LACONIC 言简意赅的
(A) blithe 愉快的
(B) incapable 无能的
(C) flagrant 臭名昭著的
(D) garrulous 饶舌的
(E) intransigent 不妥协的
笔者在课上讲解词汇的时候曾经将laconic, taciturn和garrulous这三个词给同学们做过总结，并给出了garrulous的一个同义词loquacious，它也是一个GRE考试的高频词。在教程的94页15题给出了loquacious的反义词考法，答案选的是taciturn。
LOQUACIOUS 饶舌的
(A) tranquil 安静的
(B) skeptical 怀疑的
(C) morose 郁闷的
(D) taciturn 沉默寡言的
(E) witty 机智的，诙谐的
事实上，上面的第二题选项里是还有另外一对同义词，这对同义词考生没有看出来并不影响选出答案。而且只要是熟悉上面的“饶舌的”与“说话简短的”这对反义词的同学也会坚信自己选的是正确答案。选项中的另一对同义词是solicitous和fastidious。solicitous在现行的GRE考试中只考查“挂念的”这层含义，但是它在另一个层面上和fastidious意思相同，即都等于meticulous，即谨小慎微的。因此这道题目的规范做法应该是，先判断出两对同义词，在依据题目中的different做出同义词的筛选。
由上面的两个题目，我们会发现牢固的词汇基础不仅可以提高解答这部分题目的正确率，还可以加快考生做题的速度。准备GRE的考生应该时刻明确在考场上是一个争分夺秒的过程，平时复习一定要提高解题速度。
下面再看一下样题中阅读题是如何对词汇进行考查的。
Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following reading passage.
Scholarship on political newspapers and their editors is dominated by the view that as the United States grew, the increasing influence of the press led, ultimately, to the neutral reporting from which we benefit today. Pasley considers this view oversimplified, because neutrality was not a goal of early national newspaper editing, even when editors disingenuously stated that they aimed to tell all sides of a story. Rather, the intensely partisan ideologies represented in newspapers of the early republic led to a clear demarcation between traditional and republican values. The editors responsible for the papers’ content — especially those with republican agendas — began to see themselves as central figures in the development of political consciousness in the United States.
9. Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.
The passage suggests that Pasley would agree with which of the following statements about the political role of newspapers?
A. Newspapers today are in many cases much less neutral in their political reporting than is commonly held by scholars.
B. Newspapers in the early United States normally declared quite openly their refusal to tell all sides of most political stories.
C. The editorial policies of some early United States newspapers became a counterweight to proponents of traditional values.
10. In the context in which it appears, "disingenuously" most nearly means
A. insincerely
B. guilelessly
C. obliquely
D. resolutely
E. pertinaciously |
