2002年11月GRE填空详解
SECTION 1
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…disgui E. conventional… incorporate
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 anthologizes of French folktales have never ____ them.
A. excluded B. admired C. collected D. promoted E. comprehended
3. In arguing against asrtions 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 cas been ____.
A. exaggerated B. ignored C. scrutinized D. derided E. incread
4. There ems to be no ____ the reading public’s thirst for books about the 1960’s: indeed, the normal level of interest has ____ recently becau of aspiration of popular television documentaries.
A. quenching… moderated B. whetting… mushroomed C. curtailing… waned
D. ignoring… transformed E. slaking… incread
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 ntiments.
A. diverting B. emotional C. didactic D. romantic E. whimsical
6. One of the first ____ of reduced burning in Amazon rain forests was the chestnut industry: smoke tends to drive out the incts that, by pollinating chestnut tree, allow chestnuts to develop.
A. reformers B. discoveries C. casualties D. critics E. beneficiaries
7. The rearch 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 bad only on ____.
A. disminate… supposition
B. withdraw… evidence
C. undercut… caprice
D. document… conjecture
E. downplay… facts
SECTION 3
1. The scientist found it puzzling that his theory encountered ______ despite widespread agreement that it was _______
A. respect … crucial B. dismissal…simplistic C. skepticism…unfathomable
D. opposition…indisputable E. acceptance炒股六句口诀…comprehensive
2. The rate at which soil can absorb water ______ with continuous wetting, so the longer a ______ lasts, or the greater the rate of precipitation, the higher the percentage of water that will flow across the ground as runoff and enter stream channels.
A. ris… deluge B. diminishes… drought C. increas… shower
D. decreas… rainstorm E. stabilizes…thaw
3. The ideas expresd in the art historian’s book are more_____ than one would expect on the basis of her rather _____ treatment of her subject in the opening pages.
A. compelling… intriguing B. accessible… recondite C. hidebound… reactionary
D. insightful… innovative E. dispassionate郭沫若书法… evenhanded
4. The meeting on environmental issues produced ____ discussion but no commitment on a plan of action: the many uncertainties surrounding global climatic change and the huge cost of efforts to limit it made the policymakers ____.
A. little…新生寄语 voluble B. heated… contentious C. cordial… quarrelsome
D. frustrating… affable E. interminable… businesslike
5.Art that endures often makes an initially disturbing impact: the profound experience that such art eks to provoke necessarily engenders a certain____.
A. familiarity B. ennui C. upheaval D. intimacy E. tranquility
当悲伤逆流成河6. The history of film reflects the ____ inherent in the medium itlf: film combines still photographs to reprent continuous motion and, while eming to prent life itlf, can
also offer impossible and dreamlike unrealities.
A. trivialities B. bias C. constraints D. paradoxes E. liabilities
7. The ____ with which the politician peppers her speeches are so memorable that many people think of her as being far more ____ than she in fact is.
A. superlatives… egalitarian B. pejoratives…optimistic C. examples… soporific
D. diatribes… censorious E. malapropisms… straightforward
解析：1、根据主干大法，本题的线索主词是she、titles和they、combinations，显然这里they只能是指代her musical compositions （看作titles的同义重复），也就是说句子的转折围绕titles展开。转折前对于titles的评价由第一空决定，转折后titles（they）的评价由unusual combinations决定（这取决于第二空的动词是正评价还是负评价），如果第二空是正评价词，表明titles与unusual combinations一致，那么转折前就应该相反，所以第一空填unusual combinations的反义表达；如果第二空是负评价词，表明titles与unusual combinations相反，所以第一空填unusual combinations的同义表达。第一空只有CE是清楚的脱贫攻坚的意义unusual combinations反义表达，候选。第二空选项单词正负评价正好相反（这是ETS惯用思路，2空题先变成2选1，再取舍就容易多了），根据前面分析只能选正评价的
词汇，所以答案是E。
参考译文：尽管她糟糕地给她的音乐作品赋以寻常的（传统的）题目，但是这些作品却体现出对一些材料的不寻常整合，比如罗马教的圣歌、亚洲的音阶风格节奏、古怪的声响和鸟鸣。
2、太简单了！显然空格后面的瓷砖颜色them指代前面的his versions，由so 。。。白蜜蜡 that结构知道是同义重复，所以that前是his versions与French一致，那么后面也必然是这样，空格前出现负评价词never，所以空格处必须填负评价词。只有唯一的A是负评价词。
参考译文：尽管Partout搜集的民间故事并不仅仅来源于法国，但是那时他的描述却是法国风格以至于后来的法国民间故事集从来都不排除收录它们。
3、主干是清晰的not。。。but结构，但是我们不能确定all predictions of doom与the risks of harm是否同义重复，所以需要参考伴随状态的In arguing against asrtions that environmental catastrophe is imminent，而在这里我们清晰地发现了the risks of harm的同义重复environmental catastrophe。伴随状态一定与主句一致，意思是对environmental catastrophe is imminent进行arguing against驳斥，所以空格中的词汇既然是claims指出的
就应该与驳斥的相反，所以应该体现出not imminent。只有A。
参考译文：在对“环境灾难临近”的观点进行驳斥的过程中，她的书并没有嘲笑所有的命运预测，而是指出灾害的风险在许多情况中被夸大了。
4、第一空无法轻松判断，第二空是现在完成时并且出现了recently（重要的时间对比特征词，最近发生的动作一定是与以前相反），前面无论是否出现about the 1960’s也应该知道一般现在时There ems to be表示一般惯常状态，现在完成时岳飞传小说+ recently表示最近发生的动作，是对过去或者一般状态的改变，所以“no+第一空”应该与第二空相反（题感好的同学应该能够马上觉察到the reading public’s thirst与the normal level of interest是同义重复，尤其是thirst 与interest很明显），以前thirst没有什么和现在interest有什么，正好与时间相反一致，两空填同义词即可，只有C。注意moderate不表示quenching熄灭。
