2014年GRE考試閱讀複習指導

  對GRE閱讀常考考點的熟悉程度

2014年GRE考試閱讀複習指導

俗化說,知己知彼,百戰百勝。要想迅速攻克GRE閱讀難關,就要了解出題者的思維。根據題目反 推原文考點,題目都考了原文哪些內容,自己有沒有關注到這些內容並做標記,這些內容都有什麼可總結的規律、特徵詞。這樣總結非常重要,如果堅持下去,很短一段時間後,就會發現一些固定的原文出題點,日後再讀原文的時候也就會自然而然地關注它們了。

 對GRE閱讀文章結構的把握

文章結構是做閱讀題整體思路的關鍵。掌握了文章結構就知道文章大體的行文脈絡,文章的大體意思也差不多了。文章的結構類型以及標誌詞,以及文章結構類型和主旨題之間的.關係,仔細分析一道主旨題的正確答案是怎麼闡述原文篇章主旨和結構的,其實這個正確答案就是文章的中心句的改寫形式,最重要的就是找出原文中的中心句,這是幫助讀者更深刻地理解原文結構的有效辦法。

 對GRE閱讀錯誤題的總結分析

分析錯題,做錯的題一定不能放過,看它們與正確答案之間的差別在哪裏,在分析錯題的同時更要關注正確答案與原文定位處的敘述之間的改寫關係,尤其是詞與詞的對應關係。當然除了這三點外還有很多可以總結的,比如詞彙、難句等,總結是提高的關鍵,特別是在GRE的閱讀中,只有多總結,從總結中不段進步,不段提高,這樣我們的閱讀水平纔會得到提高。

  新觀點特徵:對同一主體給出不同的解釋。

範文例文節選:

Seeking a competitive advantage, some professional service firms (for example, firms providing advertising, accounting, or health care services) have considered offering unconditional guarantees of satisfaction. …… unconditional guarantee can be an effective marketing tool if the ……..

However, an unconditional guarantee can sometimes hinder marketing efforts. With its implication that fail……..

範文例文點評:

第一段說“無條件質量保證很有效” 而第二段首句說“無條件質量保證有時會阻礙營銷活動”針對同一個“無條件質量保證”給出了截然相反的兩個觀點。

補充練習:

請讀者看以下文章,試着看出文中的新老觀點並且能夠通過總結段意來研究一下每一段之間的邏輯關係。

Most economists in the United States seem captivated by the spell of the free market. Consequently, nothing seems good or normal that does not accord with the requirements of the free market. A price that is determined by the seller or, for that matter, established by anyone other than the aggregate of consumers seems pernicious.

Accordingly, it requires a major act of will to think of price-fixing (the determination of prices by the seller) as both “normal” and having a valuable economic function. In fact, price-fixing is normal in all industrialized societies because the industrial system itself provides, as an effortless consequence of its own development, the price-fixing that it requires. Modern industrial planning requires and rewards great size. Hence, a comparatively small number of large firms will be competing for the same group of each large firm will act with consideration of its own needs and thus avoid selling its products for more than its competitors charge is commonly recognized by advocates of free-market economic theories. But each large firm will also act with full consideration of the needs that it has in common with the other large firms competing for the same customers. Each large firm will thus avoid significant price- cutting, because price-cutting would be prejudicial to the common interest in a stable demand for products. Most economists do not see price-fixing when it occurs because they expect it to be brought about by a number of explicit agreements among large firms; it is not.

Moreover, those economists who argue that allowing the free market to operate without interference is the most efficient method of establishing prices have not considered the economies of non-socialist countries other than the United e economies employ intentional price-fixing, usually in an overt fashion. Formal price-fixing by cartel and informal price-fixing by agreements covering the members of an industry are there something peculiarly efficient about the free market and inefficient about price-fixing, the countries that have avoided the first and used the second would have suffered drastically in their economic e is no indication that they have.

Socialist industry also works within a framework of controlled prices. In the early 1970’s, the Soviet Union began to give firms and industries some of the flexibility in adjusting prices that a more informal evolution has accorded the capitalist system. Economists in the United States have hailed the change as a return to the free market. But Soviet firms are no more subject to prices established by a free market over which they exercise little influence than are capitalist firms; rather, Soviet firms have been given the power to fix prices.