2012新GRE考试填空例题剖析15
新gre填空增加了双空空题型，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，因此考生在备考新gre填空时大量的阅读训练也必不可少。(OGVerbal Practice Set 1 Q2, Easy)
Kaganmaintains that an infant’s reactions to its first stressful experiences arepart of a naturalprocess of development, notharbingers ofchildhood unhappiness or______ signsofadolescent anxiety.
(A) prophetic
(B) normal
(C) monotonous
(D) virtual
(E) typical
KEY:A
1.关键字：“A … not B or C”模式(“三空格”模式的变体)
2.“A … not B or C”模式，其中“B or C”是同一个事物，与A相反。
3.空中应该填入一个形容词，是对于sign的描述，其应该与harbinger是同义关系，与natural process是反义关系。
4.词语解释
.(A) prophetic：(预兆的)foretelling events : PREDICTIVE
.(B) normal：(普通的)conforming to a type,standard, or regular pattern
.(C) monotonous：(单一音调的)uttered or sounded in oneunvarying tone
.(D) virtual：(虚拟的)of, relating to, or being ahypothetical particle whose existence is inferred from indirect evidence
.(E) typical：(典型的)constituting or having thenature of a type
(OGVerbal Practice Set 1 Q3, Easy)
An investigation that is _______ canoccasionally yield new facts, even notable ones, but typically the appearance of such facts is theresult of a search in a definite direction.
(A) timely
(B) unguided
(C) consistent
(D) uncomplicated www.Examw.com
(E) subjective
KEY:B
1.关键字：“but”
2.空中应该填入一个形容词，是对于“an investigation”的一种形容;
3.后半句中有but出现，应该是与前半句表达相反的意思，而后半句中的“a search”是前半句中的“an investigation”的同义替换，因此空中应该填入一个与在后半句中形容search相反的词语，即“not in a definite direction”。
4.词语解释
.(A) timely：(及时的)appropriate or adapted tothe times or the occasion www.Examw.com
.(B) unguided：(没有导向的)not to direct, supervise, or influence usually to aparticular end
.(C) consistent：(一致的)marked by harmony,regularity, or steady continuity
.(D) uncomplicated：(不复杂的)not difficult to analyze,understand, or explain
.(E) subjective：(主要的)of or relating to theessential being of that which has substance, qualities, attributes, orrelations
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