4000单词
(05/01/2013-05/20/2013)
-用手机APP背完单词 (每天背一个2个小时50分钟=50 mins from transport+2 hours from solid study )
-TBD
(06/18/2013-07/06/2013)
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Essential Materials:
1) Magoosh GRE Prep
2) ETS’s Official Guide to the GRE book
3) ETS’s PowerPrep Software
(If you are a Mac user that can’t use ETS’s Poweprep, or would prefer to take the practice test on paper, you can print out ETS’s practice test PDF (with video explanations here). Take note that the Poweprep software and the paper-based test have overlapping material, so it won’t be of much help to do both, unless you space them out far enough so that you won’t recognize the questions and answers! I recommend using the Poweprep software if you can, since taking the test on a computer is a better simulation of exam day conditions.)
4) a journal or notebook (yes, a physical hard copy item)
5) Notecards (or Quizlet.com)
6) 要你命3000
Abbreviations
OG = the ETS Official Guide to the GRE
MQ = Math Questions
TC = Text Completion verbal questions
SE = Sentence Equivalence verbal questions
RC = Reading Comprehension verbal questions
PA = Paragraph Argument
AWA = the Analytical Writing Assessment, the essay-writing section
Supplemental/Optional Materials:
Easy magazines: Time, Newsweek, Scientific American (start low…but not too low; these magazines are still filled with decent content)
Difficult magazines: Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The Economist
MGRE’s 500 Essential Word Flash Cards
MGRE’s 500 Advanced Word Flash Cards these two MGRE flashcard sets could be a time-saving alternative to the Barron’s word book.
Quizlet.com: gives you online access to flashcards, making it easier, say, to quiz yourself on your mobile device
WordSmart: very basic “level 1″ definition of words with simple sentences
Dictionary.com: very good example sentences with definitions
Wordnik.com: provides a flood of example sentences
Word Dynamo (Dictionary.com): gives you little quizzes & games to add some variety to vocab learning
Magoosh iPhone/Android app, for mobile practice
2. 发散性思维: 文章一开头给了一个事实:雄性鸟类的鸣叫有两个方法。 猜测估计之后会介绍两个各是什么,同时看作者更赞同哪种。
I. 作者介绍了有两种鸟类的叫声。一种是短,为的是与其他雄性竞争;另一种长,为的是吸引更多雌鸟的注意力。两种叫声都有各自的道理,科学家们很难分辨。
R估计之后会讲到一个好的方法。类似提出问题,解决问题的思路。 (继续background介绍两种声音如何在实验室验证)
II. 作者继续介绍在实验室里如何记录验证这两种声音。短声音可以通过对雄鸟进行攻击。长声音可以通过播放这类声音来记录雌鸟的求偶反应。实验室里还发现,雌鸟对多种组合的声音比对不断重复的声音比来的敏感。这对这个实验的后续研究有很大的好处。
R 估计会用到这个新发现去验证其中一种声音更好 (作者提出第三种假设)
III. 作者根据以上结论提出一个假设:就是短的叫声高频率重复会使得雌性的孵化率更高。可是这一结论都没有得到实验证实。
R 会从另一个角度来证明作者是对的。(对。)
IV. 重要出现了能够证实作者观点的实验结论。换了一种鸟,这种鸟叫声的特点如何如何。于是证明第一种声音和early mating有关系。