新gre考試:閱讀題對詞匯的考察(下)

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在新GRE的OG閱讀中,有一篇2句話的文章。
    “a person who agrees to serve as mediator between two warring factions at the request of both abandons by so agreeing the right to take sides later. To take sides at a later point would be to suggest that the earlier presumptive impartiality was a sham.”
    若熟悉老GRE類反,馬上可以聯(lián)想到這些題:
    類比:intercessor: mediate= translator: interpret
    consensus: factionalism=expedition:foot-dragging
    反義:faction <> unity
    factional <> ecumenical
    factious <> cooperative
    debunk <> perpetuate to sham
    sham <> genuine
    同時我們注意到,下劃線的詞匯在閱讀黃皮書中沒有出現(xiàn)過。
    另外有一篇文章
    “Was Felix Mendelssohn(1809-1847) a great composer? On its face, the question seems absurd. One of the most gifted prodigies in the history of music, he produced his first masterpiece at sixteen. From then on, he was recognized as an artist of preternatural abilities, not only as a composer but also as a pianist and conductor. But Mendelssohn’s enduring popularity has often been at odds—sometimes quite sharply—with his critical standing. Despite general acknowledgement of his genius, there has been a noticeable reluctance to rank him with, say, Schumann or Brahms. As Haggin put it, Mendelssohn, as a composer, was a “minor master…working on a small scale of emotion and texture.”
    同樣,老GRE中考到下劃加粗詞匯的類比反義題:
    類比:prodigy: person= miracle: occurrence
    反義:preternatural <> ordinary/prosaic
    綜上所述,我們發(fā)現(xiàn),新GRE改革之后,對于單詞的考察并沒有降低,反而有所提高,因此,同學們在復(fù)習備考新GRE的過程中,絕對不能放松對詞匯的學習,萬丈高樓平地起,只有精確熟練的掌握單詞,才有可能在征服新GRE考試的道路上立于不敗之地。