GRE试题

　　23.According to the passage, Piaget and Keasey would not

　　have agreed on which of the following points?

　　(A) The kinds of excuses children give for harmful

　　acts they commit

　　(B) The age at which children begin to discriminate

　　between intentional and unintentional harm

　　(C) The intentions children have in perpetrating harm

　　(D) The circumstances under which children punish

　　harmful acts

　　(E) The justifications children recognize for mitigating

　　punishment for harmful acts

　　24.It can be inferred that the term "public duty" (line 33)

　　in the context of the passage, means which of the fol-

　　lowing?

　　(A) The necessity to apprehend perpetrators.

　　(B) The responsibility to punish transgressors

　　(C) An obligation to prevent harm to another

　　(D) The assignment of punishment for harmful action

　　(E) A justification for punishing transgressions

　　25.According to the passage, Keasey’s findings support

　　which of the following conclusions about six-year-old

　　children?

　　(A)They have the ability to make autonomous moral

　　judgments.

　　(B)They regard moral absolutism as a threat to their

　　moral autonomy.

　　(C)They do not understand the concept of public duty.

　　(D)They accept moral judgment made by their peers

　　more easily than do older children.

　　(E)They make arbitrary moral judgments.

　　26.It can be inferred form the passage that Piaget would

　　be likely to agree with which of the following state-

　　ments about the punishment that children under seven

　　assign to wrongdoing?

　　(A) The severity of the assigned punishment is deter-

　　mined by the perceived magnitude of negative

　　consequences more than by any other factor.

　　(B) The punishment is to be administered immediately

　　following the transgression.

　　(C) The children assign punishment less arbitrarily

　　than they do when they reach the age of moral

　　autonomy.

　　(D) The punishment for acts of unintentional harm is

　　less severe than it is for acts involving accidental

　　harm.

　　(E) The more developmentally immature a child, the

　　more severe the punishment that the child will

　　assign.

　　27.According to the passage, the research of Nesdale and

　　Rule suggests which of the following about five-year-

　　old children?

　　(A) Their reactions to intentional and accidental harm

　　determine the severity of the punishments they assign.

　　(B) They, as perpetrators of harmful acts, disregard

　　the feelings of the children they harm.

　　(C) They take into account the motivations of actions

　　when judging the behavior of other children.

　　(D) They view public duty as a justification for acci-

　　dental, but not intentional, harm.

　　(E) They justify any action that protects them from

　　harm.

　　28. DEBUT:

　　(A) collaboration

　　(B) monologue

　　(C) farewell performance

　　(D) repertoire standard

　　(E) starring role

　　29. WHER:

　　(A) disagree

　　(B) shine

　　(C) plant

　　(D) adhere

　　(E) revive

　　30. BUCK:

　　(A) cover over

　　(B) assent to

　　(C) brag about

　　(D) improve

　　(E) repair

　　31. MEAN:

　　(A) trusting

　　(B) ardent

　　(C) clever

　　(D) incautious

　　(E) noble

　　32. ADJUNCT:

　　(A) expert appraisal

　　(B) generous donation

　　(C) essential element

　　(D) mild reproof

　　(E) impartial judgment

　　33. CANONICAL:

　　(A) imprecise

　　(B) ubiquitous

　　(C) superfluous

　　(D) nontraditional

　　(E) divisive

　　34. TICKLISH:

　　(A) heavy-handed

　　(B) significant

　　(C) tolerant

　　(D) impartial

　　(E) imperturbable

　　35. PREVALENT:

　　(A) invasive

　　(B) inconsistent

　　(C) indistinct

　　(D) unpalatable

　　(E) unusual

　　36. PENURY:

　　(A) approbation

　　(B) affluence

　　(C) objectivity

　　(D) compensation

　　(E) grandiosity

　　37. MINATORY:

　　(A) convenient

　　(B) nonthreatening

　　(C) straightforward

　　(D) fastidious

　　(E) rational

　　38. CALUMNIOUS:

　　(A) adept

　　(B) aloof

　　(C) quaint

　　(D) decorous

　　(E) flattering