10月30题GRE填空真题解析（1）

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1. He defended the government’s equivocations regarding the mysterious contrail as resulting not from _____ as critics say, but from a benightedness about its own doings that is almost inevitable, given the multitudinous- ness of its agencies.

A. obtusenessB. mendacityC. abnegationD. guilelessnessE. trenchancy

解析：not...but...这个短语说明要选一个理由，这个理由是很多人认为政府含糊其辞的原因，而后文说政府含糊其辞的原因是benightedness“无知”，所以前文对应最好的选项就是B选项。mendacity谎言。

翻译：他辩护政府关于这种神秘的航迹云的闪烁其词，他认为这种闪烁其词不是评论家所说的政府在撒谎，而是政府对于几乎是必然的航迹云的行为的无知，因为它（航迹云）的动机的多样性。

2. The sailors realized too late that winds had shifted the ice in such a way as to obstruct the ship’s path; this process had been so _____ that it was completed by the time they discovered the effect.

A. gradual

B. negligible

C. unpredictable

D. time-consuming

E. inconsequential

F. imperceptible

解析：当水手发现的时候已经结束了，说明这个过程非常不明显，不容易被看出来，所以正确答案选AF选项。gradual难以觉察的（韦氏解释: moving, changing, or developing by fine or often imperceptible degrees)，imperceptible难以觉察的。而B选项这里不能选，它的意思不是看不见，而是不重要（韦氏解释negligible: very small or unimportant)

翻译：水手们太晚意识到风已经以一种能够阻碍船前进道路的方式移动了冰；这个过程如此不容易觉察的以至于当这些水手发现的时候，这个过程已经结束了。

扩充：我们经常用的trifling，trivial这俩词也经常被人误解成繁琐的，但实际上意思和negligible一样，都是无足轻重的意思。

3. In the nineteenth century, geology became so respected among middle-class Britons that the science came to be seen as _____, a yardstick by which other disciplines measured their scientific rigor and imaginative power.

A. accessible

B. derivativeC. pragmatic

D. empiricalE. paradigmatic

解析：后文的a yardstick by which other disciplines measured their scientific rigor and imaginative power可以看出空格填入一个“标准尺码”的同义词，正确答案选E选项。paradigmatic典范的。

翻译：在十九世纪，地质学在英国中层阶级中变得十分值得敬重，科学变成了作为示范的衡量标准，用来衡量其他学科的科学严谨性和想象力。

4. Some social insects, such as bees and ants, are celebrated for their industriousness and engineering feat, but popular culture has not generally _____ termites for theirs—even though they can build mounds twenty feet high.

A. considered

B. reprehended

C. applauded

D. deprecated

E. exonerated

F. extolled

解析：前面蜜蜂和蚂蚁被赞成，后面转折，说明白蚁没有被赞扬，所以正确答案选CF选项。applaud称赞，extol称赞。

翻译：一些群居昆虫（例如蜜蜂和蚂蚁）因为它们的勤劳和杰出成就而被称赞，但是流行文化没有因为白蚁的杰出成就普遍去表扬它们，尽管它们能够修建20英尺高的堆。

5. The often-cited parallels between human communities and insect colonies are _____: the cooperation found among social insects is essentially due to the insects genetic ties, while humans often collaborate with non-relatives.

A. superficial

B. obviousC. hackneyedD. contradictory

E. uncanny

解析：冒号后面是描述了一个有错误的发现，所以前文找对应这种错误的选项，正确答案A选项。A肤浅的。

翻译：常常被引用的，将人类群体和昆虫部落视为同等的说法实际上是肤浅的，社会性昆虫之间的合作共赢十分依赖于昆虫间的基因关系，而人们却经常和不是自己亲戚的人进行合作。

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