(B) The air closest to the ocean surface would be warmer than the water.

　　(C) The amount of moisture in the air closest to the ocean surface would decrease.

　　(D) The rate of heat and moisture transfer would increase.

　　(E) The air closest to the ocean would be at the same temperature as air higher up.

　　―I want to criticize the social system, and to show it at work, at its most intense最大程度的.‖ Virginia Woolf‘s provocative挑衅的，煽动的 statement about her intentions in writing Mrs. Dalloway has regularly been ignored by the critics, since it highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different from the traditional picture of the ―poetic‖ novelist concerned with examining states of reverie幻想 and vision and with following the intricate复杂的 pathways of individual consciousness. But Virginia Woolf was a realistic as well as a poetic novelist, a satirist and social critic as well as a visionary: literary critics‘ cavalier漫不经心的 dismissal打发 of Woolf‘s social vision will not withstand scrutiny.详细审查

　　In her novels, Woolf is deeply engaged by the questions of how individuals are shaped (or deformed) by their social environments, how historical forces impinge on people‘s lives, how class, wealth, and gender help to determine people‘s fates. Most of her novels are rooted in a realistically rendered已渲染的 social setting and in a precise historical time. (163 words)

　　9. In the first paragraph of the passage, the author‘s attitude toward the literary critics mentioned can best be described as

　　(A) disparaging蔑视的【Virginia Woolf‘s provocative挑衅的，煽动的 statement about her intentions in writing Mrs. Dalloway has regularly been ignored by the critics。。。 ignore是个负面的词汇，该动作由critics发出，表明作者对他们的态度】

　　(B) ironic

　　(C) facetious诙谐的

　　(D) skeptical but resigned

　　(E) disappointed but hopeful

　　It can be inferred from the passage that the most probable reason Woolf realistically described the social setting in the majority of her novels was that she

　　(A) was aware that contemporary literary critics considered the novel to be the most realistic of literary genres

　　(B) was interested in the effect of a person‘s social milieu on his or her character and actions 【Most of her novels are rooted in a realistically rendered已渲染的 social setting and in a precise historical time.】

　　(C) needed to be as attentive to detail as possible in her novels in order to support the arguments she advanced in them

　　(D) wanted to show that a painstaking fidelity in the representation of reality did not in　any way hamper the artist

　　(E) wished to prevent critics from charging that her novels were written in an ambiguous　and inexact style

　　11. In the context of the passage, ―poetic‖ is closest in meaning to

　　A socioeconomic

　　B realistic

　　C political

　　D visionary

　　E literary

　　新GRE考试模拟题答案:　1.C 2.AC 3.D 4.A 5.BE　6. E 7.A 8.A 9.A 10.B 11. D