9月4日GRE填空部分部分題目如下:
1. His _____ speaking style notwithstanding, William Perkins has long been seen as the moderate face of his political party.
A. genteel
B. mundane
C .affable
D .captivating
E .vehement
答案:E
解析:通過notwithstanding,對后面的moderate取反,因此選E。
翻譯:盡管William Perkins的說話風格是(非常激烈的),在他的黨派中,他還是被看做溫和的面孔。
這個題在我們的沖分班講義,是另一個版本,換湯不換藥:
William Perkins,his _____ speaking style notwithstanding, has long been seen as the moderate face of his political party.
A. fiery
B .genteel
C .bumbling
D .unremarkable
E .affable
F .impassioned
答案:AF
解析:同上。
2. Not all paleontologists agree that connections between the continents were (i)_____ just after the extinction of the dinosaurs. Some hold the view that North America, Asia, and South America had (ii)_____ immediately following the dinosaur extinction, pointing to (iii)_____ between ancient kinds of mammals that existed on all three continents at this time in support of their argument.
Blank (i) | Blank (ii) | Blank (iii) |
A. significant | D. lasting differences | G. similarities |
B. permanent | E. extensive contacts | H. intermediaries |
C. limited | F. trivial likeness | I. hostilities |
答案:CEG
解析:通過分析題目,發(fā)現(xiàn)空格(ii)和空格(iii)需要一起做,即“兩空聯(lián)動”,并且通過pointing out可以斷定,兩空方向相同。兩個空格的備選項中,可以構(gòu)成同方向的只有EG,(“有聯(lián)系”和“相似性”),有同學會認為D和I也是同方向,但是放進去檢驗,發(fā)現(xiàn)陸地之間的“不同”和動物之間的“敵對性”,是沒有必然聯(lián)系的。因此確定后面兩個空格為EG。如此,后面的意思就完整了,表達的意思是“陸地之間是有聯(lián)系的,因為在這些大陸上的不同的動物有一些相似性”。由此推斷第一句話表達同樣的意思,即“有聯(lián)系”。因為第一句話前面有not all否定,因此空格處選C,有限的。
翻譯:關于“恐龍滅絕之后,不同陸地之間的聯(lián)系是局限性的”這一觀點,并不是所有的古生物學家都認同。一些人認為,北美、亞洲、南美在恐龍滅絕后立刻出現(xiàn)了廣泛的聯(lián)系。他們指出,這一時期三個陸地上存在的遠古哺乳動物之間是有一些相似性的,以此來支持他們的論斷。
3. The stories of silent drama may often have been _____; yet, within those basic outlines, the true artists among silent-film actors could express emotional shadings that had no immediate analogue in language.
A .implausible
B .incredible
C .conventional
D .elemental
E .rudimentary
F .confusing
答案:DE
解析:從做題技巧來講,這個題很簡單,即根據(jù)第二句話中的those basic outline,前一句話的story同意替換為outline,因此空格處只需要填和basic相同的詞即可,選擇DE. 從邏輯上分析,句中yet提示句中存在反義邏輯,前后內(nèi)容取反。后面轉(zhuǎn)折的部分說表演默劇的藝術家had no immediate analogue in language,推斷前面應該是有analogue的情況,選擇DE.
4. Though it may seem as if more than a century of _____ has made the electrical grid an all-encompassing web connecting the whole of the continent, many vast and beautiful areas remain without power.
A. refinement
B. expansion
C .ubiquity
D .augmentation
E .omnipresence
F .isolation
答案:BD
解析:關鍵詞though, all-encompassing以及后面的remain without power,體現(xiàn)邏輯鏈完整,因此空格處只要填不改變方向的詞即可?创鸢赴l(fā)現(xiàn)有兩對近義詞,一對是BD,一對是CE.并且方向都對。而CE不選的原因是,空格前面的a century of,提示空格處需要一個表示過程的詞,而CE表示的是結(jié)果,因此不能選。再者說,如果選擇CE,表示普遍存在,和后半句中的remain without power 就自相矛盾了。
5. Progressive and reactionary populist movements are not necessarily _____: each may, and usually does, possess features of the other.
A .dichotomous
B .untenable
C .unsustainable
D .contradictory
E .subversive
F .efficacious
答案:AD
解析:兩句話之間是冒號連接,提示前后同義重復。后面講這些movements彼此會具有彼此的特征,即相互聯(lián)系的。因此前面表示相互聯(lián)系即可?崭裉幪睢皼]有聯(lián)系”這類的詞即可。根據(jù)推斷,選擇答案為AD,意思為“對立的”。