GRE词汇考试试题测试——填空题(2)

1. A______acceptance of contemporary forms of social behavior has misled a few into believing that values in conflict with the present age are for all practical purposes______.
(A) casual.. reliable
(B) superficial.. trenchant
(C) complacent.. superseded
(D) cautious.. redemptive
(E) plaintive.. redundant
2. Aalto, like other modernists, believed that form follows function; consequently, his furniture designs asserted the______of human needs, and the furniture's form was______human use.
(A) universality.. refined by
(B) importance.. relegated to
(C) rationale.. emphasized by
(D) primacy.. determined by
(E) variability.. reflected in
3. According to the newspaper critic, the performances at the talent contest last night______ from acceptable to excellent.
(A) varied
(B) receded
(C) swept
(D) averaged
(E) declined
4. Actual events in the history of life on Earth are accidental in that any outcome embodies just one______ among millions; yet each outcome can be______ interpreted.
(A) coincidence.. randomly
(B) relationship. predictably
(C) fact.. readily
(D) happening.. uniquely
(E) possibility.. rationally
5. Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776) is still worth reading, more to appreciate the current--- -of Smith's valid contributions to economics than to see those contributions as the ______of present-day economics.
(A) disregard.. outgrowths
(B) reaffirmation.. concerns
(C) relevance.. precursors
(D) acceptance.. byproducts
(E) importance.. vestiges
6. After a slow sales start early in the year, mobile homes have been gaining favor as______to increasingly expensive conventional housing.
(A) reaction
(B) an addition
(C) an introduction
(D) an alternative
(E) a challenge
7. After thirty years of television, people have become "speed watchers"; consequently, if the camera lingers, the interest of the audience______.
(A) broadens
(B) begins
(C) varies
(D) flags
(E) clears
8. Agronomists are increasingly worried about "desertification," the phenomenon that is turning many of the world's ______fields and pastures into______wastelands, unable to support the people living on them.
(A) fertile.. barren
(B) productive.. blooming
(C) arid.. thriving
(D) poorest.. marginal
(E) largest.. saturated
9. All______-- biological traits fall into one of two categories: those giving their possessors greater______-- the environment and those rendering them more independent of it.
(A) widespread.. detachment from
(B) beneficial.. control over
(C) successful.. freedom from
(D) neutral.. compatibility with
(E) harmful.. advantage in
10. Although ______ in her own responses to the plays she reviewed, the theatre critic was, paradoxically, ______ those who would deny that a reviewer must have a single method of interpretation.
(A) dogmatic.. impatient with
(B) eclectic.. suspicious of
(C) partisan.. hostile toward
(D) capricious.. intrigued by
(E) indulgent.. indebted to