2016年GRE考试填空考点习题及详细解析(3)
The nature of social history and lyric poetry are , social history always recounting the and lyric poetry speaking for unchanging human nature, that timeless essence beyond fashion and economics.
(A) Antithetical
(B) Indistinguishable
(C) Interdependent
(D) Evanescent
(E) Unnoticed
(F) Unalterable
Answer: A D
Recount叙述、详述。
Antithetical相反的，indistinguishable不可辨别的，interdependent相互依赖的，evanescent逐渐消失的、短暂的，unnoticed不引人注意的，unalterable不变化的。
翻译：社会史和抒情诗歌的本质是截然相反的，社会史总是描述短暂之物，而抒情诗歌却表达永恒人性的主题，这个永恒的精华远远超越了时尚和经济现象。
The “impostor syndrome” often afflicts those who fear that true self-disclosure will lower them in others esteem; rightly handled, however, may actually ones standing.
(A) Affection
(B) Candor
(C) Willfulness
(D) Enhance
(E) Efface
(F) Jeopardize
Answer: B D
Impostor骗子。Disclosure曝光。
Affection爱、影响，candor率直，willfulness任性、固执、故意，enhance提升，efface抹去，jeopardize危害。
翻译：“骗子综合症”总折磨那些担心真正的自我曝光会降低他们在别人心中的地位的人;但如果恰当地处理的话，坦诚事实上会增强一个人的地位。
Even though they tended to be strangers, fifteenth-century Europeans did not automatically associate and danger.
(A) Interested in
(B) Haughty with
(C) Hostile to
(D) Diversity
(E) Nonconformity
(F) Foreignness
Answer: C F
第2空与stranger同义，第2句strangers=danger，第1句strangers≠danger。
Interested感兴趣，haughty傲慢，hostile敌意，diversity多样性，nonconformity不合适、不一致，foreighnness外国人。
翻译：即使他们倾向于对陌生人采取敌意的态度，15世纪的欧洲人并不自动地将外来思想和危险联系起来。
Although many findings of the Soviet and United States probes of Venus were complementary, the two sets of atmospheric results clearly could not be without a major change of data or .
(A) Completed
(B) Obtained
(C) Reconciled
(D) Implementation
(E) Interpretation
(F) Representation
Answer: C E
Complementary补充的。Probe深入调查。
Complete完成，obtain获得，reconcile调和，implementation完成，interpretation解释，representation代表、表示。
翻译：尽管苏联和美国的V探测器的许多发现结果是互为补充的，但这两套太空观测结果，如果缺少了一个对数据式的大的转化的话，显然是不能相互调和的。
Though many medieval women possessed devotional books that had belonged to their mothers, formal written evidence of women bequeathing books to their daughters is scarce, which suggests that such bequests were and required no .
(A) Customary
(B) Unselfish
(C) Spurious
(D) Approval
(E) Documentation
(F) Discretion
Answer: A E
Devotional献身的、崇拜的。Bequeath遗赠。
Customary风俗的，unselfish不自私，spurious伪造的，approval赞成、允许，documentation文件，discretion谨慎、自制节制。
翻译：尽管很多中世纪的妇女们拥有曾经属于她们的母亲的用于祈祷的书，关于妇女遗留书给她们女儿的正式书面证据却很少，这就说明这种遗赠行为是风俗性的，并不需要证明文件。
Although Shakespeare received little formal education, scholarship has in recent years the view that he was the work of classical authors.
(A) Substantiated
(B) Supported
(C) Undermined
(D) Obsessed by
(E) Oblivious to
(F) Unfamiliar with
Answer: C F
Substantiate证实，support支持，undermine渐渐破坏，obsess迷住、使困惑，oblivious遗忘，unfamiliar不熟悉。
翻译：尽管S只接受过很少的正规教育，但学者们这几年反对这种观点，即S对古典作家的作品很不熟悉。
