GRE考前必看的等价词题目！！

   GRE考试中有一种六选二的题型，我们一般称之为等价题。等价题不光束GRE填空中的必考题且占据的填空题的40%，是很重要的一种题型。今天我们就为大家整理出了GRE考前必看的几道等价词题，一起来看看吧~~

等价题目
答案词
 
Faced with so much conflicting information on the internet, many people come to believe that all sources are so _________ that efforts to discriminate between the true and the false are inevitably futile.
slanted/tendentious
 
Family lore has it that jazz saxophonist James Carter's perfect imitation of birdsong amazed his elementary-school classmates, marking him as ____ conjurer of sound.
an early/a precocious
 
The initial, widely shared pessimism turned out to be _____, because it ignored the many things that would be done with resources left behind.
unfounded/unjustified 
 
The photocopier, widely adopted in the 1960s, became not merely a vehicle for copying but one for publishing in ____ manner, so that ideas could be circulated without interference from potential censors.
a clandestine/a surreptitious
 
A telescope orbiting in space, above the unruly atmosphere, is able to detect ultraviolet and infrared emissions that are blocked by Earth's atmosphere and thus _____ to astronomers on the ground.
indiscernible/imperceptible 
 
Computerized facial-recognition systems can be ______ by any number of factors, from the dirt caked on a camera lens to a hat pulled low over a subject's face.
stymied/confounded
 
Origin, distribution, and habitat are included in the book for some but not all of the plants; offering this information for each species would have given readers a clearer appreciation of the differences between _____ and introduced species.
endemic/ native
 
It is true that science, and more particularly scientists, _____ cherished paradigms with great reluctance and that when they do, scientific revolutions may result.
cede/relinquish
 
The distance between Tibetan villages is sometimes ______ by the number of cups of tea necessary to sustain a person traveling that route: three cups of tea are roughly equal to eight kilometers.
gauged/reckoned
 
Egler's prediction in 1947 that the introduction of mangrove trees to the Hawaiian Islands would cause sweeping ecological change was _____: extensive mangrove forests have come to displace many preexisting plant communities.
prescient/foresighted 
 
Recent research runs counter to the long-cherished notion that a small drop in body temperature during and after surgery is either _______ or actually protects the patient by slowing metabolism and reducing the body's demand for blood and oxygen.
immaterial/inconsequential 
 
An academic with a questionable record in either teaching, administration, or research may still be well regarded at many schools, but simultaneous failure in all three areas normally results in _____ by superiors.
disapprobation = censure
 
Because there has been such a ______ of information about Jorge Luis Borges' personal life, it is easy to understand the eager excitement generated by Borges, a selection from the diaries of his closest friend.
paucity/dearth
 
After the Turkish Republic was established, traditional hamams (bathhouses) seemed to many Turks to be outmoded, but thanks to tourism, hamams have experienced a _____, becoming important cultural sites for foreign and Turkish visitors alike.
revival/renaissance
 
Although the claim that no one knows what dark matter is remains ________, some scientists dispute the parallel assertion that dark matter has not been detected.
sound/unassailable
 
Discussion of planetary orbits is _______ in the context of climate history today, thanks to the acceptance of the thesis that periodic fluctuations in the Earth's axial tilt and precession affect the timing and severity of glacial cycles.
commonplace/pervasive 
 
In this otherwise ____ study, the internal tensions resulting from the increasing integration of the United States with the world economy are simply mentioned rather than analyzed.
thorough/exhaustive 
 
Orbiting Jupiter just beyond Europa, the giant moon Ganymede-bigger than the planet Mercury-appears rather __________ on the outside, but it may be warm and active within.
inert/dormant
 
A few decades ago the idea of animal morality would have been met with _____; however, recent research suggests that animals not only act altruistically but also have the capacity for empathy, forgiveness, trust, and reciprocity. 
derision/ridicule
 
If it is wrong to justify human selfishness on the basis of the alleged selfishness of nature, then it is equally mistaken to espouse ______ merely because some animals happily assist each other.
altruism/benevolence 
 
Beauford Delaney's dynamic depictions of Harlem and Greenwich Village, dating from 1929 to 1953, ________ the energy of the city, while the equally captivating abstract compositions from his Paris years of 1953 to 1979 demonstrate his sustained exploration of color.
convey/impart
 
Coral reefs are often referred to as the rain forests of the sea, ______ comparison given that only tropical rain forests can compete with the sheer concentration of biodiversity found in coral reefs.
a fitting/ an apposite
 
The _______ markings on some prehistoric bone and antler fragments could be accidents or the result of doodling, but may also represent a form of communication such as tally marks or even early calendars.
enigmatic/ instrutable 
 
The history of chemistry may not be the greatest adventure ever, but it is, nevertheless, an adventure, and one that _______ the dullness often associated with the history of science. 
belie/contradict
 
If aging is merely an avoidable by-product of life rather than a necessary progression, it is possible that we might eventually forestall ____.
senescence/decrepitude
 
The university's once ______ department of economic history has lost prestige and transmogrified into a department of management and marketing.
respected/venerable 
 
Although traditionally artists have rightly been seen as the most _______ audience for the work of their colleagues, today taste is also created by critics and curators and occasionally by collectors. [考过以下两组对应]
insightful/discriminating
perceptive/discerning
 
____ the idea that attention is a limited resource, scientists have repeatedly observed that drivers using mobile phones are slower to react and more apt to miss important details than are drivers focused solely on the road.
Bolstering/Buttressing
 
The sound of disembodied human breathing in Miyazaki's films is at once a presence, close to the listener's ear, and a ghostly absence due to its lack of a visual _____.
coutnerpart/correlative 
 
Psychologists have discovered that some of the most _______ advice on study habits is flat wrong, leading them to revise the guidelines they offer to students.
hallowed/respected
 
Despite a reputation, once richly deserved, for _______ in adopting new technologies, most big carmakers are pouring resources both into battery power and other alternative forms of propulsion, and into automated driving. 
indolence/sloth
 
 
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