时间:2019-01-03 作者:英语课 分类:GRE英语


英语课

   GRE填空最基本的原则就是重复,空格内的信息会在原文中重复出现,因此重复的方式也就成为了需要考生着重注意的焦点。试着比较以下两个例句中的重复方式:


  例1.
  Joshing was in his private life a _____ man: he lived in rented room, ate little, wore dead clothes.
  A. simple
  B. sordid 1
  C. foolish
  D. miserly
  E. ascetic 2
  例2.
  Though his political writing was often flamboyant 3, he was in his private life a surprisingly _____ man.
  A. simple
  B. sordid
  C. foolish
  D. miserly
  E. ascetic
  这两个例句典型地体现了不同的重复方式。
  第一个例句用冒号的整整一句话来描述Joshin的性格,要求考生自行归纳,总结出一个形容词填到空格中去;而第二个例句由转折关系以及surprisingly一词明确规定出空格处词义应该与flamboyant相反。
  第一个例句这样的出题方式在GRE填空中极少出现,因为归纳本身这样的思路和考生的北京文化、专业知识密切相关。比如这句话中 “住在出租屋里,吃的很少的,穿着暗淡的”人应该归纳为哪一类人呢?
  在一个崇尚消费的社会中,这样的行为可能会被认为是吝啬的而选D: miserly,而在崇尚简朴的社会中,这样的行为又会被认为是节俭朴素的,从而选择A: simple;甚至可能在一些有某种宗教信仰背景的眼中,又是节欲苦行的,从而选E: ascetic。这样众说纷纭,莫衷一是的题目在GRE中是绝对不会出现的。
  但是第二个例句就不会出现这样的情况,句子中的转折结构以及surprising都非常明确地规定了空格应为flamboyant的反义词,答案就只能选择A: simple。
  如果将一个句子形象地看成一条线段,每个单词就是上面的一个点。第一个例句用冒号后的一个句子重复这一个词,我们将其称之为 “线对点”;而第二个例句中用flamboyant这个词重复空格这个词,我们可以称其为 “点对点”。
  GRE句子填空的重复方式即是点对点的形式。
  每个空格在原句中都会有一个词或者词组与之重复,我们可以称这个词是中心词。这样的重复可能是同义重复,当然也可能是反义重复,就像这道题一样。
  中心词和空格之间的逻辑关系通常是非常明确的很多时候甚至都可以简单到同义词或者反义词的选择。所以在做填空题的时候,最重要的就是寻找对应词。下面再练习一道题:
  It comes as no surprise that societies have codes of behaviour; the character of the codes, not he other hand, can often be _____.
  A. predictable
  B. unexpected
  C. admirable
  D. explicit 4
  E. confusing
  这句话在分析上没有难点和生词:
  每个社会都有其行为规则,这一点不会让人感到惊奇;相反的是,股则的具体内容通常是_____的。
  分号句上下句由 on the other hand 构成反义重复。需要注意的是,on the other 在通常的文体下面并不一定表示对立面转折,但在GRE句子的两极思维模式下,却始终是反义关系。
  因此,空格填上 no surprise 的反义词,正确答案选择B: unexpected。
  你选对了吗?
  flux 5
  propitious 6
  delineate
  whimsical
  verdant 7
  我的·WORD
  plucky 8 adj. 勇敢的;:bold
  lugubrious 9 adj. 悲伤的;:plaintive, doleful
  annihilate 10 v. 废除;:abolish
  plethora 11 n. 过剩;:surfeit, surplus
  turgid adj. 浮华的;:bombastic

adj.肮脏的,不干净的,卑鄙的,暗淡的
  • He depicts the sordid and vulgar sides of life exclusively.他只描写人生肮脏和庸俗的一面。
  • They lived in a sordid apartment.他们住在肮脏的公寓房子里。
adj.禁欲的;严肃的
  • The hermit followed an ascetic life-style.这个隐士过的是苦行生活。
  • This is achieved by strict celibacy and ascetic practices.这要通过严厉的独身生活和禁欲修行而达到。
adj.火焰般的,华丽的,炫耀的
  • His clothes were rather flamboyant for such a serious occasion.他的衣着在这种严肃场合太浮夸了。
  • The King's flamboyant lifestyle is well known.国王的奢华生活方式是人尽皆知的。
adj.详述的,明确的;坦率的;显然的
  • She was quite explicit about why she left.她对自己离去的原因直言不讳。
  • He avoids the explicit answer to us.他避免给我们明确的回答。
n.流动;不断的改变
  • The market is in a constant state of flux.市场行情在不断变化。
  • In most reactors,there is a significant flux of fast neutrons.在大部分反应堆中都有一定强度的快中子流。
adj.吉利的;顺利的
  • The circumstances were not propitious for further expansion of the company.这些情况不利于公司的进一步发展。
  • The cool days during this week are propitious for out trip.这种凉爽的天气对我们的行程很有好处。
adj.翠绿的,青翠的,生疏的,不老练的
  • Children are playing on the verdant lawn.孩子们在绿茵茵的草坪上嬉戏玩耍。
  • The verdant mountain forest turns red gradually in the autumn wind.苍翠的山林在秋风中渐渐变红了。
adj.勇敢的
  • The plucky schoolgirl amazed doctors by hanging on to life for nearly two months.这名勇敢的女生坚持不放弃生命近两个月的精神令医生感到震惊。
  • This story featured a plucky heroine.这个故事描述了一个勇敢的女英雄。
adj.悲哀的,忧郁的
  • That long,lugubrious howl rose on the night air again!夜空中又传来了那又长又凄凉的狗叫声。
  • After the earthquake,the city is full of lugubrious faces.地震之后,这个城市满是悲哀的面孔。
v.使无效;毁灭;取消
  • Archer crumpled up the yellow sheet as if the gesture could annihilate the news it contained.阿切尔把这张黄纸揉皱,好象用这个动作就会抹掉里面的消息似的。
  • We should bear in mind that we have to annihilate the enemy.我们要把歼敌的重任时刻记在心上。
n.过量,过剩
  • Java comes with a plethora of ready-made types.Java配套提供了数量众多的现成类型。
  • A plethora of new operators will be allowed to enter the market.大批新的运营商将获准进入该市场。
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Acteon
advanced operating system
apprenticeship
approved acceptance
automatic distribution phonogram equipment
biokoes
caking fertilizer
chicken nuggets
clatches
colorless adsorbed compound
communication among independent tasks
cooper-key
counter-mortar radar
Cyclopentiazide
de-editor
decorousness
digital image mosaic
distilled water
dividend stock
effective source area
epileptic dementia
expenditure on economic construction
fadometer
false ellipse
flockless
flounder gill cell line( fg )
fly-bane
fuel injection advance angle
general-purpose operating system
gloomy
gullied surface
Habenaria rostrata
hauls in
hayashi
helmet-mounted display
hemolytic tissne
heuristic routing
hiatus hernias
high-frequency electric machine
homoannular
intermittency effect
Kamehameha IV
karlton
l-glutamic dehydrogenase
lautering
livestock-raising
Lumeton
luminous flux density
madonninas
mail exploder
microplanktons
modeling program
molybdenum(iii) oxychloride
Murgatroyd belt
myocillin
Natha
non-affiliated
nonconsciously
nonlinear nework
nonsensationalistic
oscilloscopic
Pallinup R.
partition of load
perendinate
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periodical statement
physical contacts
planet-gear
postverbal
pre-analytic
prostrater
proteolysis
put sb. to expense
ribbon parachute
roaming service
rotated vector field
rough sort
sales and purchases on commission
sapregen
self-correcting sample
sensitive personality
shirring thread
Shuigou
side chain motion
single fiber splicer
slavoski
sludge boat
sou markee
South Americans
sting for
storage of value
took a pleasure in
two-element
undeterminately
undulipodium
Vanin plague
ventrocephalad
vibration compaction
view borrowing
weathering shooting
yatter