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新GRE模考题Sect ion 3 For Questions 1 to 5, select one entry for each blank from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text. 1. Cynics believe that people who ______ compliments do so in order to be praised twice. (A) bask in (B) give out (C) despair of (D) gloat over (E) shrug off 2. The Chinese, who began systematic astronomical and weather observations shortly after the ancient Egyptians, were assiduous record-keepers, and because of this, can claim humanity’s longest continuous______ of natural events. (A) defiance(B) documentation(C) maintenance(D) theory(E) domination3. Nineteenth-century scholars, by examining earlier geometric Greek art, found that classical Greek art was not a magical ______ or a brilliant ______ blending Egyptian and Assyrian art, but was independently evolved by Greeks in Greece. Blank (i)Blank (ii)(A) conversion(D) amalgam(B) apparition(E) appropriation(C) stratagem(F) construct4. Their mutual teasing seemed ______, but in fact it ______ a long-standing hostility. Blank (i)Blank (ii)(A) friendly(D) produced(B) aimless(E) masked(C) clever(F) averted5． The astronomer and feminist Maria Mitchell’s own prodigious activity and the vigor of the Association for the Advancement of Women during the 1870’s ______ any assertion that feminism was ______ in that period. Blank (i)Blank (ii)(A) buttress.(D) frivolity(B) pervade(E) quiescent(C) belie(F) transitorinessQuestions 6 to 7 are based on the following reading passage. From the 1900’s through the 1950’s waitresses in the United States developed a form of unionism based on the unions’ defining the skills that their occupation included and enforcing standards for the performance of those skills. This “occupational unionism” differed substantially from the “worksite unionism” prevalent among factory workers. Rather than unionizing the work