以下是五个顺承并列类的新GRE填空题练习,希望对各位考生有所帮助。

1. The younger members of the company resented the domineering and ________ manner of the office manager. 


(A) urbane 


(B) prudent 


(C) convivial 


(D) imperious 


(E) objective 


答案:D

解析:并列结构。空格通过and 与domineering 是同义关系。

翻译:公司的年轻成员痛恨办公室经理的支配的并且是(专横的)态度。

2. There are too many ________ and not enough serious workers. 


(A) sycophants 


(B) kleptomaniacs 


(C) novices 


(D) dilettantes 


(E) zealots

答案:D

解析:and并列结构。空格与serious 反义。

翻译:有太多的(随随便便的人),而严肃认真的工人不够。

3. The president was ________ about farm subsidies, nor did he say much about the even more ________ topic of unemployment. 


答案:A F

解析:并列结构。由Nor did he say 可知1空是负面动作。2空由even more 可知是比farm subsidies 程度更深的修饰。而farm subsidies unemployment由常识可知是重要的。

翻译:总统对于农业资助问题是(不认真的),他对于更加(关键的)失业问题也没有谈论太多。

4. The most consistent qualities of Forster’s novels are the human isolation and passivity in them; his principal characters stand slightly apart and ________ , but rarely ________ . 


答案:C F

解析:分号并列组合句。1空通过and与stand slightly apart并列。A but rarely B 结构中,AB通常同方向,但此例中,but转折后句义与分号前isolation and passivity 同义。

翻译:F的小说最稳定的性质是人类的孤立和消极;他的主要人物们站在一旁(袖手旁观),但很少(行动)

5. The museum administration appears to be singularly ________ the comforts of its employees, providing an employee health club, a lending library, and a part-time social worker to help staff members with financial or domestic problems. 


(A) ignorant of 


(B) indifferent to 


(C) attentive to 


(D) exploited by 


(E) uninvolved in 


答案:C

解析:伴随并列结构

翻译:博物馆的管理层显得特别地(关心)雇员的福利,为雇员提供健康俱乐部,一个出借图书馆,还有一个非全职社会工作者来帮助雇员打理财务和家庭问题。

以上五个顺承并列类的新GRE填空题练习,大家可以对照答案和翻译进行自测。