GRE阅读考试内容整体变化分析_gre阅读知乎

GRE阅读题型并非一成不变，事实上随着GRE考试的发展，阅读部分从文章选材到题型都在不断更新改进。下面小编就和大家分享GRE阅读考试内容趋势变化情况，欢迎阅读!

GRE阅读考试内容整体变化分析

从ETS官方网站的叙述中，最为核心的整个考试的变化趋势为如下几点：

Greater emphasis on higher cognitive skills and less dependence onvocabulary

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 apassage to highlight it)

Two 30-minute sections rather than one 30-minute section

逐点分析，不难发现几乎每条都于阅读部分难度和重要性的提高分不开的。

所为cognitive认知性能力，是所有阅读测试的核心，即主要依赖文章本身而非经验性的一种理解能力。不仅在能力上提出了更高要求，阅读文章本身不论从选择题材的广度，每个Section考察的篇幅数量都大大提升。在计算机新媒介的辅助下，ETS把GRE阅读注册商标般的推理也提高到新的层次进行考察。简而言之，阅读可谓成为了新GRE考试中的重中之重。

GRE阅读考试内容样题剖析

笔者对给出的样题中阅读部分做一个综合评述，慢慢揭开新GRE阅读的神秘面纱。在对题目做完剖析之后，总结相关的变化和值得注意的要点。

Questions 6 through 8 are based on the following reading passage.

Music critics have consistently defined James P. Johnson as a great earlyjazz pianist, originator of the 1920's Harlem "stride" style, and an importantblues and jazz composer. In addition, however, Johnson was an innovator inclassical music, composing symphonic music that incorporated American, andespecially African-American, traditions.

Such a blend of musical elements was not entirely new: by 1924 both Milhaudand Gershwin had composed classical works that incorporated elements of jazz.Johnson, a serious musician more experienced than most classical composers withjazz, blues, spirituals, and popular music, was particularly suited to expandMilhaud's and Gershwin's experiments. In 1927 he completed his first large-scalework, the blues- and jazz-inspired Yamekraw, which included borrowings fromspirituals and Johnson's own popular songs. Yamekraw, premiered successfully inCarnegie Hall, was a major achievement for Johnson, becoming his most frequentlyperformed extended work. It demonstrated vividly the possibility of assimilatingcontemporary popular music into the symphonic tradition.

本选文难度和风格几乎和现行的GRE阅读没有太大区别。题材又谈到了黑人，尤其是爵士音乐。这种题材在95-00笔考期间也经常出现。把握住文章首段重要词汇however抓住主题。分清文中矛盾对象(创新与传统，不同音乐家间的逻辑联系)，文章应该比较容易处理。

1. The passage states that Johnson composed all of the followingEXCEPT.

A. jazz works

B. popular songs

C. symphonic music

D. spirituals

E. blues pieces

此题正确答案为D。文中开始谈到Johnson作为伟大爵士音乐家，因为其创始了新的风格，其中包括了blues andjazz。而在文章末句提到了他吸收了同时代的popularmusic以及symphonic。注意该题的spirituals文中确实也出现过，但是措辞用的是borrow from，题干问的是compose.

2. Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.

The author suggests which of the following about most classical composersof the early 1920's?

A. They were strongly influenced by the musical experiments of Milhaud andGershwin.

B. They had little working familiarity with such forms of American music asjazz, blues, and popular songs

C. They made few attempts to introduce innovations into the classicalsymphonic tradition

本题即为新GRE阅读中新酝酿推出的所谓恐怖的“多选题”。其实这种题型即为原来GRE阅读中罗马数字题的变体，只是难度进一步加大。正确答案B。--Theyhad little working familiarity

本文为符合现行新GRE考试部分文章套路分类中的广义新老观点对比型。文首观点说报纸最后的政治取向将会趋于neutral。而之后Pasley提出的观点否认了这种看法(oversimplified)。具体从早期国家报纸的党派差异论证自己观点。文章首句符合一贯GRE阅读的品味：长度达到35词的复杂难句子，为理解上的一个难点。

攻克GRE阅读之经典长难句练习

With the conclusion of a burst activity , the lactic acid level is high inthe body fluids , leaving the large animal vulnerable to attack until the acidis reconverted , via oxidative metabolism , by the liver into glucose , which isthen sent (in part) back to the muscles for glycogen resynthesis .(4+)

难句类型：复杂修饰、插入语、专有名词

译文：随着爆发出来的运动的结束，再体液中乳酸含量会变得很高，使得大型动物处于容易受到攻击的状态，直到乳酸通过有氧新陈代谢，被肝脏转化成(convertinto)葡萄糖，而葡萄糖接下来又会(部分)传送回肌肉中重新合成糖原 。

解释：本句中修饰成分极多，以分词修饰和介词结构修饰为主，作各种类型的状语。前面的状语和主句还好理解，从leaving开始句子变难;leaving引导的直到句末的结构来做整个句子的状语;分词中又包含了三个状语，其中的两个viaoxidative metabolism by the liver又起到了插入语的作用，把be converted into拆成两段。

本句的另外一个特征是其中充斥着专有名词。其中的body fluids,oxidative和resynthesis通过字面的意思或者根据词头、词根我们还是应该猜出其意思的，lactic acid,metabolism和muscle这三个词在生物类文章中极其常用，大家应该背下来;而glycogen这种东西则没办法，只能作一个首字母提炼。但是请记住，GRE和GMAT文章中只要出现了这种专有名词，出题者是一定会在文章中把它在文章中所乃至的词义解释清楚的，所以读者遇到文章中做了解释的专有名词，应该力求把解释看懂。

意群训练：With the conclusion of a burst activity , the lactic acid level ishigh in the body fluids , leaving the large animal vulnerable to attack untilthe 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阅读之经典长难句练习

Although Gutman admits that forced separation by sale was frequent，he showsthat the slaves’ preference，revealed most clearly on plantations where sale wasinfrequent，was very much for stable monogamy. (3+)

难句类型：插入语

译文：虽然古特曼承认，由于奴隶买卖而造成的被迫离散甚为频繁，但他还是证明，奴隶的偏爱——在那些奴隶买卖并不频繁的种植园上被最为显著地揭示出来——在很大程度上侧重于稳定的一夫一妻制(monogamy)。

解释：本句中插入语的使用revealed most clearly on plantations where sale wa infrequent,后半个分句中的主语that slaves' preference与系动词was离得太远，造成阅读的困难。

意群训练：Although Gutman admits that forced separation by sale was frequent，heshows that the slaves’ preference，revealed most clearly on plantations wheresale was infrequent，was very much for stable monogamy.

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