GRE出国考试填空题真题详细解答:97年4月b
perceptive 1: responsive to sensory stimuli: discerning 2 a: capable of or exhibiting keen perception: observant b: characterized by sympathetic understanding or insight —— per.cep.tive.ly adv —— per.cep.tive.ness n —— per.cep.tiv.i.ty n
6.【中文释义】有些艺术家不恰当地理想化或夸大了他们工作的重要性;但是另外一些艺术家,反感夸大艺术家的重要性,因而反对超越物质的玄虚的艺术观。
【解题分析】分号句,上句主语为some artists下句为others, 所以上下句应该相反。 上句的动词为exaggerate, 下句为空格接exalt, exalt 即为exaggerate的重复,故空格里应填表否定的动词,b正确,d并不是主动否定,而表示主观上想否定但结果却失败的意思。
【重点词条】immodest : not modest; specif: not conforming to the sexual mores of a particular time or place —— im.mod.est.ly adv —— im.mod.es.ty n
exalt 1: to raise in rank, power, or character 2: to elevate by praise or in estimation: glorify 3 obs: elate 4: to raise high: elevate 5: to enhance the activity of: intensify ~ vi: to induce exaltation —— ex.alt.ed.ly adv —— ex.alt.er n
transcedent 1 a: exceeding usual limits: surpassing b: extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience c in Kantian philosophy: being beyond the limits of all possible experience and knowledge 2: being beyond comprehension 3: transcending the universe or material existence —— tran.scen.dent.ly adv
7.【中文释义】估计从核电站泄露的辐射的危险是技术问题,但同时它的答案是特定价值取向的一部分,非常情绪化地决定着是否该建立这种核工厂的政策讨论。
【解题分析】正如continue, remain前后会同义一样,become的转变在填空的两极思维中会反义,该题中become后的“one”,也就是question 的重复,会emotionally charged ,可见become 前应该是非emotionally的方式,强调这种对比的答案是e.
【重点词条】charge 1 a: to impose a task or responsibility on <~ him with the job of finding a new meeting place> b: to command, instruct, or exhort with authority c of a judge: to give a charge to (a jury) 2 a: to make an assertion against esp. by ascribing guilt or blame <~s him with armed robbery> b: to place the guilt or blame for <~ her failure to negligence> c: to assert as an accusation <~s that he distorted the data>
technical 1 a: having special and usu. practical knowledge esp. of a mechanical or scientific subject b: marked by or characteristic of specialization <~ language> 2 a: of or relating to a particular subject b: of or relating to a practical subject organized on scientific principles c: technological 1 3 a: based on or marked by a strict or legal interpretation b: legal 6 4: of or relating to technique 5: of, relating to, or produced by ordinary commercial processes without being subjected to special purification <~ sulfuric acid> 6: relating to or caused by the functioning of the market as a discrete mechanism not influenced by macroeconomic factors <~ rally> <~ analysis> —— tech.ni.cal.ly adv
97年4月section 1
1.【中文释义】因为现代科学家发现古代希腊的宇宙观过时而且无关紧要,他们现在只是出于历史的兴趣而看待它。
【解题分析】该题的内容和No.7第二套section2 4th的内容类似。
【重点词条】relevant 1 a: having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand b: affording evidence tending to prove or disprove the matter at issue or under discussion <~ testimony> c: having social relevance 2: proportional, relative —— rel.e.vant.ly adv
2. 【中文释义】作为一个宗教哲学家,亨利·摩尔从它信仰的无限的上帝那推断出了他的无限的宇宙的概念,这位无穷丰富的上帝的本质是来创造无尽的丰富。
【解题分析】分析结构可知:a benevolent God 是the Infinite God 的同位语重复,故a benevolent God的后置定语应为Inifite的同义词。a正确。
【重点词条】plenitude 1: the quality or state of being full: completeness 2: a great sufficiency: abundance
infinite 1: extending indefinitely: endless <~ space> 2: immeasurably or inconceivably great or extensive: inexhaustible <~ patience> 3: subject to no limitation or external determination 4 a: extending beyond, lying beyond, or being greater than any preassigned finite value however large <~ number of positive numbers> b: extending to infinity <~ plane surface> c: characterized by an infinite number of elements or terms —— in.fi.nite.ly adv —— in.fi.nite.ness n 2infinite n (1535): something that is infinite (as in extent, duration, or number)