(OGAuthentic GRE Practice Test Section 3, Q14)
Unenlightenedauthoritarian managers rarely recognize a crucial reason for the low levels of serious conflicts amongmembers of democraticallyrun work groups:a modicum of tolerance fordissent often prevents______.
(A) demur
(B) schism
(C) cooperation
(D) compliance
(E) shortsightenedness
KEY:B
1.关键字:冒号解释说明,特殊词语表示否定
2.空格中应该填入一个名词,是prevent的宾语。前后两句话之间通过冒号连接表示解释说明作用,因而两句话之间是同义关系,前面一句话中所说的是民主地进行组织的团体中少有争端,后一句话对上文解释说明,也应该体现民主可以减少争端的作用。而“low levels of ...”与“prevent”是两个特殊的否定词,所以对应单词之间是同义词,即被减少的对象:“争端”。
3.词语解释:
[1].(A) demur:(反对)to take exception : OBJECT
[2].(B) schism:(分裂)DIVISION, SEPARATION also : DISCORD, DISHARMONY
[3].(C) cooperation:(合作)the action of cooperating :common effort
[4].(D) compliance:(顺从)the act or process ofcomplying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion
[5].(E) shortsightenedness:(短视)lacking foresight
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。