GRE填空和閱讀的同義詞介紹

GRE是一個選拔性考試，ETS的職責是幫助大學研究生院把適合學術研究的、推理能力強的人才選拔出來。這一點就決定了GRE填空的同義重復和反義重復不能過于直白，也就是說，ETS必然要在遵守規則的前提下尋求變化。

ETS所尋求的.變化，在反義重復方面變化空間并不大，無非是把詞匯變得難一些，因為對立二分的概念還是很容易分辨的。在同義重復方面，ETS的變化空間就要大得多，因為同樣一個意思可以用很多的方式來表達。這就需要我們具有更強一些的語言功底和主動尋找的意識。

舉例說明：找出兩對同義詞。

37.5. Although some consider forcefulness and persistence to be two traits desirable to the same degree, I think that making a violent effort is much less useful than maintaining a steady one.

58.3. Joe spoke of superfluous and vital matters with exactly the same degree of intensity, as though for him serious mattered neither more nor less than did trivialities.

9.2. A perennial goal in zoology is to infer function from structure, relating the behavior of am organism to its physical form and cellular organization.

11.7. When theories formerly considered to be disinterested in their scientific objectivity are found instead to reflect a consistent observational and evaluative bias, then the presumed neutrality of science gives way to the recognition that categories of knowledge are human construction.