与现行的GRE考试填空题只有五中选一的单选题,而题干只设单空或两空的形式相比,新GRE考试中填空题的题型有较大改变。 基本题型有两种: 一种可以被称作“单空双选题”,例:For the following questions, select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning. 即“在下面的问题中,选择两个答案来完成句子,所选的两个答案要符合句子的整体意思并且使所完成的两个句子的意思相近。”
It is truly paradoxical that the Amazon, the lushest of all rainforests, is rooted in the most of all soils. (摘自新GRE样题第1题)
A. acidic B. coarse C. stark D. impoverished E. infertile F. austere
此题并不困难,题干中有一个明显的取反标志“paradoxical”,而中心词是“lushest”即葱郁繁茂的,我们在五个选项中找它的反义词即可得到正确答案为 D impoverished 和E infertile,他们都有贫瘠的意思。这样我们就得到了两个词并且它们所完成的具意相似,即:“这真是自相矛盾,作为世界上最繁茂热带雨林的亚马逊森林却植根于世界上最贫瘠的土地。”
另一种可以称作“列表选择题”例如:For the following questions, select one entry for each blank from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text. 即“在下面的问题中,为每一个空格在对应的列表中选择一个条目,使之最合适来完成文意。”
New technologies often begin by (i) what has gone before, and they change the world later. Think how long it took power-using companies to recognize that with electricity they did not need to cluster their machinery around the power source, as in the days of steam. Instead, power could be (ii) their processes. In that sense, many of today‘s computer networks are still in the steam age. Their full potential remains unrealized.(摘自新GRE样题第15题)