文档介绍：例 1.(OG Verbal Practice Set 3 Q4, Medium)Richard M. Russell said 52 percent of the
nation’s growth since the Second World War had (i) ______ invention. He said,
(ii)______ research, the government’s greatest role in assuring continuing innovation
is promoting a strong, modern patent office. “Unless we can (iii) ______ original ideas,
we will not have invention.” Mr. Russell said. Speculating on the state of innovation
over the next century, several inventors agreed that the future lay in giving children
the tools to think creatively and the motivation to invent.
BLANK (i) BLANK (ii) BLANK (iii)
(A) been at the expense of (D) in addition to restricting (G) evaluate
(B) no bearing on (E) aside from supporting (H) protect
(C) come through (F) far from exaggerating (I) disseminate
KEY: CEH
(一) 节选出第二、三空格部分
He said, (ii) ______ research, the government’s greatest role in assuring continuing
innovation is promoting a strong, modern patent office. “Unless we can (iii) ______
original ideas, we will not have invention.”
1. 去除 blank2 所在的部分,“He said the government’s greatest role in assuring
continuing innovation is promoting a strong, modern patent office.”这句话表明 R 先生
的态度是支持科技创新。
2. 后文中 Unless we can (iii) ______ original ideas, we will not have invention.
是对于上文的重述,R 先生支持创新,因而需要至少不破坏原创性思想。而上文中说要
assuring continuing innovation,innovation 与 original ideas 构成逻辑相关词关系,因
而对其两者所做的动作等价,即 assure,在 blank3 中选出 protect。
3. 为了确保有足够的创新,因而 R 先生对于科技创新的基础——研究的态度与其
对于科学研究的态度相同,因此在这里,对于 continuing创新的要求导致了对于 research
的态度——支持。
4. 选择与自主判读已知的词汇填空
[1]. in addition to restricting:除了限制之外(相反)
[2]. aside from supporting:除了支持之外(正确)
[3]. far from exaggerating:除了夸大之外(无关)
[4]. evaluate:(评估)to determine the significance, worth, or condition of usually
by careful appraisal and study(无关)[5]. protect:(保护)(正确)
[6]. disseminate:(传播)to disperse throughout(无关)
(二) 最终完成填空
Richard M. Russell said 52 percent of the nation’s growth since the Second World War
had (