新GRE阅读该如何备考

若水分享 2020-08-30 21:29:53 1147

新GRE阅读该如何备考呢?快来学习一下吧，下面小编就和大家分享，来欣赏一下吧。

新GRE阅读备考

1，答案在原文找，不可凭记忆答题。再者牢记：it’s not how much you read, it’s what you read。要读到focus，作者态度，逻辑结构(文章类型)和TS。

2，两遍法：第一遍快速扫原文抓大意，长阅读采取2-1-1-F原则，短阅读需要全文快速扫描;通过此法抓住main idea，即找出TS，也即是能用自己的话复述得出(简单中文判断句即可)，才说明理解了，如果一头雾水，就再读一遍。

详读：2-1-1-F，略读(不求理解)甚至快速扫视转折、缺陷、比较处，切忌速度平均。

第二遍看题目和选项，根据指定行数和关键词定位到原文，关注前5句和后5句话，然后排除选项。

3，题型分类

第一：general questions：主旨题、态度题、结构题、段落大意或作用、续写内容;TS的改写。

注意干扰选项：过于具体和细节化，过于general，超出文章范畴，含有新内容。

态度要一致，从前不从后，末段态度不是主题态度。

文章题目一定要包含focus。

第二：细节问题，需要定位到原文。干扰选项：原文正确，但不能回答问题。

定位时，看原文完整的句子，最主要目的是找到原句的主语，再排除，答案中没有句子主语的一律排除。

强对比/改进型取非题：题干(infer, imply)问的一方是另一方的取非，问一个东西怎样会更好，即是找这个东西的不好之处。unless句+缺陷;给定行数题答案一定不在本行，要联系上下文。写作用意题：问具体事物(例子、数据、人物等)作用时，先到上文找观点句(前一句或两句话，若无，找段落主题句;仍无，全文主题句)，通常正确答案是将该事物与该观点之间的关系，证明or驳斥。泛指化题：提问方式是according to the passage which is true or not true?在确定某选项是原文改写后，不必再看其它选项。

第三：weird问题;不定项、排除题、句子点选题、词汇题、逻辑阅读题

排除题：读选项是按E-D-C-B-A，先找原文中列举处。

词汇题：先自己判断，再排除。

逻辑题：找出前提和结论，使用排除法。

4，选项特点：先大概纵向看选项，若有共同之处，拿共同元素定位。

正确选项：一定是原文改写，有词性变换、主动/被动变换、取非或反义取反、逻辑改写。主主谓宾补可以变，但定状不变(定语及状语限定的不能变)。

错误选项：排除

包含极端词汇：only, any, never, must, impossible，比较级，最高级，唯一性等通常错误，除非原文有对应的。

用同性元素排除，原文中同样的东西，全对或全错;

无中生有、与原文相反、不严谨的推理;

如果某选项出现了和题干所问事物不在同一位置出现的词汇，那么该选项必然错误。

违反常识。

5，文章结构

新旧观点型： TS为新观点。提示词traditionally, common, usually believed, most argued, 通常首段中部或第二段开头会否定，用but, yet, however或强对比。重点是对老观点的否定和新观点。

结论解释型;TS为该结论。首句必须是判断句，但不一定是判断句式，一般也包含态度和评价，开头是主题句，后面展开具体内容，通常是总分结构。

现象解释型：TS是作者给予正评价的解释。首段给出自然或社会现象，往往很古怪，后面解释。标志：前面出现phenomen之类词汇，中部出现explain, intepret，后面评论explanation。

问题解决型;答案即为TS。首段出现设问句，TS是正评价的回答，套路：首先是问题task/problem/question;接着solution/answers; 最后评价/态度。

混合型：围绕focus，不断出现让步和转折，但从前不从后，靠前的态度为主态度。根据文章内容，如评价某人理论、著作或观点，标志是开头出现人名(大写字母)或书名(斜体字)，出现study, work analysis等词汇。评价以正评价为主，重点是作者的态度评价。

6，标记考点：人名及特殊年代首次出现处、TS、作者态度、事物之间关系、缺陷、强对比、转折、列举。

7，表态度词汇：正、负、复杂态度(大正小负、大负小正)，下面词不能做为正确答案：

新GRE逻辑阅读

1. At the Shadybrook dog kennel, all the adult animals were given a new medication designed to reduce a dog’s risk of contracting a certain common infection. Several days after the medication was administered, most of the puppies of these dogs had elevated temperatures. Since raised body temperature is a side effect of this medication, the kennel owner hypothesized that the puppies’ elevated temperatures resulted from the medication’s being passed to them through their mothers’ milk.

Which of the following, if true, provides the most support for the kennel owner’s hypothesis?

(A) Some puppies have been given the new medication directly but have not suffered elevated temperatures as a side effect.

(B) The new medication has been well received by dog breeders as a safe and effective way of preventing the spread of certain common canine infections.

(D) an elevated temperature is a side effect of a number of medications for dogs other than the new medication administered at the kennel.

(E) Elevated temperatures such as those suffered by most of the puppies in the kennel rarely have serious long-term effects on a puppy’s health.

2. Which of the following most logically completes the argument? Alivia’s government has approved funds for an electricity-generation project based on the construction of a pipeline that will carry water from Lake Cylus, in the mountains, to the much smaller Lake Tifele, in a nearby valley. The amount of electricity generated will be insufficient by itself to justify the project’s cost, even if the price of imported oil-Alivia’s primary source of electricity-increases sharply. Nonetheless, the pipeline project is worth its cost, because ——

(A) the price of oil, once subject to frequent sharp increases, has fallen significantly and is now fairly stable

(B) the project could restore Lake Tifele, which is currently at risk of drying up and thus of being lost as a source of recreation income for Alivia

(C) the government of Alivia is currently on excellent terms with the governments of most of the countries from which it purchases oil

(D) it would cost less to generate electricity by moving water from Lake Cylus to lake Tifele than to do so by moving water from Lake Cylus to another valley lake

(E) Alivian officials do not expect that the amount of electricity used in Alivia will increase substantially within the next ten years

3. Amusement rides at permanent fairgrounds are dismantled once a year for safety inspections by independent consultants. Traveling fairs, which relocate each month, can slip past the net of safety inspections and escape independent inspection for several years. Therefore, the rides at traveling fairs are less safe than the rides at permanent fairs.

Which of the following, if true about traveling fairs, most seriously weakens the argument?

(A) Before each relocation, the operators dismantle their rides, observing and repairing potential sources of danger, such as worn ball bearings.

(B) their managers have less capital to spend on the safety and upkeep of the rides than do managers of permanent fairs.

(D) While they are traveling, the fairs do not receive notices of equipment recalls sent out by the manufacturers of their rides.

(E) The operators of the rides often do not pay careful attention to the instructions for operating their rides.

4. When cut, the synthetic material fiberglass, like asbestos, releases microscopic fibers into the air. It is known that people who inhale asbestos, fibers suffer impairment of lung functions. A study of 300 factory workers who regularly cut fiberglass showed that their lung capacity is, on average, only 90 percent of that of a comparable group of people who do not cut fiberglass.

The statements above, if true, most strongly support which of the following hypotheses?

(A) People who work with fiberglass are likely also to work with asbestos.

(B) Fiberglass fibers impair lung function in people who inhale them.

(D) Coarse fibers do not impair lung function in people who inhale them.

(E) If uncut, fiberglass poses no health risk to people who work with it.

5. Politician: Pundits claim that by voting for candidates who promise to cut taxes, people show that they want the government to provide fewer services than it has been providing. By that reasoning, however, people who drink too much alcohol at a party in the evening want a headache the next morning. Which of the following could replace the statement about people who drink too much without undermining the force of the politician's argument?

(A) People who spend more money than they can afford want the things they spend that money on.

(B) People who seek different jobs than they currently have do not want to work at all.

(D) People who decide to stay in bed a few extra minutes on a workday morning want to have to rush to arrive at work on time.

(E) People who buy lottery tickets want the economic freedom that winning the lottery would bring.

6.Like most other coastal towns in Norway, the town of Stavanger was quiet and peaceful until the early 1960's, when it became Norway's center for offshore oil exploration. Between then and now, violent crime and vandalism in Stavanger have greatly increased. Stavanager's social problems probably resulted from the oil boom, since violent crime and vandalism have remained low in coastal towns in Norway that have had no oil boom.

Which of the following most accurately describes the method of reasoning employed in the argument?

(A) Arguing that a circumstance is not a precondition for a phenomenon on the grounds that the phenomenon sometimes occurs where the circumstance is not present

(B) Arguing that a circumstance is a cause of a phenomenon on the grounds that the phenomenon has not occurred where the circumstance is not present

(C) Arguing that a particular thing cannot have caused a phenomenon because that thing was not present before the phenomenon occurred

(D) Attempting to establish a claim by arguing that the denial of the claim is inconsistent with the observed facts

(E) Attempting to establish that certain circumstances that would have had to occur for a particular explanation to be correct could not have occurred

7. Excavations at a Mayan site have uncovered jewelry workshops located some distance from the center of the site on roads radiating outward from the center. Since the nobility lived only in the area of the center, archaeologists conclude that these workshops made jewelry, not for the nobility, but for a middle class that must have been prosperous enough to afford it.

The archaeologists' argument assumes which of the following about the artisans who worked in the workshops'

(A) They were themselves prosperous members of a middle class.

(B) They lived near their workshops.

(D) They worked full-time at making jewelry and did not engage in farming

(E) They did not take the jewelry they had made in the workshops to clients who were members of the nobility.

8. Over the last 40 years there has been a great increase not only in the number of agricultural pesticides in use but also in the care and sophistication with which they are used by farmers. Nevertheless, the proportion of agricultural crops lost to certain pests worldwide has increased over the same period, even when the pests concerned have not developed resistance to existing pesticides.

Which of the following, if true. best explains how improvements in pesticide use have been accompanied by greater losses to certain pests?

(A) Some dangerous but relatively ineffective pesticides common 40 years ago are no longer in widespread use.

(B) As pesticides have become increasingly pest- specific, controlling certain pests with pesticides has turned out to cost more in many cases than the value of crop losses caused by those pests.

(C) Because today's pesticides typically have more specific application conditions than did pesticides in use 40 years ago, today's farmers observe their fields more closely than did farmers 40 years ago.

(D) Certain pest-control methods that some farmers use today do not involve the use of chemical pesticides but are just as effective in eliminating insect pests as those that do.

(E) Forty years ago, much less was known about the effects of pesticides on humans and other mammalian species than is now known.

9.Authorities in California required drivers to use their headlights on a certain road during the daytime as well as at night and found that annual accident rates on the road fell 15 percent from the previous level. They concluded that applying the daytime rule statewide would lead to a similar reduction in accidents.

Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the authorities' argument?

(A) Because an alternate route became available, the volume of traffic on the test road decreased during the test period.

(B) Drivers were informed of the requirement to use their headlights on the test road by means of a series of three conspicuous signs in each direction of travel.

(C) Under certain conditions, among them fog and heavy rain, most drivers in California already use their headlights during the daytime.

(D) Full-scale application of the daytime rule would cause headlight bulbs to burn out sooner than they currently do and thus to require more frequent replacement.

(E) The test road was selected to include a great variety of the sorts of road conditions that drivers in California are likely to encounter.

10. Which of the following, if true, most logically completes the passage?

Every fusion reaction releases neutrinos. To test a hypothesis about the frequency of fusion reactions in the Sun, physicists calculated the number of neutrinos the Sun would produce annually if the hypothesis were correct. From this they estimated how many neutrinos should pass through a particular location on Earth. The fact that far fewer neutrinos were counted than were predicted to pass through the location would seem to prove that the hypothesis is wrong, except that------.

(A) the physicists, using a different method for estimating how many neutrinos should reach the location, confirmed their original estimate

(B) there are several competing hypotheses about the frequency of solar fusion reactions

(D) the method used to count neutrinos detects no more than approximately ten percent of the neutrinos that pass through

(E) neutrinos released in the fusion reactions of other stars also reach the Earth

11.An economist concluded that Kregg Company deliberately discriminated against people with a history of union affiliation in hiring workers for its new plant. The economist's evidence is that, of the 1,500 people hired to work at the new plant, only 100 had ever belonged to a labor union, whereas in Kregg Company's older plants, a much higher proportion of workers have a history of union affiliation.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the economist's argument depends?

(A) None of the people with a history of union affiliation who were hired to work at the new plant were union organizers.

(B) Applicants for jobs at the new plant were not asked by Kregg's recruiters whether they had ever belonged to a labor union.

(D) The company believes that the cost of running the new plant will be lower if labor unions are not represented in the workforce.

(E) The pool of potential candidates for jobs at the new plant included some people, in addition to those Kregg hired, with a history of union affiliation.

12. Hastings’ contracture is a disorder of the connective tissue in one or both hands, most commonly causing loss of mobility. A survey of thousands of medical-insurance claims found that over 30 percent of people who had one hand operated on for Hastings' contracture underwent surgery a second time for this disorder within three years. Clearly, therefore, a single surgical treatment of Hastings' contracture is often ineffective at providing long-term correction of the disorder.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

(A) The medical-insurance claims did not specie whether the surgery was on the patient's right or left hand.

(B) The surgical techniques used to treat Hastings' contracture are identical to those used successfully to treat certain work-related injuries to the hand.

(C) A separate survey found that 90 percent of patients operated on for Hastings' contracture report increased hand mobility within one month after the surgery.

(D) All of the patients in the survey were required by their insurance companies to seek a second opinion from a qualified surgeon before undergoing the operation.

(E) Many people who have Hastings' contracture choose to tolerate its effects rather than undergo the risks of surgery.

13.The most widely used therapy for a certain type of ulcer completely heals such ulcers in 44 percent of patients within six months. In a six-month trial of a new therapy for this type of ulcer. 80 percent of ulcers treated achieved significant healing and 61 percent were completely heated. Since the trial treated only ulcers of this type that were worse than average, the new therapy clearly promotes healing more effectively than the most widely used therapy.

The answer to which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the argument given?

(A) What differences are there, if any, in the ways that the two therapies are administered?

(B) Is there any significant difference between the costs associated with the two therapies?

(C) What percentage of people with ulcers of this type who were treated with the most widely used therapy for six months experienced significant healing?

(D) How quickly do ulcers of this type, if left untreated, become significantly worse.

(E) What percentage of patients involved in the six-month trial of the new therapy were disappointed at the rate of healing were experiencing?

14.A society can achieve a fair distribution of resources only under conditions of economic growth. There can be no economic growth unless the society guarantees equality of economic opportunity to all of its citizens. Equality of economic opportunity cannot be guaranteed unless a society's government actively works to bring it about.

If the statements given are true, it can be properly concluded from them that

(A) no government can achieve a fair distribution of resources under conditions of economic growth

(B) all societies that guarantee equality of economic opportunity to all of their members are societies that distribute resources fairly

(C) a society can achieve a fair distribution of resources only if its government actively works to bring about equality of economic opportunity

(D) there ran be no economic growth in a society unless that society guarantees a fair distribution of resources

(E) some societies that experience economic growth fail to guarantee equality of opportunity to all of their citizens

15.High Towers, a company that occupies several office buildings, is considering installing new energy-efficient lightbulbs in its buildings. The new bulbs require less than half the electricity consumed by the conventional bulbs currently used to produce the same amount of light. The new bulbs also last considerably longer. It follows that by replacing old bulbs as they bum out with the new kind of bulb, High Towers would significantly reduce its overall lighting costs. Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument given?

(A) If the new bulbs are widely adopted, as seems likely, they will be produced in large enough quantities to be offered at prices comparable to those of conventional bulbs.

(B) The utility that supplies High Towers with electricity offers discount rates to its largest customers.

(D) High Towers has begun a campaign to encourage its employees to turn off lights whenever they leave a room.

(E) The company that manufactures the new bulbs has been granted a patent on the innovative technology used in the bulbs and thus has exclusive rights to manufacture them.

新GRE阅读该如何备考

相关推荐

热门图文