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10. (OG Verbal Practice Set 5 Q4, Hard) (CDH)
No other contemporary poet’s work has such a well-earned reputation for (i) ______, and there are few whose moral vision is so imperiously unsparing. Of late, however, the almost belligerent demands of his severe and densely forbidding poetry have taken an improbable turn. This new collection is the poet’s fourth book in six years—an ample output even for poets of sunny disposition, let alone for one of such (ii) ______ over the previous 50 years. Yet for all his newfound (iii) ______, his poetry is as thorny as ever.
BLANK (i) BLANK (ii) BLANK (iii)
(A) patent accessibility (D) penitential austerity (G) taciturnity
(B) intrinsic frivolity (E) intractable prolixity (H) volubility
(C) near impenetrability (F) impetuous prodigality (I) pellucidity
(一) 選取第一個空格所在的部分:
No other contemporary poet’s work has such a well-earned reputation for (i) ______, and there are few whosemoral vision is so imperiously unsparing. Of late, however, the almost belligerent demands of his severe and densely forbidding poetry have taken an improbable turn.
對于第一句話,“,+and”結構等同于分號,表示兩句話的復指關系,因而第一句話的前后兩個分句是同義關系。
“No other contemporary poet’s”與“few”兩個詞語結構都表示否定,因而其后面所跟的部分其實還是同義關系。
對于后半句話,whose引導的定語從句就是關于該詩人詩歌特點的描述,因而其就是Blank(i)中詞語的同義詞。
而后面,看到of late以后,請不要馬上想到時間對比,其后的however作為一個明顯的轉折標志,其轉折、取反的強度大于時間對比,因而此時時間對比應該讓位于這個更強的轉折,故只有however進行取反。說的是近來這個詩人的詩風發生了變化,而其變化前的特點是“severe and densely forbidding poetry”,也就是這個詩人在Blank(i)中詞語的同義詞。
選擇與自主判讀一致的詞匯填空:
[1].(A) patent accessibility:明白易讀
[2].(B) intrinsic frivolity:輕浮本質
[3].(C) near impenetrability:幾乎難以理解(impenetrable——物理上“不可穿透”、情感上“無動于衷”、內容上“滴水不漏、晦澀難懂”)
(二)選取第二個空格所在的部分:
… an ample output even for poets of sunny disposition, let alone for one of such (ii) ______ over the previous 50 years.
Blank(ii)中應該填入一個名詞,表示這個作家是一個什么樣的人的稱呼。
Even在前半句中作為“哪怕”來講,表示前后兩個半句是反義關系,后半句話用let alone連接表示遞進關系,而這兩句中沒有任何否定詞,因而對應詞語之間是反義關系。
后半句話前半句話中關于詩人的稱呼只有sunny disposition一種,表示是一種“陽光性格”,這種人的特點是愛說話,因而,選取其反義詞作為本空的答案,即“少言寡語”。
選擇與自主判讀一致的詞匯填空:
[1].(D) penitential austerity:低調簡潔
[2].(E) intractable prolixity:不受控制地羅嗦
[3].(F) impetuous prodigality:極度華麗
(三)選取第三個空格所在的部分:
... This new collection is the poet’s fourth book in six years — an ample output even for poets of sunny disposition,let alone for one of such (ii) penitential austerity over the previous 50 years. Yet for all his newfound (iii) ______, his poetry is as thorny as ever.
Blank(iii)中應該填入一個名詞,表示這個詩人近來的一種狀態。
這個狀態在前面已經出現,即這個人在近六年時間內寫了4個詩集——高產、話多,用原文的話就是“ample”,因而找尋一個ample的同義詞就行。
請注意區分yet的作用,是在“Yet for all his newfound (iii) ______, his poetry is as thorny as ever.”這個句子中前半句與后半句進行取反,而不是對于前文所述內容取反。
選擇與自主判讀一致的詞匯填空:
[1].(G) taciturnity:(寡言)temperamentally disinclined to talk
[2].(H) volubility:(能言善辯)characterized by ready or rapid speech : GLIB, FLUENT
[3].(I) pellucidity:(明了)easy to understan
(四)理解句意,看是否邏輯與語義契合:
沒有其他任何當代詩人的作品因為嚴謹而擁有這樣的美名,同時也很少有詩人像他這樣擁有一種不變的道德觀。然而對于后者而言,來自他那些嚴苛的詩歌中那幾乎可以說得上是專斷的說法現在竟然難以置信地發生了轉變。這個詩人最新的詩集是他在6年以來的第四部,而這對于一個開朗健談的詩人來說都是很高產的了,更不用提向他這樣在過去50年里一直惜字如金的詩人了。然而盡管他現在似乎比以前來說不是那么惜字如金了,但是他文字中流露出來的尖刻依舊存在。
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。