“俗话说,不怕同桌是学霸,就怕同桌过暑假。那么,这个暑假,我们一起定个小目标——拿下GRE!
射人先射马,擒贼先擒王。拿下GRE,咱们重中之重就是首先攻克GRE的Verbal部分。GRE考试每个Verbal部分20题中有10道Reading Comprehension(阅读理解),6道Text Completion(文本填空),4道Sentence Equivalence(句子等价)。其中的Text Completion和Sentence Equivalence即为我们的填空题型。以下是官方指南对于填空题型的介绍以及身为一名GRE填空老司机的Monica穷尽毕生心血总结出的GRE考试填空的那些答题精髓。
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一、 GRE填空题型介绍
关于Text Completion(文本填空)题型的介绍,官方指南给我们的解释是这样的:
Text Completion (TC)
A short passage composed of 1–5 sentences, with crucial words omitted. (由1-5个句子组成,重要的词被省略了)
Single blank, 5 choices; or 2–3 blanks, 3 choices per blank. Choose 1 choice per blank.(单空题,配有5个选项;双空题或三空题,每个空配有3个选项。每个空选出一个选项。)
Use the remaining information as the basis for selecting words/phrases to fill in the blanks and create a meaningful and coherent whole. (用题干中的剩余信息做基础,挑选出的词或短语,带入句子中使句子有意义,语义连贯)Single set of correct answer.
No credit for partially correct answer.(只有一组正确答案,部分选对没有分)。单空题,双空题,三空题长相如下
单空(one blank)
A new television documentary focuses on one of the prime ministers defining contradictions, portraying her as a woman who cultivated an image of ______ but who liked to live grandly.
A. irascibility
B. abstemiousness
C. contentiousness
D. insouciance
E. surreptitiousness
双空(two blanks)
Shirky argues that the Internet (i)______ the need for hierarchical structures and the sluggish organizations that (ii)______ them: the Internet makes it possible to do things cheaply and efficiently on one's own.
Blank (i)
A. delineates
B. obviates
C. redoubles
Blank (ii)
D. circumvent
E. perpetuate
F. undervalue
三空题 (three blanks)
Some climatologists dismiss as (i)______ the debate among geophysicists over the role of carbon dioxide in global climate change across many millions of years. These climatologists say the evidence of a tie between carbon dioxide and planetary warming over the last few centuries is so (ii)______ that any longer-term evidence against such a link must somehow be (iii)______.
Blank (i)
A. unavoidable
B. irrelevant
C. undecidable
Blank (ii)
D. unlikely
E. controversial
F. compelling
Blank (iii)
G. tainted
H. accommodated
I. reinforced
关于Sentence Equivalence(句子等价)题型的介绍,官方指南给我们的解释是这样的:
Sentence Equivalence (SE)
A single sentence with one blank. (一个句子一个空)
Single blanks, choose 2 choices out of 6. (从6个选项中选出2个选项填入空中)
Find 2 answer choices that both lead to a complete, coherent sentence and that produce sentences that mean the same thing.(两个选项代入句中,使得句子完整连贯,并且意思一模一样)
Single set of correct answer. No credit for partially correct answer.(只有一组正确答案,部分选对没有分)
After many years of feeling ______ by his senior managers, Clark was becoming hopeful of advancement.
A. vilified
B. stymied
C. hindered
D. aggrieved
E. circumvented
F. overlooked
看完这些题目,大家应该不难发现,单词在我们GRE填空中有举足轻重的地位,所以想取得理想成绩的小伙伴们,一定一定要在考前把GRE考试词汇背熟!!!