GRE填空最新考题剖析和方法解构(一)

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1.        Although she gives badly ____ titles to her musical compositions, they ____ unusual combinations of materials including Gregorian chant, Asian scale patterns and rhythms, electronic sounds, and bird songs.
A.        exotic… belie
B.        eccentric…deploy
C.        traditional…exclude
D.        imaginative…disguise
E.        conventional… incorporate                 
Answer: E
Analysis: The sentence itself is an “Although……” one meaning that the former part standing at the opposite side of the latter part, especially embodying on the object “musical compositions”, thus no difficulty and hesitation can we make to discern the comparison established between the characteristic endowed with the “titles” and the one with the combination of materials indicated in the latter part of the sentence. Thereby we only need to put the opposite feature of the latter one describing the style of combinations, i.e. the word opposite to “unusual” back to the first vacancy, which can help us to shrink the range to the two choices, C and E. How can we decide which is the right to pick up. We find that the second word of the alternative choice is entirely controversial. To have the sentence made sense, we can use no effort to choose E is the right answer, which attaches to the relationship between the two separate parts.

2.        Even though the folktales Partout collected and retold were not solely French in origin, his versions of then were so decidedly French in style that later anthologizers of French folktales have never ____ them.
A.        excluded
B.        admired
C.        collected
D.        promoted
E.        comprehended                           
Answer: A
Analysis: The problem is obviously so easy to handle for the phrase “Even though” help us to grasp the paramount information that the two parts are standing on the antithetic side, and what’s more, the former part is integral offering us such a wholesome body that what we need to cope with the blank is to choose an apropos word revealing the connotation of the attitude “acceptance”. As a result of the existence of qualified word “never”, we should pick up a word near to the meaning of “disregard” or “discard” to fulfill the whole sentence.

3.        In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is imminent, her book does not ridicule all predictions of doom but rather claims that the risks of harm have in many cases been ____.
A.        exaggerated
B.        ignored
C.        scrutinized
D.        derided
E.        increased                                
Answer: A
Analysis: The standard of sentence fulfillment is to make the meaning of sentence into a properly logical chain, briefly, trying your best to let the sentence express a non-paradoxical issue. This is just one of the classical example displayed here waiting for our response. From the first scan we can have no hardness to understand the purpose of the heroine’s book, to argue against the apocalyptic assertions, then the alternative answer cannot subvert this prerequisite, although someone may presumptuously make up his or her mind to choose an antonym constituting an antithetic meaning of the “ridiculous” for the structure of “but rather”. Then the only choice is nothing but A, satisfying both the precondition of the book’s pith and the fundamental structure, and B is short in the attachment with the clause structure, C and E cannot constitute a watershed of the sentence meaning, and D, which no one would choose I think, bespeaks the same meaning of the “ridicule”, which strike against the accordance with the structure.

4.        There seems to be no ____ the reading public’s thirst for books about the 1960’s: indeed, the normal level of interest has ____ recently because of aspiration of popular television documentaries.
A.        quenching… moderated
B.        whetting… mushroomed
C.        curtailing… waned
D.        ignoring… transformed
E.        slaking… increased                       
Answer: C
Analysis: A sentence uses semicolon to weld two independent clauses, which equals with the intention implicitly showing to us that the two are formally equivalent. The first clause tells us the public’s thirst is no what”, mirroring the second one, the normal level of interest has what recently. Then we have two ways to deal with this problem. One is judge the relationship of the two parts according to the word “indeed”, which tells us that the “no what” and “has what” is opposite, further put, the two blanks are congruous, which leads our mind to fix on the choice C. Pay attention, moderated cannot exactly express the explicit reverse dimension of the tarnishing of the resplendence of books’ thirst, but instead at most a trend of tranquility. The other approach is resorting to the comparison made between two different time stages, the former part of the time and the session of “recently”, which alludes us appearance of a classic paradigm of “time contrast”.

5.        Despite a tendency to be overtly ____, the poetry of the Middle Ages often sparks the imagination and provides lively entertainment, as well as pious sentiments.
A.        diverting
B.        emotional
C.        didactic
D.        romantic
E.        whimsical                              
Answer: C
Analysis: Another instance for training us the judgment of the relationship between the former clause and the latter one. “Despite” tells us we ought to choose a word denying the latter allowance, and we read to know that the element permitted to express is personal feeling and thinking, which must have constituted a contrary meaning with the former part. And only the didactic behavior we can prejudge in our mind before our eyes scanning to the item C.

6.        One of the first ____ of reduced burning in Amazon rain forests was the chestnut industry: smoke tends to drive out the insects that, by pollinating chestnut tree, allow chestnuts to develop.
A.        reformers
B.        discoveries
C.        casualties
D.        critics
E.        beneficiaries                           
Answer: E
Analysis: Due to the disabled ingredient dispersed in the first half part of the sentence, and the semicolon alludes us to catch the hidden clues from the given part of the latter clause, we should at once search for the hope of solution in there. As we can see, the latter part imparts us the knowledge of the jeopardy of the smoke threatening the survival of the chestnuts, and the subjects of the former part put into discussion is the result of “reduced smoke”. Oh, that’s an idea not bad for the salvage of chestnut industry, then E precisely bespeaks this layer of meaning.

7.        The research committee urged the archaeologist to ____ her claim that the tomb she has discovered was that of Alexander the Great since her initial report has been based only on ____.
A.        disseminate… supposition
B.        withdraw… evidence
C.        undercut… caprice
D.        document… conjecture
E.        downplay… facts                        
Answer: C
Analysis: The sentence seems obscure for the two blanks being so tightly reciprocal that we cannot rely on any evidence exhibited on the surface to deduce either one of them. However, have you noticed the seemly subtle word “only”? If yes, then you have succeed half of the sentence completion, since you at least have concluded that the attitude the research committee taken towards the report of the female archaeologist is “negative”. Then the first blank should belong to a verb standing for denial, which one can be preserved for this sifting? Yes, B, C and E. Then we should take a consideration of the second blank revealing the shortage of her evidence or cogency. Only on what? Evidence is cogent, as we know, at least for objective ones, and facts are too. But caprice is excluded for the hegemony of personal will involving imagination, prejudice, or the like. Hence no hesitation shall we make to choose C and go on to the next section.

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