下面的内容是大全【Section25】，GRE填空题目考察的题型比较多，主要是词汇题，通过做题大家也可以总结一下重点词汇以及词汇的用法，避免以后出现错误。
Section 25
1. What once seemed a quixotic vision --- the " Subway to Sea", connecting Union Station in downtown Los Angeles to Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica --- no longer seems quite so ______.
A. impracticable
B. prescient
C. banal
D. viable
E. beneficial
2. Unlike some mammals — cows and sheep, for instance — that are notably ________, lions have a wide range of facial expressions.
A. tractable
B. impassive
C. solitary
D. social
E. sluggish
3. The history of the regions natural resources has been one of initial (i)______ followed by (ii)______: as such the region has over time gone from a resource-rich to a resource-dependent economy.
Blank (i)
A. disappointment
B. abundance
C. conservation
Blank (ii)
D. growing interdependence
E. draconian regulation
F. rapacious depletion
4. The author paints a rather dark picture of book publishing as a hidebound industry, one that is facing a profound change in its mode of production but is so (i)______ its past as to be (ii)______ opportunities offered by technological change.
Blank (i)
A. alienated from
B. emboldened by
C. encumbered by
Blank (ii)
D. eager to exploit
E. unable to seize
F. forced to reconsider
5. Folmer’s book on Edith Wharton seems far removed from recent trends in literary criticism; this need not to be a fault, except that, in its title and introduction, the book (i)______ to be conversant with contemporary discourse in the field, but in its actual analysis of Wharton’s work, it is marked by a very (ii)______ approach.
Blank (i)
A. designs
B. fails
C. purports
Blank (ii)
D. old-fashioned
E. timely
F. arcane
6. Viewing people as “social atom” that obey rather simple rule(which are not unlike the laws of physic), one may discover certain (i)______. Take, for example, the way channels emerge when people move in crowds. In the midst of initially (ii)______ movement, one person begins to follow another in an effort to avoid collisions and streams of movement merge. As more people join in, there is greater pull on others to join the flow, and the particular channels become (iii)______.
Blank (i)
A. apparent contradictions
B. unproductive tendencies
C. law-like regularities
Blank (ii)
D. inflexible
E. straightforward
F. chaotic
Blank (iii)
G. self-defeating
H. self-aggrandizing
I. self-perpetuating
7. Few ideas are more ______ than the notion that cultures evolve in Darwin fashion, many academics have begun writing about cultural evolution, but few treat the underlying Darwinian logic with the care
it deserves.
A. abused
B. archaic
C. misused
D. outdated
E. divisive
F. derivative
8. Any notion of justice in the fortunes of artists is ______: works of equal value and equality produce quite different returns or no returns at all.
A. baseless
B. cliché
C. untenable
D. insulting
E. condescending
F. idealistic
9. In a number of instances, investors hoping to tap into the region’s meteoric growth have instead faced problems ranging from unpredictable management practices to outright ________.
A. malfeasance
B. incompetence
C. fraudulence
D. capriciousness
E. hysteria
F. impulsiveness
10. After many years of feeling ______ by his senior managers, Clark was becoming hopeful of advancement.
A. vilified
B. stymied
C. hindered
D. aggrieved
E. circumvented
F. overlooked
