文档介绍：GRE填空备考官方指南例题详解(一)
对于GRE填空备考,考生也要绝对重视,以下的这些例题都是选自新GRE填空官方指南中很有代表性的例题,还有一些相关的分析,希望能给广大考生们带来帮助。
(pletion Sample Questions 2)
Vainand prone to violence,Caravaggio could not handle ess: the more his (i) ______ as an artistincreased, the more (ii) ______ hislife became.
BLANK (i) BLANK (ii)
(A) temperance (D) tumultuous
(B) notoriety (E) providential
(C) eminence (F) dispassionate
KEY:CD
:冒号
,表示C作为一名艺术家在某一方面的成绩,blank2中应该填入一个形容词,表示C的生活的变化形式;
,可以推断句子前后两部分是一种解释说明的关系,即句子前后两部分意思一致,前半句说C对于成功的把握很差,而且倾向于暴力;则后半句也应该是同样的意思;
,as an artist increased应该对应的是“成功”的意思,从blank1中选出“eminence”,而his life became,对应的是其倾向于暴力的部分,从blank2中选出“tumultuous”。
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[1].(A) temperance:(抑制、温和)moderation in action, thought, orfeeling : RESTRAINT
[2].(B) notoriety:(臭名昭著)the quality or state of being widelyand unfavorably known
[3].(C) eminence:(声名显赫)onethat is eminent, prominent, or lofty
[4].(D) tumultuous:(暴力的)markedby violent or overwhelming turbulence or upheaval
[5].(E) providential:(神意的)of, relating to, or determined by Godconceived as the power sustaining and guiding human destiny
[6].(F) dispassionate:(冷静的)not influenced by strong feeling
(pletion Sample Questions 3)
Inparts of the Arctic, the land grades into the landfast ice so ______ that you can walk off the coast and not know you are over the hiddensea.
(A) permanently
(B)