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Mystery of the Anasazi

As the tourists prepare to depart Spruce Tree House, one asks Qumawunu the question that's on everyone's mind: Why, after having invested so much work in this place, did the ancestral Pueblo people leave it all behind?

The park ranger's answer sounds well-rehearsed: "We can come up with so many thoughts about why they moved in and why they moved But no one really knows for "

But it's a mystery that is finally beginning to

But while Crow Canyon has brought professional archaeology to the masses, it has yet to dismantle the biggest misconception about Mesa Verde's prehistory: that the ancestral Pueblo people simply

"I don't think we really ever thought that they just vanished into thin air," says "I think the real enigma of the ancestral Pueblo people in the Mesa Verde region is, ?Why did they leave?'"

The ancestral Pueblo people didn't have a written language; no one left behind a detailed account of their last days in the Mesa Verde But Kuckelman believes that if she looks hard enough at places like Goodman Point Pueblo, she can find this story written on the walls -- and on the floors and in the trash

There's a partially excavated kiva, a subterranean dwelling near the northwest corner, that could hold part of the Standing over it, Kuckelman lifts the plywood covering that will protect the underground chamber over the winter and peers into the When this kiva was first excavated last summer, workers discovered prehistoric ash in the hearth and a rabbit skeleton Kuckelman thinks those findings may be the remains of one of the last meals ever eaten in the

She believes that when researchers dissolve the ash in liquid and analyze what remains, they'll find markedly little evidence of maize, compared to the amount of maize refuse in rubbish pits around the This isn't a wild Kuckelman and her co-workers noticed the pattern when they ran similar tests at a nearby contemporary ruin, Sand Canyon These findings helped Kuckelman piece together a new theory about the ancestral Pueblo's departure, a theory she hopes to bolster with evidence from Goodman Point Pueblo and other

Kuckelman believes that as more and more people settled in the Mesa Verde region in the thirteenth century, they overwhelmed wild food sources in the area, such as deer and wild As a result, they became increasingly dependent on maize crops -- not just for food, but for feed for domesticated turkeys -- as evidenced by the ubiquity of maize in refuse pits, essentially time capsules of the villagers' eating habits and But then something wiped out their ability to cultivate their crops, as indicated by the limited maize remains in The rabbit skeleton may also be a clue, suggesting that turkey populations may have died out and forced these people to fall back on small wild This could mean that Kuckelman has found more than just evidence of the last meals ever eaten by the ancestral Pueblo people in the Mesa Verde region; she's found a possible impetus for their leaving: to search out new means of

"The folks in this area had become very, very dependent on crops, like maize, and wild Ultimately, I think that system backfired and collapsed on them," she

But why did the system backfire? Why did the entire population collapse? For a while, archaeologists thought they had the single answer: a great

This idea was born from ancient wooden beams found in Mesa Verde ruins, beams whose tree rings captured the exact date and climate conditions of the prehistoric time Andrew Douglass, the father of tree-ring dating, studied these beams and, in a 1929 National Geographic article evocatively titled "The Secret of the Southwest Solved by Talkative Tree-rings," announced that he'd cleared up the mystery of the prehistoric The beams, he wrote, showed evidence of a massive drought in the region from 1276 to Drought can be apocalyptic in the Mesa Verde region -- soil turns to powder, trees hold less moisture than kiln-dried wood -- and this one, it seemed, had led to a mass

Scholars are skeptical of single-factor Could one drought, no matter how devastating, be enough to depopulate an entire region? But for decades, no one had the hard evidence to challenge the drought "Interpretations were kind of all over the board," says That changed seventeen years ago, thanks to the work of a student named Carla Van

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题目类型固定或所涉及考点为已做标记范畴

问事物之间的关系，定位到同时标记这两个事物的地方。

问作者态度，定位到有态度词标记的地方。

问事物的缺陷，直接定位到标记缺陷处。

问文章大意类的主旨题定位与TS。

问全文focus的特征，首先到TS处定位。

问文章结构、段落作用、行文方法类的主旨题定位于SE。

问作者举某个例子的目的，或者作者引用一段文字为了说明什么，这类就写作用意提问的题目一般定位于例子或者引述文字的上文。

提干句以IF结尾的改进型或取非题，定位在原文缺陷处或者有unless的句子。

如果题目为EXCEPT题，可以先看看原文的标记中有没有列举内容;如果有，很可能是答案所在。

题干有特征词的题目

最高级、比较级、数字、以大写字母开头的专有名词、年代、特殊历史时期、引号、斜体字。

选项标志词与题干核心词双重定位。

段落定位。

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宏观中的“必读”与“不读”

所谓宏观，即使明确文章结构。再清楚一点说，即使我们要知道主题句的所在位置以及每段大意。

让我们今天来了解一下什么是主题句，ETS的阅读文章中主题句通常会以什么形式出现。和中国考生自己写作文不一样的是，美国人的阅读文章中从来都不出现"I think that, in my opinion, as far as I am considered"此类语言做主题句。通常来说美国人的主题句有两种形式：

判断句(含情态动词，系动词，正负褒贬词的句子);

概括文章将来结构。

比如一个句子：Your minds changed my 这句话中并没有情态动词和系动词，因此这句话自然不是判断句，也就不是主题句。但只要在这句话中加入一个正负褒贬词，即一个词表明作者的态度或观点的词即是判断句了。比如，Your minds successfully changed my attitude即是判断句了。另外，如果一个句子不是判断句，只要它能够概括文章将来结构，及文章后面会从哪几个方面来说明，也是主题句。比如，People are living longer 这句话一定不是主题句，而如果这句话是，People are living longer now since the improvement of food condition and the development of medical 这句话即是主题句了。因为它概括了文章后面会从哪几个方向来进行说明。

掌握好了主题句判断方法，很多文章学生便可以很快把握文章的结构框架，帮助后面文章的理解。比如一篇文章的开头是，Mycorrhizal fungi infect more plants than do any other fungi and are necessary for many plants to thrive, but they have escaped widespread investigation until recently for two First, the symbiotic association is so well-balanced that the roots of host plants show no damage even when densely Second, the fungi cannot as yet be cultivated in the absence of a living 第一句是明显的判断句，即为主题句。而主题句也同时概括了文章的将来结构，即会从"M真菌影响力很强"和"M真菌过去由于两个原因没有得到广泛研究"。下面马上看到了first和second，我们即知道这两个很难读懂的句子无非是两个原因使得M真菌没有得到广泛研究而已，具体是哪两个原因，我们几乎可以忽略不读。

微观中的“必读”与“不读”

所谓微观，即使明确句子结构。再清楚一点说，即使我们要知道句子主干大意及和上下文的关系。

说到可以不读的内容，很多同学都会想到插入语可以不用读。可什么是插入语呢?两个逗号之间的内容一定是插入语吗?今天，让我们重点来了解一下插入语。首先，我们知道并不是两个逗号之间的内容一定是插入语，很多同学会被传统的老师所误导，误认为判断插入语只要看是不是逗号间内容在解释逗号前内容即可，可是如果插入语不读的话，你有时如何知道这是对逗号前内容的解释呢?其实，插入语有两种形式：

插入语两种形式：

对主语说明

________，which / who / / / -ing / -ed……，

对主语举例

________，such as / especially……，

因此，我们只要看到第一个逗号之后紧跟着which / who / 介词 / 动名词 / 动词的过去分词 / such as / especially 的情况或两个逗号间仅有纯粹的名词时，那这从第一个逗号开始到后面最临近的标点符号(逗号或句号)间内容一定是插入语，往往可忽略不读。而我们唯一重点需要读的只有句子的"主、谓、宾"。

准备复习时的“读”与“不读”

很多同学都会痛苦，复习阅读进步不大，甚至有的时候反而比开始时错的还多。我认为，这主要是学生的复习方法不得当导致的。很多同学在复习准备阅读时，通常会一天一篇文章的做题，这不仅不能帮助你归纳掌握新GRE阅读理解的技巧，相反是在浪费时间。最好的复习阅读的方式是开始并不直接读文章做题，在已经掌握了一定量的单词，并强化训练了长难句的基础后，保证集中突破强化复习。即，每天精读6-8篇文章，大概持续2周左右。所谓精读即清楚了解文章中微观的每一句话的意思及在全文中作用，以及完全明白每一个选项。这样有助于帮助学生总结归纳文章和出题规律。

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Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) was a landmark in the depiction of female characters in Black American Marshall avoided the oppressed and tragic heroine in conflict with White society that had been typical of the protest novels of the early twentieth Like her immediate predecesors, Zora Neale Hurston and Gwendolyn Brooks, she focused her novel on an ordinary Black woman's search for identity within the context of a Black But Marshalll extended the analysis of Black female characters begun by Hurston and Brooks by depicting her heroine's development in terms of the relationship between her Barbadian American parents, and by exploring how male and female roles were defined by their immigrant culture, which in turn was influenced by the materialism of White By placing characters within a wider cultural context, Marshall attacked racial and sexual stereotypes and paved the way for explorations of class, and gender in the novels of the 1970'

The passage is primarily concerned with

the works of three Black American authors

common themes in Black American literature

an important work in Black American literature

insights about Black American literature in the early twentieth century

historical information about the writing of Black American novels in the second half the twentieth century

According to the passage, Hurston, Brooks, and Marshall are alike in that they

not examine the effects of White culture on their characters'lives

heavily influenced by the protest novels of the early twentieth century

Black communities as the settings for their novels

primarily about the difficulties their characters encountered in White culture

exclusively about female characters and the experiences of women

The author's description of the way in which Marshall depicts her heroine's development is most probably intended to

the discussion of similarities in the works of Brooks, Hurston, and Marshall

the specific racial and sexual stereotypes that Marshall attacked

the characters in Marshall’s novels with those in later works

how Marshall extends the portrayal of character initiated by her predecessors

themes in Marshall's early work with themes in her later novels

It can be inferred that the author of the passage would describe Brown Girl, Brownstones as being

different from novels written before 1959

influenced by novels written in the early twentieth century

to the protest novels that preceded it

in the late 1950’s but dated today

important influence on novels written in the 1970's

正确答案:C C D E

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Passage 1

Reviving the practice of using elements of popular music in classical composition, an approach that had been in hibernation in the United States during the 1960s, composer Philip Glass (born 1937) embraced the ethos of popular music without imitating Glass based two symphonies on music by rock musicians David Bowie and Brian Eno, but the symphonies’ sound is distinctively Popular elements do not appear out of place in Glass’s classical music, which from its early days has shared certain harmonies and rhythms with rock Yet this use of popular elements has not made Glass a composer of popular His music is not a version of popular music packaged to attract classical listeners; it is high art for listeners steeped in rock rather than the

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Passage 7

During the day in Lake Constance, the zooplankton hyalina departs for the depths where food is scarce and the water galeata remains near the warm surface where food is Even though galeata grows and reproduces much faster, its population is often outnumbered by

Which of the following, if true, would help resolve the apparent paradox presented above?

The number of species of zooplankton living at the bottom of the lake is twice that of species living at the

Predators of zooplankton, such as whitefish and perch, live and feed near the surface of the lake during the

In order to make the most of scarce food resources, hyalina matures more slowly than

galeata clusters under vegetation during the hottest part of the day to avoid the Sun’s

galeata produces twice as many offspring per individual in any given period of time as does

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Passage 12

For hot desert locations with access to seawater, a new greenhouse design generates freshwater and cool Oriented to the prevailing wind, the front wall of perforated cardboard, moistened and cooled by a trickle of seawater pumped in, cools and moistens hot air blowing This cool, humidified air accelerates plant growth; little water evaporates from Though greenhouses normally capture the heat of sunlight, a double-layered roof, the inner layer coated to reflect infrared light outward, allows visible sunlight in but traps solar heat between the two This heated air, drawn down from the roof, then mixes with the greenhouse air as it reaches a second sea-water-moistened cardboard wall at the back of the There the air absorbs more moisture, which then condenses on a metal wall cooled by seawater, and thus distilled water for irrigating the plants

For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that

It can be inferred that the process described in the passage makes use of which of the following?

The tendency of hot air to rise

The directional movement of wind

The temperature differential between the sea and the desert

For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that

It can be inferred that the greenhouse roof is designed to allow for which of the following?

The avoidance of intense solar heat inside the greenhouse

The entry of sunlight into the greenhouse to make the plants grow

The mixture of heated air with greenhouse air to enhance the collection of moisture

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十四修正案 1994年10月 B 9104

The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1868, prohibits state governments from denying citizens the “equal protection of the ” Although precisely what the framers of the amendment meant by this equal protection clause remains unclear, all interpreters agree that the framers’ immediate objective was to provide a constitutional warrant for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which guaranteed the citizenship of all persons born in the United States and subject to United States This declaration, which was echoed in the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, was designed primarily to counter the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott Sandford that Black people in the United States could be denied The act was vetoed by President Andrew Johnson, who argued that the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, did not provide Congress with the authority to extend citizenship and equal protection to the freed Although Congress promptly overrode Johnson’s veto, supporters of the act sought to ensure its constitutional foundations with the passage of the Fourteenth

The broad language of the amendment strongly suggests that its framers were proposing to write into the Constitution not a laundry list of specific civil rights but a principle of equal citizenship that forbids organized society from treating any individual as a member of an inferior Yet for the first eight decades of the amendment’s existence, the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the amendment betrayed this ideal of In the Civil Rights Cases of 1883, for example, the Court invented the “state action” limitation, which asserts that “private” decisions by owners of public accommodations and other commercial businesses to segregate their facilities are insulated from the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the

After the Second World War, a judicial climate more hospitable to equal protection claims culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown Board of Education that racially segregated schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Two doctrines embraced by the Supreme Court during this period extended the amendment’s First, the Court required especially strict scrutiny of legislation that employed a “suspect classification,” meaning discrimination against a group on grounds that could be construed as This doctrine has broadened the application of the Fourteenth Amendment to other, nonracial forms of discrimination, for while some justices have refused to find any legislative classification other than race to be constitutionally disfavored, most have been receptive to arguments that at least some nonracial discriminations, sexual discrimination in particular, are “suspect” and deserve this heightened scrutiny by the Second, the Court relaxed the state action limitation on the Fourteenth Amendment, bringing new forms of private conduct within the amendment’s

Which of the following best describes the main idea of the passage?

(A) By presenting a list of specific rights, framers of the Fourteenth Amendment were attempting to provide a constitutional basis for broad judicial protection of the principle of equal

(B) Only after the Supreme Court adopted the suspect classification approach to reviewing potentially discriminatory legislation was the applicability of the Fourteenth Amendment extended to include sexual

(C) Not until after the Second World War did the Supreme Court begin to interpret the Fourteenth Amendment in a manner consistent with the principle of equal citizenship that it

(D) Interpreters of the Fourteenth Amendment have yet to reach consensus with regard to what its framers meant by the equal protection

(E) Although the reluctance of judges to extend the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment to nonracial discrimination has betrayed the principle of equal citizenship, the Supreme Court’s use of the state action limitation to insulate private activity from the amendment’s reach has been more

The passage suggests that the principal effect of the state action limitation was to

(A) allow some discriminatory practices to continue unimpeded by the Fourteenth Amendment

(B) influence the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v, Board of Education

(C) provide expanded guidelines describing prohibited actions

(D) prohibit states from enacting laws that violated the intent of the Civil Rights Act of 1866

(E) shift to state governments the responsibility for enforcement of laws prohibiting discriminatory practices

The author’s position regarding the intent of the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment would be most seriously undermined if which of the following were true?

(A) The framers had anticipated state action limitations as they are described in the

(B) The framers had merely sought to prevent discriminatory acts by federal

(C) The framers were concerned that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 would be overturned by the Supreme

(D) The framers were aware that the phrase “equal protection of the laws” had broad

(E) The framers believed that racial as well as non-racial forms of discrimination were

According to the passage, the original proponents of the Fourteenth Amendment were primarily concerned with

(A) detailing the rights afforded by the principle of equal citizenship

(B) providing support in the Constitution for equal protection for all citizens of the United States

(C) closing a loophole that could be used to deny individuals the right to sue for enforcement of their civil rights

(D) asserting that the civil rights protected by the Constitution included nonracial discrimination as well as racial discrimination

(E) granting state governments broader discretion in interpreting the Civil Rights Act of 1866

The author implies that the Fourteenth Amendment might not have been enacted if

(A) Congress’ authority with regard to legislating civil rights had not been challenged

(B) the framers had anticipated the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown Board of Education

(C) the framers had believed that it would be used in deciding cases of discrimination involving non-racial groups

(D) most state governments had been willing to protect citizens’ civil rights

(E) its essential elements had not been implicit in the Thirteenth Amendment

According to the passage, which of the following most accurately indicates the sequence of the events listed below?

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Dred Scott Sandford

Fourteenth Amendment

Veto by President Johnson

(A) I, II, III, IV

(B) I, IV, II, III

(C) I, IV, III, II

(D) II, I, IV, III

(E) III, II, I, IV

Which of the following can be inferred about the second of the two doctrines referred to in lines 39-41 of the passage?

(A) It caused some justices to rule that all types of discrimination are prohibited by the

(B) It shifted the focus of the Supreme Court from racial to nonracial

(C) It narrowed the concern of the Supreme Court to legislation that employed a suspect

(D) It caused legislators who were writing new legislation to reject language that could be construed as permitting racial

(E) It made it more difficult for commercial businesses to practice racial

答案：CABBADE

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Mystery of the Anasazi

As the tourists prepare to depart Spruce Tree House, one asks Qumawunu the question that's on everyone's mind: Why, after having invested so much work in this place, did the ancestral Pueblo people leave it all behind?

The park ranger's answer sounds well-rehearsed: "We can come up with so many thoughts about why they moved in and why they moved But no one really knows for "

But it's a mystery that is finally beginning to

But while Crow Canyon has brought professional archaeology to the masses, it has yet to dismantle the biggest misconception about Mesa Verde's prehistory: that the ancestral Pueblo people simply

"I don't think we really ever thought that they just vanished into thin air," says "I think the real enigma of the ancestral Pueblo people in the Mesa Verde region is, ?Why did they leave?'"

The ancestral Pueblo people didn't have a written language; no one left behind a detailed account of their last days in the Mesa Verde But Kuckelman believes that if she looks hard enough at places like Goodman Point Pueblo, she can find this story written on the walls -- and on the floors and in the trash

There's a partially excavated kiva, a subterranean dwelling near the northwest corner, that could hold part of the Standing over it, Kuckelman lifts the plywood covering that will protect the underground chamber over the winter and peers into the When this kiva was first excavated last summer, workers discovered prehistoric ash in the hearth and a rabbit skeleton Kuckelman thinks those findings may be the remains of one of the last meals ever eaten in the

She believes that when researchers dissolve the ash in liquid and analyze what remains, they'll find markedly little evidence of maize, compared to the amount of maize refuse in rubbish pits around the This isn't a wild Kuckelman and her co-workers noticed the pattern when they ran similar tests at a nearby contemporary ruin, Sand Canyon These findings helped Kuckelman piece together a new theory about the ancestral Pueblo's departure, a theory she hopes to bolster with evidence from Goodman Point Pueblo and other

Kuckelman believes that as more and more people settled in the Mesa Verde region in the thirteenth century, they overwhelmed wild food sources in the area, such as deer and wild As a result, they became increasingly dependent on maize crops -- not just for food, but for feed for domesticated turkeys -- as evidenced by the ubiquity of maize in refuse pits, essentially time capsules of the villagers' eating habits and But then something wiped out their ability to cultivate their crops, as indicated by the limited maize remains in The rabbit skeleton may also be a clue, suggesting that turkey populations may have died out and forced these people to fall back on small wild This could mean that Kuckelman has found more than just evidence of the last meals ever eaten by the ancestral Pueblo people in the Mesa Verde region; she's found a possible impetus for their leaving: to search out new means of

"The folks in this area had become very, very dependent on crops, like maize, and wild Ultimately, I think that system backfired and collapsed on them," she

But why did the system backfire? Why did the entire population collapse? For a while, archaeologists thought they had the single answer: a great

This idea was born from ancient wooden beams found in Mesa Verde ruins, beams whose tree rings captured the exact date and climate conditions of the prehistoric time Andrew Douglass, the father of tree-ring dating, studied these beams and, in a 1929 National Geographic article evocatively titled "The Secret of the Southwest Solved by Talkative Tree-rings," announced that he'd cleared up the mystery of the prehistoric The beams, he wrote, showed evidence of a massive drought in the region from 1276 to Drought can be apocalyptic in the Mesa Verde region -- soil turns to powder, trees hold less moisture than kiln-dried wood -- and this one, it seemed, had led to a mass

Scholars are skeptical of single-factor Could one drought, no matter how devastating, be enough to depopulate an entire region? But for decades, no one had the hard evidence to challenge the drought "Interpretations were kind of all over the board," says That changed seventeen years ago, thanks to the work of a student named Carla Van

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贬抑，使卑下

轻视，贬抑

自以为高人一等，贬低(别人)

贬低，贬损

责难，贬低(价值)

贬抑，降低

贬低，贬值

贬低，诽谤

贬低者

贬抑，· 轻蔑

(贬低人的)短语或形容词

带有轻蔑意义的，· 贬低的

贬低，· 低估

低估,估计过低,看轻

轻视，· 鄙视

令人轻视的

轻视、鄙视

鄙视的

轻蔑、瞧不· 起

轻视，· 蔑视

轻视

\轻蔑,怠慢轻微的,纤细的

蔑视，· 违抗

蔑视,挑衅

嘲笑，· 鄙视

降格，· 降级

降级，· 降职

降级，· 贬谪

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辱骂，滥用

侮辱，冒犯

玷辱，亵渎

凌辱，威吓

使屈辱，使丢脸

羞耻，屈辱

可耻的，屈辱的

使屈辱，使痛心

耻辱，屈辱

辱骂的，恶名声的

恶名声，侮辱

indignityn侮辱

insultn侮辱,无礼v傲慢无礼,侮辱,刺激

亵渎，渎神

玷辱，亵渎

亵渎,玷污

亵渎神圣的

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不爱交际的，沉默寡言的

沉默的，弱音器

沉默不语的

reticencen无言,沉默,谨慎

心照不宣的，静默的

沉默寡言的

沉默的，· 无言的

拘礼的,沉默寡言的

谨慎，· 话语不· 多，· 储备·

说话不· 多的

浸透

把…浸入水中，用水泼

湿透的

浸泡，渗透

湿透的

浸透了的

湿透的，濡湿的

浸在水中，使湿透

浸泡，浸透

loggedadj笨重的，湿透的

浸入，沉浸于

沉入，浸入

浸软，消瘦

谜

用动作等表演的字谜游戏

谜语(双关的谜)

(以音、画等提示的)字谜，画谜

狮身人面像，· 谜一样的人

谜,谜一样的人或事

神秘的，· 难解的

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胡蜂吃天牛

Stem borers are insect pests that often ruin North American corn On some other continents, crop damage by stem borers is controlled by a certain species of Since these wasps eat nothing but stem borers, importing them into North America will keep crop damage from stem borers under control without endangering other North American insect

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

(A) Corn is the principal food of stem borers that live on continents other than North

(B) The wasps are capable of surviving in North America long enough to eat significant numbers of stem

(C) No wasp in North America is closely related to the species of wasp that eats stem

(D) On continent other than North America, the wasps control stem borers more effectively than does any other pest control

(E) Corn crops on continents other than North America are not damaged by any insect pests other than stem

答案：B

Gre阅读答案（14）

新GRE阅读词汇量非常巨大，但是它却影响着GRE成绩的的好坏，所以考生在备考非常多的时间再背诵单词上面。但大家可能不知道，在做GRE阅读题目的时候，只要把不认识的单词控制在整篇文章词汇数量的8%的范围内就可以了。

GRE考试改革后，对整体gre词汇量的要求下降20%，但是新GRE阅读材料词汇的考察中增加了对词汇的理解能力等等的题目，所以难度还是很大的，大家不要把注意力只放在数量的积累上，在整体文章的理解方面也是要有涉及的。

GRE阅读材料是论证性文字，不是说明性文字，也不是叙述性文字。这种以论证为特点的文字，及于GRE阅读文章的各个层面：“篇章—段落—句子—单词”。篇章由多个论点组成，论点由作为论据的句子构成，句子本身的典型构成是前后句由表示论证关系的词汇连接，而体现论证的意义的单词最重要。

首先要说的是，一篇文章中不认识的单词占全文词汇总量的比例只要控制在8%以内，是绝对不会影响到我们对全文任何观点的理解的。基于这一点，我们大家大可不必因为遇到了几个我们完全没见过的奇形怪状的单词而感到头痛和挣扎。因为它们不足以对我们理解文章产生影响。

但同时，我们在阅读文章的过程中也常常会碰到这样的一些词汇，那就是专有名词，尤其是涉及全文主题的专有名词，难道我们就必须一一认识它?答案显然是否定的。

什么叫做认识专有名词?从英到汉的翻译叫做认识?还是知道专有名词的特征叫做认识?

我们在阅读理解中有没有遇到过这样的问题提法：What is sedge root? 我想没有，因为这种问法是在问专有名词的翻译。我们遇到的更多是这样的一些问法：According to the passage, which of the following statements about sedge root is true? What can be inferred from the passage about sedge root? 这些问题的提法却是在问专有名词的文中阐述特征。我们再从文章本身对这个问题做出进一步的分析。

假设原文有这样一句话：Sedge root, a woody fiber that can be easily separated into strands, is essential to basketry 请问sedge root的中文翻译“莎草的根”能够帮助我们解决阅读理解题目吗?我想很难!真正能够帮助我们解决阅读理解题目的应该是这样的文字a woody fiber (木制纤维)和定语从句中的文字部分can be easily separated into strands (能够轻易地被分割成线)。

通过以上的分析，想必大家已经非常清楚地认识到，过去我们拼命去死记硬背专有名词的中文释义是多么愚蠢的行为。因为真正的认识应该是对特征的认识，所以一个专有名词和他的中文释义对我们来说是没有任何意义的，毕竟我们对它们都没有任何的概念。

最后很多人都说我们可以从上下文中猜出单词的释义，难道真的是这样么?

例如有这样一句话“Supernova is a massive star which undergoes gravitational collapse。” 我们是不可能从上下文中猜出supernova的释义“超新星”的。而我们真正能够做到的只是从上下文中猜出单词的特征：supernova是巨大的恒星 (massive star)，它在进行引力收缩(undergoes gravitational collapse)。于是以后当我们遇到不认识的单词，我们可以再也不用停下来思考单词的释义，也不用费尽思量地去猜所谓的单词的释义，我们需要做的只是静下心来在后面找到单词在文章当中传达的特征就可以。

Gre阅读答案（15）

新GRE阅读文章内容复杂程度降低了，但是新GRE阅读变化在于逻辑复杂程度升高。考生们想要获得新GRE阅读理解的高分，则更加注重文章的内在联系。这反映了ETS对于影响研究生阶段学术成功的基本能力的更为深入的把握。

新GRE阅读的文字内容复杂程度有所降低，逻辑复杂程度持续增加。而ETS在多年的跟踪研究后也意识到，恰当准确把握文章内部的复杂逻辑的能力，同研究生阶段的成绩关系更大些。下面，我们以一篇样题为例看一下ETS是如何考查新GRE阅读文章内部的复杂逻辑：

Policymakers must confront the dilemma that fossil fuels continue to be an indispensable source of energy even though burning them produces atmospheric accumulations of carbon dioxide that increase the likelihood of potentially disastrous global climate Currently, technology that would capture carbon dioxide emitted by power plants and sequester it harmlessly underground or undersea instead of releasing it into the atmosphere might double the cost of generating But because sequestration does not affect the cost of electricity transmission and distribution, delivered prices will rise less, by no more than 50 Research into better technologies for capturing carbon dioxide will undoubtedly lead to lowered

The passage implies which of the following about the current cost of generating electricity?

It is higher than it would be if better technologies for capturing carbon dioxide were

It is somewhat less than the cost of electricity transmission and

It constitutes at most half of the delivered price of

It is dwelt on by policymakers to the exclusion of other costs associated with electricity

It is not fully recovered by the prices charged directly to electricity

对上文的逻辑进行提炼我们发现，得出这样一个逻辑推理链条：

环保技术(technology that would capture carbon dioxide emitted by power plants and sequester it harmlessly underground or undersea instead of releasing it into the atmosphere)增加一倍发电成本(double the cost of generating electricity)。环保技术不改变传输成本(the cost of electricity transmission and distribution)。最终价格(delivered prices)增加不超过50%。

Gre阅读答案（16）

This is not to deny that the Black gospel music of the

early twentieth century differed in important ways from the

slave Whereas spirituals were created and

disseminated in folk fashion, gospel music was composed,

published, copyrighted, and sold by

Nevertheless, improvisation remained central to gospel

One has only to listen to the recorded repertoire of gospel

songs to realize that Black gospel singers rarely sang a song

precisely the same way twice and never according to its exact

musical They performed what jazz musicians call

"head arrangements" proceeding from their own feelings and

from the way "the spirit" moved them at the This

improvisatory element was reflected in the manner in which

gospel music was (122 words)

author mentions "folk fashion" most likely in order to

(A) counter an assertion about the role of improvisation

in music created by Black people

(B) compare early gospel music with gospel music

written later in the twentieth century

(C) make a distinction between gospel music and

slave spirituals

(D) introduce a discussion about the dissemination of

slave spirituals

(E) describe a similarity between gospel music and

slave spirituals

the following sentences, which is most likely to

have immediately preceded the passage?

(A) Few composers of gospel music drew on traditions

such as the spiritual in creating their

(B) Spirituals and Black gospel music were derived

from the same musical

(C) The creation and singing of spirituals, practiced by

Black Americans before the Civil War, continued

after the

(D) Spirituals and gospel music can be clearly

distinguished from one

(E) Improvisation was one of the primary characteristics

of the gospel music created by Black

文章在做两者的比较，提出其中一种的特点，目的也还是为了比较;答案C;

B 选项无中生有的多了一个限定;

一直说丌同点，那么前一段正常来讲会说相同点，答案B;