首先你應該知道的一些事實:
★ 在GRE verbal每個section的38道題當中,填空題占了7道題。和中國學生感覺頭疼的閱讀部分比起來,填空是一個相對容易在短時間內提高成績的部分。對于只想考個合格的分數的學生來說,做對5道題就可以了。
★ 每個section的正確率想要穩定在五個左右,詞匯是基礎,記住GRE詞匯書上的百分之八、九十的詞匯之前,談正確率是沒有意義的。
★ 解題技巧多少有些幫助,但不能指望閱讀能力奇差的人單憑前人總結的經驗技巧就能考到一個夠用的分數。
★ 如果想要每個section的正確率總是穩定在六個以上,那需要你的實力(這需要很好的閱讀理解能力和清晰的邏輯頭腦)而不是什么技巧?紓夠用的分數還有些技巧,考高分一般說來是沒什么技巧的。
★ GRE填空題是GRE general test的一部分。general test是對所有不同專業的學生進行的考試,所以為了公平起見,解題點上不能涉及任何背景知識(盡管在句子內容上涉及了大量唬人的背景知識)。因為GRE 填空屬于語文考試,所以不管填空句的內容涉及到的是什么,在考試中你需要的僅僅是語文知識而已。
★ 先大致地分析推理,猜出應該填什么詞(或僅僅猜出應該填什么樣的詞)之后再看選項,不要直接把選項帶入讀。這樣做通常能夠躲掉干擾選項的誤導。因為大部分的干擾選項具有這樣的特征:你看到它之前很難想到它,但是一旦你看到它,就覺得它好像也很對。
★ 先讀句子的主干結構是良好的解題習慣(雖然解題并不一定要讀出句子的主干)
就這幾招:
1.根據關鍵詞匯來判斷語言上的基本邏輯關系
因果、(because, in that, for, therefore, thus, accordingly, consequently, given, hence, so…that, so...as to, if…then, when...then, as long as……)轉折、(albeit, although, though, but, despite, even though, however, in spite of, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, while, whatever, regardless, even if, even though, yet, and yet……)遞進、(even, indeed………)對比、(in contrast, on the contrary, far from, on the other hand, rather than, instead of, not…but, paradoxically, ironically, surprisingly, unexpectedly, curiously……)等等。
2.尋找句子中的重復關系
作為研究生院入學的參考考試,也許是為了體現內容有深度,很多句子涉及到了各個學科的背景知識。同時基于對所有學科學生都要公平的原則,所有的題目在解題點上都不涉及背景知識。為了做到這一點,很多時候ETS都是把答案放到句子中,然后用語言上的線索提示你去把它找出來。以下是提供重復線索的幾種常見形式:
(1) 簡單的直接重復
The eradication of pollution is not merely a matter of ___, though the majestic beauty of nature is indeed an important consideration.
A. economics B. legislation C. cleanliness D. aesthetics E. restoration
盡管大自然的美確實很重要,但污染的消除不僅是什么問題,當然不僅是美的問題。
Comparatively few rock musicians are willing to laugh at themselves, although a hint of----can boost sales of video clips very nicely.
A. self-deprecation B. congeniality C. cynicism D. embarrassment E. self-doubt
搖滾樂手很少自嘲,盡管什么東西能促進錄像短片的銷售,當然就填自嘲。
Melodramas, which presented stark oppositions between innocence and criminality, virtue and corruption, good and evil, were popular precisely because they offered the audience a world ___of___.
A. bereft.. theatricality B. composed.. adversity C. full.. circumstantiality D. deprived.. polarity
E. devoid.. neutrality
Melodramas這個詞不認識也沒關系,既然它表現的是無辜與罪行、道德與墮落、善與惡之間的刻板對立,那么它提供給觀眾什么樣的世界呢?當然是刻板對立的世界,只有E選項符合要求。
(2) 解釋型重復
The Muses are___deities: they avenge themselves without mercy on those who weary of their charms.
A. rueful B. ingenuous C. solicitous D. vindictive E. dispassionate
冒號后面的內容就是正確選項D這個詞的釋義,所以不知道繆斯是什么東西也能輕松選對。
Unenlightened authoritarian managers rarely recognize a crucial reason for the low levels of serious conflict among members of democratically run work groups: a modicum of tolerance for dissent often prevents___.
A. demur B. schism C. cooperation D. compliance E. shortsightedness
冒號后面的內容解釋了民主方式運作的工作團體中為何少有嚴重的沖突,所以即使看不懂a modicum of
tolerance for dissent是什么東西,也應該知道這個東西避免了嚴重沖突,故選B。
(3) 根據語法結構推斷重復:
The valedictory address, as it has developed in American colleges and universities over the years, has become a very strict form, a literary ___ that permits very little ___.
A. text.. clarity B. work.. tradition C. genre.. deviation
D. oration.. grandiloquence E. achievement.. rigidity
a literary ___ that permits very little ___. 是前面的a very strict form的同位語,所以第一空格填form的同義或近義詞,that permits very little___. 這個從句完成后應為strict的同義或近義詞。
Many more eighteenth-century novels were written by women than by men, but this dominance has, until very