下面是gre填空题真题解析的部分内容:
6.In the midst of so many evasive comments, this forthright statement, whatever its intrinsic merit, plainly stands out as ___.
a paradigm
a misnomer
a profundity
an inaccuracy
an anomaly
解析:两个事物之间的关系,无外乎相同或者相反,句子里面讲的forthright statement与其他many evasive comments之间很明显是相反关系。而且题目里面问两个已经给你的事物之间的关系,以相反居多。
意译:在很多不直接的言论当中,这个非常直率的观点,我们先不管它的实际价值如何,都与前述观点很明显不一样。
答案:E
错选:A
7.Winsor McCay, the cartoonist, could draw with incredible ___: his comic strip about Little Nemo was characterized by marvelous draftsmanship and sequencing.
sincerity
efficiency
virtuosity
rapidity
sap
意译:温瑟麦克凯是一个非常牛的卡通画家,他的作品充满艺术性:他的小尼莫的连环漫画体现了了不起的绘画艺术和时序性。
答案:C
错选:B
注:这里的小尼莫不是那个鱼。
8.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 ___.
demur
schism
cooperation
compliance
shortsightedness
意译:不开明的集权管理者很少认识到在民主管理的机构中很少出现严重冲突的原因:对于不同观点的少量容忍往往可以组织组织的分裂。
答案:B
错选:A
9.This project is the first step in a long-range plan of research whose ___ goal, still many years off, is the creation of a new prototype.
cooperative
reasoned
original
ultimate
intentional
解析:still many years off 是解题的关键。
意译:这个计划是一个长期研究的第一步,这个研究的N多年以后的终极目标是创造一个新的原型机。
答案:D
错选:C
10.Without seeming unworldly, William James appeared wholly removed from the ___ of society, the conventionality of academe.
ethos
idealism
allopathy
hemotherapy
commonplaces
解析:拿最后的解题线索做就不会错了。
意译:并没有看起来很怪异,威廉詹姆斯看起来已经完全不是这个圈子的平常的一分子了。
答案:E
错选:B
William James and Henry James