【CASK EFFECT】阅读能力基础自测（速度、难度、深度、越障、真题、RAM）

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修订：此贴为0906G的同学们开过一次，这次针对0910G做出了相应调整，作为阅读全方位训练【CASK EFFECT】的自测贴

从今天起，每天只要一小时时间（难度部分半小时，速度部分十分钟，越障部分二十分钟），你的阅读实力就可以在两个月里发生飞跃

【CASK EFFECT】0910G阅读能力基础自测（速度、难度、深度、越障、真题、RAM）
https://bbs.gter.net/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=910464&highlight

【CASK EFFECT】0910G阅读全方位锻炼--难度【LSAT】汇总贴
https://bbs.gter.net/thread-982016-1-1.html

【CASK EFFECT】0910G阅读全方位锻炼--速度【CET】汇总贴
https://bbs.gter.net/thread-982018-1-1.html

【CASK EFFECT】0910F阅读全方位锻炼--越障【SCI】汇总贴
https://bbs.gter.net/thread-982020-1-1.html

【CASK EFFECT】0910G阅读全方位锻炼--真题【GRE】（后期推出）

【CASK EFFECT】0910G阅读全方位锻炼--深度【FICTION】（后期推出）

【CASK EFFECT】0910F阅读全方位锻炼--RAM 汇总贴（后期推出）

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爱生活爱寄托 在这里我们一同锻炼阅读 克服难关

本帖相关活动：
0906G-寄托天下GRE大型笔试复习组队第一次活动---基础词汇测试  https://bbs.gter.net/thread-909955-1-1.html

此贴一则是针对笔试复习小组的继词汇自测之后的第二项阅读自测工作

二则是想给所有，无论是近期考还是远期考，无论是已经开始复习还是准备开始复习，的版友，一个检验并鉴定自己阅读实力的个人认为比较全面的测试。相信大家通过完成此测试，能初步定位自己的阅读状况，并且能更明确自己所需要攻克的难关。而且我们会在这里给积极参与活动的版友提供针对性的建议。


以下五项是GRE阅读所涉及的重点方面，整体组成一个木桶效应

目录：
1、GRE阅读 1短+1长——GRE阅读
2、LSAT阅读——逻辑阅读
3、CET4阅读、CET6阅读——速度阅读
4、SCIENCE段落节选——抗干扰阅读
5、GODFATHER段落节选——意境阅读

测试需要工具：计时器一个，精确到秒
测试指标：第一遍读完时间，读懂遍数，读懂时间，阅读过程中走神次数
CHECK LIST:

	PART I	PART I(2)	PART II	PART III	PART III(2)	PART IV	PART V
5	相当熟悉轻松阅读	可预知文章思路，并且脑子里有更好逻辑	轻松读懂，和中文没什么区别	时间：30s<yours<45s	30s<yours<45s	生词什么的对阅读不形成任何障碍，读起来和前面的差不多	YY的境界
4	一般般	思路清晰	正常速度一遍读懂	45s<yours<60s	45s<yours<60s	不顺，但是能懂	看完后能回味一段时间
3	有阅读障碍	思路很模糊，但是隐约有感觉	常速一遍+慢速一遍读懂	60s<yours<90s	60s<yours<90s	首字母提取	看懂了，能隐约感受里面的意境
2	很困难，用 了很长时间才读懂	糊涂呃 糊涂呃	读了3遍以上或一直用慢速读了两遍以上	90s<yours<150s	90s<yours<150s	恶心死了，但是磕磕绊绊还是看下来了	看懂文字但是不知所云
1	pass	pass	pass	over 150s	over 150s	pass	pass

阅读过程中做到：
1、凡是阅读过程中出现走神和磕绊的地方，记下来。后期好好分析，务必全都标出来！！
2、测试完之后的回帖内容
[1]自己的实际情况（这几个的评分）；
[2]1中的标记；
[3]心得总结；
[4]整体感受；
[5]改进目标；
[6]短期集中要突破的阅读项目；
[7]以及对这个测试的意见建议

我们将根据大家的情况给予针对行建议
P.S.版主们精力也有限，所以没有办法所有版友都照顾到，所以这个点评对象就是那些积极活动以及能写出好的心得和建议的热心版友


GRE

Extended debate concerning the exact point of origin of individual folktales told by Afro-American slaves has unfortunately taken precedence over analysis of the tales’ meaning and function. Cultural continuities with Africa were not dependent on importation and perpetuation of specific folktales in their pristine form. It is in the place that tales occupied in the lives of the slaves and in the meaning slaves derived from them that the clearest resemblances to African tradition can be found. Afro-American slaves did not borrow tales indiscriminately from the Whites among whom they lived. Black people were most influenced by those Euro-American tales whose functional meaning and aesthetic appeal had the greatest similarity to the tales with deep roots in their ancestral homeland. Regardless of where slave tales came from, the essential point is that, with respect to language, delivery, details of characterization, and plot, slaves quickly made them their own.

1.    The author claims that most studies of folktales told by Afro-American slaves are inadequate because the studies
(A) fail to recognize any possible Euro-American influence on the folktales
(B) do not pay enough attention to the features of a folktale that best reveal an African influence
(C) overestimate the number of folktales brought from Africa by the slaves
(D) do not consider the fact that a folktale can be changed as it is retold many times
(E) oversimplify the diverse and complex traditions of the slaves ancestral homeland
2.    The author’s main purpose is to
(A) create a new field of study
(B) discredit an existing field of study
(C) change the focus of a field of study
(D) transplant scholarly techniques from one field of study to another
(E) restrict the scope of a burgeoning new field of study
3.    The passage suggests that the author would regard which of the following areas of inquiry as most likely to reveal the slaves’ cultural continuities with Africa?
(A) The means by which Blacks disseminated their folktales in nineteenth-century America
(B) Specific regional differences in the styles of delivery used by the slaves in telling folktales
(C) The functional meaning of Black folktales in the lives of White children raised by slave
(D) The specific way the slaves used folktales to impart moral teaching to their children
(E) The complexities of plot that appear most frequently in the slaves’ tales
4.    Which of the following techniques is used by the author in developing the argument in the passage?
(A) Giving a cliché a new meaning
(B) Pointedly refusing to define key terms
(C) Alternately presenting generalities and concrete details
(D) Concluding the passage with a restatement of the first point made in the passage
(E) Juxtaposing statements of what is not the case and statements of what is the case
BCDE
The energy contained in rock within the earth’s crust represents a nearly unlimited energy source, but until recently commercial retrieval has been limited to underground hot water and/or steam recovery systems. These systems have been developed in areas of recent volcanic activity, where high rates of heat flow cause visible eruption of water in the form of (in the form of: 以...的形式) geysers and hot springs. In other areas, however, hot rock also exists near the surface but there is insufficient water present to produce eruptive phenomena. Thus a potential hot dry rock (HDR) reservoir exists whenever the amount of spontaneously produced geothermal fluid has been judged inadequate for existing commercial systems.
As a result of recent energy crisis, new concepts for creating HDR recovery systems—which involve drilling holes and connecting them to artificial reservoirs placed deep within the crust—are being developed. In all attempts to retrieve energy from HDR’s, artificial stimulation will be required to create either sufficient permeability or bounded flow paths to facilitate the removal of heat by circulation of a fluid over the surface of the rock.
The HDR resource base is generally defined to included crustal rock that is hotter than 150℃, is at depths less than ten kilometers, and can be drilled with presently available equipment. Although wells deeper than ten kilometers are technically feasible, prevailing economic factors will obviously determine the commercial feasibility of wells at such depths. Rock temperatures as low as 100℃ may be useful for space heating (heating of spaces especially for human comfort by any means (as fuel, electricity, or solar radiation) with the heater either within the space or external to it); however, for producing electricity, temperatures greater than 200℃ are desirable.
The geothermal gradient, which specifically determines the depth of drilling required to reach a desired temperature, is a major factor in the recoverability of geothermal resources. Temperature gradient maps generated from oil and gas well temperature-depth records kept by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists suggest that tappable high-temperature gradients are distributed all across the United States. (There are many areas, however, for which no temperature gradient records exist.)
Indications are that the HDR resource base is very large. If an average geothermal temperature gradient of 22℃ per kilometer of depth is used, a staggering 13,000,000 quadrillion B.T.U.’s of total energy are calculated to be contained in crustal rock to a ten-kilometer depth in the United States. If we conservatively estimate that only about 0.2 percent is recoverable, we find a total of all the coal remaining in the United States. The remaining problem is to balance the economics of deeper, hotter, more costly wells and shallower, cooler, less expensive wells against the value of the final product, electricity and/or heat.

1.    The primary purpose of the passage is to
(A) alert readers to the existence of HDR’s as an available energy source
(B) document the challengers that have been surmounted in the effort to recover energy from HDR’s
(C) warn the users of coal and oil that HDR’s are not an economically feasible alternative
(D) encourage the use of new techniques for the recovery of energy from underground hot water and steam
(E) urge consumers to demand quicker development of HDR resources for the production of energy
2.    The passage would be most likely to appear in a
(A) petrological research report focused on the history of temperature-depth records in the United States
(B) congressional report urging the conservation of oil and natural gas reserves in the United States
(C) technical journal article concerned with the recoverability of newly identified energy sources
(D) consumer report describing the extent and accessibility of remaining coal resources
(E) pamphlet designed to introduce homeowners to the advantages of HDR space-heating systems
3.    According the passage, an average geothermal gradient of 22℃ per kilometer of depth can be used to
(A) balance the economics of HDR energy retrieval against that of underground hot water or steam recovery systems
(B) determine the amount of energy that will used for space heating in the United States
(C) provide comparisons between hot water and HDR energy sources in United States
(D) revise the estimates on the extent of remaining coal resources in the United States
(E) estimate the total HDR resource base in the United States
4.    It can be inferred from the passage that the availability of temperature-depth records for any specific area in the United States depends primarily on the
(A) possibility that HDR’s may be found in that area
(B) existence of previous attempts to obtain oil or gas in that area
(C) history of successful hot water or steam recovery efforts in that area
(D) failure of inhabitants to conserve oil gas reserves in that area
(E) use of coal as a substitute for oil or gas in that area
5.    According to the passage, in all HDR recovery systems fluid will be necessary in order to allow
(A) sufficient permeability
(B) artificial stimulation
(C) drilling of holes
(D) construction of reservoirs
(E) transfer of heat
6.    According to the passage, if the average geothermal gradient in an area is 22℃ per kilometer of depth, which of the following can be reliably predicted?
I.     The temperature at the base of a 10-kilometer well will be sufficient for the production of electricity.
II.    Drilling of wells deeper than 10 kilometers will be economically feasible.
III.  Insufficient water is present to produce eruptive phenomena.
(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) I and II only
(D) II and III only
(E) I, II, and III
7.     Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the passage?
(A) Energy from Water Sources: The Feasibility of Commercial Systems
(B) Geothermal Energy Retrieval: Volcanic Activity and Hot Dry Rocks
(C) Energy Underground: Geothermal Sources Give Way to Fossil Fuels
(D) Tappable Energy for America’s Future: Hot Dry Rocks
(E) High Geothermal Gradients in the United States: Myth or Reality?
ACEBEAD
LSAT
In explaining the foundations of the discipline known as historical sociology—the examination of history using the methods of sociology—historical sociologist Philip Abrams argues that, while people are made by society as much as society is made by people, sociologists’ approach to the subject is usually to focus on only one of these forms of influence to the exclusion of the other. Abrams insists on the necessity for sociologists to move beyond these one-sided approaches to understand society as an entity constructed by individuals who are at the same time constructed by their society. Abrams refers to this continuous process as “structuring”.
Abrams also sees history as the result of structuring. People, both individually and as members of collectives, make history. But our making of history is itself formed and informed not only by the historical conditions we inherit from the past, but also by the prior formation of our own identities and capacities, which are shaped by what Abrams calls “contingencies”—social phenomena over which we have varying degrees of control. Contingencies include such things as the social conditions under which we come of age, the condition of our household’s economy, the ideologies available to help us make sense of our situation, and accidental circumstances. The ways in which contingencies affect our individual or group identities create a structure of forces within which we are able to act, and that partially determines the sorts of actions we are able to perform.
In Abrams analysis, historical structuring, like social structuring, is manifold and unremitting. To understand it, historical sociologists must extract from it certain significant episodes, or events, that their methodology can then analyze and interpret. According to Abrams, these events are points at which action and contingency meet, points that represent a cross section of the specific social and individual forces in play at a given time. At such moments, individuals stand forth as agents of history not simply because they possess a unique ability to act, but also because in them we see the force of the specific social conditions that allowed their actions to come forth. Individuals can “make their mark” on history, yet in individuals one also finds the convergence of wider social forces. In order to capture the various facets of this mutual interaction, Abrams recommends a fourfold structure to which he believes the investigations of historical sociologists should conform: first, description of the event itself; second, discussion of the social context that helped bring the event about and gave it significance; third, summary of the life history of the individual agent in the event; and fourth, analysis of the consequences of the event both for history and for the individual.

1.    Which one of the following most accurately states the central idea of the passage?
(A) Abrams argues that historical sociology rejects the claims of sociologists who assert that the sociological concept of structuring cannot be applied to the interactions between individuals and history.
(B) Abrams argues that historical sociology assumes that, despite the views of sociologists to the contrary, history influences the social contingencies that affect individuals.
(C) Abrams argues that historical sociology demonstrates that, despite the views of sociologists to the contrary, social structures both influence and are influenced by the events of history.
(D) Abrams describes historical sociology as a discipline that unites two approaches taken by sociologists to studying the formation of societies and applies the resulting combined approach to the study of history
(E) Abrams describes historical society as an attempt to compensate for the shortcoming of traditional historical methods by applying the methods established in sociology.
2.    Given the passage’s argument, which one of the following sentences most logically completes the last paragraph?
(A) Only if they adhere to this structure, Abrams believes, can historical sociologists conclude with any certainty that the events that constitute the historical record are influenced by the actions of individuals
(B) Only if they adhere to this structure, Abrams believes, will historical sociologists be able to counter the standard sociological assumption that there is very little connection between history and individual agency.
(C) Unless they can agree to adhere to this structure, Abrams believes, historical sociologists risk having their discipline treated as little more than an interesting but ultimately indefensible adjunct to history and sociology.
(D) By adhering to this structure, Abrams believes, historical sociologists can shed light on issues that traditional sociologists have chosen to ignore in their one-sided approaches to the formation of societies
(E) By adhering to this structure, Abrams believes, historical sociologists will be able to better portray the complex connections between human agency and history.
3.    The passage states that a contingency could be each of the following EXCEPT:
(A) a social phenomenon
(B) a form of historical structuring
(C) an accidental circumstance
(D) a condition controllable to some extent by an individual
(E) a partial determinant of an individual’s actions
4.    Which one of the following is most analogous to the ideal work of a historical sociologist as outlined by Abrams?
(A) In a report on the enactment of a bill into law, a journalist explains why the need for the bill arose, sketches the biography of the principal legislator who wrote the bill, and ponders the effect that the bill’s enactment will have both one society and on the legislator’s career.
(B) In a consultation with a patient, a doctor reviews the patient’s medical history, suggests possible reasons for the patient’s current condition, and recommends steps that the patient should take in the future to ensure that the condition improves or at least does not get any worse.
(C) In an analysis of a historical novel, a critic provides information to support the claim that details of the work’s setting are accurate, explains why the subject of the novel was of particular interest to the author, and compares the novel with some of the author’s other books set in the same period.
(D) In a presentation to stockholders, a corporation’s chief executive officer describes the corporations’ most profitable activities during the past year, introduces the vice president largely responsible for those activities, and discusses new projects the vice president will initiate in the coming year
(E) In developing a film based on a historical event, a filmmaker conducts interviews with participants in the event, bases part of the film’s screenplay on the interviews, and concludes the screenplay with a sequence of scenes speculating on the outcome of the event had certain details been different.
5.    The primary function of the first paragraph of the passage is to
(A) outline the merits of Abram’s conception of historical sociology
(B) convey the details of Abrams’s conception of historical sociology
(C) anticipate challenges to Abrams’s conception of historical sociology
(D) examine the roles of key terms used in Abrams’s conception of historical sociology
(E) identify the basis of Abrams’s conception of historical sociology
6.    Based on the passage, which one of the following is the LEAST illustrative example of the effect of a contingency upon an individual?
(A) the effect of the fact that a person experienced political injustice on that person’s decision to work for political reform
(B) the effect of the fact that a person was raised in an agricultural region on that person’s decision to pursue a career in agriculture
(C) the effect of the fact that a person lives in a particular community on that person’s decision to visit friends in another community
(D) the effect of the fact that a person’s parents practiced a particular religion on that person’s decision to practice that religion
(E) the effect of the fact that a person grew up in financial hardship on that person’s decision to help others in financial hardship
DEBAEC
CET4
Believe it or not, optical illusion (错觉)can cut highway crashes.
　　Japan is a case in point. It has reduced automobile crashes on some roads by nearly 75 percent using a simple optical illusion. Bent stripes, called chevrons (人字形), painted on the roads make drivers think that they are driving faster than they really are, and thus drivers slow down.
　　Now the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety in Washington D.C. is planning to repeat Japan’s success. Starting next year, the foundation will paint chevrons and other patterns of stripes on selected roads around the country to test how well the patterns reduce highway crashes.
　　Excessive speed plays a major role in as much as one fifth of all fatal traffic accidents, according to the foundation. To help reduce those accidents, the foundation will conduct its tests in areas where speed-related hazards are the greatest—curves, exit slopes, traffic circles, and bridges.
　　Some studies suggest that straight, horizontal bars painted across roads can initially cut the average speed of drivers in half. However, traffic often returns to full speed within months as drivers become used to seeing the painted bars.
　　Chevrons, scientists say, not only give drivers the impression that they are driving faster than they really are but also make a lane appear to be narrower. The result is a longer lasting reduction in highway sped and the number of traffic accidents.

1.The passage mainly discusses __________.
　　A) a new way of highway speed control
　　B) a new pattern for painting highways
　　C) a new approach to training drivers
　　D) a new type of optical illusion
2.On roads painted with chevrons, drivers tend to feel that __________.
　　A) they should avoid speed-related hazards
　　B) they are driving in the wrong lane
　　C) they should slow down their speed
　　D) they are approaching the speed limit
3.The advantage of chevrons over straight, horizontal bars is that the former ___________.
　　A) can keep drivers awake
　　B) can cut road accidents in half
　　C) will have a longer effect on drivers
　　D) will look more attractive
4.The American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety plans to __________.
　　A) try out the Japanese method in certain areas
　　B) change the road signs across the country
　　C) replace straight, horizontal bars with chevrons
　　D) repeat the Japanese road patterns
5.What does the author say about straight, horizontal bars painted across roads?
　　A) They are falling out of use in the United States
　　B) They tend to be ignored by drivers in a short period of time.
　　C) They are applicable only on broad roads.
　　D) They cannot be applied successfully to traffic circles.
ACCAB
CET6
Too many vulnerable child-free adults are being ruthlessly(无情的)manipulated into parent-hood by their parents , who think that happiness among older people depends on having a grand-child to spoil. We need an organization to help beat down the persistent campaigns of grandchildless parents. It’s time to establish Planned Grandparenthood, which would have many global and local benefits.  

Part of its mission would be to promote the risks and realities associated with being a grandparent. The staff would include depressed grandparents who would explain how grandkids break lamps, bite, scream and kick. Others would detail how an hour of baby-sitting often turns into a crying marathon. More grandparents would testify that they had to pay for their grandchild’s expensive college education.  

Planned grandparenthood’s carefully written literature would detail all the joys of life grand-child-free a calm living room, extra money for luxuries during the golden years, etc. Potential grandparents would be reminded that, without grandchildren around, it’s possible to have a conversation with your kids, who----incidentally-----would have more time for their own parents .  

Meanwhile, most children are vulnerable to the enormous influence exerted by grandchildless parents aiming to persuade their kids to produce children . They will take a call from a persistent parent, even if they’re loaded with works. In addition, some parents make handsome money offers payable upon the grandchild’s birth. Sometimes these gifts not only cover expenses associated with the infant’s birth, but extras, too, like a vacation. In any case, cash gifts can weaken the resolve of even the noblest person.  

At Planned Grandparenthood, children targeted by their parents to reproduce could obtain non-biased information about the insanity of having their own kids. The catastrophic psychological and economic costs of childbearing would be emphasized. The symptoms of morning sickness would be listed and horrors of childbirth pictured. A monthly newsletter would contain stories about overwhelmed parents and offer guidance on how childless adults can respond to the different lobbying tactics that would-be grandparents employ.  

When I think about all the problems of our overpopulated world and look at our boy grabbing at the lamp by the sofa, I wish I could have turned to Planned Grandparenthood when my parents were putting the grandchild squeeze on me.  

If I could have, I might not be in this parenthood predicament( 窘境) . But here’s the crazy irony, I don’t want my child-free life back . Dylan’s too much fun.  

1. What’s the purpose of the proposed organization Planned Grandparenthood?
A) To encourage childless couples to have children.
B) To provide facilities and services for grandchildless parents.
C) To offer counseling to people on how to raise grandchildren.
D) To discourage people from insisting on having grandchildren.

2. Planned Grandparenthood would include depressed grandparents on its staff in order to____.
A) show them the joys of life grandparents may have in raising grandchildren
B) draw attention to the troubles and difficulties grandchildren may cause
C) share their experience in raising grandchildren in a more scientific way
D) help raise funds to cover the high expense of education for grandchildren

3. According to the passage, some couples may eventually choose to have children because_____.  
A) they find it hard to resist the carrot-and-stick approach of their parents
B) they have learn from other parents about the joys of having children
C) they feel more and more lonely ad they grow older
D) they have found it irrational to remain childless

4.By saying “… my parents were putting the grandchild squeeze on me” (Line 2-3,Para. 6), the author means that _________.
A) her parents kept pressuring her to have a child
B) her parents liked to have a grandchild in their arms
C) her parents asked her to save for the expenses of raising a child
D) her parents kept blaming her for her child’s bad behavior

5.What does the author really of the idea of having children?
A) It does more harm than good.
B) It contributes to overpopulation.
C) It is troublesome but rewarding.
D) It is a psychological catastrophe

DBAAC
SCIENCE

A woman who carries a mutated BRCA1 gene faces a daunting decision: She can opt for constant monitoring hoping to catch any cancer early, while it’s still curable, or she can elect to have her breasts or ovaries removed to prevent cancer from developing in the first place. Results described on page 1467 now suggest that one day there may be a third option: using drugs rather than surgery to prevent BRCA1-mediated breast cancers. BRCA1 is a so-called tumor suppressor, a gene that in its normal form protects against cancer. One way it does this is by helping cells repair DNA damage that might otherwise result in cancer-causing mutations. The new work, which comes from Eva Lee and her colleagues at the University of California, Irvine, points to  another cancer-preventing role for BRCA1. By aiding in the degradation of the receptor through which progesterone exerts its effects, the gene’s protein product apparently checks the hormone’s growth-promoting action on breast tissue. Lee’s team also showed that mifepristone, a drug that induces abortions by inhibiting the progesterone receptor, blocks the development of mammary tumors in mice that have had the rodent version of BRCA1 inactivated in their mammary glands. “The paper has a mechanism [of BRCA1 activity] and has clinical implications. It’s potentially important,” says Eliot Rosen of Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., who is also studying the interaction between BRCA1 and progesterone.
Previous work had raised suspicions that progesterone fosters breast cancer development. For example, women taking both estrogen and progesterone to treat menopausal symptoms have a higher risk of developing breast cancer than women who take estrogen only. And working with human breast cancer cells in lab cultures, Rosen’s team found that normal BRCA1 inhibits the action of theprogesterone receptor, although how has been unclear.
In the current work, Lee and her colleagues created mice that lacked functioning copies of the rodent versions of both BRCA1 and p53, another tumor suppressor that is frequently mutated in breast cancers. Although the female mice had never been mated, their mammary tissue showed increased cell proliferation—much as the breasts of pregnant woman do when high progesterone levels prepare the mammary glands for lactation. What’s more, all the …

Godfather

Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her.
The judge, a formidably heavy-featured man, rolled up the sleeves of his black robe as if to physically chastise the two young men standing before the bench. His face was cold with majestic contempt. But there was something false in all this that Amerigo Bonasera sensed but did not yet understand.
"You acted like the worst kind of degenerates," the judge said harshly. Yes, yes, thought Amerigo Bonasera. Animals. Animals. The two young men, glossy hair crew cut, scrubbed clean-cut faces composed into humble contrition, bowed their heads in submission.
The judge went on. "You acted like wild beasts in a jungle and you are fortunate you did not sexually molest that poor girl or I'd put you behind bars for twenty years." The judge paused, his eyes beneath impressively thick brows flickered slyly toward the sallow-faced Amerigo Bonasera, then lowered to a stack of probation reports before him. He frowned and shrugged as if convinced against his own natural desire. He spoke again.
"But because of your youth, your clean records, because of your fine families, and because the law in its majesty does not seek vengeance, I hereby sentence you to three years' confinement to the penitentiary. Sentence to be suspended."
Only forty years of professional mourning kept the overwhelming frustration and hatred from showing on Amerigo Bonasera's face. His beautiful young daughter was still in the hospital with her broken jaw wired together; and now these two animales went free? It had all been a farce. He watched the happy parents cluster around their darling sons. Oh, they were all happy now, they were smiling now.
The black bile, sourly bitter, rose in Bonasera's throat, overflowed through tightly clenched teeth. He used his white linen pocket handkerchief and held it against his lips. He was standing so when the two young men strode freely up the aisle, confident and cool-eyed, smiling, not giving him so much as a glance. He let them pass without saying a word, pressing the fresh linen against his mouth.
The parents of the animales were coming by now, two men and two women his age but more American in their dress. They glanced at him, shamefaced, yet in their eyes was an odd, triumphant defiance.
Out of control, Bonasera leaned forward toward the aisle and shouted hoarsely, "You will weep as I have wept--- I will make you weep as your children make me weep"--- the linen at his eyes now. The defense attorneys bringing up the rear swept their clients forward in a tight little band, enveloping the two young men, who had started back down the aisle as if to protect their parents. A huge bailiff moved quickly to block the row in which Bonasera stood. But it was not necessary.
All his years in America, Amerigo Bonasera had trusted in law and order. And he had prospered thereby. Now, though his brain smoked with hatred, though wild visions of buying a gun and killing the two young men jangled the very bones of his skull, Bonasera turned to his still uncomprehending wife and explained to her, "They have made fools of us." He paused and then made his decision, no longer fearing the cost. "For justice we must go on our knees to Don Corleone."

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太烂了，就不说什么了
鄙人背景：红宝拖拖拉拉一半还没过掉囧

草木兄，我就不按照你列的提纲来了，因为感觉很多重复的条目啊好像在写实验报告一样～～～囧

GRE短对话：3分（这个因为是gre处女读，用了N久调整我一贯的四六级思路加以疏导因挫折感而导致的对人生之质疑，所以不具有参考价值）
知道我做了这个以后对鸡阿姨的初印象是什么么，这个和四六级阅读不同，四六级是你文章都没看或没看懂就会做题，这个是你看懂了也不会做题～～～好嘛我智商低
我的答案是BCDE，没一个确定的。
这句：It is in the place that tales occupied in the lives of the slaves and in the meaning slaves derived from them that the clearest resemblances to African tradition can be found.这句话算是本文核心论据吧，挺重要的，虽然不难，但是因为比较长，所以我来回读了好几遍，速度慢可能是因为还未开始对长难句的系统训练的原因。

GRE长对话：3分。
一遍倒是能看懂，但是做题就觉得非常困难。我的答案是ACEBEAD，同样没一个确定的。

关于GRE阅读的总结：做得这么糟糕是不是因为我对读过的文章的记忆时间比较短，遇到需要从逻辑上深度理解文章的问题时就……

LSAT这篇，我大概看了一下，和GRE的情况差不多，就是读下来的时候每个句子都知道意思啊，一到汇总提问就傻眼了，读过的东西忘得比较干净，更别提要归纳起来或者作出推演得出问题答案了……题目等我把今天其他事情处理掉再做吧。

四六级这两篇，四级的ACCAB，六级DBAAC，果然看完god read english再看这个就势如破竹猛虎下山啊，不过如果按那个表的时间档次来算的话，只得一分……那个表，果真是来自三维空间吗？

science和godfather这两篇都3分吧，science那篇估计等我把单词搞完之后效果会好得多，godfather生词不构成障碍，不过它的语言风格我还不太习惯，问题不大。（也可能是有问题但没有发现）

昨晚折腾到今早三四点～头疼～～所以也有影响吧～～等我按正常程序开始准备后再写点什么感想之类的～堆积的作文啊单词啊什么素材啊还有各种乱七八糟等级考试啊～……

提个small建议：这么多阅读文章放在电脑上比较少会有人去看啦，因为伤眼睛嘛。我把这个帖子用12页纸打印下来才看的，就是为了给自己找一个初定位啊一类的东西。一般大家都没耐心去看的。所以建议下次就不要搞得跟模考似的了，从比较细化的角度出点有特色有针对性又不需要花太多精力的讨论题吧。呃，个人愚见啦～最后赞一下辛苦的班班～

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GRE的确和CET很不同， GRE题目和文章是两回事，楼主需要先好好研读一下GRE阅读有关的资料，如果报了XDF的话好好听听课再做吧。

PS：CET阅读理解和GRE也是两回事， CET非常侧重一些动词短语和固定介词短语等等的搭配，文章的语言很多也不是很正规的学术英语结构。   CET和GRE考察是两回事。   不过CET对于英语基础实力的考察的确很严格。   最近本人研读四六级词汇和用法才发现其实四六级词汇很多也是博大精深，尤其是6000多个词汇的用法等等。。。 。。。     GRE阅读等等高级阅读其实语言上都可以化入到CET核心词汇用法中。   这一点和TOEFL， ILTES完全不一样，四六级和NCE似乎一脉相承。   CET词汇认识容易，精通就难了。~~~         最近的一点感悟吧~~~~    为了我要在09年上半年中达到我要通晓GRE词汇量所有动词用法的目标上，所以先从CET基础词汇下手。~~~

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原帖由 阿狸 于 2009-1-18 20:19 发表
用了N久调整我一贯的四六级思路加以疏导因挫折感而导致的对人生之质疑...

所谓阅读思路的调整本质上就已经将；理解转化为了一种需要特定技巧辅助的东西，这个是绝大多数同学都有的，可是真正阅读的提升并非是一个技巧思路的进步，而是一个思维的升华，技巧的熟练应用永远是基于一个实力的基础。无论是在读任何文章，永远要把心态摆正，首先去激发自己的实力，再去用技巧辅助，而不是一上来就心中默念技巧口诀。

原帖由 阿狸 于 2009-1-18 20:19 发表
好嘛我智商低

呵呵 千万不要这么说 作为寄托一族 大家本身就已经是进步的一个群体了 而且阅读这种东西 没有绝对智力的束缚和门槛 只要勤于思考 善于总结并且应用于实践 谁都可以成功

原帖由 阿狸 于 2009-1-18 20:19 发表
这句话算是本文核心论据吧，挺重要的，虽然不难，但是因为比较长，所以我来回读了好几遍，速度慢可能是因为还未开始对长难句的系统训练的原因。

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长难句的训练是一个针对高级考试阅读的迅速提升的方法
其实质也就是一个由不熟悉到熟悉由记不清到记得住的锻炼过程
杨鹏难句是个不错的教材
版内的长难句组是专门练习这个的

原帖由 阿狸 于 2009-1-18 20:19 发表
一遍倒是能看懂，但是做题就觉得非常困难

虽然我提倡自我陶醉般的YY境界的阅读，但是GRE级别的问题还是一个很好检验你阅读的实际理解力
这里没有国内考试问题的山路十八弯 只要头脑清晰 答案是很清楚的

原帖由 阿狸 于 2009-1-18 20:19 发表
LSAT这篇...

建议你回去还是好好练习下这篇阅读，虽然LSAT与GRE不同，但是其逻辑性更胜一筹。而且题目之长，难度大的题型之多，会给你带来最高点的自虐快感。然后回过头来在看GRE将有一种牛刀杀鸡的感觉。

原帖由 阿狸 于 2009-1-18 20:19 发表
果然看完god read english再看这个就势如破竹猛虎下山啊，不过如果按那个表的时间档次来算的话，只得一分……那个表，果真是来自三维空间吗？

GRE的时间分秒必争，速度训练的不二资料就是垃圾CET阅读，因为我们可以义无反顾的用最鄙弃的态度用最快的时间读一篇然后扔掉不再多看任何一眼，要是想得到很好很好的分数，上4分是必要的
这个表是我自创的啊 三维空间是啥子东西嘞 嘿嘿

原帖由 阿狸 于 2009-1-18 20:19 发表
science和godfather这两篇都3分吧，science那篇估计等我把单词搞完之后效果会好得多，godfather生词不构成障碍，不过它的语言风格我还不太习惯，问题不大。（也可能是有问题但没有发现）

sci上的这个，就算搞定红宝也不一定能有多好效果，因为即使我的专业是bio，我读起来也要小晕一下。干扰有两种，可克服的和不可克服的。可克服的包括词汇和长句，从阅读角度，生词不可怕，难句通过训练也可以那些。但是遇到大面积干扰造成的不可抗因素之后，真正能帮我们的就是一个心态。science这篇也就是为了来考查这个心态。
至于教父，那个的调调确实不是所有人都接受，本来我想找odessy来着，结果没找到，呵呵。意境摸底要的只是一个你能进到文章中多少的调查，能和作者达到多大程度上的同步率。



总体来说
逻辑方面 由于你给的信息不是很细致 所以不好给你什么建议 要是可以的话 再来详细下吧
速度方面 需要进行一定训练，训练方法就是找本CET阅读，先从4开始，翻开一篇，45秒读，到时就换下一篇，不回视，不回想，不计得失，一骑绝尘，那些材料不值得我们去分析，只需要在我们的大脑里留下很浅很浅的一点点瞬时波纹就好了。其余的什么也不用管。CET4搞定之后就用CET6。
抗干扰方面 也是信息不够 不要想以后如何，阅读的技能时刻都要为现在这一刻调整和服务
意境方面 godfather确实没能达到效果 我再去找些其他的作补充吧。

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感谢八楼九楼密麻强大的回复！
其实我现在没有什么特别疑惑的地方，自己下一步该做什么也很清楚，就是想得到下前辈的指点哈～
从economist打印了world for this week部分的短新闻和有关奥八妈的长篇大论作为背景阅读～也就是诸葛同学说的GRE阅读背景了～这位同学研究的东西好多啊景仰一个
也是关于背景阅读方面，我也打印了pooh的百宝箱。想问的是，这个背景阅读究竟该从哪些方面取材？人文历史社会科技？具体到哪个地域或是时间段的取材考察比较多呢？呵呵，我希望这个积累能尽早开始，所以题目还没怎么做就先急着问啦～

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这个背景阅读究竟该从哪些方面取材？人文历史社会科技？具体到哪个地域或是时间段的取材考察比较多呢？呵呵，我希望这个积累能尽早开始，所以题目还没怎么做就先急着问啦～
阿狸 发表于 2009-1-20 00:57

ETS考试很大一个特点就是零背景
所以现在所谓的背景阅读 只是锻炼下阅读实力和习惯 没有押宝这一说

对于押宝性质的阅读 我不推荐
不过ETS到时在一定时期内回有出题偏好,这个一是因为出题人个人喜好(比如曾几何时的超新星热.只能考狗崽队去窥视一下ETS组成了),二是主流思路渲染(也就是时世,弱势群体常年坚挺在GRE阅读上就是这个的写照)

这个就像是让你做中国语文高考一样 古文和现代文都有
按照背景阅读这个词
既然已经说是背景了 就已经把范围都定好了是个很基础很基础的知识泛度
而且ETS每次出的四篇都是很平均
文史科技会涉及

所有的前期阅读 只有将思路和目标定义为能力积累,思维逻辑提升,习惯把握才能有真正的目标
其余的从我自己的角度 不推荐

如果非要选 那就是找自己看着别扭或者没感觉或者觉得超有用的去吧

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world for this week
挺没劲的 我从来直接跳过不看
太ECONOMIC了
个人习惯

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