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GRE填空和阅读中的小众信号词

各位杀G们好，今天我们讲的话题是GRE填空和阅读

中的小众词，先讲填空小众词，后讲阅读小众词，

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GRE填空小众信号词

同学们在做GRE填空反义重复类题目时，很容易找到比较大众化的信号词，比如：although, however, but等。如下面这道题：

Liberty is not easy,

but far better to be an ___fox, hungry and threatened on its hill,

than a___ canary, safe and secure in its cage.

我们很容易看出来but这个反义重复信号词以及通过far better than 这个短语来判断出来是两个矛盾点即：fox 和 canary的反义对比。解题时直接在题干中找出两两一一对比的词汇即可：safe and secure 对应threatened ,一空对应in its cage, 二空对应 hungry。

一些常常用来表示反义重复的小众词汇比较容易被忽视，影响到大家对整个题目的理解，比如接下来要和大家说的surprisingly。

请看下面这道题：

Thomas Paine,

whose political writing was often flamboyant, was in private life a surprisingly ___man: he lived in rented rooms, ate little, and wore drab clothes.

A. simple

B. controversial

C. sordid

D. comfortable

E. discourteous

这道单空题是既有反义重复：

由surprisingly来引导，又包含同义重复：由冒号表示同义解释的题目。中间插入一个定语从句whose political writing was often flamboyant来增加句子难度。

由小众信号词surprisingly引导的反义重复可以判断出来此空应该选择flamboyant (adj.炫耀的，华丽的)的反方向词汇；另外，GRE填空中同义重复常常在以反义重复为主的题目中充当配角，我们也可以通过冒号引导的同义解释判断出来这个空应该填写后面这个句子的同方向单词即：he lived in rented rooms, ate little, and wore drab clothes

（他住在租住的房间里，吃的很少，穿单调简朴的衣服。）

选项单词：

A. simple 简单朴素的

B. controversial有争议的

C. sordid肮脏的，被逼的

D. comfortable舒适的

E. discourteous粗鲁的，无礼的 。

与我们分析中相符合的是A选项简单朴素的。这道题的直译为：托马斯. 潘恩，其政治檄文通常非常的华丽，但他在私生活中是一个令人惊讶的简朴的人：住在租住的房间里，吃的很少，穿朴素的衣服。

通过这段题目分析提醒各位备考GRE的同学在做填空题目中要特别注意surprisingly 这样的反义重复词汇。希望大家在考试中都能取得理想的成绩。

GRE阅读小众信号词（含蓄转折词）

GRE阅读中的重点信号词，特别是转折词，如However，nevertheless，while，though等；可以说是GRE阅读中的一个高频出题点，甚至每篇文章中的强转折，都会有题目直接考到或相关。对于转折考点，我们的思路是，在看文章的过程中（GRE阅读要先文后题），留意信号词；同时思考具体的相反点是什么（互为转折的两句话不会是每个词都相反，而是其中某一个点相反，把这个点找出来）；因为出题主要考的就是你对这个相反点的理解。这里我要说一些关于特殊（小众）转折信号词。我们先把握一个核心点：不论一般否定词还是特殊转折信号词本质上是表达对一种反驳 对立或否定。我们看下面的例子：

Turner wrote in the 1890's that the agrarian discontent that had been developing steadily in the United States since about 1870 had been precipitated by the closing of the internal frontier--that is, the depletion of available new land needed for further expansion of the American farming system.

Not only was Turner's thesis influential at the time, it was later adopted and elaborated by other scholars, such as John D. Hicks in The Populist Revolt (1931). Actually, new lands were taken up for farming in the United States throughout and beyond the nineteenth century.

In the 1890's, when agrarian discontent had become most acute, 1,100,000 new farms were settled, which was 500,000 more than had been settled during the previous decade.

文中的Actually就是含蓄转折词：既然说事实上，说明之前的猜想或判断是有误的；这里分享一个规律，Actually，In fact引导的内容往往是与过去相反的，也就是；也就是现实与以前的判断相反。如：我之前以为他喜欢和女性相处，事实上他喜欢和男性相处。上文中，我们看到Actually,可推出actually引导的这句话和上文相反。有不少同学在理解本文前两句话的时候会有些困难，特别是the closing of the internal frontier--that is, the depletion of available new land needed for further expansion of the American farming system。这时我们通过Actually后的内容（这部分内容较容易理解），了解到美国在当时有大量新土地可以使用；那么Actually之前的意思就应该是：美国缺耕地。

总结

阅读常考小众转折信号词包括：

In fact; actually; instead; doubt; virtually.

当然，记词是一方面，更重要的是思路，但看到句子的开头部分有表达对前句的否定和反驳的意味的次的时候，杀鸡们就要思考相反点了。

下面留个思考题，有兴趣的杀鸡们可以留言答案和思考过程：

Archaeologists studying Bonito phase (ca. A.D. 900-1140) Native American ceramics from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, observed that many pots had been altered after firing to revise their decorative designs--usually, intricate geometric patterns painted in black on white slipped surfaces. In some cases, a new design was imposed over an earlier one; less often, the original design was simply covered with white slip. Crown and Wills doubt that the alterations were made to correct design errors. Many Chaco pots with design errors were left unaltered. Furthermore, when errors were corrected, revisions were made prior to firing—either by painting directly over the error or by scraping off designs and applying new slip and paint, which is a less time-consuming method than repainting and refiring flawed pots.

The author of the passage mentions Crown and Wills primarily in order to：

A. Distinguish among different factors that might have caused Chaco potters to alter their pots’ decorative designs.

B. Introduce new evidence related to the question of why Chaco potters altered their pots’ decorative designs.

C. Show how one potential explanation for the alteration of Chaco pots has been discounted.

D. Present a hypothesis about why Chaco pots were altered to revise their decorative designs.

E. Explain how archaeologists discerned the method by which Chaco pot were originally decorated.

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