填空题是中国考生比较熟悉的一种题型,因为很多中国考生的英语学习都是伴随着“完形填空”展开的。但是,需要再一次强调的是,GRE考试的Text Completion题目考察的重点依然在于逻辑分析能力上,因此考生做题的所有依据都是来自于题干给出的信息;借助文章之外的信息、或者主观的过分推理都不能作为选择答案的依据。
对于这一点,官方的说明如下:
Skilled raters do not simply absorb the information presented on the page; instead, they maintain a constant attitude of interpretation and evaluation, reasoning from what they have read so far to create a picture of the whole and revising that picture as they go.
考生在做题的过程中要不断对题干内容进行理解和评估,从已经阅读的信息中借助逻辑推理出完整的句意。
Text Completion questions test this ability by omitting crucial words from short passages and asking the test taker to use the remaining information in the passage as a basis for selecting words or short phrases to fill the blanks and create a coherent, meaningful whole.
考生需要以题干中给出的信息为依据,选择单词或者词组作为答案,填入句子使其具体通顺、完整。
根据题目中需要补充的空格数不同,我们常常把Text Completion分为三空题、两空题和单空题。
Text Completion例题
· 三空题
It is refreshing to read a book about our planet by an author who does not allow facts to be (i)__________ by politics: well aware of the political disputes about the effects of human activities on climate and biodiversity, this author does not permit them to (ii)__________ his comprehensive description of what we know about our biosphere. He emphasizes the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations, and the (iii)__________, calling attention to the many aspects of planetary evolution that must be better understood before we can accurately diagnose the condition of our planet.
Answer:AEI