GRE10月考前冲刺指导(二) ——96.4大陆题目分析

SECTION(:VERB)1

1.(:SENTENCE) While scientists dismiss as fanciful the idea of sudden changes in a genetic code (spontaneous
  mutation), it is possible that nature, like some master musician, ---- on occasion, departing  from the expected or predictable.
  (A) repeats
  (B) improvises
  (C) ornaments
  (D) corrects
  (E) harmonizes
分析：离空格最近的短语将决定空格方向,departing from the expected or predictable 所以本题选择B。
答案：B

2.(:SENTENCE) Despite the ---- of time, space, and history, human societies the world over have confronted
  the same existential problems and have come to remarkably ---- solutions, differing only in superficial details.
  (A) continuity.. identical
  (B) uniformity.. diverse
  (C) actualities.. varied
  (D) contingencies.. similar
  (E) exigencies.. unique
分析：尽管本题看似是一道despite题型，但是这个点不好做，不如直接看and题型：形式对称且含义相同，所以本题选the same的同义词，又因为离空格最近的短语将决定空格方向，differing only superficial details 所以不能选A identical，只能选similar。
答案：E

3.(:SENTENCE) Although he was known to be extremely ---- in his public behavior, scholars have discovered
  that his diaries were written with uncommon ----.
  (A) reserved.. frankness
  (B) polite.. tenderness
  (C) modest.. lucidity
  (D) reticent.. vagueness
  (E) withdrawn.. subtlety
分析：以逗号为分割，左边出现了although所以上下文相反且两空都在描述he 的特点，所以选反义词。
答案：A

4.(:SENTENCE) With the ---- of scientific knowledge, work on the new edition of a textbook begins soon after
  completion of the original.
  (A) limitation
  (B) culmination
  (C) veneration
  (D) certainty
  (E) burgeoning
分析：with引起的条件部分，好的条件产生好的结果，所以本题根据右边的begin可以选出来答案为E
答案：E

5.(:SENTENCE) She is most frugal in matters of business, but in her private life she reveals a streak of ----.
  (A) antipathy
  (B) misanthropy
  (C) virtuosity
  (D) equanimity
  (E) prodigality
分析:以逗号为分隔点,逗号右边出现了but左边完整,左边提到节俭,则右边为节俭的反义词.所以答案选择E。
答案：E

6.(:SENTENCE) If the state government's latest budget problems were ----, it would not be useful to employ
  them as ----examples in the effort to avoid the inevitable effects of shortsighted fiscal planning  in the future.
  (A) typical.. representative
  (B) exceptional.. aberrant
  (C) anomalous.. illuminating
  (D) predictable.. helpful
  (E) solvable.. insignificant
分析：二空修饰examples 其后面的介词短语是个正评价词，也是来描述example，所以对于例子也是正评价，可选的选项有CD两个。而在it would 后边出现了否定词not，所以上下文相反，选反义词。
答案：C

7.(:SENTENCE) Just as some writers have ---- the capacity of  language to express meaning, Giacometti ----
  the failure of art to convey reality.
  (A) scoffed at .. adjured
  (B) demonstrated.. exemplified
  (C) denied.. refuted
  (D) proclaimed.. affirmed
  (E) despaired of .. bewailed
分析：just as s v o, s vo,表示正如…一样，下文也发生了相同的事，两空同为谓语，所以应为同义词。
答案：E

SECTION(:VERB) 5

1.(:SENTENCE) In spite of the fact that it is convenient to divide the life span of animals into separate stages such as prenatal, adolescent, and senescent, these periods are not really----.
  (A) advanced
  (B) variable
  (C) repeatable
  (D) connected
  (E) distinct
分析：以逗号为分隔点，逗号左边出现了in spite of 说明上下文相反，而下文出现了not，所以空格与上文相同，根据空格与关键separate=distinct。
答案：E

2.(:SENTENCE) Although the number of reported volcanic eruptions has risen exponentially since 1850.
  This indicates not ---- volcanic activity but rather more widespread and ---- record keeping.
(A) abating..detailed
(B) increasing..systematic
(C) substantial..erratic
(D) stable..superficial
(E) consistent..meticulous
分析：一看逗号找谓语，以逗号为分隔点，逗号左边出现了although 说明上下文相反，下文出现了not所以空格与上文相同，rise=increase所以本题为B。
答案：B

3.(:SENTENCE) The challenge of interpreting fictional works written under politically repressive regimes lies
  in distinguishing what is ---- to an author's beliefs, as opposed to what is ---- by political coercion.
  (A) innate.. understood
  (B) organic.. imposed
  (C) contradictory.. conveyed
  (D) oblique.. captured
  (E) peripheral.. demanded
分析：by 题型，特征为直接重复。encouraged by encouragement   by coercion ，所以二空为coerced。五个选项中具备coerced含义的只有BE，因为distinguish出现两个what 从句为反义重复。第二个what 从句说是强迫的，那么一空则表示是非强迫的，所以是organic作者意图的有机组成部分。
答案: B

4.(:SENTENCE) I am often impressed by my own ---- other people's idiocies: what is harder to ---- is that
  they. In their folly, are equally engaged in putting up with mine.
  (A) analysis of.. justify
  (B) forbearance toward.. underestimate
  (C) exasperation with .. credit
  (D) involvement in .. allow
  (E) tolerance of .. appreciate
分析：冒号后边解释说明，上文发生了什么事，下文也发生相同的事。冒号后是对上文重复所以一空，put up with=tolerance所以本题为E。
答案：E

5.(:SENTENCE) Despite vigorous protestations, the grin on the  teenager's face ----her denial that she had
  known about the practical joke before it was played on her parents.
  (A) belied
  (B) illustrated
  (C) reinforced
  (D) exacerbated
  (E) trivialized
分析：the grin （露齿而笑，表达认同、了解），与后面的denial（拒绝）刚好构成了动作上的相反，选动作反义的的词，动作上反义的词常见有四大类：1.掩盖类 mask belie repress 2.代替类 substitute/replace/supplant/surrogate  3.变化类:from to / vary/change/shift 4.消除、调整类 undermine mediate obviate reconcile
答案：A

6. (:SENTENCE)Far from undermining the impression of  permanent decline, the ---- statue, seemed  emblematic of its ---- surroundings.
  (A) indecorous.. opulent
  (B) grandiose.. ramshackle
  (C) pretentious.. simple
  (D) ungainly.. elegant
  (E) tawdry.. blighted
分析：far from undermining 双重否定表达肯定，所以本句话要说的是永久衰退的一种情况，因为是描述雕像的，所以两空都是负评价，答案E。
答案：E

7.(:SENTENCE) Despite the fact that it is almost universally ----, the practice of indentured servitude still ---- in
  many parts of the world.
  (A) condemned… abates
  (B) tolerated.. survives
  (C) proscribed.. persists
  (D) mandated.. lingers
  (E) disdained.. intervenes
分析： 一看逗号找谓语，以逗号为分隔点，逗号左边出现了despite 说明上下文相反，且两个空都来描述the book所以应为反义词。
答案：C（编辑：胡慧）