新gre填空增加了三空題型,自去年新gre改革以來更加側重基礎能力的考察,新gre填空三空題型更多的考察單詞的用法和精確含義,同時天空中加深了閱讀理解能力的考察,因此考生在備考gre填空時大量的閱讀訓練也必不可少。
例8.(OG Verbal Practice Set 3 Q4, Medium)
Richard M. Russell said 52 percent of the nation’s growth since the Second World War had (i) ______invention. He said, (ii) ______research, the government’s greatest role in assuringcontinuinginnovationis promoting a strong, modern patent office. “Unlesswe can (iii) ______original ideas, we will nothaveinvention.” Mr. Russell said. Speculating on the state of innovation over the next century, several inventors agreed that the future lay in giving children the tools to think creatively and the motivation to invent.
BLANK (i) BLANK (ii) BLANK (iii)
(A)been at the expense of (D)in addition to restricting (G)evaluate
(B)no bearing on (E)aside from supporting (H)protect
(C)come through (F)far from exaggerating (I)disseminate
KEY: CEH
(一) 節選出第二、三空格部分
He said, (ii) ______ research, the government’s greatest role in assuring continuing innovation is promoting a strong, modern patent office. “Unless we can (iii) ______ original ideas, we will not have invention.”
1.去除blank2所在的部分,“He said the government’s greatest role in assuring continuing innovation is promoting a strong, modern patent office.”這句話表明R先生的態度是支持科技創新。
2.后文中Unless we can (iii) ______ original ideas, we will not have invention.是對于上文的重述,R先生支持創新,因而需要至少不破壞原創性思想。而上文中說要assuring continuing innovation,innovation與original ideas構成邏輯相關詞關系,因而對其兩者所做的動作等價,即assure,在blank3中選出protect。
3.為了確保有足夠的創新,因而R先生對于科技創新的基礎——研究的態度與其對于科學研究的態度相同,因此在這里,對于continuing創新的要求導致了對于research的態度——支持。
4.選擇與自主判讀已知的詞匯填空
[1].in addition to restricting:除了限制之外(相反)
[2].aside from supporting:除了支持之外(正確)
[3].far from exaggerating:除了夸大之外(無關)
[4].evaluate:(評估)to determine the significance, worth, or condition of usually by careful appraisal and study(無關)
[5].protect:(保護)(正確)
[6].disseminate:(傳播)to disperse throughout(無關)
(二) 最終完成填空
Richard M. Russell said 52 percent of the nation’s growth since the Second World War had (i) ______ invention.
1.R先生對于科技與國家發展持有一個正態度,因而也反映在其對于國家發展對于科技進步的依賴上面,其應該認為國家發展是依靠科技進步來實現的,因而在blank1中填入一個正態度。
2.選擇與自主判讀已知的詞匯填空:
[1].been at the expense of :以……為代價(相反)
[2].no bearing on:對……沒有影響(相反)
[3].come through:來自于……(正確)
(三) 理解句意,看是否邏輯與語義契合:
Richard M. Russell說,二戰以來世界各國的發展有52%可以歸結于發明創造。他說,除了支持科學研究以外,政府對于確保一國能有持續穩定的發明創造的最重要的任務就是推廣一個強有力的現代專利局。R先生還說:“除非我們能夠保護原創性觀點,否則我們就不會有發明創造”。展望下個世紀發明創造的前景之后,許多發明家在同這樣一個觀點,就是未來在于給予我們的孩子們創造性思維的工具,同時給予他們足夠的刺激去發明創造新生事物。
新gre填空更加注重實際運用語言能力的考察,減少了對單詞純意義的考察,所以備考新gre填空考試的考生可以根據以上gre官方指南對三空題型的解析進行備考。