在看本文之前请大家做三道题。

To believe that a culture’s achievement can be measured by the __ of its written material requires one to accept that a page of junk mail is as __ as a page of great literature.
*nature.. readable
*quality.. prevalent
*timelessness.. understandable
*applicability.. eloquent
*volume.. valuable

It is no accident that most people find Davis’ book disturbing, for it is __ to undermine a number beliefs they have long __.
*calculated..cherished
*annotated..assimilated
*intended..denied
*anxious..misunderstood
*reputed.. anticipated

Given the failure of independent laboratories to replicate the results of Dr. Johnson’s experiment, only the most __ supporters of her hypothesis would be foolish enough to claim that it had been adequately __.
*fastidious.. defined
*partisan.. verified
*vigilant.. publicized
*enlightened.. researched
*fervent.. undermined

下面进入正文，答案是EAB。做填空题的过程中，我们经常会遇到一些混不可解的词汇障碍。怎么办。本文想跟大家探讨一下怎样去蒙答案。

如第一道题，这个空的第二个选valuable是我比较确定的。比readable和其他的要好，但是第一个空对volume想不通，但是又不能说这个词肯定错，只能说不懂。这个nature看来好象有点通，但是又不是最好的，因为这个nature是万能词汇，很多地方可用。怎么办，许多时候我们的思维便开始保守。这个volume不懂什么意思，干脆就选a吧。Readable似乎也通。而且煞有介事的给readable找了一些成立的理由。

这是一个思维的误区。一定要记住。对valuable这样几乎必对的词要优先选择。除非在你把整个句子透彻理解的情况下完全排除了他的搭档的可能性。否则在句意一团模糊的情况下，优先选择自己还比较拿得准的。这样赌成功率大。