(OGVerbal Practice Set 1 Q2, Easy)
Kaganmaintains that an infant’s reactions to its first stressful experiences arepart of a naturalprocess of development, notharbingers ofchildhood unhappiness or______ signsofadolescent anxiety.
(A) prophetic
(B) normal
(C) monotonous
(D) virtual
(E) typical
KEY:A
1.关键字：“A … not B or C”模式(“三空格”模式的变体)
2.“A … not B or C”模式，其中“B or C”是同一个事物，与A相反。
3.空中应该填入一个形容词，是对于sign的描述，其应该与harbinger是同义关系，与natural process是反义关系。
4.词语解释
[1].(A) prophetic：(预兆的)foretelling events : PREDICTIVE
[2].(B) normal：(普通的)conforming to a type,standard, or regular pattern
[3].(C) monotonous：(单一音调的)uttered or sounded in oneunvarying tone
[4].(D) virtual：(虚拟的)of, relating to, or being ahypothetical particle whose existence is inferred from indirect evidence
[5].(E) typical：(典型的)constituting or having thenature of a type
(OGVerbal Practice Set 1 Q3, Easy)
An investigation that is _______ canoccasionally yield new facts, even notable ones, but typically the appearance of such facts is theresult of a search in a definite direction.
(A) timely
(B) unguided
(C) consistent
(D) uncomplicated
(E) subjective
KEY:B
1.关键字：“but”
2.空中应该填入一个形容词，是对于“an investigation”的一种形容;
3.后半句中有but出现，应该是与前半句表达相反的意思，而后半句中的“a search”是前半句中的“an investigation”的同义替换，因此空中应该填入一个与在后半句中形容search相反的词语，即“not in a definite direction”。
4.词语解释
[1].(A) timely：(及时的)appropriate or adapted tothe times or the occasion
[2].(B) unguided：(没有导向的)not to direct, supervise, or influence usually to aparticular end
[3].(C) consistent：(一致的)marked by harmony,regularity, or steady continuity
[4].(D) uncomplicated：(不复杂的)not difficult to analyze,understand, or explain
[5].(E) subjective：(主要的)of or relating to theessential being of that which has substance, qualities, attributes, orrelations
新gre填空更加注重实际运用语言能力的考察，减少了对单词纯意义的考察，所以备考新gre填空考试的考生可以根据以上gre官方指南对三空题型的解析进行备考。
