例 Ⅱ：
Charlotte Salomon's biography is a reminder that currents of private life, however diverted, dislodged, or twisted by ---------- public events, retain their hold on the ---------- recording them.
(A) transitory ... culture
(B) dramatic ... majority
(C) overpowering ... individual
(D) conventional ... audience
(E) relentless ... institution
〖解答〗
空格Ⅱ：既然这里所涉及到的是传记(biography)，而顾名思义，传记的定义是"an account of a person's life", 故将其生平事件记录下来的必是(C)individual无疑，而不可能是culture, majority, audience或institution中的任何一个。
〖中译〗
夏洛特·萨洛蒙的传记构成一种醒示物，表明个人生活的方向，在何等程度上无论受到强有力的社会事件错综曲折的影响，终究仍会对这位生平事件的记录者保留其制约作用。
例 Ⅲ：
Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look ----------; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the ---------- of natural beauty and human glory.
(A) beautiful ... immutability
(B) luxuriant ... simplicity
(C) cheerful ... transitoriness
(D) colorful ... abstractness
(E) conventional ... wildness
〖解答〗
空格Ⅰ：截取名词短语pleasure gardens中的pleasure这一线索，作词性转换后变成pleasant或pleasurable代入，可求得(C) cheerful为其唯一的同义词。空格Ⅱ需陈述melancholy(伤感)的起因，这无疑是transitoriness所致。
〖词汇〗
expressly: 特意地，专诚地
immutability: 永恒不定
luxuriant: 茂盛的，富饶的，奢华的
〖中译〗
十七世纪，中国的部分游乐花园并非必定意欲使其予人以愉悦的景象;它们被特意设计出来，旨在唤起某种令人愉快的感伤情调，因为人们意识到，无论是自然界之秀美或是人类之荣耀，都乃一现的昙花，片刻须臾而已。