GRE填空雙空專項練習(xí)題(3)

The economic recovery was somewhat lopsided: (i)______ in some of the industries economics while (ii)______ in others of them.

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A：unexpected D：robust

B： feeble E：turbulent

C： swift F：predictable

答案：BD

Scholarly works on detective stories often begin with (i)______, suggesting that there is something vaguely wrong with adults who spend their time reading such fiction and certainly something (ii)______ those who devote energy to its analysis.

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A：chronologies D：awry in

B：apologies E：astute about

C：synopses F：courageous about

答案：BD

Due to the extraordinary circumstances, British business owners found themselves in a (i)______ position during the second world war, forced to accept interference from the government and to acquiesce to (ii)______ role for labor unions in negotiating the terms and conditions of the employment.

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A：defensive D：a traditional

B：dominant E：an enhanced

C：customary F：a diminished

答案：AE

Although trains may use energy more (i)_______ than do automobiles, the latter move only when they contain at least one occupant, whereas railway carriages spend a considerable amount of time running up and down tracks (ii)_______ , or nearly so.

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A：lavishly D：vacant

B：efficiently E：unimpeded

C：routinely F：overloaded

答案：BD

Historian Babara A. Engel’s task in writing a book about women in Russia must have been a (i)______ one, because the (ii)_______ the Russian empire’s peoples meant that Russian women could never be treated as a homogeneous group.

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A：motivating D：unity among

B：boring E：disinterest in

C：daunting F：diversity of

答案：CF