tailieunhanh - Gre verbal section 9

Tham khảo tài liệu 'gre verbal section 9', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | THE GRE VERBAL SECTION 19. Let it be remembered that this plan is neither recommended to blind approbation nor to blind but to a sedate and candid consideration. a. idiosyncrasy b. pathology c. appeasement d. uniformity e. reprobation 20. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself avoid conversation. a. trifling b. assertive c. laudable d. dormant e. implausible Reading Comprehension Instructions Read the passages that follow. After each passage answer the content-based questions about it. Each question must be answered using only the information that is either implied or stated in the passage. Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo. Listen to it carefully It is not an articulate clear well-defined sound it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another something beginning with a crash to continue in successive rumblings like thunder in a mountain. Still this reverberation cannot go on forever. It can travel within as wide a circle as 5 you please The circle remains nonetheless a closed one. Our laughter is always the laughter of a group. It may perchance have happened to you when seated in a railway carriage or at table d hote to hear travelers relating to one another s stories which must have been comic to them for they laughed heartily. Had you been one of their company you would have laughed like them but as you were not you had no desire whatsoever to do so. A man who was once asked why he did 10 not weep at a sermon when everybody else was shedding tears replied I don t belong to the parish What that man thought of tears would be still more true of laughter. However spontaneous it seems laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry or even complicity with other laughers real or imaginary. How often has it been said that the fuller the theater the more uncontrolled the laughter of the audience On the other hand how often has the remark been made that 15 many comic effects are incapable of translation from .