新GRE填空题通常都是信息量充足型的,也就是题目的信息恰好是可以选出题目空缺的信息(相对来说阅读是信息量过剩型,而类反是信息量缺乏型,数学则是信息量不对称型的。出题人挖掉的空白处正好体现了出题人的思路,留下的句子组成的逻辑线索反映了出题人的思想。
因此,掌握了出题人的想所,一定是能推理出正确答案的。如此说来,解决句子填空就是让考生通过题目给出的线索,破解出出题人的思路。
举个例子:
原题:
Because medieval women's public participation in spiritual life was not welcomed by the male establishment, a compensating religious writings, inoffensive to the members of the establishment because of its , became important for many women.
A) involvement with… privacy
B) attention to… popularity
C) familiarity with… scarcity
D) dissatisfaction with… profundity
E) resistance to… domesticity
我们先把这个句子剥离一下.
主干:
a ...religious writings became important for many women.
实际上说的很简单,但是,只看着一句暂时分析不出选出什么。于是作者开始添加其他句子成分,来给出线索。Because提示原因。
public participation不被welcome,那么,一个compensating 的participation就应该很重要。作者提供了一个因果关系,线索直接指向第一个空格。后者必然是前者的原因,而且第一个空逗号后面是participation的同位语也就是同义的,我们就找一个participation的近义词。
许多时候,像本题一样,这个句子中给出了充分多的解题线索,我们可以唯一的找到了A选项。
这里我们看出来,这个题目代表了ETS出题的一个常见思维定势,除去主干之外的其他部分,全部是为主干提供限定解释的,所以这些限定解释,就提供了主干中间空格的线索,同时,其他地方的空格,也可以由相关的成分提供的线索解决掉。
我们马上能够看出来,所有的空格,出题人都在千方百计的给我们提供线索,有的时候可能还会提供冗余信息给我们。我们所要做的,就是找到这些出题人在这些原来的句子上人为加上的线索,来破解出题人的意图。
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