第二，在实战考试中，我们发现老GRE的填空题目仍然在新GRE考试中层出不穷。以2014年考试为例，在今年刚刚结束的9场考试中，重复老GRE考试题目的情况发生了8次，其中老双空题改写发生了2次，单选题改六选二发生了2词，单选题直接照搬发生了4次。笔者5月份在妙峰山的住宿班，一位刚刚在美国参加完考试的同学看到笔者强化班讲义的一道老GRE题目，也深情款款的看着笔者说，这是他5天前刚刚在美国GRE考试考场上看到的原题。因此我们预计这种老题改新题仍然将持续。
第三，新GRE考试在考查词汇的核心解释和题材时仍然和老GRE一致。如以前机经中出现sympathetic一次表示支持的(favorably inclined)含义，让很多新GRE考试非常陌生，其实如果他能把老GRE考试做透，就会发现sympathetic这个词义的考法很早就出现在了中国大陆地区90年代的考试中。又如今年5月10日的一道三空题目以cowbird把鸟蛋生在别人的鸟窝里为背景，原题如下：
The cowbird can seem a rather comical creature with a slow, awkward walk and often upraised tail. Less _________ is the cowbirds‘ habit of laying their eggs in the nests of other birds. The ________ nesters will usually accept the cowbird egg and raise the baby cowbird as their own. Unfortunately, cowbird eggs hatch sooner than the eggs of other species and the young cowbirds _________, using their size to their advantage in getting more food from the parents.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii)
A. amusing D. feckless G. grow quickly
B. painful E. resistant H. leave the nest
C. galling F. unwitting I. share their food
其实在老GRE题目当中，此种题材也早已考察过，题目如下：
If animal parents were judged by human standards, the cuckoo would be one of nature's more----creatures, blithely laying its eggs in the nests of other birds, and leaving the incubating and nurturing to them.
(A) mettlesome
(B) industrious
(C) domestic
(D) lackluster
(E) feckless
所以词汇解释和一些考察意向都未曾改变，也体现出了GRE考试的连续性和考试成绩长期的稳定性.
第四， 新GRE的句子结构仍然能找到老GRE的影子。
我们来对比以下两道题目，第一道题目是GRE机经真题，第二道题目是老GRE的真题。
Medieval cathedrals still stand as marvels of architecture, but as far as modern science is concerned, medieval physics and chemistry are simply irrelevant, at best a dead end, at worst the very __ of what science is supposed to be. (2014.2.23机经题目)
A. exemplar
B. glorification
C. reflection
D. dilution
E. antithesis
Despite assorted effusions to the contrary, there is no necessary link between scientific skill and humanism, and, quite possibly, there may be something of a----between them. (老GRE真题)
(A) generality
(B) fusion
(C) congruity
(D) dichotomy
(E) reciprocity
这两句话粗看没有任何联系，不过仔细观察你就会发现，这两句话都是一种对于递进关系的考查，前者是对irrelevant的向at worst方向的递进，后者是no necessary link向quite possibly方向的递进，而两道题目的答案竟然也惊人的相似，都是表示矛盾对立的词(E. antithesis和D. dichotomy)。
诸如此类的例子，在我们对于新GRE题目的实战考试的观察中层出不穷，屡见不鲜。因此，充分掌握好老GRE常考的句子结构和解题策略完全可以应对新GRE的填空题目。
