有不會背的ＧＲＥ單字嗎？照過來！我教你！

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2014 ov1 section1 第14 題

9. A recent study suggests that vitamin E supplements, despite widespread belief in their ______, are no better than sugar pills for delaying the onset of the degenerative disease.

(A) potential
(B) misuse
(C) popularity
(D) efficacy
(E) prevalence
(F) usefulness

spank解說

由「better than」可以看出在作比較。
比較什麼？
由「for delaying the onset of the degenerative disease」可以看出是在比較療效
所以空格選療效有關的字，efficacy/usefulness

就單純解題而言，這題很好選，因為只有一組同義字，無干擾選項，可以不用考慮太多。

(A)potential潛力
(B)misuse誤用
(C)popularity知名度
(D)efficacy療效
(E)prevalence患病率
(F)usefulness有效性

翻譯：
最近的一項研究表明，儘管人們廣泛認為維生素E補充劑有療效，但在延遲退化性疾病的發作上，它們並不沒有比糖丸好用。

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2014 ov1 section1 第15題
10. Despite her relaxed and flexible style, Ms. de la Fressange is ______
businesswoman who knows to market her brand: herself.

(A) a ruthless
(B) a creative
(C) a canny
(D) an industrious
(E) a shrewd
(F) an effective

Spank解說
1.單純解題：題目中只有一組同義字canny/shrewd，無干擾選項，不用考慮太多，選！

2.解析
(A) ruthless無情的
(B) creative創意的
(C) canny 精明的
(D) industrious勤勞的
(E) shrewd 精明的
(F) effective有效的

Businesswoman，風格relaxed and flexible，但工作態度「不relaxed」，「know(知道)」行銷自己
->綜合起來，我們聞到了「精明的」味道，選canny/shrewd

翻譯
儘管輕鬆和靈活的風格，德拉Fressange女士是個精明的商人，知道行銷她的品牌：自己。

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2014 ov1 mock test1 section2 第1題(前面的那幾題是2014 ov1 mock test1 section1)

1. Early studies often concluded that the public was ______ the propagandistic influence of mass communications, but one recent study indicates that, on the contrary, mass communications seldom produce marked changes in social attitudes or actions.

(A) unaware of
(B) scornful of
(C) susceptible to
(D) unimpressed by
(E) coping with

spank解說
on the contrary ，seldom produce marked changes->

所以前面一定是produce marked changes->

也就是大眾易受廣告影響

選c

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2014 ov1 mock test1 section2 第2題

2. In the recent history of the Renaissance, by showing how the artistic efflorescence of that era was (i)______ linked to its commercial vitality, Jardine demonstrated that the spirit of acquisitiveness may be (ii)______that of cultural creativity.

Blank(i)
(A) questionably
(B) intimately
(C) skeptically

Blank(ii)
(D) threatened by
(E) inseparable from
(F) comparable to

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2014 ov1 mock test1 section2 第3題

3. The setting in which the concert took place(i) ______: the group’s performance was elegant and polished, but the sound, which seeped across the cold, unresonant high school auditorium, was oddly (ii)______, given the energy the players seemed to be putting into it.
Blank(i) Blank(ii)
(A) exacted a toll (D) clangorous
(B) encouraged nervousness (E) tepid
(C) solved a dilemma (F) inviting

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2014 ov1 mock test1 section2 第4題
4. The governor has long been obsessed with excising the media from the
Politician-public relationship. That’s been the unifying aim of all her
seemingly disconnected ventures since entering public life: a determination
to (i)______, and eventually (ii)______, the media’s hold on political
communication.
Blank(i) Blank(ii)
(A) conceal (D) augment
(B) erode (E) consolidate
(C) rejuvenate (F) end

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2014 ov1 mock test1 section2 第5題

5.Researchers trying to make it possible to trace counterfeit documents
to the printer that produced them are (i)______ the fact that the rotating
drums and mirrors inside laser printers are imperfect devices that leave
unique patterns of banding in their output. Although these patterns are
(ii)______ to the naked eye, they can be (iii)______ and analyzed by
computer programs that the researchers have spent the past year devising.

Blank(i) Blank(ii) Blank(iii)
(A) exploiting (D) invisible (G) detected

(B) facing (E) obvious (H) implemented

(C) manipulating (F) unappealing (I) generated

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2014 ov1 mock test1 section2 第6題

6.In her startlingly original writing, she went further than any other
twentieth century author in English (perhaps in any language) in (i)______
literary language and form, (ii)______ stylistic conventions, and (iii)______
a rich and diverse structure of meaning.

Blank(ii) Blank(ii) Blank(iii)
(A) reinventing (D) undoing (G) replicating
(B) canonizing (E) overpraising (H) borrowing
(C) stabilizing (F) misunderstanding (I) introducing

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2014 ov1 mock test1 section2 第13題

13. If researchers can determine exactly what is wrong with people who
suffer from this condition, they may be able to suggest drug therapies or
other treatments that could ______ the effects of the damage.
(A) mitigate
(B) exacerbate
(C) specify
(D) identify
(E) ameliorate
(F) stabilize


2014 ov1 mock test1 section2 第14題

14. Some analysts worry about consumers’ perception that the electronics
industry is always on the verge of major breakthroughs; that perception
could hurt the industry by making consumers reluctant to buy products
they believe will soon be ______.
(A) incompatible
(B) devalued
(C) obsolete
(D) ubiquitous
(E) everywhere
(F) outmoded

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2014 ov1 mock test1 section2 第15題

15. After people began to make the transition from gathering food to
producing food, human societies followed markedly ______ courses; some
adopted herding, others took to tillage, and still others stuck to foraging.
(A) divergent
(B) rural
(C) novel
(D) unfamiliar
(E) disparate
(F) quotidian

2014 ov1 mock test1 section2 第16題

16. At nearly 450 pages, the novel is ______ : the author does not often
resist the temptation to finish off a chapter, section, or even paragraph with
some unnecessary flourish.
(A) instructive
(B) complex
(C) prolix
(D) educational
(E) long-winded
(F) explicit

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2014 ov1 mock test1 section2的10題填空題(即上面10題)

官方答案如下：1C 2BE 3AE 4BF 5ADG 6ADI 13AE 14CF 15AE 16CE

解說，以後補上。

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以下是2014 ov1 mock test2 section1的10題填空題，答案在第10題的後面。

題號是2014 ov1 mock test2 section1中的題號，不作更動，中間缺少的題號
是閱讀題，暫時不予討論，集中火力在填空題。

題目一題一題放上來，主要是方便以後寫解說用的。

1. The media once portrayed the governor as anything but ineffective;
they now, however, make her out to be the epitome of ______.
(A) fecklessness
(B) brilliance
(C) dynamism
(D) egoism
(E) punctiliousness

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2. For most of the first half of the nineteenth century, science at the
university was in ______ state, despite the presence of numerous
luminaries.
(A) a scintillating
(B) a pathetic
(C) a controversial
(D) an incendiary
(E) a veracious

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3.Instant celebrity is often (i)______ asset because if there is no
(ii)______ to interest the public—no stage or screen triumphs, no
interesting books, no heroic exploits—people quickly become bored.

Blank(i) Blank(ii)
(A) a fleeting (D) competing attraction

(B) an incomparable (E) continuity of exposure

(C) an untapped (F) real achievement

Spank解說

先看官方說明：
The sentence says that people quickly become bored with those who achieve sudden fame in the absence of the condition named by Blank (ii), implying that instant celebrity often does not last long;
among the answer choices for Blank (i) only “a fleeting” matches this meaning, so it is correct. Thea nswer to Blank (ii) must be an umbrella term for things listed in the second part of the sentence as defeaters of boredom: “screen triumphs,” “interesting books,” “heroic exploits.” The answer choice that best matches this meaning is “real achievement,” so it is correct. “Competing attraction” also seems a plausible choice for Blank (ii), but it is incorrect because the sentence does not mention competition between attractions.
Thus the correct answer is a fleeting (Choice A) and real achievement (Choice F).

第一空大概都沒問題，有問題的是第二空。討論的重點在於：
stage or screen triumphs(勝利，成功，業績), interesting books, heroic exploits, 這些到底屬於D', E, OR F？

D. competing attraction：stage or screen triumphs(勝利，成功，業績), interesting books, heroic exploits三個中，stage or screen triumphs(勝利，成功，業績)/ heroic exploits大概都與competition有關，但interesting books不算有關，故不選

E. continuity of exposure：指連續不斷的曝光。stage or screen triumphs(勝利，成功，業績), interesting books, heroic exploits三個都是曝光，但未必連續，故不選。

F. real achievement：
stage or screen triumphs(勝利，成功，業績), interesting books, heroic exploits三個都可算是real achievement，選！

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4. Female labor was essential to the growth of eighteenth-century
European textile industries, yet it remains difficult to (i)______. Despite
significant (ii)______ in research about women, the role of female labor
remains the single most glaring omission in most economic analyses of the
history of European industrialization. Women far outnumbered men as
workers in the textile industries, yet wage indices and discussions of
growth, cost of living, and the like (iii)______ about the male labor force.
Blank(i) Blank(ii) Blank(iii)
(A) track (D) advances (G) incorporate data only

(B) overestimate (E) gaps (H) suppress most information

(C) ignore (F) disinterest (I) too rarely talk