Sentence Equivalence questions consist of a single sentence, one blank, and six answer choices. These questions require the examinee to select two of the answer choices. The examinee receives no credit for partially correct answers.
句子平衡问题包含一个句子、一个空格和6个选项。本题要求考生在其中选出2个答案。只选出一个正确答案不得分。
Sample Sentence Equivalence
Questions样题
Directions: Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning.
答题要求：在下面的问题中，选择两个答案来完成句子，所选的两个答案要符合句子的整体意思并且使所完成的两个句子的意思相近。”
1.Although it does contain some pioneering ideas, one would hardly characterize the work as __________.
A. orthodox
B. eccentric
C. original
D. trifling
E. conventional
F. innovative
1.尽管这个成果也含有一些开拓性的理念，但是人们也很难将其视作是____
A.正统的、传统的
B.古怪的、异常的
C.原创的、有创造性的
D.不重要的、无价值的
E.传统的、死板的
F.革新的、创新的
中文释义来源：AHD美国传统辞典(双解版)
本句其实是在考查考生对于单词同义关系的把握能力，首先由“although(尽管)”引出让步状语从句，所以我们应该可以推断出后边的主句在感情基调上应该是与从句意思相反。从这个角度来讲，后边的正确选项应该为“pioneering”的反义词，如A选项orthodox或E选项conventional。但是在主句中又有一个表示否定的词“hardly(几乎不能)”，hardly与从句中的although其实构成了“双重否定”，双重否定可以理解为肯定，所以该主句中的形容词应该与从句的形容词一致才符合正常逻辑。所以本题的正确答案应该是C和F。
2.The corporation expects only _______ increases in sales next year despite a yearlong effort to revive its retailing business.
A. dynamic
B. predictable
C. expanding
D. modest
E. slight
F. volatile
尽管该公司一年以来为了重振其零售业务作出了长足的努力，它却只期待来年的销售额能够有______的增长。
A. 有活力的、生机勃勃的
B. 可预言(报)的
C. 扩张的、扩大的
D. 适度的
E. 些微的
F.易波动的、易变的
中文释义来源：AHD美国传统辞典(双解版)
“despite”作为一个介词，后引出让步状语表示转折，即“despite”后的内容应该与前边内容意思相反。“despite”后所叙述的是该公司付出了长期和巨大的努力，因此按照正常逻辑应该是会有一个较大的增长和较快的发展，而转折后就应该是不那么大和显著，因此正确答案应该是D和E。
实际上，在此种题型中，有部分题是根据GRE考试中的填空题改写而成的，无非是多加了一个同义选项，而这一点与现行的GRE类反题就存在较大差异，在样卷中，对同义词的考查不仅体现在填空题、句子平衡题中，在阅读题目中也有体现，因此应该引起考生足够的重视。
在2005年12月ETS发布的GRE考试改革的说明和新题型中，这种题型就曾经出现过，在此一并列出供大家练习：
1.It is truly paradoxical that the Amazon, the lushest of all rainforests, is rooted in the most__________of all soils.
A.acidic
B.coarse
C.stark
D.impoverished
E.infertile
F.austere
2.According to some political analysts, the candidate’s occasionally rambling response to questions suggest that he has been out of circulation for a while and his debating skills need to be _______.
A.discredited
B.enhanced
C.reevaluated
D.remedied
E.de-emphasized
F.honed
3.Despite the pride that the play’s characters take in their worldly-wise absence of illusions, they are not above a degree of unjustified _____.
A.prevarication
B.satisfaction
C.self-flattery
D.affectation
E.narcissism
F.indolence
4.A common argument claims that in folk art, the artist’s subordination of technical mastery to intense feeling _______ the direct communication of emotion to the viewer.
A.averts
B.facilitates
C.implies
D.neutralizes
E.represses
F.unhampers
5. Linguistic science confirms what experienced users of ASL—American Sign Language—have always implicitly known: ASL is a grammatically ____ language, as capable of expressing a full range of syntactic relations as any natural spoken language.
A.complete
B.economical
C.redundant
D.spare
E.unique
F.unlimited
6.The sheer bulk of data from mass media seems to overpower us and drive us to ____ accounts for an easily and readily digestible portion of news
A.synoptic
B.abridged
C.sensational
D.copious
E.lurid
F.understated
练习题答案：
1.DE 2.BD 3.EB 4.BF 5.FA 6.AB