新GRE考试填空题课堂辅导二十四
1. It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of ________.(A) maturity
(B) fiction
(C) inventiveness
(D) art
(E) brilliance
2. Despite assorted effusions to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and humanism, and, quite possibly, there may be something of a ________ between them.
(A) generality
(B) fusion
(C) congruity
(D) dichotomy
(E) reciprocity
3. The poet W. H. Auden believed that the greatest poets of his age were almost necessarily irresponsible, that the possession of great gifts ________ the ________ to abuse them.
(A) negates ... temptation
(B) controls ... resolution
(C) engenders ... propensity
(D) tempers ... proclivity
(E) obviates ... inclination
4. Regardless of what ________ theories of politics may propound, there is nothing that requires daily politics to be clear, thorough, and consistent — nothing, that is, that requires reality to conform to theory.
(A) vague
(B) assertive
(C) casual
(D) vicious
(E) tidy
5. There are no solitary, free-living creatures; every form of life is ________ other forms.
(A) segregated from
(B) parallel to
(C) dependent on
(D) overshadowed by
(E) mimicked by
6. For some time now, ________ has been presumed not to exist: the cynical conviction that everybody has an angle is considered wisdom.
(A) rationality
(B) flexibility
(C) diffidence
(D) disinterestedness
(E) insincerity
7. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look ________; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from asense of the ________ of natural beauty and human glory.
(A) beautiful ... immutability
(B) cheerful ... transitoriness
(C) colorful ... abstractness
(D) luxuriant ... simplicity
(E) conventional ... wildness
新GRE考试填空题课堂辅导二十四
4.regardless of 不管，不顾；这道题的结构是：Regardless of 放在句首作转折关系，后面给出一个
there be 句型，两个nothing 引导的部分是一个there be 句型拆解出来的
的两个there be 句型引导的内部结构。
在句首有一个转折结构，找反义词；两个 nothing 起到了一个否定词的价
值。
a. 如果在后面找到理论的特点，第一个空格应填同义词；转折里出现了否定
词，需填同义词。
b. 把两个 nothing that requires 提炼出来之后，在它之后所引导的部分
相当于特殊并列句，两句话也是应该内容一致的。
答案 E tidy 清晰的，严谨的；
介绍下面一个句型变化：并列中有否定
主要包含下面三种句型的变化结构：
a. 如果是关于 and 的并列句型，句子前面有一个关键词 A ，还有一个 not 的否定词或者是 no 等其他的否定概念；而后面也存在着一个否定，与前面的否定相平衡，那么空格里填 A 的同义词 A’ 即可。
b. 也是关于 and 的并列句型，句子前面有 A 概念作关键词，且出现一个否定词，但在后面填空时没有任何否定与它平衡，那么空格里填 A 的反义词。
c. 是一个 and 引导的并列，前面有一个 A 概念，后面有一个 A 的反义词，那么空格里填否定词。
5. 答案 C
6. for some time now 到目前来说有一段时间了；
冒号表示"解释了"，是上下并列；前面有 not 否定词；填反义词。
cynical conviction 是一个典型的形容词修饰名词的结构，后面有 that 引
导的从句；that 引导的从句应做真正的关键词，也即 everybody has an
angle。
angle 角度，立场；
everybody has an angle 美国俚语，指每个人都有私心。
disinterestedness 公正客观；
答案 D
cynical - cynicism 犬儒主义：是古雅典一个著名的思想学派，它对人的理性思维加以挑战；
有这么几个特点 ：悲观，怀疑，嘲笑。
7. resulting from 既是因果关系，又是现在分词。这对解题是很有帮助的。
immutability 永恒不变；transitoriness 短暂；
答案 B
pleasure gardens 是一个名词修饰名词的现象，很多时候第一个词起到了
形容词的作用。
parts of 体现出部分和整体的反差。
abstractness 抽象；simplicity 简单；wildness 野性；
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