新gre填空增加了三空题型,自去年新gre改革以来更加侧重基础能力的考察,新gre填空三空题型更多的考察单词的用法和精确含义,同时天空中加深了阅读理解能力的考察,因此考生在备考gre填空时大量的阅读训练也必不可少。
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) 节选出第二、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.”这句话表明R先生的态度是支持科技创新。
2.后文中Unless we can (iii) ______ original ideas, we will not have invention.是对于上文的重述,R先生支持创新,因而需要至少不破坏原创性思想。而上文中说要assuring continuing innovation,innovation与original ideas构成逻辑相关词关系,因而对其两者所做的动作等价,即assure,在blank3中选出protect。
3.为了确保有足够的创新,因而R先生对于科技创新的基础——研究的态度与其对于科学研究的态度相同,因此在这里,对于continuing创新的要求导致了对于research的态度——支持。
4.选择与自主判读已知的词汇填空
[1].in addition to restricting:除了限制之外(相反)
[2].aside from supporting:除了支持之外(正确)
[3].far from exaggerating:除了夸大之外(无关)
[4].evaluate:(评估)to determine the significance, worth, or condition of usually by careful appraisal and study(无关)
[5].protect:(保护)(正确)
[6].disseminate:(传播)to disperse throughout(无关)
(二) 最终完成填空
Richard M. Russell said 52 percent of the nation’s growth since the Second World War had (i) ______ invention.
1.R先生对于科技与国家发展持有一个正态度,因而也反映在其对于国家发展对于科技进步的依赖上面,其应该认为国家发展是依靠科技进步来实现的,因而在blank1中填入一个正态度。
2.选择与自主判读已知的词汇填空:
[1].been at the expense of :以……为代价(相反)
[2].no bearing on:对……没有影响(相反)
[3].come through:来自于……(正确)
(三) 理解句意,看是否逻辑与语义契合:
Richard M. Russell说,二战以来世界各国的发展有52%可以归结于发明创造。他说,除了支持科学研究以外,政府对于确保一国能有持续稳定的发明创造的最重要的任务就是推广一个强有力的现代专利局。R先生还说:“除非我们能够保护原创性观点,否则我们就不会有发明创造”。展望下个世纪发明创造的前景之后,许多发明家在同这样一个观点,就是未来在于给予我们的孩子们创造性思维的工具,同时给予他们足够的刺激去发明创造新生事物。
新gre填空更加注重实际运用语言能力的考察,减少了对单词纯意义的考察,所以备考新gre填空考试的考生可以根据以上gre官方指南对三空题型的解析进行备考。