GRE考试：GRE填空支招2
3. 对于含义晦涩的句子，判断语气或感情色彩是有效地解决方法，有时候甚至是唯一的方法。Johnson never ___ to ignore the standards of decent conduct mandated by company policy if ___ compliance with instructions from his superiors enabled him to do so, whatever the effects on his subordinates.
A. deigned.. tacitB. attempted.. halfheartedC. intended.. direct
D. scrupled.. literalE. wished.. feigned
这句话对于英语阅读能力较差的学生来说，通过正常的阅读理解来做还是有些难度的。但是如果注意到whatever the effects on his subordinates(无论对下级产生什么影响)的语气，就可以判断第一空格填入后应表示johnson干的不是什么好事，唯一符合这一判断的是D选项。
Ironically, the party leaders encountered no greater ___ their efforts to build a progressive party than the ___ of the progressives already elected to the legislature.
A. support for.. advocacyB. threat to.. promiseC. benefit from.. success
D. obstacle to.. resistanceE. praise for.. reputation
如果知道encounter的正确用法，就可以判断第一空格应填入一个负面色彩的词，这样就轻松排除了A、C、E三个选项，结合后面的意思来看，只能选D。
Although ___ is usually thought to spring from regret for having done something wrong, it may be that its origin
is the realization that one's own nature is irremediably ___.
A. contrition.. resilientB. certitude.. confidentC.skepticism.. innocent
D. remorse.. flawedE. resignation. frivolous
第二空格被副词irremediably(不可救药地)修饰，根据这个词带出的语气可以判断第二空格应填入一个负面色彩的词，符合这一判断的只有D、E两个选项。第一空格remorse的意思完全地对应“regret for having done something wrong”，故选D。
Any language is a conspiracy against experience in the sense that it is a collective attempt to ___ experience by reducing it into discrete parcels.
A. extrapolateB. transcribeC. complicateD. amplifyE. manage
这句话如果没有看过相关背景的书籍几乎是不可理解的，但是我们可以通过语气和感情色彩的判断来排除错误的选项，最终剩下一个看不出错的选项，也就是正确选项了。因为语言是对抗经验的阴谋（conspiracy against），所以空格应填入一个负面色彩的动作，只有C选项(使复杂化、使变得麻烦)和E选项（manage除了中性的经营管理之外，还可以表示负面的操纵控制）符合这一判断。结合方式状语by reducing（减少、分解、简化）来看，C选项应被排除，最后剩下仍然看不懂句意的E选项就对了。
4．推理判断时注意避免发散思维
Natural selection tends to eliminate genes that cause inherited diseases, acting most strongly against the most severe diseases; consequently, hereditary diseases that are ___ would be expected to be very ___, but, surprisingly, they are not.
A. lethal.. rareB. untreated.. dangerousC. unusual.. refractory
D. new.. perplexingE. widespread.. acute
根据consequently提示的上下因果关系我们可以判断第一空格应填入severe的同义或反义，表示严重或不严重的词只有A选项。B选项表示未曾治疗的，D不用说了。C、E两个选项其实和是否严重没有关系，很多时候干扰选项的设置上利用了我们的习惯思维不缜密的、容易想当然的弱点。很多人会认为不寻常的、很少见的疾病就是严重的，寻常的、随处可见的疾病就是不严重的。但是只要稍微想一下就知道这里面没有任何必然的关系。
Although ___, almost self-effacing in his private life, he displays in his plays and essays a strong ___ publicity and controversy.
A. conventional.. interest inB. monotonous.. reliance onC. shy.. aversion toward
D. retiring.. penchant forE. evasive.. impatience with
第二空格根据转折关系显然只能选A、D两个选项，第一空格会有很多人觉得A选项可以选，因为觉得传统的人就是不喜欢抛头露面的，不喜欢与人争吵的。同样只要想想就该知道这里面没有任何必然的关系，并且即便我们中国传统的人真是这样，这里也没说他是中国人。这种干扰选项的设置路数和上一道题的感觉是完全一样的。
Considering how long she had yearned to see Italy, her first reaction was curiously ___.
A. meditativeB. tepidC. categoricalD. unoriginal E. insightful
干扰选项的设置和上两道题完全一样，A选项的沉思冥想并不表示她所应具有的高兴振奋的态度的相反，正确选项应为B选项（微温的，缺乏热情或激情的），直接表明了与兴奋激动的态度的相反特征。
GRE考试：GRE填空支招2
</p>5．ETS总是倾向于把词义的对应上最为直接的、形同废话的选项设为正确选项The hierarchy of medical occupations is in many ways a ___ system; its strata remain ___ and the practitioners in them have very little vertical mobility.
A. health.. skilledB. delivery.. basicC. regimental.. flexible
D. training.. inferiorE. caste.. intact
医疗职业的等级（hierarchy）在许多方面是一个等级体系（caste system）
The natural balance between prey and predator has been increasingly ___, most frequently by human intervention.
A. celebratedB. predictedC. observedD. disturbedE. questioned
被掠食者和掠食者之间的自然平衡被人类的干扰（intervention）干扰（disturbed）了
Poe's ___ reviews of contemporary fiction, which often find great merit in otherwise ___ literary gems, must make us respect his critical judgment in addition to his well-known literary talent.
A. thorough.. completedB. petulant.. unpopularC. insightful.. unappreciated
D. enthusiastic.. acclaimedE. harsh.. undeserving
爱伦坡有判断力的（insightful）现代小说评论使得我们佩服他的判断力（critical judgment）
Aptly enough, this work so imbued with the notion of changing times and styles has been constantly ___ over the years, thereby reflecting its own mutability.
A.appreciated B. emulated C. criticized D. revised E. reprinted
十分恰当的是，这部充满了变迁（changing）的时代、变迁的风格的作品多年以来一直被改变（revise），从而反映了它自身的可变性(mutability)
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