy
B. compliant: servile
C. wordy: tedious
D. insightful: penetrating
E. priggish: headstrong
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[单项选择]COMMENCEMENT: ADJOURNMEN : :
A. sapphire: fissure
B. signal: frequency
C. lasso: splice
D. activity: dormancy
E. rule: rebellion
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[填空题]Despite certain________habits of the North American screech owl, it performs the majority of its hunting alone, in alpine forests, unfettered by________.
A. A.predatory ... ecology
B.instinctual ... behavior
C.exogamous ... kinship
D.omnivorous ... diet
E.diurnal ... darkness
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[单项选择]DISPATCH:
A. dislike
B. cbliviousness
C. peacefulness
D. abnormality
E. unhurriedness
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[单项选择]ATOMS: CRYSTAL: :
A. substance: air
B. water: density
C. level: ramification
D. numbers: matrix
E. agents: reaction
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[单项选择]CAVIL: CRITICIZE : :
A. chafe: scrub
B. entice: lure
C. mandate: require
D. inundate: deluge
E. assume: suppose
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[单项选择]CODA:
A. restriction
B. increment
C. increment
D. preface
E. unprepared act
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[单项选择] Most words are "lexical words", i.e. nouns signifying "things", the majority of which are abstract concepts rather than physical objects in the world; only "proper nouns" have specific and unique referents in the everyday world. The communicative function of a fully-functioning language requires the scope of reference beyond the particularity of the individual instance. While each leaf, cloud or smile is different from all others, effective communication requires general categories or "universals". Anyone who has attempetd to communicate with people who do not share their language will be familiar with the limitations of simply pointing to things, given that the vast majority of lexical words in a language exist on a high level of abstraction and refer to classes of things such as "buildings" or to concepts like "construction".
We lose any one-to-one correspondence of word and thing the moment we group instances into classes. Other than lexical words, language consists of "functio
A. refuting a belief held by one school of linguistics
B. reviewing an interesting feature of language
C. illustrating the confusion that can result from the improper use of language
D. suggesting a way in which languages can be made more nearly perfect
E. surveying new interesting areas of research in the field of linguistics
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[单项选择]VERDANT:
A. intelligible
B. sere
C. serene
D. frostbound
E. portentous
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[单项选择]HESITANCY: ALACRITY : :
A. weather: danger
B. torpor: vigor
C. adulation: attraction
D. indifference: tedium
E. yearning: conception
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[单项选择]NEFARIOUS: WICKEDNESS: :
A. sprightly: fastidiousness
B. conspicuous: stealth
C. foolhardy: heterodoxy
D. generous: liberality
E. inflammatory: acidity
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[单项选择]INVIDIOUS:
A. evanescent
B. insipid
C. noticeable
D. advantageous
E. plentiful
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[填空题]Though sometimes________, all too often technology is seen as a________for the great economic, social, and political challenges facing the nation as it embarks on the path of modernization.
A. A.expensive ... solution
B.effective ... panacea
C.ignored ... salve
D.relevant ... prerequisite
E.calamitous ... fillip
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[单项选择]EDDY: CURRENT : :
A. disease: plague
B. pummel: assault
C. knot: plank
D. conquest: attack
E. commotion: spectacle
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[填空题]Even if the public ate up every________detail about their leaders, that same public grew offended that the news media would actually pander to their baser impulses.
A. A.mesmeric
B.lofty
C.supine
D.resonant
E.lubricious
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[填空题]The________which in later life he developed towards Charleston suggests that his________childhood had left unsatisfied his need for a permanent home.
A. A.discomfort ... humdrum
B.attachment ... peripatetic
C.resignation ... pedestrian
D.indifference ... wily
E.passion ... distraught
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[单项选择]ARGOT: SUBCULTURE : :
A. symptom: ailment
B. cipher: settlement
C. jargon: profession
D. face: individuality
E. sign: convention
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[单项选择]DOFF:
A. practice
B. grasp firmly
C. conceal covertly
D. don
E. demolish
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[单项选择]SPIRITUAL:
A. corrupt
B. corporeal
C. metaphorical
D. assorted
E. transient
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[单项选择]INFLATE:
A. gather
B. perceive
C. review
D. minimize
E. restrain
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[单项选择]DIABOLIC:
A. amicable
B. redolent
C. mischievous
D. lavish
E. somber
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[单项选择]EXHAUSTIVE:
A. wavering
B. lively
C. protected
D. brawny
E. incomprehensive
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[单项选择]CRUX:
A. peripheral element
B. commencement
C. conviction
D. affliction
E. gratuity
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[填空题]Previous research has established the lupine wolf as the________of the modern canine, but when and where humans first domesticated the former into the latter remains unclear.
A. A.competitor
B.ally
C.scion
D.prey
E.progenitor
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[单项选择]PERFECT: STIGMA : :
A. misleading: deception
B. paradigmatic: deviation
C. solvent: contamination
D. impervious: immunity
E. endurable: delicacy
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[单项选择]ARTLESSNESS:
A. impartiality
B. forethought
C. slyness
D. innovation
E. bitterness
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[填空题]The reality of governance is rarely________; institutions do not operate according to mechanical laws, they evolve organically.
A. A.static
B.noble
C.protean
D.documented
E.inconsistent