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13. (Revised GRE Practice Book Section 4 Q8) (ADH)
But they pay little attention to the opposite and more treacherous failing: false certainty, refusing to confess their mistakes and implicitly claiming (i) ______, thereby embarrassing the nation and undermining the Constitution, which established various mechanisms of self-correction on the premise that even the wisest men are sometimes wrong and need, precisely when they find it most (ii) ______, the benefit of (iii) ______ process.
BLANK (i) BLANK (ii) BLANK (iii)
(A) infallibility (D) discomfiting (G) an adaptable
(B) immunity (E) expedient (H) a remedial
(C) impartiality (F) imminent (I) an injudicious
(一) 選取第一空所在部分:
But they pay little attention to the opposite and more treacherous failing: false certainty, refusing to confess their mistakes and implicitly claiming (i) ______ …
冒號表示解釋說明,前后兩個分句意思一致;前半句說這些人“pay little attention to failing”,則后半句中也應該說這些人對于錯誤不管不顧,而后半句中說這些人refusing to confess their mistakes,同時用and連接表并列關系,后半部分與“refusing to confess their mistakes”意思也一致,因而后半部分,即blank(i)所在部分也是“不承認錯誤”的意思。
選擇與自主判讀一致的詞匯填空:
[1]. infallibility:(無誤的)incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals
[2]. immunity:(免疫力)the quality or state of being immune
[3]. impartiality:(公正的)not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally
(二) 選取第三空所在部分:
… the Constitution, which established various mechanisms of self-correction on the premise that even the wisest menare sometimes wrong and need the benefit of (iii) ______ process.
將blank(ii)部分先省略,從blank(iii)入手,發現整句話可以變形為:
… the Constitution established various mechanisms of self-correction on the premise that even the wisest men need the benefit of (iii) ______ process.
On the premise that可以視為“because”,整個一句話就變成一個因果關系的句子,前后兩個分句意思一致,又沒有任何否定詞,故對應詞語之間是同義關系。整句話就變為“憲法建立自我救贖的機制是因為人們需要_______機制”,故blank(iii)應該填入的就是“拯救、救贖”之意。
選擇與自主判讀一致的詞匯填空:
[1]. adaptable:(可適應的)capable of being adapted : SUITABLE
[2]. remedial:(挽救性的)intended as a remedy
[3]. injudicious:(不明智的)not judicious : INDISCREET, UNWISE
(三) 選取第二空所在部分:
…the Constitution, which established various mechanisms ofself-correction on the premise that even the wisest men are sometimes wrong and need, precisely when they find it most (ii) ______ …
這句話中blank(ii)是指智者在什么情況下會要用到憲法所提供的自我救贖的機制。
對于智者,尤其是最有智慧的那些來說,犯錯通常比較困難,而一旦犯錯,其最佳的選擇是自己改正問題,以避免不必要的尷尬與問題。看選項后,無論是“權益的”還是“迫近的”,都不如“尷尬的”這個詞能有效體現出這些情況發生之少、以及發生以后需要自己改正的必要性。
選擇與自主判讀一致的詞匯填空:
[1]. discomfiting:(尷尬的)to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : DISCONCERT
[2]. expedient:(權宜的)characterized by concern with what is opportune; especially : governed by self-interest
[3]. imminent:(迫近的)ready to take place; especially : hanging threateningly over one's head
(四) 理解句意,看是否邏輯與語義契合:
基于一種假定,也就是即便是最智慧的人有時、更多情況下是他們認為最尷尬的時候也會犯錯,同時需要從一種挽救機制中改正自己的錯誤,憲法本身設立了許多機制來提供自我改正的可能。但這些人他們對于那些相反的、更加奸詐的錯誤:即便是肯定錯誤的,但他們還是拒絕去承認自己的錯誤,并且還隱晦地稱自己是沒有錯誤的行為卻使國家與憲法蒙羞。
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。