北美GRE北美试题8

GRE北美试题8

1 .Her lecture gave a sense of how empty the universe is, in spite ofthe----numberof stars within it.

(A)diminishing

(B)varying

(C)enormous

(D)unusual

(E) l imited

2.The wi lderness is---- in that it permits people to face animportant real ity-one that demands much of them as thinking,reacting,working individuals,not ----as human machines.

(A) foreign. .necessari ly

(B) intangible. .physical ly

(C)stimulating. .creatively

(D)discouraging. .neutral ly

(E)valuable. .merely

3.Ambrose Blerce's biographers agree that the Civi l Warwas thecentral experience of his l ife, the event to which be constantlyreturned and the--- that brought some---- to the hitherto randompattern of his youth.

(A)o rdea l . .co he re nce

(B) interruption. .continuity

(C)cl i max. .co nfus io n

(D)escape. .diversion

(E)hiatus. . rigidity

4.The constitutional guarantee or tree speech may have beenaimed at protecting native speakers of Engl ish from censorship,butit is not a great

---- to interpret it as protecting the right toexpress oneself in any natural language or dialect.

(A)enigma

(B)extension

(C)sacrifice

(D)condemnation

(E)attenuation

5.Although Darwinism was a profoundly----world view, itwasessential ly passive,since it prescribed no steps to be taken,novictories over nature to be celebrated,no program of triumphs of besuccessively gained.

(A) l imited

(B) re p ress ive

(C)debatable

(D) innovative

(E)paradoxical

6.Personnel experts say that attractive benefits alone wi l l notalways keep----executives from changing jobs for betterlong-range opportunities,but they think the enticements may determany executives from accepting----offers from other companies.(A)discontented. .preferable

(B)ambitious. . routine

(C)unqual ified. . inferior

(D)experienced. .superior

(E)ded icated. .advantageous

7.The concept of timelessness is paradoxical from the start ,foradult consciousness is----by the awareness of duration.(A) intrigued

(B) re pe l l e d

(C)meas ured

(D)acce le rated

(E)permeated

8.MOLECULE:ATOMS: :

(A) tissue:cel ls

(B)office: fu rn itu re

(C)body: l imbs

(D) fami ly:brothers

(E) l ig ht:batte ries

9.ARRHYTHMIC:REGULARITY: :(A)atonal :sound

(B)a ro matic: frag ra nce

(C)apathetic. .concern

(D)aggrieved. . injury

(E)apol itical . .popularity

10.OBJECTIVITY:PARTISAN: :(A)honesty:witness

(B)accuracy:critic

(C)skepticism: infidel

(D) te m pe ra nce: rep robate

(E)hesitancy:paragon

1 1 .LIMP:WALK: :

(A)stumble: run

(B)s neeze:breathe

(C) fl a p: fl y

(D)choke:chew

(E)stutter: talk

12.CONUNDRUM:SOLVE: :(A)mirage:vanish

(B) tang le:unravel

(C)di lemma:arbitrate

(D) j o ke:a m us e

(E) targ et:a im

13.AGENDA:MINUTES: :(A)entry:diary

(B)budget:money

(C)d raft: re po rt

(D) itinerary: log

(E)p rev i ew:m ov i e

14.RAVISHING:ATTRACTIVE: :(A) florid:healthy

(B)perspicacious:d iscerning(C) impassioned:abject

(D)passive: insensitive

(E)sul len:quarrelsome

15.NIL:QUANTITY: :

(A)vacuum:matter

(B)data:correlation

(C) infinity:universe

(D)measurement:precision

(E) fractio n:va l id ity

16.FULMINATE:CRITICIZE: :(A)penetrate:enter

(B)n a rra te: re l a te

(C)ad ulate: flatter

(D)venerate:exculpate

(E)devastate:annihi late

My objective is to analyze certain forms of knowledge,not in termsof repression or law,but in terms of power.But the word power isapt to lead to misunderstandings about the nature, form,and unityof power.By power, I do not mean a group of institutions andmechanisms that ensure the subservience of the citizenry. I do notmean,either,a mode of subjugation that, in contrast to violence,has the form of the rule.Final ly, I do not have in mind ageneralsystem of domination exerted by one group over another,a systemwhose effects, through successive derivations,pervade the entiresocial body.The sovereignty of the state, the form of law,or theoveral l unity of a domination are only the terminal forms powerta ke s.

Itseems to me that power must be understood as the multipl icityofforce relations thatare immanent in the socialsphere;as theprocess that, through ceaseless struggle and confrontation,transforms,strengthens,or reverses them;as the support thatthese force relations find in one another,oron the contrary, the

disjunctions and contradictions that isolate them from one another;and lastly,as the strategies in which they take effect,whosegeneral design or institutional crystal l ization is embodied in thestate apparatus, in the formulation of the law, in the various socialhegemonies.

Thus, the viewpoint that permits one to understand the exercise ofpower,even in its more"peripheral"effects,and that also makes itpossible to use its mechanisms as a structural framework foranalyzing the social order,mustnot be sought in a unique source ofsovereignty from which secondary and descendent forms of poweremanate but in the moving substrate of force relations that,byvirtue of their inequal ity,constantly engender local and unstablestates of power. If powerseems omnipresent, it is not because ithas the privi lege of consol idating everything under its invincibleunity,but because it is produced from one moment to the next,atevery point,or rather in every relation from one point to another.Power is everywhere,not because it embraces every- thing,butbecause it comes from everywhere.And if powerat times seems tobe permanent, repetitions, inert,and self-reproducing, it is simplybecause the overal l effect that emerges from al l these mobi l ities isa concatenation that rests on each of them and seeks in turn toarrest their movement.One needs to be nominal istic,no doubt: