GRE填空中不可忽视的 “ 时间对比 ”

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2024-06-24 09:06

GRE填空题涉及到的知识点很多，考生需要具备充足的词汇量和过硬的语法基础，并且还需要一定的逻辑推理能力，才能保证做好这个类型的题目。

但有时候，看似困难的填空题，却可以通过一些小技巧来轻松解决。今天为大家介绍GRE填空巧解难题的技巧：时间对比。

什么是“时间对比”？

通俗的的来讲就是：“我们曾共有过去，如今却各有未来”，同一件事在不同的时间点的状态是相反的。

它常以三种表现形式：

1️⃣、现在否定过去；

2️⃣、将来否定现在；

3️⃣、更远的将来否定较近的将来。

这样讲可能比较抽象，那么今天就结合一些常考的题目，具体来为大家分析如何在GRE填空中去正确运用时间对比的解题技巧！

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

首先考点词indeed递进取同，第一句的核心是当代人认为科学技术给环境带来负面影响,对science是负面态度。

其次，indeed 前后取同，应该体现不看好科技，所以二空首先选择D，一空选择B，即科学力量的不断扩大与对科学的不信任感日益增强相匹配。

三空后有个even递进，所以空格和fearful取同，选择一个负面词，所以选择I，或者通过at present得知对现在科学的态度是负面的，也可续选出答案。

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

首先迅速找到考点词current,和untill，现在和之前的时间对比逻辑，那么两者的状态肯定是相反的。

他最近的状态是resurgence，这是核心的部分，那么之前就是负面的，至于后面的is helped by the vogue for so-called process-based abstraction and a revival of interest in performance art这句话不是重点，它是解释为啥复兴了，结合语意理解所以选择D。

(注意：until在GRE里等于before，在...之前的意思）。

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

首先这道题的考点词是Once，recent时间对比，状态取反这个时候我们发现BF和CD都是一组反义，该怎么区分呢？

我们继续去前文找线索，前面说的recent years呈现的是disheartening，第二空最好是负评价来体现disheartening，所以二空选择F，一空之前的状态就为正，选择B。

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

首先考点词1953（过去）和now,时间对比是这个题的关键，对当代读者而言，1953年出版的作品肯定是负面的，也就是现在否定过去结合语意思，选择B。

二空中出现at that time（过去），当代人觉得不好的东西，在之前看来肯定是正向的，所以选择F。

三空中,所以根据but得知前后整体取反关系，但是第三空前有rarely否定，所以第二空和第三空是取同关系，选择I。

参考翻译：对于很多现在的报纸读者来说，这本书在1953年出版的书是有一些过时的。它充满了一些人的引用内容，这些人的想法在当时有着重要意义，但是这些人在现在很少被认为是有重要意义的。

总结

时间对比中同一件事情在两个时间点被谈到，则这两个状态一定是相反的；总是后者否定前者——时间相反的二者，往往是后者否定前者。

接下来，留一道类似的思考题，大家可以把自己的思考过程和答案详细的写在评论区：

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.