新GRE填空練習:順承并列類
以下是五個順承并列類的新GRE填空題練習,希望對各位考生有所幫助。
1. The younger members of the company resented the domineering and ________ manner of the office manager. ?
(A) urbane ?
(B) prudent ?
(C) convivial ?
(D) imperious ?
(E) objective ?
答案:D
解析:并列結構。空格通過and 與domineering 是同義關系。
翻譯:公司的年輕成員痛恨辦公室經(jīng)理的支配的并且是(專橫的)態(tài)度。
2. There are too many ________ and not enough serious workers. ?
(A) sycophants ?
(B) kleptomaniacs ?
(C) novices ?
(D) dilettantes ?
(E) zealots
答案:D
解析:and并列結構。空格與serious 反義。
翻譯:有太多的(隨隨便便的人),而嚴肅認真的工人不夠。
3. The president was ________ about farm subsidies, nor did he say much about the even more ________ topic of unemployment. ?
答案:A F
解析:并列結構。由Nor did he say 可知1空是負面動作。2空由even more 可知是比farm subsidies 程度更深的修飾。而farm subsidies unemployment由常識可知是重要的。
翻譯:總統(tǒng)對于農(nóng)業(yè)資助問題是(不認真的),他對于更加(關鍵的)失業(yè)問題也沒有談論太多。
4. The most consistent qualities of Forster’s novels are the human isolation and passivity in them; his principal characters stand slightly apart and ________ , but rarely ________ . ?
答案:C F
解析:分號并列組合句。1空通過and與stand slightly apart并列。A but rarely B 結構中,AB通常同方向,但此例中,but轉折后句義與分號前isolation and passivity 同義。
翻譯:F的小說最穩(wěn)定的性質是人類的孤立和消極;他的主要人物們站在一旁(袖手旁觀),但很少(行動)
5. The museum administration appears to be singularly ________ the comforts of its employees, providing an employee health club, a lending library, and a part-time social worker to help staff members with financial or domestic problems. ?
(A) ignorant of ?
(B) indifferent to ?
(C) attentive to ?
(D) exploited by ?
(E) uninvolved in ?
答案:C
解析:伴隨并列結構
翻譯:博物館的管理層顯得特別地(關心)雇員的福利,為雇員提供健康俱樂部,一個出借圖書館,還有一個非全職社會工作者來幫助雇員打理財務和家庭問題。
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