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GRE-29(无案例题题干,混乱)
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[单项选择]It can be inferred that the author would likely believe which of the following concerning modern action films, where character is commonly subordinated to plot
A. (A) Such a film would be a clumsy misinterpretation of uniquely Greek dramatic principles in action.
B. (B) Such a film would be a skillful adaptation of uniquely Greek dramatic principles.
C. (C) Such a film would be an interesting but limited example of a general dramatic principle in action.
D. (D) Such a film would be a clever and revealing example of a general dramatic principle in action.
E. (E) Such a film would illustrate the differences between uniquely Greek and general dramatic principles.
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[单项选择]PROCRASTINATION: ACTION::
A. (A) refutation : defense
B. (B) interruption : respite
C. (C) restraint: publication
D. (D) filibuster : legislation
E. (E) abeyance : fulfillment
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[单项选择]According to the passage, the new means of manufacturing plastic under consideration do not involve
A. (A) corn
B. (B) plant sugar polyhydroxyalkanoate
C. (C) petroleum
D. (D) wheat
E. (E) chloroplast plants
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[单项选择]DIURNAL:
A. (A) itinerant
B. (B) hostile
C. (C) nocturnal
D. (D) callous
E. (E) sprawled
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[单项选择]CLARIFY : CONFOUND ::
A. (A) categorize : integrate
B. (B) articulate : muddle
C. (C) lope : prance
D. (D) sketch : portray
E. (E) engrave : contaminate
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[单项选择]SPINY:
A. (A) onerous
B. (B) smooth
C. (C) docile
D. (D) brusque
E. (E) solitary
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[单项选择]PRAISE : FLATTERY ::
A. (A) renown: reverence
B. (B) envy : retaliation
C. (C) refinement : snobbery
D. (D) alarm : panic
E. (E) wit : vagary
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[单项选择]The National Endowment for the Arts often provides funding to______artists these days, especially those of women and of color, in the hopes of______a historical inequality.
A. (A) marginalized … rectifying
B. (B) promising … understanding
C. (C) prominent… concealing
D. (D) prolific … inspiring
E. (E) little-known… magnifying
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[单项选择]HUBRIS:
A. (A) tranquility
B. (B) derision
C. (C) bewilderment
D. (D) modesty
E. (E) endorsement
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[单项选择]BROKER : TRADE ::
A. (A) conductor : theater
B. (B) ambassador : deception
C. (C) gymnast : stadium
D. (D) ombudsman : mediation
E. (E) gladiator : arena
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[单项选择]VISUAL : SIGHT ::
A. (A) predisposed : inclination
B. (B) olfactory : smell
C. (C) auditory : discernment
D. (D) kinesthetic : sensation
E. (E) gustatory : odor
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[单项选择]Who would have expected that such______young soul as Arthur, his observations mute, his manner perpetually self-effacing, might have fought so readily against the whims of his superiors
A. (A) a magnanimous
B. (B) a perspicacious
C. (C) a vehement
D. (D) a reticent
E. (E) an intractable
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[单项选择]FRIEZE : FURNITURE::
A. (A) porch : arch
B. (B) ceiling : basement
C. (C) trinket : person
D. (D) euphony : pattern
E. (E) grey : painting
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[单项选择]According to the passage, which of the following is necessary to maintaining the proper atmosphere in a tragedy'
A. (A) A virtuous protagonist
B. (B) Unity of time
C. (C) Personified passion
D. (D) Archaic diction
E. (E) A display of moral character
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[单项选择]PEOPLE: CROWD ::
A. (A) cattle : herd
B. (B) magazine: bookcase
C. (C) staff: bureau
D. (D) audience : theater
E. (E) corn : grain
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[单项选择]RIVEN:
A. (A) unbiased
B. (B) unbroken
C. (C) dehydrated
D. (D) exposed
E. (E) flexible
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[单项选择]RUEFUL:
A. (A) tolerant
B. (B) hopeless
C. (C) impenitent
D. (D) contrite
E. (E) anxious
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[单项选择]In lines 11 - 12, the phrase "radically different form" refers to
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[单项选择]Much of computer science work does not involve the sudden______of new languages but the methodical______of older ones.
A. (A) development… dismissal
B. (B) expansion … attenuation
C. (C) analysis… modification
D. (D) parturition… streamlining
E. (E) testing … debunking
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[单项选择]The author suggests that Aristotle believed which of the following was true of the dramatic art that existed prior to Aeschylus
A. (A) It was unusually resourceful in finding ways to extend the unity of time beyond a single day.
B. (B) It was less elegant than later drama because its disregard for unity of place necessitates the movement of the chorus.
C. (C) It tended to demonstrate better unity of time than of character and action.
D. (D) It did not employ a beginning middle or end, and this fell outside the acceptable range of dramatic principles.
E. (E) It tended to overemphasize the use of cause and effect, instead of the continuity of time, in organizing its action.
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[单项选择]Which of the following statements concerning nanotechnology research is most directly suggested in the passage
A. (A) Nanotechnology research tends to be more focused on the process of building multiple molecules than chemistry research.
B. (B) Nanotechnology research is increasingly less bound to operations on the microscopic level than it once was.
C. (C) The practitioners of nanotechnology tend to be more optimistic than pragmatic in choosing its methodology.
D. (D) Nanotechnology research involves a much greater level of technical knowledge, on the whole, than chemistry research.
E. (E) Nanotechnology research tends to be more concerned at this stage with precision than convenient mass production.
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[单项选择]EXONERATE:
A. (A) disparage
B. (B) conquer
C. (C) arbitrate
D. (D) incriminate
E. (E) debilitate
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[单项选择]MACABRE : SHUDDER::
A. (A) torpid : embolden
B. (B) homesick: domesticate
C. (C) insipid : chuckle
D. (D) overweening : plume
E. (E) grisly : flinch
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[单项选择]According to the passage, Aristotle argued for the use of morally fallible characters in drama in order that
A. (A) Characters would be perceived as flawed but sympathetic
B. (B) Characters would be viewed as dignified by their burdens
C. (C) Characters would be presented as heroic and powerful
D. (D) Characters would be depicted as doomed and powerless
E. (E) Characters would be seen as ignorant and victimized
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[单项选择]TECTONICS: GEOLOGY ::
A. (A) diary : biography
B. (B) weather : meteorology
C. (C) encyclopedia : editor
D. (D) poker : gambler
E. (E) journal : correspondent
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[单项选择]For 21 years after the birth of the Prince of Wales, the______royal couple produced children at the rate of two every three years-eight boys and six girls in all.
A. (A) veritable
B. (B) preternatural
C. (C) mimetic
D. (D) fecund
E. (E) pernicious
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[单项选择]Which of the following statements concerning Adorno's musical criticism can be inferred from the passage
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[单项选择]GIANT: HUMAN::
A. (A) bush : vine
B. (B) boulder : rock
C. (C) creek : pool
D. (D) mountain : tree
E. (E) meadow : flower
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[单项选择]If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the______we used to accomplish them, which will be ______the warfare of Genghis Khan, who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
A. (A) reasons … oblivious to
B. (B) methods … compared to
C. (C) passions … contrasted with
D. (D) weapons… incommensurate with
E. (E) politics … minor to
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[单项选择]The author regards the research under discussion as
A. (A) original and extensive but ill-defined as to method
B. (B) necessary and ambitious but vulnerable to failure
C. (C) cogent and worthwhile but severely under-funded
D. (D) prohibitively expensive but conceptually elegant
E. (E) theoretically fascinating but practically useless at present
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[单项选择]The primary purpose of the passage is to
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[单项选择]A______for peril is a virtual prerequisite for any adventurer foolhardy enough to attempt Kilimanjaro; those of______disposition are well-advised, given the recent tragedy, to avoid the endeavor.
A. (A) disregard … an intrepid
B. (B) reticence… cowardly
C. (C) consideration … a resourceful
D. (D) yen … acraven
E. (E) passion … a heroic
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[单项选择]IMMATERIAL: RELEVANCE::
A. (A) liberal : autonomy
B. (B) competent : valor
C. (C) circuitous : directness
D. (D) translucent : lucidity
E. (E) candid : effrontery
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[单项选择]The American space program has once again______even its most optimistic proponents: it did not expand as rapidly in the third quarter, at least to the extent that most had______.
A. (A) discomfited … feared
B. (B) approbated … calculated
C. (C) brooked… insinuated
D. (D) intrigued … assumed
E. (E) disappointed … predicted
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[单项选择]AXIOMATIC:
A. (A) incipient
B. (B) authoritative
C. (C) simplistic
D. (D) controversial
E. (E) merged
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[单项选择]The root systems of certain plant families, such as that of tulips and crabgrass, ______underground, so that nutrients may be shared along______network.
A. (A) burrow … a cavernous
B. (B) tangle … a deciduous
C. (C) cozen … a photosynthetic
D. (D) fuse … a subterranean
E. (E) abscond … a perennial
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[单项选择]It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes which of the following concerning the top-down method of nanotechnology
A. (A) The top-down method tends to be accurate but highly inefficient, resulting in a process that takes a great deal of time and energy.
B. (B) The top-down method, unlike the bottom-up method, tends to disobey the rules of many chemical interactions.
C. (C) The top-down method requires a greater level of technological involvement than does the bottom-up method.
D. (D) The top-down method shows the limits of nanotechnology methods that rely too heavily on parallel processes.
E. (E) The top-down method is fairly useless when applied to the problem of creating a single molecule.
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[单项选择]The passage provides information that would answer which of the following questions
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[单项选择]It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following was the prime goal in scientists' searching for organic means of producing plastic
A. (A) the reduction of energy used in petrochemical plastic manufacture
B. (B) the reduction of the production cost of petrochemical manufacture
C. (C) the development of a biodegradable plastic
D. (D) the creation of plastics with more useful qualities
E. (E) the reduction of fossil fuel emissions in the environment
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[单项选择]Modern bodies are especially______to cancer, no doubt because the technology which we have labored to develop, by a cruel irony, produces waste that______their proper functioning.
A. (A) relevant… complicates
B. (B) invulnerable … hinders
C. (C) insidious… isolates
D. (D) prone… inhibits
E. (E) attractive … damages
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[单项选择]EXHAUSTIVE:
A. (A) advantageous
B. (B) illogical
C. (C) inventive
D. (D) valuable
E. (E) limited
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[单项选择]OBSESSION:
A. (A) revulsion
B. (B) vexation
C. (C) composure
D. (D) dutiful attention
E. (E) insolence
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[单项选择]Which of the following best describes the relationship of the first paragraph of the passage to the passage as a whole
A. (A) It provides a group of specific examples from which generalizations concerning the nature of drama are drawn later in the passage.
B. (B) It explains principles concerning one aspect of tragedy, which are followed later by principles for other aspects.
C. (C) It defines terms of dramatic principles that are more thoroughly explained later in the passage.
D. (D) It briefly compares and contrasts the principles of drama that are examined in detail later in the passage.
E. (E) It explains a method of judging a work of drama, a method that is used later in the passage.
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[单项选择]PERSON : APPAREL ::
A. (A) nut: core
B. (B) spire : tower
C. (C) meteor : trail
D. (D) planet : atmosphere
E. (E) hub: cycle
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[单项选择]MYSTERY: FICTION::
A. (A) line: page
B. (B) edition : book
C. (C) tome: anthology
D. (D) sitcom : drama
E. (E) newspaper : essay
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[单项选择]DOUBT: QUESTION ::
A. (A) manner : technique
B. (B) thirst: accomplishment
C. (C) remorse: avarice
D. (D) purposelessness : requirement
E. (E) benevolence : gratitude
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[单项选择]MALICIOUS : ILL-WILL ::
A. (A) dilatory : vehemence
B. (B) venerable : admiration
C. (C) diligent : effort
D. (D) benevolent : judgment
E. (E) base : ridicule
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[单项选择]SURFEIT:
A. (A) famish
B. (B) choose
C. (C) reprimand
D. (D) relax
E. (E) soothe
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[单项选择]Which of the following situations is most closely analogous to the situation described by the author as a tremendous irony
A. (A) That of restaurant customers whose food has not arrived because the manager forgot to oversee its preparation.
B. (B) That of a highway maintenance crew who cannot reach a pothole they must fix because the highway is congested with traffic from the pothole.
C. (C) That of a man who saves his excess income in a bank account, only to find out the bank has charged fees so high that he has less money than when he began.
D. (D) That of an unknown artist who dies just weeks before being recognized in an exhibition.
E. (E) That of scientists trying to find a means of traveling at the speed of light, but find that their innovations can only asymptotically approach the speed, but never reach it.
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[单项选择]Although______fellow in the public eye, Maxwell has a proclivity toward expressions of______inner nature that escaped the eyes of even his most critical biographers.
A. (A) a loutish … a reckless
B. (B) a courtly … a churlish
C. (C) an enchanting … a placid
D. (D) an unremitting … a polemical
E. (E) an honest … sentimental
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[单项选择]EQUABLE:
A. (A) unlimited
B. (B) unbalanced
C. (C) fragile
D. (D) peripheral
E. (E) destructive
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[单项选择]We can scarcely afford to neglect airport security in light of the recent terrorist actions, but as a reliable contingent of critics has pointed out, the cost of actually implementing these measures remains a______expense.
A. (A) feasible
B. (B) prohibitive
C. (C) suitable
D. (D) negligible
E. (E) mandatory
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[单项选择]DRAMA: SCENE::
A. (A) information : cipher
B. (B) prose : paragraph
C. (C) novel : raconteur
D. (D) ode : narrative
E. (E) play : protagonist
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[单项选择]AGE: COEVAL ::
A. (A) period : contemporaneous
B. (B) portion: congregational
C. (C) tempo : opportune
D. (D) accident: incidental
E. (E) pillar : vertical
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[单项选择]FOMENT:
A. (A) abridge
B. (B) resolve
C. (C) separate
D. (D) repress
E. (E) clarify
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[单项选择]ENNUI:
A. (A) confidence
B. (B) exasperation
C. (C) enthusiasm
D. (D) compassion
E. (E) deprivation
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[单项选择]GRATUITOUS:
A. (A) mercantile
B. (B) domineering
C. (C) warranted
D. (D) guarded
E. (E) economical
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[单项选择]SUBVERT:
A. (A) amplify
B. (B) stabilize
C. (C) substitute
D. (D) supervise
E. (E) reveal
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[单项选择]FETTER:
A. (A) release
B. (B) be earnest
C. (C) linger
D. (D) expose
E. (E) mislay
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[单项选择]The author refers to the example of Oedipus the King (line 15) most likely in order to
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[单项选择]Despite the paranoia of Picasso, few historians today have found evidence, at any rate, for the existence of the Situationist______, whom he eternally suspected of ______his international reputation.
A. (A) saboteurs… augmenting
B. (B) agents … demystifying
C. (C) cabal … blighting
D. (D) coterie … discovering
E. (E) group… supporting
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[单项选择]The process of nuclear fission______requires the use of a reactor core, around which no lithium blanket of sufficient______has been developed to contain the hazardous byproducts of the process.
A. (A) unfortunately… breadth
B. (B) occasionally … unreliability
C. (C) auspiciously … size
D. (D) fortuitously… expense
E. (E) technically … imagination
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[单项选择]MONGREL:
A. (A) marauder
B. (B) thoroughbred
C. (C) vigilant life form
D. (D) night-time animal
E. (E) livestock
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[单项选择]OBSTRUCTIONIST:
A. (A) facilitator
B. (B) director
C. (C) usher
D. (D) penitentiary
E. (E) trustee
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[单项选择]The passage implies that which of the following is true of the petrochemical means of plastic production
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[单项选择]Which of the following hypothetical discoveries, if made, would be most likely to reduce the technical difficulties in producing plastic from organic crops
A. (A) a source of refining fossil fuels that significantly reduces their cost to plastic manufacturers
B. (B) a way of maintaining grain yields while producing high quantities of plastic that do not interfere with the functioning of plant chloroplasts
C. (C) a means of reducing the clean-up cost of environmental damage wrought by CO2 and SO2 emissions
D. (D) a means of yielding greater efficiency from coal-based fuels used in the organic plastic-production process
E. (E) the discovery of a renewable source of plant-sugar that would lessen reliance on fossil fuels in organic plastic-manufacture
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[单项选择]In order to relieve the generally______nature of the meetings, a code of order was produced and______with the utmost fidelity.
A. (A) extemporaneous… obeyed
B. (B) hostile … established
C. (C) insubordinate … abrogated
D. (D) incommunicative … conveyed
E. (E) acid… rescinded
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[单项选择]According to the author, music critics like Adorno err in doing which of the following Ⅰ. Overemphasizing the hegemony of the ruling classes over cultural expression Ⅱ. Being ignorant of pop forms other than American Ⅲ. Paying too much attention to mainstream pop at the expense of other genres
A. (A) Ⅰ only
B. (B) Ⅱ only
C. (C) Ⅰ and Ⅱ only
D. (D) Ⅱ and Ⅲ only
E. (E) Ⅰ,Ⅱ, and Ⅲ
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[单项选择]HALCYON:
A. (A) chronological
B. (B) astounding
C. (C) turbulent
D. (D) sinister
E. (E) ridiculous
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[单项选择]DIVERGENCE:
A. (A) jurisdiction
B. (B) specification
C. (C) serenity
D. (D) satisfaction
E. (E) amalgamation
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[单项选择]PROPITIOUS:
A. (A) mandatory
B. (B) restive
C. (C) stimulative
D. (D) productive
E. (E) ominous
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[单项选择]SCRUTINIZE:
A. (A) challenge
B. (B) protest
C. (C) pardon
D. (D) amplify
E. (E) mask
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[单项选择]DISGUISE : IDENTITY ::
A. (A) cipher : spy
B. (B) counterfeit : copy
C. (C) mask : face
D. (D) impersonation : agent
E. (E) comic : resemblance