gre考試閱讀文章常見詞解析

1、gre考試閱讀文章常見詞解析 gre考試中題目非常多，但始終不變的就是gre考試單詞，你知道如何在gre考試閱讀*拿到更多分?jǐn)?shù)嗎?下面就和大家分享gre考試閱讀*常見詞解析，希望能夠幫助到大家，來欣賞一下吧。gre考試閱讀*常見詞解析qualify：1. to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form.2. to be or become fit (as for an office), meet the required standard.以上是韋氏詞典上給出的兩個gre考試單詞解釋。通常我們比較熟悉的是后者“合格，有資格

2、”，但對前者卻不太熟悉“限定”。而很不幸的是，gre考試中對這個概念所考察的，通常都是前面這個含義。所以，我們需要對這個含義有明確的認(rèn)識。相信很多同學(xué)就算看了上面的解釋，還會感覺很模糊，所以，首先，我們對qualify的第一個含義進行一個比較準(zhǔn)確的說明。所謂限定，說得更加明確一點，就是把前面表達過的觀點進行更進一步的闡釋和說明，只不過這種闡釋的方式比較特殊：通過把前面觀點成立的范圍進行縮小的方式，來使得觀點合理性變大。用能聽得懂的話來說就是：前面的觀點把話說得太大，會受到大家的質(zhì)疑甚至圍攻;為了緩解這種尷尬的情況，后面就對前面的觀點進行各種補救，其中一種方法就是向大家表明“前面的觀點是正確的，

3、但是其成立的范圍可能沒有大家想的那么大，只是在很小的范圍內(nèi)才成立”。這樣，就能避免大家對前面觀點的誤解。舉個例子：我是英語最好的在我家里。前面是觀點，后面是限定。如果我直接拋出“我是英語最好的”的觀點，很多人會噴我的;但當(dāng)我說出成立的范圍“在我家里”的時候，估計就沒人會質(zhì)疑了(我家其他人都不是英語專業(yè)的)。這個時候，后面的內(nèi)容，就是限定，也就是qualify。前面的觀點是general，而后面的范圍則是restricted form。這種情況，在gre考試閱讀*當(dāng)中時有運用，舉個例子：when the same parameters and quantitative theory are us

4、ed to analyze both termite colonies and troops of rhesus macaques, we will have a unified science of sociobiology. i have been increasingly impressed with the functional similarities between insect and vertebrate societies and less so with the structural differences that seem, at first glance, to co

5、nstitute such an immense gulf between them. consider termites and macaques.在這篇gre考試*中，藍色字體表達的就是一個基本觀點，但這個基本觀點容易被人誤解：termite和rhesus macaques兩者的差異如此巨大，怎么能有unified science of sociobiology呢?因此，讀者對這個內(nèi)容可能會產(chǎn)生誤解。為了避免這種誤解，后面的紅色字體才做出了說明：我并不是從structural difference角度來研究的，而是從functional similarity的角度來研究的。這樣一來，原來u

6、nified的general的觀點，就變成了functional similarity這個restricted form了。不過，前面所說的定義太過專業(yè)。有時候，gre閱讀對這個概念的運用并不是那么嚴(yán)格。有時候，gre閱讀題干或者選項中如果出現(xiàn)這個概念，指的只不過是“辯證”這個含義：使得前面的觀點不那么絕對。(注意，這里說的是“有時候”，也就是說，還有“其他時候，在題干和選項中的qualify取的就是那個專業(yè)的定義”。)再來看一個閱讀題目。先來看一下題干：select the sentence that includes a qualification of the authors attit

7、ude toward the study of the historians as they are described in the passage.這里面，我們只需要理解成“辯證”的意思，足夠了。也就是說，我們要選的這個句子里，提到了the author對historians的正反兩方面的態(tài)度。明白題意之后，看下*(*比較長，大家著重注意藍色和紅色字體)：influenced by the view of some twentieth-century feminists that womens position within the family is one of the central

8、 factors determining womens social position, some historians have underestimated the significance of the woman suffrage movement. these historians contend that nineteenth-century suffragism was less radical and, hence, less important than, for example, the moral reform movement or domestic feminismt

9、wo nineteenth-century movements in which women struggled for more power and autonomy within the family. true, by emphasizing these struggles, such historians have broadened the conventional view of nineteenth-century feminism, but they do a historical disservice to suffragism.nineteenth-century femi

10、nists and anti-feminist alike perceived the suffragists demand for enfranchisement as the most radical element in womens protest, in part because suffragists were demanding power that was not based on the institution of the family, womens traditional sphere. when evaluating nineteenth-century femini

11、sm as a social force, contemporary historians should consider the perceptions of actual participants in the historical events.其中，藍色字體表達的是對這些historian的正面的態(tài)度，而紅色字體則表達的是負(fù)面的態(tài)度，所以這個句子就是我們要找的句子。這里，qualify可以簡單理解成“辯證”的意思。當(dāng)然，如果深入理解，我們會發(fā)現(xiàn)，其實qualify的專業(yè)定義里，也略微帶著“辯證”的色彩。所以，兩者并不算矛盾。再看一個填空題，體會一下gre考試對qualify這個概念有多

12、么喜愛。as he has matured as a scholar, felmar has come to see the merit of qualification. his conclusions, which early in his career he (i)_ , are now often (ii)_ .blank (i)blank (ii)(a) stated as absolute(d) hedged(b) refused to reveal(e) simplified(c) backed up extensively(f) reiterated這個題目中，如果不理解qua

13、lification這個詞的具體含義，理解起來有很大的難度。結(jié)合前面講過的兩個含義from general to restricted form和“辯證”，這里的qualification可以理解為“收斂”或者“有條件地認(rèn)可”等含義，總之，就是不那么絕對，要有辯證性，能夠看到事物不同角度的合理性。所以，這句話的意思是：隨著他作為學(xué)者的成熟度的提高，felmar開始看到“有條件地認(rèn)可”的好處。對于在早期職業(yè)生涯中被他說成絕對正確的那些結(jié)論，現(xiàn)在通常都是在有限定、有范圍的情況下才被認(rèn)可。總之，qualify和qualification這個概念，在gre的考試中經(jīng)常容易考察：不僅是明確出現(xiàn)這兩個詞，

14、還可能會考察我們對*邏輯關(guān)系的深層理解。希望*能夠?qū)Υ蠹依斫膺@個概念有所幫助。gre閱讀練習(xí)：長江水道since the 1970s, archaeol.ical sites in chinas yangtze river region have yielded evidence of sophisticated rice-farming societies that predate signs of rice cultivation elsewhere in east asia by a thousand years. before this evidence was discovered,

15、 it had generally been assumed that rice farming began farther to the south. this scenario was based both on the ge.raphic range of wild or free-living rice, which was not thought to extend as far north as the yangtze, and on archaeol.ical records of very early domestic rice from southeast asia and

16、india (now known to be not so old as first reported). proponents of the southern-origin theory point out that early rice-farming societies along the yangtze were already highly developed and that evidence for the first stage of rice cultivation is missing. they argue that the first hunter-gatherers

17、to develop rice agriculture must have done so in this southern zone, within the apparent present-day ge.raphic range of wild rice.yet while most stands of wild rice reported in a 1984 survey were concentrated to the south of the yangtze drainage, two northern outlier populations were also discovered

18、 in provinces along the middle and lower yangtze, evidence that the yangtze wetlands may fall within both the present-day and the historical ge.raphic ranges of rices wild ancestor.2.1. which of the following, if true, would most clearly undermine the conclusion that the author makes based on the 19

19、84 survey?a. areas south of the yangtze basin currently have less wild-rice habitat than they once did.b. surveys since 1984 have shown wild rice populations along the upper yangtze as well as along the middle and lower yangtze.c. the populations of wild rice along the yangtze represent strains of w

20、ild rice that migrated to the north relatively recently.d. early rice-farming societies along the yangtze were not as highly developed as archaeol.ists once thought.e. in east asia, the historical ge.raphic range of wild rice was more extensive than the present-day ge.raphic range is.2.2. based on t

21、he passage, skeptics of the idea that rice cultivation began in the yangtze river region can point to which of the following for support?a. lack of evidence supporting the existence of rice-farming societies along the yangtze at an early dateb. lack of evidence regarding the initial stages of rice c

22、ultivation in the yangtze regionc. recent discoveries pertaining to the historical ge.raphic range of rices wild ancestord. new information regarding the dates of very early domestic rice from southeast asiae. new theories pertaining to how hunter-gatherers first developed rice agriculture in east a

23、sia2. 3. which of the following can be inferred from the passage about the “southern-origin theory”?a. the theory is based on an unconventional understanding of how hunter-gatherers first developed rice agriculture.b. the theory fails to take into account the apparent fact that evidence for the first stage of rice cultivation in the north is missing.c. the theory was developed primarily in response to a 1984 survey of wild