1. The Muses are ________ deities: they avenge themselves without mercy on those who weary of their charms.
(A) rueful
(B) ingenuous
(C) solicitous
(D) vindictive
(E) dispassionate
解析：這道題目注意冒號后面抓關(guān)鍵詞，叫做avenge themselves without mercy，毫無憐憫的復(fù)仇。因此前面就要體現(xiàn)出惡毒這樣一個意思，所以有這個意思的詞只有D選項(xiàng)。
vindictive - Having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge:
weary of sth. 表示厭倦某事。
e.g. She wearied of the sameness of her life. 她厭倦了千篇一律的生活。
這里面還要注意avenge 和 revenge的區(qū)別。
(1) avenge體現(xiàn)出為自己復(fù)仇，revenge一般替別人復(fù)仇。
avenge - to punish or hurt somebody in return for something bad or wrong that they have done to you, your family or friends
revenge - Inflict hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong done to oneself:
(2) 要注意avenge / revenge + sb. 的時候表示替誰復(fù)仇，+sth. 的時候表示因?yàn)槭裁磸?fù)仇。
It’s a pity he chose that way to revenge his sister. 不是說他報復(fù)他的妹妹，而是他替她妹妹復(fù)仇。
那么復(fù)仇的對象呢，要接介詞on 。
e.g. She was determined to avenge herself on the man who had betrayed her. 誰背叛了她，她就會讓誰下地獄。
答案：D
2. Dreams are ________ in and of themselves, but, when combined with other data, they can tell us much about the dreamer.
(A) uninformative
(B) startling
(C) harmless
(D) unregulated
(E) uncontrollable
解析：這是一道簡單題目。后面說他們可以告訴我們更多的事情，那么前面就應(yīng)該說他們什么事情都告訴不了我們，有這樣一個意思的詞就只有A選項(xiàng)。
答案： A
3. Without the psychiatrist's promise of confidentiality, trust is ________ and the patient's communication limited; even though confidentiality can thus be seen to be precious in therapy, moral responsibility sometimes requires a willingness to ________ it.
(A) implicit.. extend
(B) ambiguous.. apply
(C) prevented.. uphold
(D) assumed.. examine
(E) impaired.. sacrifice
解析：注意confidential和自信無關(guān)，是保密的意思。比方說你們?nèi)?a target='_blank'>考試GRE / TOEFL都會先簽署保密協(xié)議(confidentiality agreement) 。
這道題前后兩句話實(shí)際上體現(xiàn)出了一種矛盾感，雖然用“;”鏈接而且雖然沒有明顯的轉(zhuǎn)折詞，但是從意思上要判斷出是相反。前面的話說沒有保密的保證，信任就_____，病人的交流就受限，所以就是沒有信任唄。后面又說，即使信任很可貴，但是到的責(zé)任有的時候需要我們怎么樣這種信任(it指的就是信任)。 那么雖然建立信任很重要，但市場出于道義，有的時候我們也要破壞這種信任。比方說一個殺人犯跟你做咨詢說，很多年前的那場離奇殺人案是他干的，雖然你是心理醫(yī)生，但這個時候你也要去檢舉揭發(fā)他。
所以選擇E選項(xiàng)，注意impaire是損害。C選項(xiàng)uphold是一個面熟生詞，表示支持。
這里面有一句話 trust is impaired and the patient's communication limited。后半句省略了be動詞，完整的句子應(yīng)該是the patient’s communication is limited. 在并列句中，常常省略前面相同的成分。
e.g. Reading makes a full man, conference (makes) a ready man and writing an exact man.
答案： E
4. Having fully embraced the belief that government by persuasion is preferable to government by ________ , the leaders of the movement have recently ________ most of their previous statements supporting totalitarianism.
(A) intimidation.. issued
(B) participation.. moderated
(C) proclamation.. codified
(D) demonstration.. deliberated
(E) coercion.. repudiated
解析： 受限注意totalitarianism這個高端詞。
totalitarianism - Relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state: 即我們說的極權(quán)主義。
前面說的是他們支持一個belief，這里面government是統(tǒng)治的意思，不是政府。以理服人(by persuasion 比以__服人(by____) 更好，所以他們怎么樣之前的關(guān)于極權(quán)主義的言論，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)persuasion明顯跟totalitarianism 相反，所以第一個空格應(yīng)該補(bǔ)充極權(quán)主義的意思，而第二個空格怎時對totalitarianism的負(fù)向動詞。所以選擇E。
coercion表示強(qiáng)迫，動詞原形是coerce。這個單詞要和coarse區(qū)分開，coarse表示粗糙的，反義詞是smooth。
答案：E
5. The powers and satisfactions of primeval people, though few and meager, were ________ - their few and simple desires.
(A) simultaneous with
(B) commensurate with
(C) substantiated by
(D) circumscribed by
(E) ruined by
解析：中間有個小讓步，雖然少(few and meager)，卻也沒那么少唄，所以和她們的無欲則剛(few and simple desires)是匹配的。所以選擇B選項(xiàng)。
注意A選項(xiàng)體現(xiàn)不出這兩者之間有什么因果關(guān)系，只是單純的同時發(fā)生。D選選項(xiàng)不合適，他們沒有限制自己的powers and satisfactions。