GRE閱讀考試內(nèi)容整體變化分析
GRE閱讀題型并非一成不變，事實上隨著GRE考試的發(fā)展，閱讀部分從文章選材到題型都在不斷更新改進。下面小編就和大家分享GRE閱讀考試內(nèi)容趨勢變化情況，歡迎閱讀!
GRE閱讀考試內(nèi)容整體變化分析
從ETS官方網(wǎng)站的敘述中，最為核心的整個考試的變化趨勢為如下幾點：
Greater emphasis on higher cognitive skills and less dependence on vocabulary
More text-based materials, such as reading passages
A broader selection of reading passages
Emphasis on skills related to graduate work, such as complex reasoning
Expansion of computer-enabled tasks (e.g., clicking on a sentence in a passage to highlight it)
Two 30-minute sections rather than one 30-minute section
逐點分析，不難發(fā)現(xiàn)幾乎每條都于閱讀部分難度和重要性的提高分不開的。
所為cognitive認(rèn)知性能力，是所有閱讀測試的核心，即主要依賴文章本身而非經(jīng)驗性的一種理解能力。不僅在能力上提出了更高要求，閱讀文章本身不論從選擇題材的廣度，每個Section考察的篇幅數(shù)量都大大提升。在計算機新媒介的輔助下，ETS把GRE閱讀注冊商標(biāo)般的推理也提高到新的層次進行考察。簡而言之，閱讀可謂成為了新GRE考試中的重中之重。
GRE閱讀考試內(nèi)容樣題剖析
筆者對給出的樣題中閱讀部分做一個綜合評述，慢慢揭開新GRE閱讀的神秘面紗。在對題目做完剖析之后，總結(jié)相關(guān)的變化和值得注意的要點。
Questions 6 through 8 are based on the following reading passage.
Music critics have consistently defined James P. Johnson as a great early jazz pianist, originator of the 1920's Harlem "stride" style, and an important blues and jazz composer. In addition, however, Johnson was an innovator in classical music, composing symphonic music that incorporated American, and especially African-American, traditions.
Such a blend of musical elements was not entirely new: by 1924 both Milhaud and Gershwin had composed classical works that incorporated elements of jazz. Johnson, a serious musician more experienced than most classical composers with jazz, blues, spirituals, and popular music, was particularly suited to expand Milhaud's and Gershwin's experiments. In 1927 he completed his first large-scale work, the blues- and jazz-inspired Yamekraw, which included borrowings from spirituals and Johnson's own popular songs. Yamekraw, premiered successfully in Carnegie Hall, was a major achievement for Johnson, becoming his most frequently performed extended work. It demonstrated vividly the possibility of assimilating contemporary popular music into the symphonic tradition.
本選文難度和風(fēng)格幾乎和現(xiàn)行的GRE閱讀沒有太大區(qū)別。題材又談到了黑人，尤其是爵士音樂。這種題材在95-00筆考期間也經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)。把握住文章首段重要詞匯however抓住主題。分清文中矛盾對象(創(chuàng)新與傳統(tǒng)，不同音樂家間的邏輯聯(lián)系)，文章應(yīng)該比較容易處理。
1. The passage states that Johnson composed all of the following EXCEPT.
A. jazz works
B. popular songs
C. symphonic music
D. spirituals
E. blues pieces
此題正確答案為D。文中開始談到Johnson作為偉大爵士音樂家，因為其創(chuàng)始了新的風(fēng)格，其中包括了blues and jazz。而在文章末句提到了他吸收了同時代的popular music以及symphonic。注意該題的spirituals文中確實也出現(xiàn)過，但是措辭用的是borrow from，題干問的是compose.
2. Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.
The author suggests which of the following about most classical composers of the early 1920's?
A. They were strongly influenced by the musical experiments of Milhaud and Gershwin.
B. They had little working familiarity with such forms of American music as jazz, blues, and popular songs
C. They made few attempts to introduce innovations into the classical symphonic tradition
本題即為新GRE閱讀中新醞釀推出的所謂恐怖的“多選題”。其實這種題型即為原來GRE閱讀中羅馬數(shù)字題的變體，只是難度進一步加大。正確答案B。--They had little working familiarity
本文為符合現(xiàn)行新GRE考試部分文章套路分類中的廣義新老觀點對比型。文首觀點說報紙最后的政治取向?qū)呌趎eutral。而之后Pasley提出的觀點否認(rèn)了這種看法(oversimplified)。具體從早期國家報紙的黨派差異論證自己觀點。文章首句符合一貫GRE閱讀的品味：長度達(dá)到35詞的復(fù)雜難句子，為理解上的一個難點。
攻克GRE閱讀之經(jīng)典長難句練習(xí)
With the conclusion of a burst activity , the lactic acid level is high in the body fluids , leaving the large animal vulnerable to attack until the acid is reconverted , via oxidative metabolism , by the liver into glucose , which is then sent (in part) back to the muscles for glycogen resynthesis .(4+)
難句類型：復(fù)雜修飾、插入語、專有名詞
譯文：隨著爆發(fā)出來的運動的結(jié)束，再體液中乳酸含量會變得很高，使得大型動物處于容易受到攻擊的狀態(tài)，直到乳酸通過有氧新陳代謝，被肝臟轉(zhuǎn)化成(convert into)葡萄糖，而葡萄糖接下來又會(部分)傳送回肌肉中重新合成糖原 。
解釋：本句中修飾成分極多，以分詞修飾和介詞結(jié)構(gòu)修飾為主，作各種類型的狀語。前面的狀語和主句還好理解，從leaving開始句子變難;leaving引導(dǎo)的直到句末的結(jié)構(gòu)來做整個句子的狀語;分詞中又包含了三個狀語，其中的兩個via oxidative metabolism by the liver又起到了插入語的作用，把be converted into拆成兩段。
本句的另外一個特征是其中充斥著專有名詞。其中的body fluids, oxidative和resynthesis通過字面的意思或者根據(jù)詞頭、詞根我們還是應(yīng)該猜出其意思的，lactic acid, metabolism和muscle這三個詞在生物類文章中極其常用，大家應(yīng)該背下來;而glycogen這種東西則沒辦法，只能作一個首字母提煉。但是請記住，GRE和GMAT文章中只要出現(xiàn)了這種專有名詞，出題者是一定會在文章中把它在文章中所乃至的詞義解釋清楚的，所以讀者遇到文章中做了解釋的專有名詞，應(yīng)該力求把解釋看懂。
意群訓(xùn)練：With the conclusion of a burst activity , the lactic acid level is high in the body fluids , leaving the large animal vulnerable to attack until the acid is reconverted , via oxidative metabolism , by the liver into glucose , which is then sent (in part )back to the muscles for glycogen resynthesis .
攻克GRE閱讀之經(jīng)典長難句練習(xí)
Although Gutman admits that forced separation by sale was frequent，he shows that the slaves’ preference，revealed most clearly on plantations where sale was infrequent，was very much for stable monogamy. (3+)
難句類型：插入語
譯文：雖然古特曼承認(rèn)，由于奴隸買賣而造成的被迫離散甚為頻繁，但他還是證明，奴隸的偏愛——在那些奴隸買賣并不頻繁的種植園上被最為顯著地揭示出來——在很大程度上側(cè)重于穩(wěn)定的一夫一妻制(monogamy)。
解釋：本句中插入語的使用revealed most clearly on plantations where sale wa infrequent, 后半個分句中的主語that slaves' preference與系動詞was離得太遠(yuǎn)，造成閱讀的困難。
意群訓(xùn)練：Although Gutman admits that forced separation by sale was frequent，he shows that the slaves’ preference，revealed most clearly on plantations where sale was infrequent，was very much for stable monogamy.
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