第四小节

开始学习GRE填空教程

 

Exercise One

 

Directions: Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered words or set of words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

 

1. In the current research program, new varieties of apple trees are evaluated under different agricultural ________ for tree size, bloom density, fruit size, ________ to various soils, and resistance to pests and disease.

   (A) circumstances ... proximity

   (B) regulations ... conformity

   (C) conditions ... adaptability

   (D) auspices ... susceptibility

   (E) configurations ... propensity

 

2. The Muses are ________ deities: they avenge themselves without mercy on those who weary of their charms.

   (A) rueful

   (B) ingenuous

   (C) solicitous

   (D) vindictive

   (E) dispassionate

 

3. Just as astrology was for centuries ________ faith, countering the strength of established churches, so today believing in astrology is an act of ________ the professional sciences.

   (A) an individual ... rebellion by

   (B) an accepted ... antagonism toward

   (C) an underground ... defiance against

   (D) a heretical ... support for

   (E) an unknown ... concern about

 

4. Scholars’ sense of the uniqueness of the central concept of "the state" at the time when political science became an academic field quite naturally led to striving for a correspondingly ________ mode of study.

   (A) thorough

   (B) distinctive

   (C) dependable

   (D) scientific

   (E) dynamic

 

5. A perennial goal in zoology is to infer function from ________, relating the ________ of an organism to its physical form and cellular organization.

   (A) age ... ancestry

   (B) classification ... appearance

   (C) size ... movement

   (D) structure ... behavior

   (E) location ... habitat

 

6. The ________ of mass literacy coincided with the first industrial revolution; in turn, the new expansion in literacy, as well as cheaper printing, helped to nurture the ________ of popular literature.

   (A) building ... mistrust

   (B) reappearance ... display

   (C) receipt ... source

   (D) selection ... influence

   (E) emergence ... rise

 

7. In the machinelike world of classical physics, the human intellect appears ________, since the mechanical nature of classical physics does not ________ creative reasoning, the very ability that had made the formulation of classical principles possible.

   (A) anomalous ... allow for

   (B) abstract ... speak to

   (C) anachronistic ... deny

   (D) enduring ... value

   (E) contradictory ... exclude

 

解题思路

并列关系的句型结构, GRE填空题的并列关系包括以下类型

1.简明并列

2.双概念并列

3.双句并列

4.并列中有否定

5.并列中有转折

1. under = according  依据,按照

   conformity  一致,符合

   adaptability  适应性

   答案 C

   propensity  倾向

   susceptible  敏感的   反义词  immune  免疫的

2. 冒号前后两部分的并列

   avenge  报复

   rueful   悔恨的

   ingenuous  天真无邪的

   solicitous  关心的,渴望的

   vindictive  报复性的

   avenge oneself on  报复

   答案 D

3. 形容词的特点和分词短语之间的动作的一致性

   individual  个人的

   accepted  被接受的

   underground  地下的

   heretical   异端的

   unknown  不知道的

   established  根深蒂固的

   defiance against  蔑视

   答案 C

just as ...so   句子和句子之间的并列

  第一个空格后现在分词短语之间的并列

4. naturally led to   自然而然地导致

  研究模式的特点和感觉的特点保持一致

  uniqueness  独特性

  thorough  透彻

  distinctive  独特的,与众不同的

  答案 B

以上四道题可称为简明并列

双概念并列

概念对和概念对的重复出现

5. infer A from B 连接一对概念

  relate A to B

  classification  分类

  structure 结构

  答案 D

  accompany  伴随

  as well as  以及

  correlate with    和...相关

  associate A and B

  between A and B