单空题就是各类英文考试中常见的句子填空题，且限定题干只有一个空格，答案为五个选项中选择一个符合空格的正确选项。

例1：Far from viewing Jefferson as a skeptical but enlightened intellectual, historians of the 1960’s portrayed him as ______ thinker,
eager to fill the young with his political orthodoxy while censoring ideas he did not like.
A. an adventurous
B. a doctrinaire
C. an eclectic
D. a judicious
E. a cynical

      这类题目在单空单选的基础上增加了一个选项，即每题一共有6个候选答案，但是要求考生选出两个符合空格要求的正确答案。很显然，被选出的答案应该是一组同义词或近义词，甚至是两个意思接近或感情色彩相同的词汇。

例2：A restaurant’s menu is generally reflected in its décor; however, despite this restaurant’s ______ appearance it is pedestrian
in the menu it offers.
A. elegant
B. tawdry
C. modern
D. traditional
E. conventional
F. chic

      这类题目的句子更长，所给的提示信息更多，逻辑关系更加容易判断。但是，由于选项被独立分组设置，空格之间的组合情况变得更多，所以考生在选择答案的时候难度显然增大了。

例3：There has been much hand-writing about how unprepared American students are for college. Graff reverses this perspective, suggesting that colleges are unprepared for students. In his analysis, the university culture is largely (i)______ entering students because academic culture fails to make connections to the kinds of arguments and cultural references that students grasp. Understandably, many students view academic life as (ii)______ ritual. Blank (i) A. primed for B. opaque to C. essential for
Blank (ii) A. an arcane  B. a laudable C. painstaking

      这类题目的句子更长，所给的提示信息更多，逻辑关系更加容易判断。
但是，由于选项被独立分组设置，空格之间的组合情况变得更多，所以考生在选择答案的时候难度显然增大了。

例4：Most artists maintain an attitude of (i)______ toward their own work. They know, better than any critic would know, how their art (ii)______ their ambitions. The artist would demand of his admirer, Do you really think this is the best I am capable of? Henri Cartier-Bresson’s dismissal of his life’s work in photography, however, is (iii)______: it seems almost contempt, or even hatred, not just for his achievement but for the medium itself.
Blank (i) A.extraordinary hubris B. irremediable disdain; C. healthy disrespect
Blank (ii) A. falls far short of B. eventually transcends C. subtly realizes
Blank (iii) A. entirely comprehension B. at another level altogether C. at odds with his achievement