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GRE填空中这八大熟词僻意, 你都掌握了吗？

2022-01-20 14:23:32

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作者：朗阁小编

熟悉GRE填空题的小伙伴们一定都不陌生，**令人窒息的一大题型，当属熟词僻义。这里有一个GRE常考短语，nothingifnot，是极其，非常的意思，recent和current形成时间对比，不久前的展览选对了时间opportune恰当的/timely及时的

熟悉GRE填空题的小伙伴们一定都不陌生，**令人窒息的一大题型，当属“熟词僻义”。当你把GRE的所有词汇背了一遍又一遍，到了真实的考场上却一筹莫展：这些单词看着很熟悉，可做选择时却无从下手，可真让人对这些“*熟悉的陌生人”又爱又恨!今天小编贴心地为大家总结了GRE填空题中八大常见单词，附带真题举例讲解，希望能帮助各位更好地应对熟词僻义的考察。结尾还有GRE单词制胜法宝，大家千万不要错过啦!

1. Queen Elizabeth I has quite correctly been called a ______ of the arts, because many young artists received her patronage.

A.connoisseur

B.critic

C.friend

D.scourge

E.judge

【正确答案：C】

看到friend，我们的*反应一定都是朋友，好友，代入原句是说不通的;但是在GRE中，它被考察的含义是资助者，赞助者 (One that favors or promotes something, such as a charity)，原句选择C后意思是：由于许多年轻的艺术家都得到她的赞助，英国女王伊丽莎白一世被地称为艺术界的资助人。这里的的patronage和friend相互对应。

A. connoisseur: 鉴赏人;D. scourge: 灾祸/鞭打

2.The author affects _____ in the tone of his novels that is quite at odds with his predilection for invective in his nonfiction publications.

A. a tenacity

B. a neutrality

C. a pugnacity

D. an effusiveness

E. an irascibility

【正确答案：B】

在选项前的affect一词，通常会被理解成为“影响”的意思，而在这里考察了其“假装”的含义(to put on a false appearance of sth. / to pretend to feel);at odds with = 相反，不一致，与作者恶言谩骂的倾向(predilection for invective)相反的是其假装*持中立(affects neutrality)

其余选项的释义如下，对单词不熟悉的小伙伴们都可以积累起来啦～

A. a tenacity韧性，坚韧;C. a pugnacity好斗，好战;D. an effusiveness 吐露，叨唠;E. an irascibility 易怒，脾气暴躁

3.In order to emphasize the erect posture of his subject matter, the painstaking painter has startlingly contrasted it with the ______ of the windswept trees.

A. tilting

B. instability

C. uprightness

D. perpendicularity

E. exaggeration

F. listing

【正确答案：AF】

题目中后半句的it代指前文的erect posture，也就是说选项要和笔直的姿势(erect posture)形成对比，A选项tilt大家应该都不陌生，动词/名词都有倾斜的含义，然而作为一道双选题，同学们往往会在选项中找不到tilt的同义词。

让我们来一起看看F选项的含义：list作为名词，有“条/列”的含义，但它的另一个名词意思是倾斜(a deviation from the vertical);因此，AF的*终答案是显而易见的

4.Whereas biologists must maintain a (i) ______ attitude toward the subjects of their research, social scientists must, paradoxically, combine personal involvement and scholarly (ii) ______.

A.scrupulous

B.casual

C.disinterested

D.sympathy

E.detachment

F.abandon

【正确答案：(i)C (ii)E】

whereas是一个清晰的指示词，告诉我们前后取反，也就是*个选项和personal involvement取反，我们选择了disinterested公正的，不偏袒的;而第二个选项我们从paradoxically(悖论式的)得知，也是和personal involvement取反。

在这里，detachment的另一层意思是”客观公正“(freedom from bias or prejudice)，而不是我们熟知的“分开，分离”

5.The recent exhibition on Dadaism is nothing if not _____, for the visual arts are currently awash in Dadaist gestures and gambits of one variety or another.

A. sensational

B. timely

C. daunting

D. ill-advised

E. opportune

F. misguided

【正确答案：BE】

Awash大家通常认为的熟悉意思都是“被水冲洗的，与水面齐平的“，在这里考察的意思却是“充满”(filled ,covered, or completely overrun as if by a flood), 理解为“当前的艺术形式充满了达达主义的内容”。

这里有一个GRE常考短语，nothing if not，是“极其，非常”的意思，recent和current形成时间对比，不久前的展览选对了时间 – opportune恰当的/timely及时的

6.Given the flood of information presented by the mass media, the only way for someone to keep abreast of the news is to rely on __________ accounts.

A.synoptic

B.abridged

C.sensational

D.copious

E.lurid

F.understated

【正确答案：AB】

account在日常生活中常作为“账户，账单”的意思，在这里结合上下文考察的是“报道”这一含义(a statement or exposition of reasons, causes, or motives), 代入上下文理解原句，“日常的信息量很大，为了能跟得上时事的脚步，只能依靠简短的、总结性的(synoptic/abridged)报道”

7.Word order in a sentence was much freer in old French than it is in French today, this _____disappeared as the French language gradually lost its case distinctions.

A.restriction

B.license

C.similarity

D.rigidity

E.imperative

【正确答案：B】

逗号后的this指代前半句话的much freer word order，那么this之后的填空我们希望补充一个free的同义词。

选项中乍一看并没有合适的选项，但当我们查阅英文词典后发现，license除了有熟悉的“执照/许可证/特许“的含义，还有“自由”(freedom that allows or is used with irresponsibility)的含义，因此它就是正确选项。

8.The major _____ of much popular history is that it betrays no interest in making intellectual contributions to our understanding of an issue.

A. characteristic

B. shortcoming

C. dilemma