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  GRE考試填空部分

  The new drugwas useful, but unfortunately its effect was largely (i)_____ rather than(ii)_____.

  A. placatory

  D. immediate

  B. palliative

  E. curative

  C. addictive

  F. mollifying

  The modern iron suspension bridge dates fromthe early nineteenth century, but it did not have (i)_____ debut; many earlysuspension bridges were damaged, if not outright destroyed, by the wind. Therewere few (ii)_____,however, so the form (iii)_____.

  A. a propitious

  D. obvious parallels

  G. declined

  B. a conspicuous

  E. practical alternatives

  H. inspired

  C. an equivocal

  F. unnoticed instances

  I. persisted

  Inprotoscientific (for example, in ancient Greece), claims about the physicalworld were often accepted as true if they were reasonable; experimentalverification, if thought necessary at all, was _____.(all in one課程原題)

  A. utilitarian

  B. perfunctory

  C. egregious

  D. empirical

  E. inductive

  The brain has become, for many people, _____ the biological machinations of the self, and the self-knowledge promised by neuroscience has ignited a hunger to understand how new findings weigh in on age-old questions.

  A. tantamount to

  B. synonymous with

  C. implicated in

  D. divorced from

  E. detached from

  F. subservient to

  If you followyour intuition, you will more often than not err by misclassifying a randomevent as (i)_____. We are far too willing to (ii)_____ the belief that much ofwhat we see in life is random.

  A. uncharacteristic

  D. countenance

  B. systematic

  E. reject

  C. arbitrary

  F. champion

  Within theculture as a whole, the natural sciences have been so successful that the word “scientific” is often used in (i)_____ manner: it is oftenassumed that to call something “scientific” is to imply that its reliability has been (ii)_____ by methods whoseresults cannot reasonably be (iii)_____.

  A. an ironic

  D. maligned

  G. exaggerated

  B. a literal

  E. challenged

  H. anticipated

  C. an honorific

  F. established

  I. disputed

  The researchfound that in assessing others, many people hold an unconscious view thatcompetence and warmth are (i)_____: when they perceive a person to be highlycapable, they infer that he or she must have a tendency to be (ii)_____.

  A. equally important

  D. ambitious

  B. mutually reinforcing

  E. unfeeling

  C. inversely related

  F. disingenuous

  GRE考試閱讀部分

  Passage 35(長文章/現象解釋/建筑歷史/易)

  Architectural morphology is the study of how shifting cultural andenvironmental conditions produce changes in an architectural form. When appliedto the mission churches of New Mexico exemplifying seventeenth- andeighteenth-century Spanish colonial architecture in what is now thesouthwestern United States, architectural morphology reveals much about howNative American culture transformed the traditional European churcharchitecture of the Spanish missionaries who hoped to convert Native Americansto Christianity.

  Many studiesof these mission churches have carefully documented the history and design oftheir unique architectural form, most attribute the churches’ radical departure fromtheir sixteenth-century European predecessors to local climate and aless-mechanized building technology. Certainly, the limitations imposed bymanual labor and the locally available materials of mud-brick and timber necessitateda divergence from the original European church model. However, the emergence ofa church form suited to life in the Southwest was rooted in something morefundamental than material and technique. The new architecture resulted fromcultural forces in both the Spanish colonial and indigenous Native Americansocieties, each with competing ideas about form and space and different ways ofconveying these ideas symbolically.

  For example,the mission churches share certain spatial qualities with the indigenous kiva,around, partly subterranean room used by many Southwest Native Americancommunities for important rituals. Like the kiva it was intended to replace,the typical mission church had thick walls of adobe (sun-dried earth andstraw), a beaten-earth floor, and one or two small windows. In deference toEuropean custom, the ceilings of these churches were higher than those of thetraditional kiva. However, with the limited lighting afforded by their fewsmall windows, these churches still suggest the kiva's characteristically low,boxlike, earth-hugging interior. Thus, although pragmatic factors ofconstruction may have contributed to the shape of the mission churches, asearlier studies suggest, the provision of a sacred space consistent with indigenoustraditions may also have been an important consideration in their design.

  The continuedviability of the kiva itself in Spanish mission settlements has also beenunderestimated by historians. Freestanding kivas discovered in the ruins ofEuropean-style missionary communities have been explained by some historians asexamples of “superposition”. Under this theory,Christian domination over indigenous faiths is dramatized by surrounding thekiva with Christian buildings. However, as James Ivey points out, suchsuperposition was unlikely, since historical records indicate that most Spanishmissionaries, arriving in the Southwest with little or no military support,wisely adopted a somewhat conciliatory attitude toward the use of the kiva atleast initially. This fact, and the careful, solitary placement of the kiva inthe center of the mission-complex courtyards, suggests an intention tohighlight the importance of the kiva rather than to diminish it.

  Passage 21 (現象解釋/生物/易)

  There have long beendead zones—water toolow in oxygen to sustain most forms of life—in the Gulf of Mexico, which receives thewaters of the Mississippi River. Scientists studied sediment cores from areas where the gulf’s mostrecent dead zone occurred. The scientists dated the sediment and countedspecies of foraminifera (marine protozoans) in the sediment; these speciesthrive in low-oxygen waters. As far back as 1823, the foraminifera thrivedespecially during Mississippi River flood years (during which nutrients levelsincrease), suggesting that nutrients in floodwaters can trigger low-oxygenwater. The foraminifera in the coresamples were most abundant after 1950, when farmers began using somefertilizer, which is rich in nutrients. Researchers believe that increaseduse of fertilizer leads to more-extreme dead zones.

  1. Whichof the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence in thecontext of the passage as a whole?

  A. Itreconciles two opposing theories that were discussed earlier in the passage.

  B. Itsuggests what the initial impetus was for the studies mentioned earlier in thepassage.

  C. Itundermines a hypothesis that was presented in the preceding sentence.

  D. Itdescribes a problem with the methodology of the studies discussed in thepassage.

  E. Itprovides evidence supporting the belief mentioned in the final sentence of thepassage.

  Consider each of the choices separately andselect all that apply.

  2. It canbe inferred from the passage that the “researchers”would agreewith which of the following statements about the use of fertilizer?

  A. Iffarmers near the Mississippi River decreased the amount of fertilizer that theyused, the severity of the dead zones could be diminished.

  B. Iffarmers near the Mississippi River continue their dependence upon fertilizers,foraminifera population will eventually decline.

  C. Iffarmers near the Mississippi River stopped using fertilizers altogether, therewould no longer be dead zones.

  GRE考試邏輯單題4(解釋/中等)

  Sportfishers introduced the Zander, a type ofperch, to Britain’s rivers and canals in the 1970s. Because zander eat large numbers ofsmaller fish, they have had a devastating effect on native fish populations. Toprotect the native fish, a government program removed a significant proportionof the zander from Britain’s waterways last year. Surprisingly, this yearthe loss of native fish to zander has been greater than before.

  4. Whichof the following, if true, would most help to explain the greater effect ofzander on the native fish population?

  A. Theclimate in Britain is very similar to the climate in regions to which zanderare native.

  B. Most ofthe zander removed were fully grown, and fully grown zander eat large numbersof smaller zander.

  C. Everyyear a large number of zander are caught by sportfisher in Britain’s waterway.

  D.Previous government program designed to remove nonnative species from Britain’s waterwayshave failed.

  E. Zanderare just one of several nonnative fish that prey on the other fish found inBritain’s waterway.

  Passage 99 (短文章/現象描述/生態/易)

  Because different mammalian species are dependent onplants for organic matter. Plants provide organic matter for soil communitiesthrough the decomposition of leaf litter, by oozing nutrients from roots, orthrough other methods of deposition of organic compounds into the soilenvironment. As a result of these diverse methods by which plants supplyresources, unique soil communities form under different plant species and underplant communities that differ in composition. If a nonnative plant speciesinvades an aboveground community of flora and fauna, it can alter links betweenthe native aboveground community and the belowground soil community. Forexample, an invading nonnative plant could alter the quantity of leaf litterproduction, which would alter nutrient contributions to the soil.

  1. Accordingto the passage, plants supply resources to soil communities by which of thefollowing methods?

  A. Someplants supply resources to soil communities by promoting diversity ofaboveground flora and fauna.

  B. Someplants supply resources to soil communities by oozing nutrients from theirroots.

  C. Someplants supply resources to soil communities by depositing leaf litter.

  2. Which ofthe following statements about the connection between aboveground plants andbelowground soil communities can be inferred from the passage?

  A. Because ofthe nature of the link between above-and belowground communities, many soilcommunities are deficient in nutrients.

  B. The extentto which soil communities are dependent on aboveground plants is extremelyvariable from one soil community to another.

  C. Becausedifferent plants supply resources to soil communities in different ways,distinctive soil communities form under different plant communities.

  GRE考試寫作部分

  Argument部分：

  命中33、45

  Issue部分：

  54 In order to become well-rounded individuals, all college students should be required to take courses in which they read poetry, novels, mythology, and other types of imaginative literature.

  58 Learning is primarily a matter of personal discipline; students cannot be motivated by school or college alone.

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