考生在掌握了GRE填空的一些技巧和方法之后就需要练习来进行巩固,这里就为大家详细讲解一些GRE填空五选一经典例题。
1. Many artists believe that successful imitation, far from being symptomatic of a lack of______, is the first step in learning to be creative.
A. elegance
B. resolution
C. goodness
D. originality
E. sympathy
首先读题干,读题干的时候一定要注意一些表示让步或者是转折的标志词。这道题中主句和从句,由于主句中没有空格,所以主要看从句。从句中的主语是successful imitation,谓语是is,中间是插入语。这句话表达的意思是:模仿是创新的第一步。接着看插入语,其中的关键词far from表示“远非”,表示对比,要与句子意思取反。但是句子中又有一个lack表示“缺少”,所以要与中心词creative意思取同,答案选D“创新、原创”。
2. Usually the first to spot data that were inconsistent with other findings, in this particular experiment she let a numberof______results slip by.
A. inaccurate
B. verifiable
C. redundant
D. salient
E. anomalous
首先读题目,然后找出找关键词,看空格成分与谁取同或者取非。这道题中首先注意到表示时间的词Usually,表示通常她是第一个发现和其他研究结果不一致数据的人,在后半句中“this particular”与usually相对,后面的slip by“溜走”有否定的意思,与spot相对,所以空格中所填的词与上文的inconsistent with other findings意思取同。A 错误的,不准确的,和"与"不一致"是两个概念,不能选。B 能证实的;C 冗余的;D 突出的;E 不协调,不一致。E 选项为正确答案。
3. Paradoxically, Robinson’s excessive denials of the worth of early works of science fiction suggest that she has become quite ___ them.
A. reflective about
B. enamored of
C. skeptical of
D. encouraged by
E. offended by
文章Paradoxically表示“矛盾的”,表示对比,转折,确定空格的信息与已知的信息是取反的。类似的用法有surprising、ironically等词。后面出现了表示Robinson态度的词,excessive denials(过度的否定),这是句子的核心词,of后面的内容可以不看,直接看suggest that…。原文表示不喜欢、讨厌,因为有Paradoxically的修饰,所以空格应选一个正向的词汇,表示喜欢的,选B。D项也是一个正向的词汇,但是感情色彩没有B项强烈,所以可以排除。
4. Noting the murder victim’s flaccid musculature and pearlike figure, she deduced that the unfortunate fellow had earned his living in some ___ occupation.
A. treacherous
B. prestigious
C. ill-paying
D. illegitimate
E. sedentary
主干部分是she deduced that…,分词短语 Noting…做状语表示和句子构成因果关系,所以可以从前面句子的外表特征推断句子主语的职业,表示外形特征的两个词是flaccid musculature 和 pearlike figure,所以空格应该和 victim 的特点“松弛的肌肉和梨形身材”一致,即什么样的职业会让这个人出现松弛的肌肉和梨形身材。A 背叛的,背信弃义的;B 声望很高的;C 工资低的;D 违法的;E 长期坐着不锻炼的。很显然,只有长期坐着而且缺乏锻炼的工作才会产生松弛的肌肉和梨一样的身材,答案选 E。
5. The English novelist William Thackeray considered the cult of the criminal so dangerous that he criticized Dickens' Oliver Twist for making the characters in the thieves' kitchen so______.
A. threatening
B. riveting
C. conniving
D. fearsome
E. irritating
先看前面的句子表示犯罪崇拜是相当危险的,句子中有一个so…that…结构表达因果关系,后半句表示的是他批评狄更斯在《雾都孤儿》中把贼描绘得如此…。“犯罪(criminal)”和"贼窝中的角色(the characters in the thieves' kitchen)”语义对应,所以空格要填的是是一个正向的词。所以答案选B,迷人的,吸引人的。A 威胁的;C 纵容的;D 可怕的;E 气人的。注意,题干中“dangerous”是和“criticized”对应的,不能填入到空格中。
6. The term “modern” has always been used broadly by historians, and recent reports indicate that its meaning has become more _____ than ever.
A. precise
B. pejorative
C. revisionist
D. acceptable
E. amorphous
先读题干,注意题目中的and连词,表示前后两个句子并列。前面句子的意思是modern这个词被历史学家广泛地使用了,and后面的句子表示,现在的报告显示这个词比之前更…。句子中有一个more than结构,表示递进,所以空格中所填的词应该比之前used broadly的意思重复,而且色彩更强烈,表示更加广泛。A精确,B轻蔑的,C修正主义;D可接受的,E不定型的。E选项符合,强调的感情更加强烈。
7. It was her view that the country’s problems had been________ by foreign technocrats, so that to invite them to come back would be counterproductive.
A. foreseen
B. attacked
C. ascertained
D. exacerbated
E. analyze
空格填入一个动词,表示“外国技术专家(foreign technocrats)”对“这个国家的问题(the country’s problems)”所做的动作。so that表达因果关系,them指代foreign technocrats,后面表示的是对他们是负评价,所以空格也要填入一个负动作。A预见;B攻击;C确信;D恶化;E分析。B和D选项都是负评价,但是D选项感情色彩更强烈,所以选D。
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补充练习题:
1. The current demand for quality in the schools seems to ask not for the development of informed and active citizens, but for disciplined and productive workers with abilities that contribute to civic life only _______, if at all.
(A) indirectly
(B) politically
(C) intellectually
(D) sensibly
(E) sequentially
分析:空格填入一个副词,表示对"对市民生活做贡献(contribute to civic life)"的修饰,not…but…结构表达前后对比关系,所以空格应该体现和"博学的,积极主动的公民(informed and active citizens)"对社会做的贡献相对,也就是"不博学,不积极主动"的含义。A 间接地;B 政治上地;C 聪明地,理性地;D 敏感地;E 顺序地。只有答案 A 体现了"不积极主动"的含义。
2. The Chinese, who began systematic astronomical and weather observations shortly after the ancient Egyptians, were assiduous record-keepers, and because of this, can claim humanity's longest continuous _____ of natural events.
(A) defiance
(B) documentation
(C) maintenance
(D) theory
(E) domination
分析:空格填入一个名词,表示与"自然事件(natural events)"有关,并且是"中国人(Chinese)"所"宣称拥有(claim)"的。And 连接两个谓语动词,表示因果关系,所以 claim 对应 keepers,空格填入"记录(record)"的含义。A 违抗,蔑视;B 文件,文本;C 维持,维护;D 理论;E 统治,主宰。B 选项正确。
以上就是一些GRE填空五选一经典例题讲解,希望对考生更加深入地掌握填空题的解题方法有帮助。