GRE考試句子填空試題及解析1

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1. Although she gives badly _______ titles to her musical compositions, they _______ unusual combinations of materials including Gregorian chant, Asian scale patterns and rhythms, electronic sounds, and bird songs.

A. exotic … belie

B. eccentric … deploy

C. traditional … exclude

D. imaginative … disguise

E. conventional … incorporate

2. Even though the folktales Perroult collected and retold were not solely French in origin, his versions of them were so decidedly French in style that later anthologizes of French folktales have never _______ them.

A. excluded

B. admired

C. collected

D. promoted

E. comprehended

3. In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is imminent, her book does not ridicule all predictions of doom but rather claims that the risks of harm have in many cases been _________.

A. exaggerated

B. ignored

C. scrutinized

D. derided

E. increased

解析

根據主幹大法,本題的線索主詞是she、titles和they、combinations,顯然這裏they只能是指代her musical compositions (看作titles的同義重複),也就是說句子的轉折圍繞titles展開。轉折前對於titles的評價由第一空決定,轉折後titles(they) 的評價由unusual combinations決定(這取決於第二空的動詞是正評價還是負評價),如果第二空是正評價詞,表明titles與unusual combinations一致,那麼轉折前就應該相反,所以第一空填unusual combinations的反義表達;如果第二空是負評價詞,表明titles與unusual combinations相反,所以第一空填unusual combinations的同義表達。第一空只有CE是清楚的unusual combinations的反義表達,候選。第二空選項單詞正負評價正好相反(這是ETS慣用思路,2空題先變成2選1,再取捨就容易多了),根據前面邏輯分析只能選正評價的詞彙,所以答案是E。

參考譯文:儘管她糟糕地給她的音樂作品賦以尋常的(傳統的)題目,但是這些作品卻體現出對一些材料的不尋常的整合,比如羅馬教的聖歌、亞洲的音階風格節奏、古怪的聲響和鳥鳴。

2、太簡單了!顯然空格後面的them指代前面的his versions,由so 。。。 that結構知道是同義重複,所以that前是his versions與French一致,那麼後面也必然是這樣,空格前出現負評價詞never,所以空格處必須填負評價詞。只有唯一的A是負評價詞。

參考譯文:儘管Partout蒐集的民間故事並不僅僅來源於法國,但是那時他的描述卻是法國風格以至於後來的法國民間故事集從來都不排除收錄它們。

3、主幹是清晰的not。。。but結構,但是我們不能確定all predictions of doom與the risks of harm是否同義重複,所以需要參考伴隨狀態的In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is imminent,而在這裏我們清晰地發現了the risks of harm的同義重複environmental catastrophe。伴隨狀態一定與主句一致,意思是對environmental catastrophe is imminent進行arguing against駁斥,所以空格中的詞彙既然是claims指出的就應該與駁斥的相反,所以應該體現出not imminent。只有A。

參考譯文:在對“環境災難臨近”的觀點進行駁斥的過程中,她的書並沒有嘲笑所有的命運預測,而是指出災害的風險在許多情況中被誇大了。