Mahattan最新GRE模拟题第一套 含答案 Verbal 1(30美元从曼哈顿官网上买的,这是GRE考生模拟最需要的).pdf

1 consider the spheres of human conduct carefully delineated and harmonized by the modern legal system, which is based on the idea that one persons freedom ends where it begins to _ another persons freedom. constitute impinge upon decimate dampen rule over 2 though he did his best to cheer her, his pep talk left her just as _ as before. bored disconsolate chirpy disturbed distant 3 once the formerly nomadic people developed farming and settled in a valley rich in natural resources and protected from invaders, they were able to live a (i) _ existence for hundreds of years, a period which was (ii) _only in the twentieth century when contact with westerners destroyed that way of life. blank (i) inveterate fatuous halcyon 4 the issue of cafeteria size was in fact (i) _ to the towns school redistricting plans. despite including (ii) _classrooms, lakewood middle school lacked the cafeteria facilities to allow additional students to eat lunch within a reasonable time frame. blank (i) germane salubrious extraneous blank (ii) scotched hindered initiated blank (ii) superfluous frangible deficient 5 though it is often taken as point of fact that unemployment is a (i) _ for workers, certain research suggests that periods of joblessness actually serve as a (ii) _in some middle-class peoples working lives, a time for salutary career change or the pursuit of new opportunities. blank (i) bane conflagration windfall 6 although never one to (i) _ lifes pleasures, only recently had paul devoted himself entirely to (ii) _pursuits. in years past, paul had adeptly balanced his love of fine wine and women with (iii) _career. blank (i) revel in eschew peruse 7 the following questions are based on this passage. universal preschool is a misguided use of public funds. this early academic focus will undermine the social, emotional, and mental development associated with a carefree early childhood. furthermore, the economic burden on the state to fund such an ambitious undertaking will be overwhelming in both the short-term and long-term, since the state has no way to offset the programs costs. which of the following, if true, most weakens the idea that universal preschool will be an economic burden on the state? a students who attend preschool are more likely to complete high school than students who do not attend preschool. b preschool educated children fare much better in kindergarten than do children without preschool. c part of the high cost of universal preschool stems from its requirement that preschool teachers must have a bachelors degree and a teaching credential. blank (ii) juvenescence perquisite pivot blank (iii) a feckless an ugatory an exacting blank (ii) misanthropic hedonistic nefarious d the taxes necessary to fund universal preschool can come from a variety of sources, including property taxes and bond measures. e students who attend preschool are less likely to require special education, an expensive public service. the very concept of forgery is a tricky one. fine art auction house christies defines forgery as “the making of something in fraudulent imitation of something else,” whether mimicry of another artists style or outright copying of another artists work. christies defines a fake as “any work of art deliberately made or altered to pretend to be something older or better than it is,” while a copy is “an imitation of an original” that “does not pretend to be the original.” replicas and facsimiles are also legitimate copies but typically differ in scale from the original piece; a facsimile is a close reproduction, while a replica is an exact reproduction. yet many of the great masters employed teams of apprentices to finish their masterpieces, with much of the detail work carried out by relative novices. who should properly receive credit for such a piece of work? a number of the worlds greatest forgers earned their mendacious appellation unwittingly. the 19th-century italian sculptor giovanni bastianini is generally considered the original master forger. bastianini worked in a style not of his own era; others took his work and successfully passed it off as the art of various renaissance-era old masters. bastianini made no inquiry into how his art was being marketed by the antique dealer giovanni freppa. by christies definitions, he would likely be considered a faker rather than a forger, as he never sat down with a book of works by donatello or michelangelo and tried to create a copy of an existing piece for the purpose of passing it off as an original. today, no one would attribute bastianinis work to the great 14th and 15th century masters. he sculpted an idealized interpretation of renaissance art, rather than a true imitation, a difference that became more obvious with the passage of time and the dissipation of contemporaneous opinions about what renaissance art should reflect. the question becomes how to classify bastianinis work in the history of sculpture. in truth, there are few reasonable excuses, notwithstanding critical elitism and the nebulous cult of the artist, to reject good forgeries as good art; the classifications need not be mutually exclusive. it is indisputable that the forgery or fake exists as the tangible creation of some artist; whether it is of greater or lesser merit may be debated by critics and aficionados. all that remains to discuss is whether there is a valid reason to accept a given forgery or fake as good art. it is not inconceivable to imagine that some forgeries may garner sufficient acclaim as to alter the perception, the very classification, of the forger himself. at the hermitage museum, one of bastianinis sculptures (properly attributed) rests not far from those of the masters whom he stands accused of imitating. 8 which of the following best reflects the authors purpose in writing the passage? a it can be difficult to determine who should receive credit for a piece of artwork. b a forgery can also be considered a good work of art in its own right. c bastianini should be classified as an artist, not a forger. d it is worse to forge a piece of art than it is to fake one. e it can be difficult to distinguish between forgeries and originals. 9 which of the following does the claim that some forgers “earned their mendacious appellation unwittingly” imply? a. forgers are wise to avoid asking questions about the sales of their works so that they can plead ignorance if accused of forgery. b. many forgers pretend not to be aware of the fact that they are producing forgeries. c. some forgers were oblivious to the fact that the art they created would be considered forgery. d. a work of art is only a forgery if the maker intended to produce a forgery. e. many forgers were not adequately warned about the legal definition of forgery. 10 the passage suggests which of the following with respect to the term “mutually exclusive” in the third paragraph? a. good forgeries are also good works of art. b. works of art that are declared good make up an exclusive category of art. c. it can be appropriate to classify a work simultaneously as good art and a forgery. d. classifications of art are more typically based upon exclusiveness rather than inclusiveness. e. works of art can be judged of greater or lesser merit. 11according to the passage, which of the following is true about bastianini? a. some of bastianinis forgeries are of such good quality that they continue to cause confusion as to their true origins and era today. b. as a result of superior education, critics today would not mistakenly attribute bastianinis work to the renaissance-era masters. c. bastianini did not create sculptures reflecting the style or sensibilities of his own era. d. bastianinis work reveals prejudices regarding what he and his peers believed art from the renaissance era should demonstrate. e. bastianini should be classified as an artist rather than a forger. 12 双选题 the_ nature of the room was considered extraordinary by everyone, even tamika who realized she was cleaning her own apartment at increasingly irregular intervals. a. inscrutable b. purified c. sanitized d. squalid e. transient f. sullied 13 the proposed measure to_ the management teams plans to move the company toward a more environmentally conscious posture is likely to be rejected by the board; ever since rodriguez assumed the role of board president last year, the board has demonstrated a particular bent for progressive action. a. alter b. scotch c. back d. foil e. fund f. endorse 14 as michael sat in the bar and wallowed in his mental anguish, he was haunted by the memory of_ praise sarcastically offered by so many of the former colleagues whose unkind words drove him to this desperate point. a. specious b. redundant c. genuine d. mephitic e. noisome f. feigned 15 precisely because non-technicians often fail to relate to abstruse_ , riley ordered that the recruitment manual language be carefully revised to facilitate external consumption. a. slang b. vernacular c. argot d. dialect e. jargon f. vituperation local authorities are considering an amendment to the litter law that would raise the fine for littering in the community picnic area to $1,000.advocates say that raising the fine will make people take notice of the law.they may be correct that higher fines get more attention.since the inception of the litter law, incremental increases in the littering fine have proven to be consistently effective at further reducing the amount of litter in the community picnic area.however, raising the fine to $1,000 would actually have the unintended effect of increasing the amount of litter in the picnic area.picnic area users would perceive this fine to be unreasonable and unenforceable, and would disregard the litter law altogether. 16 select the sentence, by clicking on the passage itself, that provides support for the authors position in the passage. the most common metal in the earths crust, aluminum (or aluminium) was not discovered until 1825 because its isolated state is so reactive that free nuggets or flakes of the metal are never found in nature. moreover, elemental aluminum is extremely difficultand expensiveto separate from its ores by traditional chemical means. indeed, the extreme reactivity of aluminum helps protect its modern, ubiquitous manifestations, such as aluminum foil. the surface of pure aluminum instantly combines with atmospheric oxygen to form a thin but robust “passivization” seal of aluminum oxide that prevents further corrosion. many other metals, such as iron, are less reactive than aluminum, but their superficial oxides do not form as swiftly, completely, or impermeably. for several decades after its discovery, aluminum was considered a precious metal, not because of any fundamental scarcity, but because of its elevated cost of production. the price of aluminum suddenly plummeted in 1886, however, when two 23-year-old inventors independently developed an electrolytic process of separating pure aluminum from a bath of molten aluminum salts. 17 according to the passage, the natural passivization layer on the surface of aluminum metal a. causes atmospheric oxygen to react chemically with the metal b. is less impenetrable than typical iron oxide films formed on pure iron c. lowers the utility of aluminum in its uncontaminated state d. provides aluminum with a chemical advantage, relative to other metals e. precludes the inexpensive purification of the metal by traditional chemical processes 18 in terms of economic impact, which of the following hypothetical situations would be most analogous to what the passage indicates happened in 1886? a. fossil remains of a previously unknown dinosaur species are simultaneously discovered by two researchers working independently of one another. b. lead-acid batteries are widely replaced in automobiles by batteries containing lithium, a much rarer metal than lead. c. direct processing of light signals within fiber-optic devices supplants electronic signal processing performed by solid-state transistors. d. after supplies of a widely used commodity become unavailable, the price of the commodity surges. e. low-cost artificial synthesis of diamonds, which are expensive to mine but composed of the common element carbon, is perfected. 19 in this passage, the author is primarily concerned with a. describing the economic significance of a particular metal b. contrasting the properties of a particular metal with those of other metals c. outlining historical and scientific characteristics of a chemical element d. justifying the initially high production costs of a particular metal e. highlighting the vicissitudes of technological progress through an example 20 scientist: evolutionary biology has long held that the most attractive males of a species, defined as those with the highest quality physical traits that have no darwinian survival value, will draw the most female mates. the resulting male offspring will inherit that attractiveness and themselves have more children as a result, thus ensuring widespread dissemination of the grandparents genes. recently, however, scientists have found that the sons of “high quality“ male flycatchers failed to inherit the fathers mating status. further, the most attractive males were so busy mating that they neglected their offspring; as a result, the sons of homelier birds, who took better care of their offspring, had more success at propagating the species. in the argument given, the two highlighted portions play which of the following roles? a. the first is the conclusion of a theory disputed by the scientist; the second is the scientists new contention based upon the latest evidence. b. the first is a premise of a long-held biological theory; the second is an example of how this theory works. c. the first is an explanation of how a biological theory is thought to work; the second is an example of research results that do not support this theory. d. the first is an example of a theory that used to be prevalent; the second is the new theory that is now considered predominant by scientists. e. the first introduces a long-held theory that the scientist is going to disprove; the second is the scientists new theory to replace the one she disproved. key 答案与解析 1 the clue phrase in the first part of the stem is “spheres of human conduct carefully delineated and harmonized,“ implying that the modern legal system defines the boundaries of human behaviors to promote the peaceful coexistence of these behaviors. in other words, the modern legal system serves to keep people out of others space. the second part of the stem should conform to this concept. thus, the second part of the stem should mean “one persons freedom ends where it begins to infringe on“ another persons freedom. an appropriate filler is infringe on, which means “to encroach on.“ (a) constitute sounds like constitution, which is a theme trap if youre thinking of the relationship between the constitution and the legal system. (b) correct. impinge upon means the same thing as infringe on. (c) decimate means “to destroy.“ this has an appropriately negative spin, but its much too strong for what were looking for. (d) dampen is an easy, familiar word, but its not close enough in meaning to infringe on. (e) rule over is not close in meaning, but it does contain a theme trap if youre thinking of the “rule of law.“ 2 the pivot “though“ suggests that she was not, in fact, left “cheered“ or “peppy“ by his talk. very often the best filler is one that uses the very clue words offered by the sentence, say uncheered or cheerless, but in this case the very simple word sad would suffice. (a) though bored is negative, it does not mean sad. (b) correct. disconsolate can mean either “very sad“ or “unconsolable, incapable of being consoled.“ (c) chirpy means “peppy, lively,“ the exact opposite of what we want. (d) though disturbed is negative, it does not mean sad. (e) though distant is negative (in this context it might suggest “aloof“ or “alienated“), it does not mean sad. 3 “rich in natural resources and protected from invaders“ is a clue that blank (i) will be filled with a word like prosperous orpeaceful. (a) inveterate, meaning “habitual,“ is not a good match for the filler. (b) fatuous means “complacently foolish,“ which is not a good match for the filler. (c) correct. halcyon means “prosperous, calm, peaceful“ and is a perfect match for our filler. later on, when “westerners destroyed that way of life,“ that prosperous and peaceful period must have ended. so, our blank (ii) will be something like destroyed or ended. (d) correct. scotched means “ended,“ and is a perfect match for our filler. (e) hindered is an okay match for the filler, though just okay, as the way of life was not just hindered but rather destroyed completely. (f) initiated has exactly the opposite meaning of our filler. 4 the clear pivot “despite” in the second sentence makes blank (ii) easier to attack first. we need to contrast the inclusion of classrooms with the lack of cafeteria facilities. potential fillers for blank (ii) include “plentiful” or “extra.” (d) correct. superfluous means “more than sufficient” and is a match to our filler. (e) frangible means “fragile” and does not make sense in this context. (f) deficient would imply there were not enough classrooms. this is opposite of what we want. after completing the second sentence, we know that cafeteria facilities are actually a limiting factor in these plans. therefore, the issue of cafeteria size is “relevant” or actually “harmful” to the redistricting plans, providing fillers for blank (i). (a) correct. germane means “relevant or pertinent,” so is a good a match for our fillers. (b) salubrious means “healthful” and does not make sense. (c) extraneous means “irrelevant,” opposite of our fillers. 5 the clue ph