GRE北美题No9-5.doc

SECTION 3
1. Although economists have traditionally considered
the district to be solely an agricultural one, the----
of the inhabitants’ occupations makes such a classi-
fication obsolete.
(A) productivity (B) diversity
(C) predictability (D) profitability
(E) stability
2. The author of this book----overlooks or minimizes
some of the problems and ings in otherwise
highly essful foreign industries in order to ----
the points on which they excel and on which we
might try to emulate them.
(A) accidentally.. exaggerate
(B) purposely.. emphasize
(C) occasionally.. counterbalance
(D) intentionally.. confuse
(E) cleverly.. compound

3. Crosby’s colleagues have never learned, at least not
in time to avoid embarrassing themselves, that her
occasional----air of befuddlement----a display
of her formidable intelligence.
(A) genuine.. dominates
(B) alert.. contradicts
(C) acute.. precludes
(D) bogus.. presages
(E) painstaking.. eeds
ensure the development and exploitation of a new
technology, there must be a constant----of several
nevertheless distinct activities.
(A) interplay (B) implementation
(C) comprehending (D) improvement
(E) exploration
5. Some customs travel well; often, however, behavior
that is considered the epitome of----at home is
perceived as impossibly rude or, at the least, harm-
lessly b