GRE出国考试的试题：GRE北美试题5

    11. COLTISH: DISCIPLINE::
    (A) selfish: ego
    (B) mindless: memory
    (C) loutish: grace
    (D) fiendish: patience
    (E) comely: rancor
    12. AWL: PIERCE::
    (A) lathe: penetrate
    (B) drill: flatten
    (C) pestle: hash
    (D) sickle: smooth
    (E) sifter: bake
    13. COMPLIMENT: FLATTERY::
    (A) eulogy: excoriation
    (B) deference: subservience
    (C) wisdom: wit
    (D) sincerity: hypocrisy
    (E) pride: obsequiousness
    14. TAXONOMIST: CLASSIFY::
    (A) carpenter: build
    (B) parodist: laugh
    (C) physician: study
    (D) spy: equivocate
    (E) neophyte: pray
    15. UPBRAID: DISAPPROVAL::
    (A) rankle: resentment
    (B) mortify: distress
    (C) beg: favor
    (D) stifle: concealment
    (E) lament: grief
    16.ANATHEMA: CURSE::
    (A) charity: saint
    (B) pagan: magic
    (C) bishop: vestment
    (D) prayer: sin
    (E) theocracy: state
    Although scientists observe that an organism's behavior falls into rhythmic patterns, they disagree about how these patterns are affected when the organism is transported to a (5) new environment. One experimenter, Brown, brought oysters from Connecticut waters to Illinois waters. She noted that the oysters initially opened their shells widest when it was high tide in Connecticut, but that after fourteen (10)days their rhythms had adapted to the tide schedule in Illinois. Although she could not posit an unequivocal causal relationship between behavior and environmental change, Brown concluded that a change in tide schedule (15)is one of several possible exogenous influences (those outside the organism) on the oysters' rhythms. Another experimenter, Hamner, however, discovered that hamsters from California maintain their original rhythms even (20)at the South Pole. He concluded that endogenous influences (those inside the organism) seem to affect an organism's rhythmic behavior.