新航道

  新航道小編之前帶來關于GRE閱讀方面的破解內容，這次繼續帶來章老師GRE閱讀破解系列(三)，希望對各位準備備考GRE考試的同學們有幫助，祝大家能考取一個好成績，早日被理想大學錄取。

  GRE閱讀入門第三講

  可以開始“上路子”的我們

  以下這個篇章真的好。

  篇幅短小，閱讀壓力極小。語流清晰，且詞匯難度不大。同時，也不是晦澀艱深的知識。

  The black experience, one might automatically assume, is known to every Black author. Henry James was pondering a similar assumption when he said: “You were to suffer your fate. That was not necessarily to know it.” This disparity between an experience and knowledge of that experience is the longest bridge an artist must cross. Don L. Lee, in his picture of the Black poet, “studying his own poetry and the poetry of other Black poets,” touches on the crucial point. In order to transform his own sufferings—or joys—as a Black person into usable knowledge for his readers, the author must first order his experiences in his mind. Only then can he create feelingly and coherently the combination of fact and meaning that Black audiences require for the re-exploration of their lives. A cultural community of Black authors studying one another’s best works systematically would represent a dynamic interchange of the spirit—corrective and instructive and increasingly beautiful in its recorded expression.

  黑人文學從來都是literature類篇章的寥寥幾個focus之一。文章大意就很簡單，就是說詩人把經歷轉化成讀者可以明白的知識。文中最有趣味的一句話就是：“You were to suffer your fate. That was not necessarily to know it.”。意思就是，我們是在經歷命運之苦的，但是這些經歷恐怕只是情感或者心理上的感受，而不是大腦可以辨認的知識。

  這樣解釋，好像還是抽象了些?那舉個例子吧：疫情幾個月，我們被迫宅在家憋壞了，感到不開心，同時還可能胖了不少，穿衣服時難受、照鏡子時看著鏡中鼓脹的自己，都會感覺不開心。但是，這些不過是經歷和體會，還不是知識。除非這些經歷被提煉成知識性的描述，比如“受困于局限的空間而產生的被禁閉感，每日“房間——客廳”的單調和高頻重復讓生活欠缺了新鮮的刺激從而使人感到無聊，富余的精力得不到釋放，體型的變化讓我們對自己的認同感和接受度降低”，等等，才是知識。

  經歷是體驗、感受、心里活動，是沒有形態的，但是知識是有形態的，形態之一就是文字(或者話語)，是可以被表述的。當然，詩人不是用上面的方式而是用詩歌的方式來表述經歷的。

  好了，懂了，我們做兩道推斷題(看到題干中的“infer”就是推斷題)：

  It can be inferred from the passage that the author considers poetry to be which of the following?

  題干中沒有什么玄機。

  (A) A means of diversion in which suffering is transformed into joy

  (真的么?這種選項也能干擾么?一定不會是答案。)

  (B) An art form that sometimes stifles creative energy

  (真的么?這種選項也能干擾么?一定不會是答案。)

  (C) A bridge between the mundane and the unreal

  (真的么?這種選項也能干擾么?一定不會是答案。)

  (D) A medium for conveying important information

  (poetry的文字形態可以把詩人的experience以knowledge的方式傳遞)

  (E) An area where beauty must be sacrificed for accuracy

  (真的么?這種選項也能干擾么?一定不會是答案。)

  上面這一題很簡單，下面這一題有些難度。

  It can be inferred from the passage that the author would be LEAST likely to approve of which of the following?

  尤其注意題干中的LEAST

  (A) Courses that promote cultural awareness through the study of contemporary art

  (沒有直接找到依據去肯定這個選項?但是，也沒有找到絕對的依據去否定這個選項。不急，先看下面的選項。)

  (B) The development of creative writing courses that encourage mutual criticism of student work

  (文中的對應的信息是“A cultural community of Black authors studying one another’s best works systematically would represent a dynamic interchange of the spirit”。)

  (C) Growing interest in extemporaneous writing that records experiences as they occur

  (如果只是即時的記錄經歷，而不是把經歷轉化為知識來傳遞，那可不是本文的意思喲。)

  (D) A shift in interest from abstract philosophical poetry to concrete autobiographical poetry

  (文章講到因為“You were to suffer your fate. That was not necessarily to know it”所以抽象的哲學——題干中的concrete autobiographical——不一定是通識性的體驗而為人所知，所以呢，詩人“transform his own sufferings—or joys—as a Black person into usable knowledge for his readers”。那第一步呢，就是“the author must first order his experiences in his mind.”。那experiences的可不就是具象的自傳體式——題干中的concrete autobiographical——的內容么。)

  (E) Workshops and newsletters designed to promote dialogues between poets

  (文中的對應的信息是“A cultural community of Black authors studying one another’s best works systematically would represent a dynamic interchange of the spirit”。)

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