GRE填空中不可忽視的“時間對比”

GRE填空題涉及到的知識點很多,考生需要具備充足的詞彙量和過硬的語法基礎,並且還需要一定的邏輯推理能力,才能保證做好這個型別的題目。 
但有時候,看似困難的填空題,卻可以透過一些小技巧來輕鬆解決。今天為大家介紹GRE填空巧解難題的技巧:時間對比

什麼是“時間對比”?
通俗的的來講就是:“我們曾共有過去,如今卻各有未來”,同一件事在不同的時間點的狀態是相反的。
它常以三種表現形式:
1️⃣、現在否定過去;
2️⃣、將來否定現在;
3️⃣、更遠的將來否定較近的將來。
這樣講可能比較抽象,那麼今天就結合一些常考的題目,具體來為大家分析如何在GRE填空中去正確運用時間對比的解題技巧!
01
Many people today blame science and technology for contributing to environmental degradation and to global warming. Indeed, one of the noteworthy features of our time is that the relentless (i) ___ of the power of science is paralleled by growing sense of (ii) ___ about science. Anyone old enough to recall the public’s enthusiasm for so many of scientific breakthroughs in the 1950s an 1960s will be struck by the more(iii) ___ , even fearful, attitude toward scientific developments at present.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii)
A. stagnation D. distrust G. pragmatic
B. expansion E. promise H. fervid
C. diminution F. complacency I. grudging

解析思路

首先考點詞indeed遞進取同,第一句的核心是當代人認為科學技術給環境帶來負面影響,對science是負面態度。
其次,indeed 前後取同,應該體現不看好科技,所以二空首先選擇D,一空選擇B,即科學力量的不斷擴大與對科學的不信任感日益增強相匹配。
三空後有個even遞進,所以空格和fearful取同,選擇一個負面詞,所以選擇I,或者透過at present得知對現在科學的態度是負面的,也可續選出答案。
02
Until 2007, Japanese artist Kazuo Shiraga was ___ collectors in the United States, his current resurgence is helped by the vogue for so-called process-based abstraction and a revival of interest in performance art.
A. vastly overrated by
B. widely studied among
C. closely affiliated with
D. virtually unknown to
E. deliberately exoticized by

解析思路

首先迅速找到考點詞current,和untill,現在和之前的時間對比邏輯,那麼兩者的狀態肯定是相反的。
他最近的狀態是resurgence,這是核心的部分,那麼之前就是負面的,至於後面的is helped by the vogue for so-called process-based abstraction and a revival of interest in performance art這句話不是重點,它是解釋為啥復興了,結合語意理解所以選擇D。
(注意:until在GRE裡等於before,在…之前的意思)。
03
Recent years have seen a disheartening string of revelations in which everyday items once considered (i) ___ are found to contain (ii) __ chemicals.
Blank (i) Blank (i)
A. ubiquitous D. benign
B. innocuous E. complex
C. insalubrious F. baneful

解析思路

首先這道題的考點詞是Once,recent時間對比,狀態取反這個時候我們發現BF和CD都是一組反義,該怎麼區分呢?
我們繼續去前文找線索,前面說的recent years呈現的是disheartening,第二空最好是負評價來體現disheartening,所以二空選擇F,一空之前的狀態就為正,選擇B。
04
To many newspapers readers now, this book published in 1953 is (i) ___ . It is filled with references to some people whose ideas seemed (ii) ___ at that time, but are rarely viewed as (iii) ___ persons now.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii)
A. refreshingly inspired D. unfashionable G. ignoble
B. somewhat dated E. dutiable H. prolific
C. excessively angry F. important I. seminal

解析思路

首先考點詞1953(過去) 和now,時間對比是這個題的關鍵,對當代讀者而言,1953年出版的作品肯定是負面的,也就是現在否定過去結合語意思,選擇B。
二空中出現at that time(過去),當代人覺得不好的東西,在之前看來肯定是正向的,所以選擇F。
三空中,所以根據but得知前後整體取反關係,但是第三空前有rarely否定,所以第二空和第三空是取同關係,選擇I。
參考翻譯:對於很多現在的報紙讀者來說,這本書在1953年出版的書是有一些過時的。它充滿了一些人的引用內容,這些人的想法在當時有著重要意義,但是這些人在現在很少被認為是有重要意義的。
總 結
時間對比中同一件事情在兩個時間點被談到,則這兩個狀態一定是相反的;總是後者否定前者——時間相反的二者,往往是後者否定前者。
接下來,留一道類似的思考題,大家可以把自己的思考過程和答案詳細的寫在評論區:
Now that photographic prints have become a popular field for collecting, auctions are becoming more (i) ___ . It is not just the entry of new collectors into the field that is causing this intensification.  Established collectors’ interests are also becoming more (ii) ___ . Those who once concentrated on the work of either the nineteenth-century pioneers or the twentieth-century modernists are now keen to have (iii) ___ collections.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii)
A. competitive D. fickle G. comprehensive
B. tedious E. wide-ranging H. legitimate
C. exclusive F. antiquarian I. impressive

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