CD新GRE每日填空练（双空）--41(qq群:186194816)

普渡哥

Exercise 40  


1. The myth persists that in 1492 the  Western Hemisphere was a (i)___ and
that it was European settlers who harnessed and transformed its ecosystems.
But scholarship shows that forests, in particular, had been altered to varying
degrees well before the arrival of Europeans. Native populations had (ii)___
much of the forests to successfully cultivated stands, especially by means of
burning.  Nevertheless,  some  researchers  have  maintained  that  the  extent,
frequency, and impact of such burning was (iii)___.

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A      wilderness        D    hesitated              G    superfluous
B      demonstration  E    underestimated   H    considerable  
C      redundancy      F    converted              I    minimal  

2. Burning also converted mixed stands of trees to (i )___ forest, for example
the longleaf, slash pine, and scrub oak forests of the southeastern U.S. natural
fires  do  account  for  some  of  this  vegetation,  but  regular  burning  clearly
(ii)___  it.  Burning  also  influenced  forest  composition  in  the  tropics,  where  
natural fires are rare. An example is the pine - dominant forests of Nicaragua,
where warm temperatures and heavy rainfall naturally favor (iii)___ tropical
or  rain  forests.  While  there  are  primarily  grow  in  cooler,  drier,  higher
elevations,  regions  where  s uch  vegetation  is  in  large  part  natural  and  even
prehuman.

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A      presumptuous   D    meditated   G    controversial  
B      contentious        E    dismissed    H    efficacious  
C      homogeneous   F    extended      I    motley


3.  In  contrast,  some  critics  maintain  that  whatever  authority  judicial
pronouncements  have  is  exclusively  institutional.  Some  of  these  critics  go
further,  claiming  that  intellectual  authority  does  not  really  exist—i.e.,  it
reduces to institutional authority. But it can be (i)___ that these claims break
down  when  a  sufficiently  broad  historical  perspective  is  taken:  Not  all
arguments  accepted  by  institutions  withstand  the  test  of  time,  and  some
well - reasoned  arguments  never  receive  institutional  (ii)___.  The  reasonable
argument  that  goes  unrecognized  in  its  own  time  because  it  (iii)___
institutional  beliefs  is  common  in  intellectual  history;  intellectual  authority
and institutional consensus are not the same thing.  
 
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A      countered      D    predictability   H    revised
B      emulated        E    imprimatur       G    challenges
C      appreciated   F    accumulation    I    delimited  

4. While right - to - work laws may not “destroy” unions by (i)___ the absolute
number  of  unionized  workers,  they  do  (ii)___  the  spread  of  unions  and
thereby (iii)___ wages within right- to - work states.    

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A abating             D precipitate  G underprice
B inflating            E delay            H reduce
C downgrading   F  impede        I blow up  


5. Among the factors that (i )___ the competitiveness of integrated producers
are  excessive  labor,  energy,  and  capital  costs,  as  well  as  manufacturing
(ii)___:  their  equipment  is  old  and  less  automated,  and  does  not  (iii)___
many of the latest refinement in steelmaking technology.    

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A incorporate           D inflexibility   G amalgamate  
B constrain               E stability          H intertwine
C are peripheral to  F tradition         I incorporate


6.  Nonprofessional  women  are  concentrated  in  secretarial  work  and
department  store  sales,  where  their  (i)___  can  be  covered  easily  by
substitutes  and  where  they  can  enter  and  leave  the  work  force  with  (ii)___
loss,  since  the  jobs  offer  so  little  personal  gain:  indeed,  as  long  as  family
roles continue to be allocated on the basis of gender, women will   be seriously
(iii)___ in that labor market.    

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A absences    D consequential  G privileged
B salaries       E material             H insolvent
C sufferings  F minute                I disadvantaged  


7. Political theorists have been (i)___ of these applications of classical theory
to  the  civil  rights  movement.  Their  arguments  rest  on  the  conviction  that,
implicitly,  the  classical  theory  trivializes  the  political  ends  of  movement
participants,  (ii)___  rather  on  presumed  psychological  dys functions:
reduction  of  complex  social  situations  to  simple  (iii)___  of  stimulus  and
response obviates the relevance of all but the shortest - term analysis.  

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A suspect       D reproaching   G attention
B dismissive   E focusing          H theory
C   adhesive   F relying              I paradigms  


8.  It  is  this  (i)___  characteristic,  Dahl  argues,  that  makes  polyarchy  the
nearest  possible  approximation  to  the  democratic  ideal.  olyarchy   achieves
this  diffusion  of  power  through  party  (ii)___  and  the  operation  of  pressure
groups.  Competing  for  votes,  parties  seek  to  offer  different  sections  of  the
electorate what they most want; they do not ask what the (iii)___ thinks of an
issue,  but  what  policy  commitments  will  sway  the  electoral  decisions  of
particular groups.  

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A indistinguishable   D resurrection   G suspension  
B irreconcilable          E competition   H majority
C centrifugal              F enthusiasm    I stimulation  

9.  Many   critics  pointed  to  a  gap  between  the  model  and  the  reality  of
Western  political  systems.  They  argued  that  the  (i)___  of  power  resources
other than the vote was so (ii)___ that the political order systematically gave
added  weight  to  those  who  were  already richer  or  organizationally  more
powerful. So the power of some groups to exclude issues altogether from the
political  agenda  effectively  countered  any  (iii)___  of  influence  on
decision- making.

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A tribulation       D uneven        G reinforcement  
B distribution     E various         H independence  
C appreciation   F superficial     I diffusion


10.  To  critics  (i)___  to  the  style  of  fifteenth- century  narrative  paintings  by
Italian  artists  from  Tuscany,  the  Venetian  examples  of  narrative  paint ings
with religious subjects that Patricia Fortini Brown analyzes in a recent book
will come as a great surprise. While the Tuscan paintings present large- scale
figures,  clear  narratives,  and  (ii)___  settings,  the  Venetians  filled  their
pictures  with  (iii) ___  and  elaborate  building,  in  addition  to  a  wealth  of
carefully observed anecdotal detail often irrelevant to the paintings’ principal
subjects—the religious stories they narrate.  

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A accustomed          D embellished              G dozens of small figures      
B critical                    E simple                        H scattered vivid figures  
C tailored                  F    elegant                   I spontaneous exaggerate figures

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