（精）嘉兴海思外语小讲堂：GRE考试介绍.ppt

第六讲 难词选讲 ① yet （1）固定句式have yet to do （2）yet引导补充修饰语 （3）修饰语气，没有作用 （4）转折语气 Because many of the minerals found on the ocean floor are still ____ on land, where mining is relatively inexpensive, mining the ocean floor has yet to become a ____ enterprise. 答案：B D Unlike other creatures, who are shaped largely by their ___ environment, human beings are products of a culture accumulated over centuries, yet one that is constantly being ___ by massive infusions of new information from everywhere. 答案：C F Superseded：被代替的，废弃的 Infusion: 注入 灌输 Exercise 36 1. Political advertising may be the most _____ kind of advertising: political candidates are usually quite _____, yet their campaign advertisements often hide important differences behind smoke screens of smiles and empty slogans. Exercise 31 2. Our young people, whose ___ sensitivities have not yet become ___, have a purer and more immediate response than we do to our environment. Actual events in the history of life on Earth are accidental in that any outcome embodies just one ___ among millions; yet each out come can be ___ interpreted. 答案：C F Embodies：象征 表现 包含 ② at best if at all Exercise 19 2. Noting that few employees showed any ___ for complying with the corporation’s new safety regulations, Peterson was forced to conclude that acceptance of the regulations would be ___ , at best. 附录Exercise 1 4. The current demand for quality in the schools seems to ask not for the development of informed and active citizens, but for disciplined and productive workers with abilities that contribute to civic life only ___, if at all. A indirectly B politically C intellectually D sensibly E sequentially ③ but (1) A, but B 转折 (2) not A but B 对比 (3) A but B 此时的but作用相当于and但是前后感情色彩相反 (4) A is but B but做副词表示only The meeting on environmental issues produced ____ discussion but no commitment on a plan of action: the many uncertainties surrounding global climatic change and the huge cost of efforts to limit it made the