GRE小白初入險境?聽說Verbal(語文)部分很難?據說閱讀理解根本不可能理解?

  章老師口頭禪：“不慌”。今天，我們先來關注兩個點“掃個盲”：閱讀理解的 一種篇幅 和 三種題型

  篇幅類型之一：短篇閱讀，全文篇幅167 words。真的么?這么短?對的。沒錯。那么，拿到這一篇，是不是感覺爽歪歪。趕緊看一下題量，4個questions，也是壓力不大爽歪歪。

  All of Francoise Duparc’s surviving paintings blend portraiture and genre. Her subjects appear to be acquaintances whom she has asked to pose; she has captured both their self-consciousness and the spontaneity of their everyday activities, the depiction of which characterizes genre painting. But genre painting, especially when it portrayed members of the humblest classes, was never popular in eighteenth-century France. The Le Nain brothers and Georges de La Tour, who also chose such themes, were largely ignored. Their present high standing is due to a different, more democratic political climate and to different aesthetic values: we no longer require artists to provide ideal images of humanity for our moral edification but rather regard such idealization as a falsification of the truth. Duparc gives no improving message and discreetly refrains from judging her subjects. In brief, her works neither elevate nor instruct. This restraint largely explains her lack of popular success during her lifetime, even if her talent did not go completely unrecognized by her eighteenth-century French contemporaries.

  Q1. According to the passage, modern viewers are not likely to value which of the following qualities in a painting?

  首先，特別小心題目的文字游戲，看到問題中的not了沒有。一定一定看仔細哈。很快，我們發現這是一道邏輯難度最低的題型：直接信息題(細節題)。

  (A) The technical elements of the painting

  (B) The spontaneity of the painting

  (C) The moral lesson imparted by the painting

  (D) The degree to which the painting realistically depicts its subject

  (E) The degree to which the artist’s personality is revealed in the painting

  Q2. If the history of Duparc’s artistic reputation were to follow that of the Le Nain brothers and Georges de La Tour, present-day assessments of her work would be likely to contain which of the following?

  這道題目，雖然沒有文字游戲，確卻是一道有邏輯難度的題型：推斷題。怎么判定這是推斷題呀?篇章中可沒有直接應對于或者相同于這個題目的陳述，而是需要我們多處收集信息碎片后整合碎片從而得到答案。那么，這就是推斷題啦。注意哈，至此，我們已經遇到第二種題型咯。

  (A) An evaluation that accords high status to her work

  (B) Acknowledgement of her technical expertise but dismissal of her subject matter as trivial

  (C) Agreement with assessments made in her own time but acknowledgements of the exceptional quality of a few of her paintings

  (D) Placement of her among the foremost artists of her century

  (E) A reclassification of her work as portraiture rather than genre painting

  Q3. It can be inferred from the passage that the term “genre painting” would most likely apply to which of the following?

  這道題目，更是沒有文字游戲了，而且直接在表述中告訴我們：這是一道推斷題。那里告訴我們的?看見題目最開頭的“It can be inferred”么?對的，看到這樣的提問開頭就是遇到推斷題了。

  (A) A painting depicting a glorious moment of victory following a battle

  (B) A painting illustrating a narrative from the Bible

  (C) A portrayal of a mythological Greek goddess

  (D) A portrayal of a servant engaged in his work

  (E) A formal portrait of an eighteenth-century king

  Q4.The argument of the passage best supports which of the following contentions concerning judgments of artistic work?

  哇!一個新的題型呢!什么題型?主旨題。為什么?題目一開始的“The argument of the passage”說的是篇章的論點，那可不是篇章的主旨么?雖然沒有直接問我們“what is the argument of the passage”，但是既然題目要求拿這個篇章的論點去配對選項，那可不就是要求我們get到篇章的主旨么?

  (A) Aesthetic judgments can be influenced by the political beliefs of those making the judgment.

  (B) Judgments of the value of an artist’s work made by his or her contemporaries must be discounted before a true judgment can be made.

  (C) Modern aesthetic taste is once again moving in the direction of regarding idealistic painting as the most desirable form of painting.

  (D) In order to be highly regarded, an artist cannot be solely identified with one particular kind of painting.

  (E) Spontaneity is the most valuable quality a portrait painter can have.

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