GRE双满分经验分享:谈谈阅读和单词

时间:2019-06-14
Rule No. 1 定位越少越好
这跟很多人的理想阅读方法都相悖。但我认为这是最重要的技巧。GRE考的是什么?考察你大脑加工处理句子的能力,这个怎么可以练出来?长难句+短期记忆力。依赖定位说明文章读的不仔细。我们并不需要注意细节。只需要读出结构。

这里介绍Manhattan LSAT PEAR的方法 (强烈建议在开始阅读时候读完LSAT Strate Guide)

PEAR 也就是 Pause, 读完每个段落停下来, Evaluate, 总结大意,思考此段落的作用。 Anticipate, 预期下一段会讲什么。 Reassess, 读完下一段再对第二步的evaluate进行评估。 读下一段接着继续PEAR 直到全文读完 Reassess全文并清晰了解全文的行文方式和逻辑构思。

每个段落的作用无外乎这几种

background info, one point of view, evidence for supporting this point of view, an experiment, explain a concept, contrast a concept, refute a concept/solution/opinion, argue for an opinion

Rule No. 2 略读跳读等于自杀

很多市面上的阅读文章鼓励GRE2-1-1法则,只看开头和首段第一句,主要依靠定未来做题。这样的劣势在于你定位需要大量时间,全文结构也无法掌握,于是你会用更多的时间定位。这样在30分钟的限制下无异于自杀行为。

Rule No.3 注意到句子之间的结构变化
注意到一些表转折的词, yet, however, but, nonetheless.
表示递进的一些词, moreover, what's more, in addition
比如文章第一段或者第二段提到 " some critics argue that..... " 你知道两句话之内一定会对这个观点提出反驳。这就是GRE出题的节奏。

Rule No. 4 注意到修饰程度的词
注意some, many, most, primarily, none, not any, mostly等等这些词。很有可能infer题就会出在这些词里面
For example

Some A are B

那么我们可以infer什么, 那就是some A are not B right?

举个简单的例子

most people over 50 are obese. 那么我们能infer什么? some people under 50 are slim, most people over 60 (60是50以上的一个子集)

Infer题出题点多半在一些程度修饰词上

Rule No. 5 睁大眼睛注意到作者态度
文章中会用一些形容词表明作者态度。 随时注意到这些词汇 (花儿39+3阅读里面详细列出了这些词汇)

Rule No. 6 记住名字的位置,某个概念或者某个大写名词/解释的位置
GRE考题随时会考到这些概念

下面我们用一篇文章来分析PEAR的过程

Proust追忆似水年华

Many literary detectives have pored over a great
puzzle concerning the writer Marcel Proust: what
happened in 1909? How did Contre Saint-Beuve,
an essay attacking the methods of the critic Saint-
(5) Beuve, turn into the start of the novel Remembrance
of Things past? A recently published letter form Proust
to the editor Vallette confirms that Fallois, the editor of
the 1954 edition of Contre Saint-Beuve, made an essentially
correct guess about the relationship of the essay
(10) to the novel. Fallois proposed that Proust had tried to
begin a novel in 1908, abandoned it for what was to be
a long demonstration of saint Beuve's blindness to the
real nature of great writing, found the essay giving rise
to personal memories and fictional developments, and
(15) allowed these to take over in a steadily developing novel.

Draft passages in Proust's 1909 notebooks indicate
that the transition from essay to novel began in Contre
Saint-Beuve, when Proust introduced several examples
to show the powerful influence that involuntary memory
(20) exerts over the creative imagination. In effect, in trying
to demonstrate that the imagination is more profound
and less submissive to the intellect than Saint-Beuve
assumed, Proust elicited vital memories of his own
and, finding subtle connections between them, began
(25) to amass the material for Remembrance. By August,
Proust was writing to Vallette, informing him of his
intention to develop the material as a novel. Mauice
Bardèche, in Marcel Proust, romancier has shown the
importance in the drafts of Remembrance of sponta-
(30) neous and apparently random associations of Proust's
subconscious. As incidents and reflections occurred to
Proust, he continually inserted new passages altering
and expanding his narrative. But he found it difficult
to control the drift of his inspiration. The very richness
(35) and complexity of the meaningful relationships that kept
presenting and rearranging themselves on all levels, from
abstract intelligence to profound dreamy feelings, made
it difficult for Proust to set them out coherently. The
beginning of control came when he saw how to
(40) connect the beginning and the end of his novel.


Intrigued by Proust's claim that he had “begun and
finished” Remembrance at the same time, Henri Bonnet
discovered that parts of Remembrance's last book were
actually started in 1909. Already in that year, Proust
(45) had drafted descriptions of his novel's characters in
their old age that would appear in the final book of
Remembrance, where the permanence of art is set against
the ravages of time. The letter to Vallette, drafts of the
essay and novel, and Bonnet's researches establish in
(50) broad outline the process by which Proust generated his
novel out of the ruins of his essay. But those of us who
hoped, with Kolb, that Kolb's newly published complete
edition of Proust's correspondence for 1909 would document
the process in greater detail are disappointed. For
(55) until Proust was confident that he was at last in sight of a
viable structure for Remembrance, he told few correspondents
that he was producing anything more ambitious
than Contre Saint-Beuve.



21.The passage is primarily concerned with
(A) the role of involuntary memory in Proust's writing.
(B) evidence concerning the genesis of Proust's novel Remembrance of Things Past.
(C) conflicting scholarly opinions about the value of studying the drafts of R
emembrance of Things Past.
(D) Proust's correspondence and what it reveals about Remembrance of Things Past.
(E) the influence of Saint-Beuve's criticism on Proust's novel Remembrance of
Things Past.

22.It can be inferred from the passage that all of the
following are literary detectives who have tried, by
means of either scholarship or criticism, to help
solve the “great puzzle” mentioned in lines 1-2
EXCEPT
(A) Bardeche
(B) Bonnet
(C) Fallois
(D) Kolb
(E) Vallette

23.According to the passage, in drafts of Contre Saint-
Beuve Proust set out to show that Sain-Beuve made
which of the following mistakes as a critic?
Ⅰ. Saint-Beuve made no effort to study the development of a novel thro
ugh its drafts and revisions.
Ⅱ. Saint-Beuve assigned too great a role in the
creative process to a writer's conscious intellect.
Ⅲ. Saint-Beuve concentrated too much on
plots and not enough on imagery and other
elements of style.
(A) Ⅱ only
(B) Ⅲ only
(C) ⅠandⅡonly
(D) Ⅰand Ⅲ only
(E) Ⅰ,Ⅱ, and Ⅲ

24.Which of the following best states the author's attitude toward the i
nformation that scholars have gathered about Proust's writing 1909?
(A) The author is disappointed that no new documents have come to light
since Fallois's speculations.
(B) The author is dissatisfied because there are too
many gaps and inconsistencies in the drafts.
(C) The author is confident that Fallois's 1954 guess
has been proved largely correct, but regrets
that still more detailed documentation concerning Proust's transition from the e
ssay to the novel has not emerged.
(D) The author is satisfied that Fallois's judgment
was largely correct, but feels that Proust's early work in designing and writing
the novel was probably far more deliberate than Fallois's description of the
process would suggest.
(E) The author is satisfied that the facts of Proust's
life in 1909 have been thoroughly established,
but believes such documents as drafts and
correspondence are only of limited value in
a critical assessment of Proust's writing.

25.The author of the passage implies that which of the
following would be the LEAST useful source of
information about Proust's transition from working
on Contre Saint-Beuve to having a viable structure
for Remembrance of Things Past?
(A) Fallois's comments in the 1954 edition of
Contre Saint-Beuve.
(B) Proust's 1909 notebooks, including the drafts of
Remembrance of Things Past.
(C) Proust's 1909 correspondence, excluding the
letter to Vallette.
(D) Bardeche's Marcel Proust, romancier.
(E) Bonnet's researches concerning Proust's drafts
of the final book of Remembrance of Things Past.

26.The passage offers information to answer which of
the following questions?
(A) Precisely when in 1909 did Proust decide to
abandon Contre Saint-Beuve?
(B) Precisely when in 1909 did Proust decide to
connect the beginning and the end of
Remembrance of Things Past?
(C) What was the subject of the novel that Proust
attempted in 1908?
(D) What specific criticisms of Saint-Beuve appear,
in fictional form, in Remembrance of Things Past?
(E) What is a theme concerning art that appears in the final book of Remembran
ce of Things Past

27.Which of the following best describes the relation
ship between Contre Saint-Beuve and Remembrance
of Things Past as it is explained in passage?
(A) Immediately after abandoning Contre SaintBeuve,
at Vallette's suggestion, Proust started
Remembrance as a fictional demonstration
that Saint-Beuve was wrong about the imagination.
(B) Immediately after abandoning Contre Saint-Beuve, at Vallette's suggesti
on, Proust turned his attention to Remembrance, starting with incidents that
had occurred to him while planning the essay.
(C) Despondent that he could not find a coherent structure for Contre Saint-B
euve, an essay about the role of memory in fiction, Proust began inst
ead to write Remembrance, a novel devoted to important early memor
ies.
(D) While developing his argument about the imagination in Contre Saint-Beuve
, Proust described and began to link together personal memories that became a
foundation for Remembrance.
(E) While developing his argument about memory and imagination in Contre Saint
-Beuve, Proust created fictional characters to embody the abstract themes in
his essay.

Give yourself about 9 minute on this passge.



我们一起来读


Many literary detectives have pored over a great
puzzle concerning the writer Marcel Proust: what
happened in 1909?(注意开始处理这些信息,detectives are asking what happened in 1909)
How did Contre Saint-Beuve,
an essay attacking the methods of the critic Saint-
(5) Beuve, turn into thestart of the novel Remembrance
of Things past? (这里注意三个大写,CSB SB RoT三部作品,加工处理后变为CSB从攻击SB方法的作品变成了RoT的一部分)
A recently published letter form Proust
to the editor Vallette confirms that Fallois, theeditor of
the 1954 edition of Contre Saint-Beuve, made anessentially
correct guess about the relationship of the essay
(10) to the novel. (三个名字 P, V, F, P writes to V, andthe letter confirms F guesses it the about the relationship between CSB SB RoT)
Fallois proposed that Proust had tried to
begin a novel in 1908, abandoned it for what was tobe
a long demonstration of saint Beuve's blindness tothe
real nature of great writing, found the essay giving rise
to personal memories and fictional developments, and
(15) allowed these to take over in a steadily developing novel.
这是长难句的一句话,F thinks P started his novel in 1908, deserted a tradition of SB (这个tradition是 blindness to the true nature,这里有疑问,什么是 true nature,为什么SB会ignore这个nature) and included personal memories and fictional developments and make it a steadily traits.
到这里Pause 思考这段话讲了什么,首先提出现象,detectives好奇1909发生了什么, 作品关系放生了转变,注意到这几个名字的位置, P, V, F
Anticipiate下一段会讲上一段我们的疑问,也就是为什么SB ignore writing nature.
最后的最后关于单词

这次考试中出现了很多红宝书和3000中没有出现的单词,比如irenic, shorn, 这些我都是在平常aldaily中见到的。因此如果有时间一定要阅读。

这里推荐一本书给大家 The Joy Of Reading. 作者是Columbia University的教授。
Joy of Reading A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and.rar

  综上所述,对于【大学英语】的相关介绍就说到这里了,留学是一件需要您经过深思熟虑之后才做出的选择,因此需要您对自己的疑问都会有全方面的思考,让你更加知道自己需要做出什么样的决定才是最正确的,更多内容请随时关注我们后续的介绍。
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