有不會背的ＧＲＥ單字嗎？照過來！我教你！

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5.It is a sad but just indictment of some high school history textbooks
that they frequently report as (i)______ claims that historians hotly debate
or that are even completely (ii)______ by (iii)______ primary sources.

Blank(i) Blank(ii) Blank(iii)
(A) factual (D) resolved (G) dubious

(B) controversial (E) corroborated (H) incomplete

(C) sensational (F) contradicted (I) reliable

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6.The reason minimum temperatures are going up more rapidly than
maximums may involve cloud cover and evaporative cooling. Clouds tend
to keep the days coolers by reflecting sunlight, and the nights warmer by
(i)______ loss of heat from Earth’s surface. Greater amounts of moisture in
the soil from additional precipitation and cloudiness (ii)______ the daytime
temperature increases because part of the solar energy is (iii)______ the
evaporation of that moisture.

Blank(i) Blank(ii) Blank(iii)
(A) inhibiting (D) augment (G) intensified by

(B) exacerbating (E) mask (H) unrelated to

(C) replicating (F) restrain (I) used up in

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12. Retrofitted with stabilizing devices, some of which ______ its aesthetics,
the bridge has been reopened, no longer prone to excessive swaying but
not quite the breathtaking structure it originally was.

(A) impair
(B) resist
(C) improve
(D) enhance
(E) restore
(F) compromise

spank解說

1.some of which ______ its aesthetics,這句是插入句，暫時不看，就可以抓到主詞是bridge

2.not quite the breathtaking structure it originally was(再也不是原先那個令人驚嘆的結構)

->表示橋的外觀有改變，而且是變醜->選 impair/compromise這組同義字。


字詞解釋
retrofit KK [ˋrɛtrəfɪt] DJ [ˋretrəfit] n. 〔飛機等的）式樣翻新/vt. 對……作翻新改進

aesthetics美學

sway v 搖擺

breathtaking 令人驚嘆的

(A) impair損害
(B) resist抵抗
(C) improve改善
(D) enhance加強
(E) restore恢復

(F) compromise v 危及，連累/妥協
She did it without compromise of her reputation . 她做這事而無損她的名譽。

翻譯：
加裝穩定裝置把橋改造翻新後(原先的外型受到一些傷害)，這橋已經重新開放，
不再容易出現過度搖擺，但再也不是原先那個令人驚嘆的橋。

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13. Although cosmic objects have struck Earth since the planet’s very
formation, humanity has only recently become aware of these events: two
centuries ago the idea that objects orbiting the Sun could collide with Earth
was widely ______.

(A) ridiculed
(B) doubted
(C) disseminated
(D) promulgated
(E) marginalized
(F) disbelieved

spank解說

人類最近才知道宇宙物體會撞擊地球->表示200年前的人是不知道宇宙物體會撞擊地球，

所以在當時這個觀念一定會被懷疑->選 doubted/disbelieved這組同義字

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14. That people ______ the musical features of birdsongs suggests that
despite the vast evolutionary gulf between birds and mammals, songbirds
and humans share some common auditory perceptual abilities.
(A) mimic
(B) recognize
(C) relish
(D) are confounded by
(E) can make out
(F) are puzzled by

spank解說
人和鳥share common auditory abilities->人和鳥對音樂的感受有共同的地方->

去除are confounded by/ are puzzled by 這組負面同字(選的話，在聽覺上就沒有

share sth common)，其他4字大致上都可以選，但只有recognize/can make out

是一組同字，選！

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15. Torpey’s study has turned a seemingly ______ topic, the passport, into
a fascinating one by making an original contribution to the sociology of the
state.

(A) ironic
(B) banal
(C) provocative
(D) witty
(E) insipid
(F) stimulating

spank解說

turned a seemingly ______ topic into a fascinating one ->

表示之前的topic不是fascinating->不是fascinating就是banal/ insipid，選！

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2014 ov1 mock test2 section1的10題填空題答案

1A 2B 3AF 4ADG 5AFI 6AFI 12AF 13BF 14BE 15BE

(把答案放在題目下頭，可讓大家不受答案影響作答)

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2014 ov1 mock test2 section2的10題填空題，答案在第10題後面

1. When she first came to France from Bulgaria, she was hardly the
______ student she late made herself out to be, since she had access to
considerable family wealth.
(A) naïve
(B) precocious
(C) impecunious
(D) ambitious
(E) assiduous

spank解說
因為最後面說她得到一大筆錢，能選的只有與錢有關的項目，故選(C) impecunious貧窮的

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2. Researchers have observed chimpanzees feigning injury in order to
influence other members of the group, thus showing that the capacity to
______ is not uniquely human.
(A) cooperate
(B) instruct
(C) conspire
(D) dissemble
(E) dominate

spanknd解說

本題無反折詞，純粹由文意主導。
大猩猩會裝受傷，人類也會裝->第一個「裝」是feign，
第二個「裝」，5 中選一就是dissemble，選之。

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3. At their best, (i)______ book reviews are written in defense of value
and in the tacit hope that the author, having had his or her (ii)______
pointed out, might secretly agree that the book could be improved.
Blank(i) Blank(ii)
(A) abstruse (D) strengths

(B) adverse (E) transgressions

(C) hortatory (F) assumptions

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4. The gaps in existing accounts of the playwright’s life are not (i)______,
since much of the documentary evidence on which historians have relied is
(ii)______.
Blank(i) Blank(ii)
(A) trifling (D) credible

(B) obvious (E) extant

(C) implicit (F) incomplete

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5. That today’s students of American culture tend to (i)______ classical
music is understandable. In our own time, American’s musical high culture
has degenerated into a formulaic entertainment divorced from the
contemporary moment. Thus, to miss out on what our orchestras are up to
is not to (ii)______ much. In the late Gilded Age, however, music was
widely esteemed as the “queen of the arts.” Classical music was in its
American heyday, (iii)______ the culture at large.

Blank(i) Blank(ii) Blank(iii)
(A) promote (D) sacrifice (G) antagonistic toward

(B) reinterpret (E) appreciate (H) generally rejected by

(C) ignore (F) malign (I) centrally embedded in

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6. The serious study of popular culture by intellectuals is regularly
credited with having rendered obsolete a once-dominant view that popular
culture is inherently inferior to high art. Yet this alteration of attitudes may
be somewhat (i)______. Although it is now academically respectable to
analyze popular culture, the fact that many intellectuals feel compelled to
rationalize their own (ii)______ action movies or mass-market fiction
reveals, perhaps unwittingly, their continued (iii)______ the old hierarchy of
high and low culture.

Blank(i) Blank(ii) Blank(iii)
(A) counterproductive (D) penchant for (G) aversion to

(B) underappreciated (E) distaste for (H) investment in

(C) overstated (F) indifference to (I) misunderstanding of

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13. Britain is attractive to worldwide advertisers because it is ______
market, so there is no need to tailor advertisements for different parts of
the country.

(A) a global
(B) an uncomplicated
(C) a vast
(D) a homogeneous
(E) a uniform
(F) an immense


no need to tailor advertisements for different parts ->所以不是different->就是均一的->選DE

tailor名詞為(男)裁縫師，動詞為「量身定制」(裁製（衣服，衣料等）)->引申為「制定」/修改；使合適[O]

tailor sth to your needs/requirements -to make something so that it is exactly right for your particular needs
根據特定需要製作…

We can tailor the insurance policy according to your family ' s needs . 我們可以根據你家庭的需要制定保險單。
he clinic tailors its treatment to individual needs . 那個診所的治療方法適合個別需要。

（A）全球的
（B）不複雜的
（C）廣闊的
（D）均一的
（E）相同的，一致的
（F）巨大的

翻譯
全球的廣告主都被英國吸引，因為英國它是均一市場，所以沒有必要在全國不同的地方定制(不同的)廣告(規範)

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14. The band’s long-standing strategy of laying leisurely explorations atop a
steady funk beat has proven to be surprisingly ______: a concert in Cologne
from 1972 sounds as if it could have taken place today.

(A) fortuitous
(B) foresighted
(C) (D) popular
(E) serendipitous
(F) lucrative

spank解說

1972年好像是2014年(as if today)->談到未來->有遠見的 選BC

serendipitous是善於作意外發現的；僥倖得到的意思，跟「偶然的」較沒有關係
(不過google翻譯中把它翻作偶然(發現)的，認為也有「偶然的」意思)，這樣的話，
連題目都不用看懂，直接選唯一一組同義字，foresighted/prescient即可。

不過ETS應該不會這樣做，很顯然，ESL是拿 fortuitous/serendipitous當作另一組同義字，
作干擾選項。請大家留意serendipitous的字義。

(A)偶然的
（B）有遠見的
（C）有先見之明的
（D）受歡迎的
（E）善於作意外發現的；僥倖得到的；
（F）有利可圖的