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提高GRE阅读能力其实很简单

如何提高GRE阅读能力,关于这个问题也许大家都能找到很多方法和技巧,但这些方法技巧却并非人人适用,有些同学不结合自身实际情况,盲目套用一些所谓的高效方法,结果却适得其反。下面美国留学达人为大家推荐一些简单易行的提高GRE阅读能力的方法技巧,希望能对大家有所帮助。

卡准时间,实战模拟

要想提高能力,最重要的就是卡时间做题,强迫自己在规定的时间内一定要做完规定的题量。GRE考试时间可以说又长又紧,两篇作文一共一个小时,稍事休息后就要面对5个数学和语文部分的连续交叉轰炸,时间压力巨大。所以大家在备考中分题型练习的时候就应该按照实战的安排进行。建议大家可以用秒表一边做题一边倒计时,逼自己加快速度。比如做四篇GRE阅读,规定自己30分钟完成(以上时间只是假设,可以根据自己的情况调整。这样做出来的正确率才有参考价值)。一般多数通过考试考生都控制在30分钟。当然,如果你的语文部分中其他题目做题速度快,也可以适当给阅读挪点时间。

搜索资料,多读多看

提高阅读能力最好的办法之一就是多读。这里的多读不是指读的内容多,而是把读过的东西翻来覆去地读。说起来容易做起来难。最重要的是克服烦躁的感觉。那么熟悉的内容要读到什么程度呢?至少要读到看到它就像在看中文,你对内容的理解就像对中文的理解。这时候所谓的语感就形成了。至于阅读材料,最好的就是真题。GRE考试中的语言有固定的风格,和其它资料不一样。有的同学可能把小说、新闻读得很快,但读GRE阅读理解时就发现速度下降很多。因此,多读还需要建立在有针对性选择阅读内容的基础上。除了真题,常考的内容相关材料也是不错的选择。在过往的经历中,大家都会看见诸如美国黑奴、妇女权利等常考内容。在平时的阅读中,多阅读此类文章,在考试的时候对相应的知识点也就不会陌生了。

做题总结,齐头并进

在做练习和总结的时候,美国留学达人建议大家不要一下子把所有文章全部都做完,然后再从头至尾再做第二次。建议大家以10篇或5个section为一个界限,做10篇,每篇做完后总结,做完这10篇后,回头再做一次,再总结,然后才开始下一个10篇。这样做的好处是在短时间内加深对文章结构及考点的印象,更好地学习和纠正自己的思维,把握当前的考点,然后才进入下一个阶段。

暂时记忆,发散思维

暂时记忆对于各部分做题时都很有用,对于阅读的作用就勿庸置疑了,锻炼暂时记忆力的方法很多,而且效果因人而异,一个是图像法―把关键性文字转化成图像,保留在大脑中。可能大家都有这样的经历,自己对一些电影的经典场面总是记忆犹新,但对一些描述这些镜头的文字过不了多久就忘了,所以图像更容易记住。当考生在读文章时,一边读一边把可能的出题点(通常是观点或对比点)想象成一些图画,读完一段,马上回忆一下这段主要有那些画面。整个文章读完了,在脑海中就如同放电影一样过一遍。如一篇文章讲了某些植物灭绝的三种理论,第一种讲了冰河的影响,那么脑海中就出现了冰天雪地。之后作者提出依据,因为化石中的植物是同一时代,这样大面积的灭绝只能是气候的巨变所导致。那么脑海中马上出现一块巨大冰块把地面上所有的植物压在下面(代表植物圈被冰河气候灭绝)。这就是思维及记忆过程。这样有两个好处。第一,有连贯性而且条理清晰;第二,由于以一些出题点为依据进行加工回忆,所以答题时速度会比较快。

另一个方法是预期法。大家在读文章时可以对文章进行预期,边读边在脑海中形成中文框架,当文中内容有某些与自己的预期不符时,就容易把他们记住。这样做有三个优点,第一比较符合中国人习惯,中国人在思维方式上更习惯以文字处理信息。第二对一些关键词敏感度提高,解题精确度提高。第三即便遇上陌生的主题影响也不大。

长句难句,不容忽视

为什么要把长难句单独拿出来说呢,因为长难句是GRE阅读考试的主题,可以说,长难句掌握了,文章的大意也就理解了。大家可以就收集整理自己的“阅读句”,把所有文章中出现的长难句都收录下来,每天早上看20-30句。对于那些文章后面问题牵涉到或问到的难句,更是特别标注出来,并把文章的问题附在句子后面,认真学习。这样做的好处是学习如何以出题者的眼光在文章和句子中“抽丝剥茧”,“infer”出答案,因为阅读的难题通常是“infer”题,而“infer”题的答案通常都藏在那些难句或“闪烁其辞”的句子中。这样看多了,“infer”的能力也相应的提高了。

以上就是一些简单易行的GRE阅读提升技巧,希望大家能够参考学习,掌握其中精髓,做好GRE阅读题。

TIPS:GRE阅读暗示推理题介绍

GRE考试题型有很多,什么是GRE阅读的暗示推理题?在你选出答案以前,其实你并不知道这是暗示推理题,你的概念或许只有细节题,即除了中心思想题以外所有题都是细节题。事实上,在真正做题时,你也不必事先判断它是属于哪一 类题型,我们将其归类的目的是为了让你对考试的题型有一个确切的把握。

也就是说,如果你碰到某一道“细节题”,顺利地将关键词定位以后,你仍然不能很快地确定到底是哪一个选项正确时,你不要灰心,因为有一种比复述题稍微复杂一点的题,即暗示推理题。

GRE阅读题之纽约的地理位置

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New York City, in 1776, lay at the end of ManhattanIsland, in shape somewhat like an arrowhead, with itspoint turned towards the sea and its barbsextended at uneven lengths along the East andHudson rivers. It occupied no more space than isnow included within the five lower and smallest of itstwenty-four wards. Excepting a limited district laidout on the east side, in part as far as Grand street, the entire town stood below the line of thepresent Chambers street, and covered an area less than one mile square. Then, as now,Broadway was its principal thoroughfare. Shaded with rows of trees, and lined mainly withresidences, churches, and public-houses, it stretched something more than a mile to thegrounds of the old City Hospital, near Duane street. Its starting-point was the Battery at theend of the island, but not the Battery of to-day; for, under the system of "harborencroachments," the latter has more than trebled in size, and is changed both in its shape andits uses. The city defenses at that time occupied the site. Here at the foot of Broadway oldFort George had been erected upon the base of the older Fort Amsterdam, to guard theentrance to the rivers, and with its outworks was the only protection against an attack by sea.It was a square bastioned affair, with walls of stone, each face eighty feet in length, and within itstood magazines, barracks, and, until destroyed by fire, the mansion of the colonial governors.For additional security, about the time of the French war, an extensive stone battery, withmerlons of cedar joists, had been built just below the fort along the water's edge, enclosing thepoint from river to river, and pierced for ninety-one pieces of cannon.

We can infer that the larger work from which this passage was taken is most likelyabout:

A.The geography of New York City

B.The battles and fortifications in New York City

C.Seventeenth century New York

D.Changes on Manhattan Island

E.The old City Hospita

According to the author, what part of New York has stayed the same?

A.Broadway

B.Battery

C.Fort George

D.Fort Amsterdam

E.Morningside Heights

正确答案

B A

GRE阅读题之查尔斯道森的小说

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The tale of Piltdown Man, the most infamousforgery in the contentious detective story of theorigins of mankind, began in 1912. On December 18that year Charles Dawson, a well-known amateurBritish archaeologist, and Arthur Smith Woodward,of the British Museum of Natural History,announced the discovery of some amazing humanfossils. The remains comprised nine pieces of skull, a broken jaw with two teeth in place, a fewstone tools, and some animal bones, all of which had been discovered on a farm near PiltdownCommon in Sussex.

When pieced together the skull looked distinctly human. Although Piltdown Man, as thehominid became known, had unusually thick bones, the brain case was large and rounded.There was no sign of prominent brow ridges or other apelike features. However, the shape ofthe jaw bone resembled that of an ape. The only human characteristic of this jaw was thewear on the two molars, which were ground down flat, as is frequently true of hominids who eattough or abrasive foods, such as seeds. In other words the creature had the jaw of an apeand the skull of Homo sapiens. The primitive stone tools found with these remains suggesteda remote age for Piltdown Man, perhaps the Early Pleistocene or even the Late Pliocene. (In1912 experts thought the Pliocene lasted from 1 million to 600 000 years ago. Scientists nowdate it to between 5 million and 1.7 million years ago.) This date was also supported by someanimal bones found with Piltdown Man. To most scientists of the time, Piltdown Man fulfilled aprediction made by the pioneering evolutionist Charles Darwin, who had believed that humansand the apes could be connected genetically through a still undiscovered creature. Mostsignificantly, it was half-human in precisely the feature that was then accepted as the mostimportant difference between humans and the apes - the brain. At this time there was littlefossil evidence to contradict the idea that the brain was among the first of the humanfeatures to evolve. As time went on, however, Homo erectus fossils were found in Java andChina, while in South Africa the australopithecines were being discovered. All these fossils hadhuman-like jaws and teeth and relatively small brains in contrast to Piltdown Man's largecranium and apelike jaw. The large brain simply did not fit with the rest of the fossil evidence.By 1948 scientists knew that bones buried in the earth gradually absorb fluorine. The older abone, the more fluorine it contains. When the Piltdown materials were tested for fluorine, theskull and jaw fragments turned out to be much younger than the Early Pleistocene animalbones with which the skull had been found.

Scientists were now very suspicious. In 1953 all the Piltdown material was tested for itsauthenticity. Not only was the recent age of the jaw and skull confirmed, but the jaw provedto be that of a modern orangutan, with the teeth filed down in a quite obvious manner toimitate wear on human teeth. But the forger had not stopped there. A bone tool found withthe remains had been made in recent times with a steel knife, which leaves different marks thandoes a stone flake or axe. The tools, as well as the animal bones, had been taken from differentarchaeological sites.

Once the forgery was exposed by modem scientific analysis the mystery was no longerwhere Piltdown Man came in human evolution but who was responsible for the hoax, and why?Although Dawson, the discoverer of most of the Piltdown material, is frequently singled out asthe person responsible for this practical joke, there is no definite proof and the question is farfrom settled.

The Piltdown skull seemed distinctly human because it had (Select ALL answer choicesthat apply)

A.a large brain

B.thick bones

C.brow ridges

The scientists of the time made which of the following mistakes

A.believed that fossil discoveries would reveal much about human origins

B.had preconceived ideas about what features an early hominid should have

C.followed the ideas of Darwin in the face of counterevidence

D.incorrectly judged the size of the brain

E.failed to examine other fossil evidence available at the time

The animal bones found buried with the Piltdown Man were all of the following except

A.shown to be genuinely Pleistocene

B.more recent than first thought

C.unconnected with the human remains

D.deliberately planted at the site

E.not originally from the Piltdown site

It can be inferred that it took so long to expose the forgery because

A.the forger was exceptionally clever making it difficult to detect the alterations

B.reliable techniques for dating rocks did not exist until recently

C.the bones were not subjected to close scrutiny until considerable contradictory evidenceaccumulated

D.the scientists had no reason to doubt the credibility of the team who made the discovery

E.similar fossils from other archeological sites had proved to be genuine

正确答案

A B B C

GRE阅读题之演员的过去该追究吗

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Should we really care for the greatest actors of the past could we have them before us? Should we findthem too different from our accent of thought, offeeling, of speech, in a thousand minute particularswhich are of the essence of all three? Dr. Doran'slong and interesting records of the triumphs ofGarrick, and other less familiar, but in their dayhardly less astonishing, players, do not relieve one of the doubt. Garrick himself, assometimes happens with people who have been the subject of much anecdote and otherconversation, here as elsewhere, bears no very distinct figure. One hardly sees the wood forthe trees. On the other hand, the account of Betterton, "perhaps the greatest of Englishactors," is delightfully fresh. That intimate friend of Dryden, Tillatson, Pope, who executed acopy of the actor's portrait by Kneller which is still extant, was worthy of their friendship; hiscareer brings out the best elements in stage life. The stage in these volumes presents itselfindeed not merely as a mirror of life, but as an illustration of the utmost intensity of life, inthe fortunes and characters of the players. Ups and downs, generosity, dark fates, the mostdelicate goodness, have nowhere been more prominent than in the private existence of thosedevoted to the public mimicry of men and women. Contact with the stage, almost throughoutits history, presents itself as a kind of touchstone, to bring out the bizarrerie, the theatricaltricks and contrasts, of the actual world.

In the expression “One hardly sees the wood for the trees”, the author apparentlyintends the word trees to be analogous to

A.features of Doran's language style

B.details learned from oral sources

C.personality of a famous actor

D.detail's of Garrick's life

E.stage triumphs of an astonishing player

The doubt referred to in line 7 concerns whether

A.the stage personalities of the past would appeal on a personal level to people like the author

B.their contemporaries would have understood famous actors

C.the acting of famous stage personalities would appeal to us today

D.Garrick was as great as he is portrayed

E.historical records can reveal personality

Information supplied in the passage is sufficient to answer which of the followingquestions?(Select ALL answer choices that apply)

A.Who did Doran think was probably the best English actor?

B.What did Doran think of Garrick?

C.Would the author give a definite answer to the first question posed in the passage?

正确答案

A B A

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