剛剛過去的10天內，連續有兩場GRE考試：9月1日和9月7日。

  下面新航道GRE小編為大家帶來詳細的梳理和點評，并有針對性地對每部分應該如何復習提供一些參考建議。

  本次考試加試為一次verbal一次數學，整體考試難度符合正常，數學整體難度甚至有所下降。Verbal部分機經題目少，命中填空原題1題，閱讀1篇。閱讀部分的文章內容透徹、結構清楚，較容易讀懂，但題目中多出現多選題;填空部分Sentence Equivalence甚至比Text Completion更為困難，難點在于句子晦澀難懂，需要了解表達之后的弦外之音，且同義詞較為難找。

  考察的題目分別為：

  閱讀部分

  Passage 9

  An Irish newspaper editorial encouraging women to participate in the non-importation movement launched in Ireland in 1779 appears consistent with a perception that the political use of the consumer boycott originated in North America and spread eastwards across the Atlantic to Ireland. This is a view that most historians have concurred with. For example, T.H. Breen argued that the consumer boycott was a brilliantly original American invention. Breen did acknowledge that a few isolated boycotts may have taken place in other countries. However, Mary ODowd argues that from the late seventeenth century, Irish political discourse advocated for the nonconsumption of imported goods and support for home manufactures by women in ways that were strikingly similar to those used later in North America.

  1. The passage is primarily concerned with

  A. resolving a dispute

  B. advocating a course of action

  C. tracing the evolution of a practice

  D. citing competing views of an issue

  E. chronicling a series of events

  2. In the context of the passage, the highlighted sentence serves to

  A. qualify a point made in the preceding sentence

  B. correct an erroneous assumption

  C. provide evidence in support of a perception cited in the opening sentence

  D. provide a rationale for the view expressed in the following sentence

  E. establish the popularity of a point of view

  Passage 13

  Biologists have long debated about whether egg production in birds is biologically highly costly, some theorizing that egg production is energetically or nutritionally demanding. Lack, however, suggested that clutch size—the number of eggs a bird lays per breeding cycle—is far below the potential limit of egg production. He suggested that clutch size had instead evolved in relation to the number of young that the parents could successfully rear. Subsequently, most studies focused on limitations operating during chick rearing, particularly among altricial species (species in which the parents feed their young in the nest). Lack later recognized that in precocial species (species in which young feed themselves), clutch size might be explained by different factors—the availability of food for egg-laying females, for example.

  1. The passage suggests that biologists who say egg production in birds is biologically highly costly would agree that clutch size is determined primarily by

  A. the nutritional and energy demands of egg production

  B. the number of young that the parents can rear successfully

  C. reproductive limitations operating during chick rearing

  D. the availability of food for newly hatched chicks

  E. the differences between altricial and precocial species

  Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.

  2. The passage suggests that Lack would agree with which of the following statements about factors affecting clutch size in birds?

  A. In altricial species, clutch size is determined primarily by factors operating after eggs are laid.

  B. In precocial species, clutch size is determined primarily by factors operating after eggs are laid.

  C. In many bird species, clutch size generally remains well below the potential limit of egg production.

  填空部分

  17-3 The benefits offered by informationtechnology do not (i)_____ the need for individual reasoning; for example,Internet user should not allow the reasoning process to be (ii)_____ the mereaccumulation raw data.

  20-1 Unlike some mammals—cows and sheep, for instance—that are notably _____, lions have a wide range of facial expressions.

  A. tractable

  B. impassive

  C. solitary

  D. social

  E. sluggish

  27-2 By pointing out the self-serving nature of the governor’s motives for supporting the new health care policy, the columnist implied that the governor’s idealistic-sounding explanation of her position on the issue was almost certainty _____.

  A. impractical

  B. derivative

  C. simplistic

  D. disingenuous

  E. ineffectual

  寫作部分

  Issue 8 26 111

  Argument 9 39

  1. ETS的作文庫是公開的，包括200多道ISSUE和200多道argument，考試題目只出這個范圍內的，只要安排好時間，是能夠對題目進行充分準備的;如果時間有限，可以根據高頻作文題目的統計進行準備，當然，這樣準備也有一定的風險性。

  2. 自己多動手、多思考、多找材料。GRE的作文對原創性的要求非常高，千萬不要抄襲。作文沒有太多技巧可以走，打字也是熟能生巧，需要同學自己在考前做出足夠多的準備，才能使得文章的邏輯性、全面性、深度有所展示。

  3. 中國考生的作文成績普遍在2.5-3.5之間，以3.0最多，班級中出現作文≥4.0的同學時，都會向學生詢問是如何備考，基本回復都是一條“寫的比較多”。以筆者自身來說，大部分時間專注于verbal的思考，本次的issue題目從未進行過準備，以至于考場上思考了3-4分鐘列提綱內心就容易急迫，邊寫邊設計，即便能完成一篇相對完整的文章，邏輯性和深度也無法保證。而所遇到的argument是筆者熟悉和列過提綱的，所以考場上內心穩定，自己寫完也會覺得邏輯層次是滿意的、核心邏輯錯誤也大約找到了。大概除了“寫”，并無更好更切實際的辦法了。

  相比于2018上半年的verbal，9月的兩次考試都比較難。參加本次考試的同學，會遇到較難的Sentence Equivalence問題。

  新航道GRE小編建議，GRE的成績主要是根據大家的題目數量進行評分，所以“準確率優先于做題速度”，拿到題目要迅速進行判斷，如果有把握能夠做對，就要靜下心來，在比較合理(一般一題不要超過2分鐘)內通過推理踏實完成，爭取做對;而遇到難題，一定要敢跳、敢舍，一道花費了自己兩分鐘做錯的題目，同樣錯題，浪費時間所造成的負面影響，甚至比完全跳過去還要悲劇。

  GRE就是個高度模式化的考試，備考就是要熟悉套路，重復重復再重復。GRE的Verbal里的填空和閱讀、作文乃至數學，都是一個思路下對“邏輯思維/推理能力”不同側面的考察，平日里做題不要貪戀數量，更要追求“透徹”，通過自己的分析歸納進行規律化的、模式化的總結，以便在考場上進行遷移和使用。畢竟沒有人能僅僅通過機經或者“撞上原題”來實現自己的高分夢想。有時候，光背單詞是不會put in context，可以在備考期間選擇一些類似經濟學人雜志或者原版書籍進行輔助，對于閱讀和寫作也大有裨益。

  本次數學考試對圖形考察較少，出現的內容也非常簡單，考察重點在于直角坐標系、一元線性方程、根據坐標判斷拋物線的方程、立方體體積計算、ration問題、平行線、標準差、倒數、簡單的指數或開方問題、橫縱坐標運算等，難點在于排列組合。如數學SectionII有一條題目為“某電影第一排有8張連續的椅子，4對雙胞胎姐妹，請問有多少種排解方式能夠使得女孩能挨著自己“twin sister”數學中的data analysis非常簡單。例如某家商店最近40周的每周自行車銷售數量的distribution，詢問40周的平均量;7大洲4大洋占地球的面積，詢問各類比例，只要能讀懂題目，進行簡單的四則運算就可以完成;醫院病人數量的圖表，判斷range等。

  數量最多的為比較題目，絕大部分題目并不需要親自動筆，只需要進行粗略的判斷就能完成。尤其提醒同學們注意，涉及到負數及倒數的問題，注意運算符號;而圖標類問題，許多圖標僅作為示意圖，不能根據圖標里的示意進行“理所應當”的判斷。

  以上新航道GRE小編為大家介紹了9月份兩場GRE考試各個部分的重點真題內容和考試回顧，并給出備考建議，為以后的GRE備考一起加油吧，期待大家發揮出正常水平。

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