2021年重庆GRE考试真题卷.docx

2021年重庆GRE考试真题卷本卷共分为2大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。一、单项选择题（共25题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.Feminist criticshave often pondered whether a postmodern language may be articulated that obviates the essentialist arrogance of much modernist and some feminist discourse and does not reduce feminism to silences or a purely negative and reactionary stance. This ideal may be actualized in a discourse that recognizes itself as historically situated, as motivated by values and, thus, political interests, and as a human practice without transcendent justification. The author Dorothy Allison meets these criteria by focusing on women who have been marginalized by totalizing forces and ideas, while simultaneously reminding the reader, through the wide range of women that she portrays and their culpability in her protagonists predicaments, that unlike pure and transcendent heroes, women are real characters and morally complex. Allison insists that humans are burdened with the responsibility of fashioning their own stories, quotidian as they may be, and .while these will never offer the solace of transcendent justification, the constant negotiation between the word and the world avoids reticence on the one hand and the purely negative on the other.It may be inferred from the passage that, in contrast to their present view, microbiologists once believed that_.Aonly a single feature of endospore biology was responsible for their successBpotentially, a canning process could be developed that was capable of destroying all endosporesCultraviolet radiation was a possible means of destroying microorganisms that practice cellular dormancyDcellular mitosis was the root cause of the resilience of the microorganisms under discussionEonly single-celled organisms, like those of fungal spores, could practice cellular dormancy 2.Feminist criticshave often pondered whether a postmodern language may be articulated that obviates the essentialist arrogance of much modernist and some feminist discourse and does not reduce feminism to silences or a purely negative and reactionary stance. This ideal may be actualized in a discourse that recognizes itself as historically situated, as motivated by values and, thus, political interests, and as a human practice without transcendent justification. The author Dorothy Allison meets these criteria by focusing on women who have been marginalized by totalizing forces and ideas, while simultaneously reminding the reader, through the wide range of women that she portrays and their culpability in her protagonists predicaments, that unlike pure and transcendent heroes, women are real characters and morally complex. Allison insists that humans are burdened with the responsibility of fashioning their own stories, quotidian as they may be, and .while these will never offer the solace of transcendent justification, the constant negotiation between the word and the world avoids reticence on the one hand and the purely negative on the other.The author would regard the notion that certain proteins are essential to the survival of environmentally resistant endospores as_.AunlikelyBspeculativeCincontrovertibleDirrelevantEunscientific 3.Feminist criticshave often pondered whether a postmodern language may be articulated that obviates the essentialist arrogance of much modernist and some feminist discourse and does not reduce feminism to silences or a purely negative and reactionary stance. This ideal may be actualized in a discourse that recognizes itself as historically situated, as motivated by values and, thus, political interests, and as a human practice without transcendent justification. The author Dorothy Allison meets these criteria by focusing on women who have been marginalized by totalizing forces and ideas, while simultaneously reminding the reader, through the wide range of women that she portrays and their culpability in her protagonists predicaments, that unlike pure and transcendent heroes, women are real characters and morally complex. Allison insists that humans are burdened with the responsibility of fashioning their own stories, quotidian as they may be, and .while these will never offer the solace of transcendent justification, the constant negotiation between the word and the world avoids reticence on the one hand and the purely negative on the other.According to the passage, early American parishioners held which of the following views concerning parish demographyAMigration between towns stands in direct contrast with the accumulation of population in cities.BParish populations would grow at fairly equal rates, given the fact that those who left a parish in response to life course events were usually replaced.CMigration between parishes was a rare enough phenomenon that it was unnecessary to keep records of it in any fashion.DParish populations often chose to remain sedimentary as a result of the homogeneity of the various countryside parishes.EParish populations owed their existence on the whole to the influx of populations due to life course events. 4.Feminist criticshave often pondered whether a postmodern language may be articulated that obviates the essentialist arrogance of much modernist and some feminist discourse and does not reduce feminism to silences or a purely negative and reactionary stance. This ideal may be actualized in a discourse that recognizes itself as historically situated, as motivated by values and, thus, political interests, and as a human practice without transcendent justification. The author Dorothy Allison meets these criteria by focusing on women who have been marginalized by totalizing forces and ideas, while simultaneously reminding the reader, through the wide range of women that she portrays and their culpability in her protagonists predicaments, that unlike pure and transcendent heroes, women are real characters and morally complex. Allison insists that humans are burdened with the responsibility of fashioning their own stories, quotidian as they may be, and .while these will never offer the solace of transcendent justification, the constant negotiation between the word and the world avoids reticence on the one hand and the purely negative on the other.According to the passage, Crosby has made which of the following assumptions concerning historical means of demographyAMigration is in most cases dictated by life course events as opposed to the economic factors that contribute to the development of cities.BPopulation growth tends not to affect the availability of proxies for replacing emigrants from population centers.CSedimentary populations are more historically significant than nomadic or migratory ones.DIt is permissible to rely upon a single source of information in studying population movement patterns.EMigration can be disregarded as a demographic pattern in historical contexts prior to the development of large cities. 5.Feminist criticshave often pondered whether a postmodern language may be articulated that obviates the essentialist arrogance of much modernist and some feminist discourse and does not reduce feminism to silences or a purely negative and reactionary stance. This ideal may be actualized in a discourse that recognizes itself as historically situated, as motivated by values and, thus, political interests, and as a human practice without transcendent justification. The author Dorothy Allison meets these criteria by focusing on women who have been marginalized by totalizing forces and ideas, while simultaneously reminding the reader, through the wide range of women that she portrays and their culpability in her protagonists predicaments, that unlike pure and transcendent heroes, women are real characters and morally complex. Allison insists that humans are burdened with the responsibility of fashioning their own stories, quotidian as they may be, and .while these will never offer the solace of transcendent justification, the constant negotiation between the word and the world avoids reticence on the one hand and the purely negative on the other.The passage suggests that one major difficulty in establishing patterns of migration is_.Athe infrequency of life course events, which restricts the amount of data available to demographersBthe overwhelming availability of proxies in migration patterns, which creates a degree of stasis in migration recordsCthe lack of parishioner birth records, which limits the hard evidence upon which demographers base their observationsDthe homogeneity of single parishes, which makes it difficult to distinguish the motivations of migrantsEthe repetitive nature of migration, which results in a surfeit of unusable data that overwhelms demographers 6.Feminist criticshave often pondered whether a postmodern language may be articulated that obviates the essentialist arrogance of much modernist and some feminist discourse and does not reduce feminism to silences or a purely negative and reactionary stance. This ideal may be actualized in a discourse that recognizes itself as historically situated, as motivated by values and, thus, political interests, and as a human practice without transcendent justification. The author Dorothy Allison meets these criteria by focusing on women who have been marginalized by totalizing forces and ideas, while simultaneously reminding the reader, through the wide range of women that she portrays and their culpability in her protagonists predicaments, that unlike pure and transcendent heroes, women are real characters and morally complex. Allison insists that humans are burdened with the responsibility of fashioning their own stories, quotidian as they may be, and .while these will never offer the solace of transcendent justification, the constant negotiation between the word and the world avoids reticence on the one hand and the purely negative on the other.According to the passage, all of the following are true concerning the process of negative feedback EXCEPT_.ABy diminishing errors, negative feedback allows systems to correct themselves.BNegative feedback always arises out of a system where several factors are interacting.CNegative feedback sometimes causes a disturbed system to over-correct, resulting in an impressed change opposite to the original disturbance.DNegative feedback is less important, on the whole, than departure from equilibrium.EIdeally, negative feedback gradually diminishes, allowing a system to find its desired course. 7.Feminist criticshave often pondered whether a postmodern language may be articulated that obviates the essentialist arrogance of much modernist and some feminist discourse and does not reduce feminism to silences or a purely negative and reactionary stance. This ideal may be actualized in a discourse that recognizes itself as historically situated, as motivated by values and, thus, political interests, and as a human practice without transcendent justification. The author Dorothy Allison meets these criteria by focusing on women who have been marginalized by totalizing forces and ideas, while simultaneously reminding the reader, through the wide range of women that she portrays and their culpability in her protagonists predicaments, that unlike pure and transcendent heroes, women are real characters and morally complex. Allison insists that humans are burdened with the responsibility of fashioning their own stories, quotidian as they may be, and .while these will never offer the solace of transcendent justification, the constant negotiation between the word and the world avoids reticence on the one hand and the purely negative on the other.It may be inferred that to attain greater positive feedback, in the case of the skidding car, the driver should do which of the followingAKeep turning the wheel in the original direction.BTurn the wheel in the opposite direction.CTurn the wheel in the opposite direction, then turn it back to the original direction.DKeep turning the wheel in the original direction, then back to the opposite direction.EAllow the wheel to turn freely. 8.Feminist criticshave often pondered whether a postmodern language may be articulated that obviates the essentialist arrogance of much modernist and some feminist discourse and does not reduce feminism to silences or a purely negative and reactionary stance. This ideal may be actualized in a discourse that recognizes itself as historically situated, as motivated by values and, thus, political interests, and as a human practice without transcendent justification. The author Dorothy Allison meets these criteria by focusing on women who have been marginalized by totalizing forces and ideas, while simultaneously reminding the reader, through the wide range of women that she portrays and their culpability in her protagonists predicaments, that unlike pure and transcendent heroes, women are real characters and morally complex. Allison insists that humans are burdened with the responsibility of fashioning their own stories, quotidian as they may be, and .while these will never offer the solace of transcendent justification, the constant negotiation between the word and the world avoids reticence on the one hand and the purely negative on the other.Which of the following would be most analogous to the process of dampening oscillations described in the paragraphADuring a rainstorm, water rises to the level of a sewer drain, siphoning off and thus remaining at constant level.BA rubber ball which bounces off the ground multiple times, than gradually comes to rest.CA meteor hurtles through space indefinitely, due to the laws of inertia.DA clothing iron is left on, then becomes so hot that it catches on fire, burning its own cord and destroying its power source.EA baseball pitcher knows he tends to through to the left of home plate, and then in trying to throw to the right, overcorrects. 9.Feminist criticshave often pondered whether a postmodern language may be articulated that obviates the essentialist arrogance of much modernist and some feminist discourse and does not reduce feminism to silences or a purely negative and reactionary stance. This ideal may be actualized in a discourse that recognizes itself as historically situated, as motivated by values and, thus, political interests, and as a human practice without transcendent justification. The author Dorothy Allison meets these criteria by focusing on women who have been marginalized by totalizing forces and ideas, while simultaneously reminding the reader, through the wide range of women that she portrays and their culpability in her protagonists predicaments, that unlike