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) 选取第一空所在部分：

　　But they pay little attention to the opposite and more treacherous failing: false certainty, refusing to confess their mistakes and implicitly claiming (i) ______ …

　　冒号表示解释说明，前后两个分句意思一致;前半句说这些人“pay little attention to failing”，则后半句中也应该说这些人对于错误不管不顾，而后半句中说这些人refusing to confess their mistakes，同时用and连接表并列关系，后半部分与“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“不承认错误”的意思。

　　选择与自主判读一致的词汇填空：

　　[1]. infallibility：(无误的)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) 选取第三空所在部分：

　　… 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.

　　将blank(ii)部分先省略，从blank(iii)入手，发现整句话可以变形为：

　　… 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可以视为“because”，整个一句话就变成一个因果关系的句子，前后两个分句意思一致，又没有任何否定词，故对应词语之间是同义关系。整句话就变为“宪法建立自我救赎的机制是因为人们需要_______机制”，故blank(iii)应该填入的就是“拯救、救赎”之意。

　　选择与自主判读一致的词汇填空：

　　[1]. adaptable：(可适应的)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) 选取第二空所在部分：

　　…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) ______ …

　　这句话中blank(ii)是指智者在什么情况下会要用到宪法所提供的自我救赎的机制。

　　对于智者，尤其是最有智慧的那些来说，犯错通常比较困难，而一旦犯错，其最佳的选择是自己改正问题，以避免不必要的尴尬与问题。看选项后，无论是“权益的”还是“迫近的”，都不如“尴尬的”这个词能有效体现出这些情况发生之少、以及发生以后需要自己改正的必要性。

　　选择与自主判读一致的词汇填空：

　　[1]. discomfiting：(尴尬的)to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : DISCONCERT

　　[2]. expedient：(权宜的)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，看是否逻辑与语义契合：

　　基于一种假定，也就是即便是最智慧的人有时、更多情况下是他们认为最尴尬的时候也会犯错，同时需要从一种挽救机制中改正自己的错误，宪法本身设立了许多机制来提供自我改正的可能。但这些人他们对于那些相反的、更加奸诈的错误：即便是肯定错误的，但他们还是拒绝去承认自己的错误，并且还隐晦地称自己是没有错误的行为却使国家与宪法蒙羞。

　　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。