1992年10月-SecA 老G短阅读（内含一些临考讨论）

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我把讨论复制到这里了，供大家参考，题目在下面：
tsangce:
我不仅分析错题，我所有新G阅读题都会分析的...因为感觉这样能看清出题规律，毕竟都是资源嘛。
我的理解是，首先要读懂文章，起码大意和结构要知道，这样5个选项一般能排除3个，至少也有两个，因为会有很明显的out of  scope 和 direct contradiction，这时候剩下的再回去定位，定位一是为了选出正确答案，二是为了排除错误答案。
选出正确答案在于找到对应的proof，以及一些ETS惯用的转换；而排除错误的有逻辑上的错误，就像楼上有人提到A是正确的，取反却不一定也是正确的的这种，也有些是修饰词的错误，还有是mix up。感觉错误类型Robin神给出的那个是很常见的分类了，但还是要自己去总结体会这些常见的错误具体有什么形式。
除此以外，感觉经过这样的总结，真心就会对文章的结构、转折、代词，有一定敏感度了。所以每天还是会看看旧G的文章，找找感觉。

再次一己之见...:P

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tsangce:
我其实也很害怕pp2，怕做不好影响自己。最後抱着早死早超生的态度就做了...成绩不高，反而让我定下神来认真分析。然後开始理解为什么Robin神说做题和总结的时间要1:2，感觉很多题，用笔写下来，虽然有点累，但总结得多就会开始有“ETS你又想耍这样的把戏不幼稚么”的感觉，感觉总结还是很有用的。
我觉得剩下十天左右，pp2两套8个V加OG加新出那本，总结起来有够呛的了。

我自己的感觉是，如果时间不够，把官方的题研究明白是最重要的，而且以新G为主。
我自己感觉做pp2和吴中东阅读时，最大的不同就是，旧G，我是直接选出正确答案的，所以读懂文章正确率都不低；可是新G，选项迷惑性更大，感觉更需要排除错误选项，在排除了direct contradiction和out of scope後，剩下的两个选项，一般都挺难通过理解直接选出正确答案的（大概因为我太渣了....）。

吴中东阅读我觉得的价值，相对而言，我觉得是读而非做题，时间够做上几遍当然很好，不够时还是把新G题目研究一下？我在吴中东阅读第二遍做到一半时就放弃做题，直接当每天阅读材料了，因为我时间也不够了....感觉我在误人子弟...

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nicole4scarlett:
最近现在总结阅读，发现总结能够摸清ETS的选项规律，就像楼上说的，发现很多题基本就是原文的改写，所以定位回去找答案就比较容易，找最贴近原文的答案。大多数题不要加上过多自己的理解，就像往往我们觉得读懂了文章却做错比较多，没读懂的反而对的多，因为没读懂都回去定位。

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nicole4scarlett:
英语比较差，文章结构什么的，我生生的解也不太解出来，这也是我之前不愿意总结的原因，就直接解析题目。
一般根据题干找关键词，找出原文，找出主语谓语宾语。然后看正确选项，找出主谓宾，看对应，细节题大多是改写。再看错误选项，找不到原文的，大多应该就是out of scope，有原文的再找到原文分析，为什么错了，和原文有什么区别。
这过程中也会遇到主旨题，这时候就逼着自己看文章结构，那个铅笔在纸上画画关键字，看不出来的就看正确选项在原文的位置，解析多了，有些文章大概也知道主题句在文章中的位置。
不过我现在阅读还没很好，我只希望是在量变。

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最后再次感谢各位！




这个也是36套把问题改了的。。。所以36套答案是不行的
大家能否帮忙解答一下，不胜感激！

我只放有迷惑性的选项了。

Hank Morgan, the hero of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, is a nineteenth-century master mechanic who mysteriously awakening in sixth-century Britain, launches what he hopes will be a peaceful revolution to transform Arthurian Britain into an industrialized modern democracy. The novel, written as a spoof of Thomas Malory’s Morte d’ Arthur, a popular collection of fifteenth-century legends about sixth-century Britain, has been made into three upbeat movies and two musical comedies. None of these translations to screen and stage, however, dramatize the anarchy at the conclusion of A Connecticut Yankee, which ends with the violent overthrow of Morgan’s three-year-old progressive order and his return to the nineteenth century, where he apparently commits suicide after being labeled a lunatic for his incoherent babblings about drawbridges and battlements. The American public, although enjoying Twain’s humor, evidently rejected his cynicism about technological advancement and change through peaceful revolution as antithetical to the United States doctrine of progress.

17.        According to the passage, which of the following is a true statement about the reception of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by the American public?
(A) The public had too strong a belief in the doctrine of progress to accept the cynicism demonstrated at the conclusion of Twain’s novel.
(D) The public has continued to enjoy Twain’s story, but the last part of the novel seems too violent to American minds.

key,A,why not D?

19.        The author of the passage characterizes Thomas Malory’s Morte d’ Arthur as which of the following?
(D) A collection of legends about sixth-century Britain that have existed since at least the fifteenth century
(E) The novel about the life of King Arthur that inspired Twain’s cynicism about nineteenth-century notions of progress

key,D.
But, The novel, written as a SPOOF of Thomas Malory’s Morte d’ Arthur,spoof means travesty,An exaggerated or grotesque imitation, such as a parody of a literary work.that indicates INSPIRE

20.        It can be inferred from the passage that Mark Twain would most probably have believed in which of the following statements about societal change?
(A) Revolutions, in order to be successful in changing society, have to be carried out without violence.
(B) Technological advancements are limited in their ability to change society and will likely bring liabilities along with any potential benefits.

Why not A?

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什么叫36套把答案改了的？

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天薇凉 发表于 2014-8-6 10:23
什么叫36套把答案改了的？

问题改了，不是答案改了。。。
有的问题是36里面没有的

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17题我个人感觉是continued to那里错误，因为最后public "evidently rejected"了。可能是我自己的感觉，觉得让步状语从句强调的是后面那句，所以我觉得public其实还是接受不了的。所以是A。

19题答案应该是D。但我觉得重点不是spoof，而是题目问的是Thomas Malory’s Morte d’ Arthur，而文章当中有明确的同位语a popular collection of fifteenth-century legends about sixth-century Britain，这句话时修饰Thomas Malory’s Morte d’ Arthur，由此可得D。

20题，我觉得文中强调的是technology。而小说结尾的violence也是作为辅助去表达Mark Twain对technology的讽刺，并不是重点。所以有没有violence不是重点，而是Mark Twain认为如此发展technology会带来violence。

个人感觉哈。请多指教。

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tsangce 发表于 2014-8-6 10:34
17题我个人感觉是continued to那里错误，因为最后public "evidently rejected"了。可能是我自己的感觉，觉得 ...

我确实抄错题了。。。
但是17我还是觉得，应该是enjoy才对嘛，搞不懂
是不是感觉A更好点？

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btw,我觉得17题选项A是一个挺经典的GRE正确答案类型。
这是文章最后一句。

The American public, although enjoying Twain’s humor, evidently rejected his cynicism about technological advancement and change through peaceful revolution as antithetical to the United States doctrine of progress.

而A选项。

The public had too strong a belief in the doctrine of progress to accept the cynicism demonstrated at the conclusion of Twain’s novel.

too...to accept 与evidently rejected对应；cynicism直接对应。subject和object也一一对应，没有明显的修饰语错误，好像就比较像正确答案的样子......此外我觉得新G的选项会更绕。

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tsangce 发表于 2014-8-6 10:52
btw,我觉得17题选项A是一个挺经典的GRE正确答案类型。
这是文章最后一句。

不要给我压力再过10天我的死期就来临了。。。。。
这是老G的题已然吃不消。。。

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小硕鼠 发表于 2014-8-6 10:46
我确实抄错题了。。。
但是17我还是觉得，应该是enjoy才对嘛，搞不懂
是不是感觉A更好点？

老实说我第一次做这题时也选了D....傻乎乎地觉得这不就是文章最后强调的嘛。
但今天回看这篇文章，可能因为最近都在研究新G的选项，觉得ETS好喜欢出那种把一个句子变换几次，保留着几个支点（通常是两个，主语和谓语），然后作为正确答案的，所以现在就觉得A看起来比较像...我好扯...

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小硕鼠 发表于 2014-8-6 10:54
不要给我压力再过10天我的死期就来临了。。。。。
这是老G的题已然吃不消。。。

我自己的感觉是，如果时间不够，把官方的题研究明白是最重要的，而且以新G为主。
我自己感觉做pp2和吴中东阅读时，最大的不同就是，旧G，我是直接选出正确答案的，所以读懂文章正确率都不低；可是新G，选项迷惑性更大，感觉更需要排除错误选项，在排除了direct contradiction和out of scope後，剩下的两个选项，一般都挺难通过理解直接选出正确答案的（大概因为我太渣了....）。

吴中东阅读我觉得的价值，相对而言，我觉得是读而非做题，时间够做上几遍当然很好，不够时还是把新G题目研究一下？我在吴中东阅读第二遍做到一半时就放弃做题，直接当每天阅读材料了，因为我时间也不够了....感觉我在误人子弟...

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文章前面说了些背景，讲mark干了些什么，后面重点说mark强调一种和平的通过科技发展促进改革的思想，美国人不干啊！说不干仗怎么改革，我们就当mark是个笑话好了，我们坚持doctrine of US！
17文章最后一句==》a，d错在美国人要的正是暴力，搞反了
19.The novel, written as a spoof of Thomas Malory’s Morte d’ Arthur, a popular collection of fifteenth-century legends about sixth-century Britain, has been made into three upbeat movies and two musical comedies.注意问题问的是Thomas Malory’s Morte d’ Arthur，不是the novel
20，两个选项都是mark的思想没错，但任何绝对的语言都是错误的

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17.        According to the passage, which of the following is a true statement about the reception of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by the American public?
(A) The public had too strong a belief in the doctrine of progress to accept the cynicism demonstrated at the conclusion of Twain’s novel. 不能接受cyniscism
(D) The public has continued to enjoy Twain’s story, but the last part of the novel seems too violent to American minds. 因为太violent不能接受

根据American public定位到这句：
The American public, although enjoying Twain’s humor, evidently rejected his cynicism about technological advancement and change through peaceful revolution as antithetical to the United States doctrine of progress.
可以得出American public是因为cynicism而reject的，所以A选项最贴近原文

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19.        The author of the passage characterizes Thomas Malory’s Morte d’ Arthur as which of the following?
(D) A collection of legends about sixth-century Britain that have existed since at least the fifteenth century
(E) The novel about the life of King Arthur that inspired Twain’s cynicism about nineteenth-century notions of progress

根据Thomas Malory’s Morte d’ Arthu定位到这句
The novel, written as a spoof of Thomas Malory’s Morte d’ Arthur, a popular collection of fifteenth-century legends about sixth-century Britain, has been made into three upbeat movies and two musical comedies.
a popular collection of fifteenth-century legends about sixth-century Britain和A选项一致

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20.        It can be inferred from the passage that Mark Twain would most probably have believed in which of the following statements about societal change?
(A) Revolutions, in order to be successful in changing society, have to be carried out without violence.和原文相反
(B) Technological advancements are limited in their ability to change society and will likely bring liabilities along with any potential benefits.说Technological advancements不好，和原文一致

根据societal change定位到：
evidently rejected his cynicism about technological advancement and change through peaceful revolution as antithetical to the United States doctrine of progress.

his cynicism about technological advancement and change through peaceful revolution 说明他不喜欢technological advancement和change through peaceful revolution

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tsangce 发表于 2014-8-6 10:58
老实说我第一次做这题时也选了D....傻乎乎地觉得这不就是文章最后强调的嘛。
但今天回看这篇文章，可能因 ...

新G。。。。没多少材料的- -
其实还是我自己懒。。。。

感谢提醒新思路- -刚开始还在悲剧这么多阅读根本做不完了。。。