单选题EMOLLIENT : SOFTEN ::
单选题It has been observed that one's interest in the world is never so approbated as when one is______other people's scandal and tragedy, from which we may infer that many people's purported concern is______sincerity.(A) removed from … immune from(B) peripheral to … confused with(C) entertained by … devoid of(D) protected from … imbued of(E) compared with … invented for
单选题A fool, especially if he has the misfortune of knowing anything, should______it as well as he can.
单选题It may be inferred that the author would classify which of the following modes of behavior as a referential symbol that originally derived from a condensation symbol?(A) Vocalizing inarticulately in order to express rage without using words(B) Writing a pictographic character that vaguely resembles a physical object(C) Flag signaling where the flag movement relies on an existing arbitrary code(D) The use of right-lane highways by general agreement(E) Genuflection to indicate one's willingness to serve in a situation
单选题EXCRETE:(A) ingest(B) decide carefully(C) unite firmly(D) damage(E) arrest
单选题The author's reaction to the attempts to create experimental means to distinguish trigeminal response and pure odor response can best be described as one of(A) enthusiasm(B) expectation(C) dismay(D) skepticism(E) antipathy
单选题PERENNIAL:
单选题When the average of a list of course grades is multiplied by the number of courses, the result is n. What does n represent?A. Half the number of coursesB. Half the sum of course gradesC. The number of coursesD. The average of the course gradesE. The sum of the course grades
单选题The Homestead Act of 1862 has been called one of the most important pieces of legislation in the history of the United States. Signed into law by Abraham Lincoln, this Act turned over vast amounts of the public domain to private citizens. 270 million acres, or 10% of the area of the United States was claimed and settled under this act. The Act provided that any head of a family who was a citizen, or declared his intention of becoming a citizen, could claim 160 acres of land. The claimants needed to pay a small registration fee and reside on the land for five years. Claimants were also required to build a home and grow crops on the land. If after five years, the original settler were still on the land, it would become his property, free and clear.
单选题Although most people who acquire West Nile have no______and those who do normally suffer little more than flu-like illness, it is believed they still can carry ______amounts of the virus in their blood for several days.(A) recourse … negligible(B) symptoms… minute(C) cure … significant(D) fever … active(E) hope… incipient
单选题ESTIMABLE:
单选题VERITABLE:
单选题SKEPTICISM:(A) intricacy(B) qualmishness(C) credulity(D) disbelief(E) narcissism
单选题PURIST: ADULTERATION ::
单选题According to the passage, an important limitation of relativity theory is that(A) it fails to describe space on a non-local level, complicating attempts to determine the geometrical model of the universe(B) it cannot account for the possibility that the universe may be multiply- connected instead of singly-connected(C) it yields inconsistencies in spatial topology equations, discriminating unnecessarily between the torus and the plane(D) it creates the illusion that observable space is curved, when in fact the universe may be Euclidean and planar(E) it does not provides sufficient variety in geometrical models to describe all the possible ways in which space may curve
单选题MONGREL:
单选题Because many of the blacklists in the communications and entertainment industries were secret, the number of playwrights, script writers, novelists, and journalists who were ------- to stop writing permanently is -------.
单选题Analogies
单选题What is the total number of different 5-digitnumbers that contain all of the digits 2,3,4,7 and 9 and in which none of the odd digits occur next to each other? A. 12 B. 10 C. 8 D. 6 E. 1
单选题The passage provides information in support of which of the following assertions?(A) Lymphoid tissue somehow involved in the body's ability to recognize foreign antigens in ingested material is a primary cause of ulcerative colitis.(B) The appendix is an anomaly among mammals, existing in rabbits and humans largely as an evolutionary fluke.(C) Microscopic research is insufficient to give even the vaguest suggestion of what the human appendix's function may be.(D) The digestive process in human beings is less dependent on the hindgut fermentation process than is the digestive process in rabbits.(E) Lymphoid tissue that recognize foreign antigens is absent in the digestive systems of animals that lack appendixes.