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9. (OG Verbal Practice Set 5 Q5, Hard)(BDI)
Managers who think that strong environmental performance will (i) ______ their company’s financial performance often (ii) ______ claims that systems designed to help them manage environmental concerns are valuable tools. By contrast, managers who perceive environmental performance to be (iii) ______ to financial success may view an environmental management system as extraneous. In either situation, and whatever their perceptions, it is a manager’s commitment to achieving environmental improvement rather than the mere presence of a system that determines environmental performance.
BLANK (i) BLANK (ii) BLANK (iii)
(A) attainment of (D) essentially irrelevant (G) most prosaic
(B) rumination on (E) utterly mysterious (H) somewhat hackneyed
(C) detachment from (F) thoroughly commonplace (I) refreshingly novel
(一) 選取第一個空格所在部分:
Philosophy, unlike most other subjects, does not try to extend our knowledge by discovering new informationabout the world. Instead it tries to deepen our understanding through (i) ______ what is already closest to us …
前后兩句話之間是通過instead進行連接的,因而前后兩句話之間是反義關系,而前半句話中有一個否定詞not存在,因而前后兩句話顏色對應的部分是同義關系。因而在blank(i)中填入一個discover的同義詞即可。
選擇與自主判讀一致的詞匯填空:
[1]. attainment of:獲得
[2]. rumination on:冥想(思維層次的深入發掘)
[3]. detachment from:分離
(二) 選取第二、三個空格所在部分:
… through (i) rumination on what is already closest to us —the experiences, thoughts, concepts, and activities that make up our lives but that ordinarily escape our noticeprecisely because theyare so familiar. Philosophy begins by finding (ii) ______ the thingsthatare (iii) ______.
前面一空處可以知道,哲學是通過發掘現存事物的內在而加深我們的認知的,因而blank(iii)中所述哲學開始時的研究對象也就是那些“what is already closest to us”與“familiar”的事物。
選擇與自主判讀一致的詞匯填空:
[1]. most prosaic:最平淡的(familiar的最直接的對應)
[2]. somewhat hackneyed:有些陳腐的
[3]. refreshingly novel:令人耳目一新的新穎
而對于blank(ii)而言,哲學的目的在于從平常的事物之中發現不尋常的東西,從而擴展我們的視野,因而選取ordinary的反義詞就可以了。
選擇與自主判讀一致的詞匯填空:
[1]. essentially irrelevant:本質上不相關
[2]. utterly mysterious:完全神秘的
[3]. thoroughly commonplace:完全平庸的
(三) 理解句意,看是否邏輯與語義契合:
與其他絕大多數學科不同的是,哲學并不是通過發現與世界相關的新的信息來擴展我們的知識層面。取而代之的是哲學往往通過深入發掘那些在我們身邊已經存在的事物——包括經驗、思想、概念與活動等——那些構成我們生活卻往往因為太過熟悉而被忽略的事物的內涵而加深我們對于不同東西的理解。可以說哲學的從一開始就在找尋那些蘊藏在最平庸事物之中的神秘之處。
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。