新GRE填空题：三空题练习

　【1】The most striking thing about the politician is how often his politics have been (i) rather than ideological, as he adapts his political positions at any particular moment to the political realities that constrain him. He does not, however, piously (ii) political principles only to betray them in practice. Rather, he attempts in subtle ways to balance his political self-interest with a (iii) , viewing himself as an instrument of some unchanging higher purpose.

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A quixotic		D brandish		G profound cynicism
B self-righteous		E flout		H deeply felt moral code
C strategic		F follow		I thoroughgoing pragmatism

　　【2】What readers most commonly remember about John Stuart Mill’s classic exploration of the liberty of thought and discussion concerns the danger of (i) : in the absence of challenge, one’s opinions, even when they are correct, grow weak and flabby. Yet Mill had another reason for encouraging the liberty of thought and discussion: the danger of partiality and incompleteness. Since one’s opinions, even under the best circumstances, tend to (ii) , and because opinions opposed to one’s own rarely turn out to be completely (iii) , it is crucial to supplement one’s opinions with alternative points of view.

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A tendentiousness		D embrace only a portion of the truth		G erroneous
B complacency		E change over time		H antithetical
C fractiousness		F focus on matters close at hand		I immutable

　　【3】Wills argues that certain malarial parasites are especially (i) because they have more recently entered humans than other species and therefore have had (ii) time to evolve toward (iii) . Yet there is no reliable evidence that the most harmful Plasmodium species has been in humans for a shorter time than less harmful species.