在GRE的阅读题中,大体上分成主旨题和细节题两大类。
细节题是一个比较泛泛的概念,如果细分,可以分成很多类,如给定行数题、写作用意题、强对比互取非题、改进性取非题、Except/Not题、逻辑题、题、类比题等等。为什么这里把这些不同类型的题归在一起?虽然,这些题的类型不同,但是它们都有一个共同的特性,就是在解答这类题时,都需要在原文进行有效的定位。所以,如何有效地在原文中进行定位并在读文章时对重要信息做标记,成为众多考生所不能忽视的地方。定位对解答GRE阅读中的细节题起着非常重要的作用。因为GRE阅读的做题方法通常是读原文读题干回原文定位这样一个顺序,所以,定位是在读完题干后,根据题干的特点,结合第一遍读原文的重点和所做的标记来确定所考内容的位置。正确有效的定位是快速做题和准确程度的关键因素。
下面就针对不同的细节题进行分析:
1. 给定行数题
给定行数,顾名思义,就是在题目中已经明确的给出了所考查内容的行数,题目中所涉及的内容也是有关给定行数所述内容的作用或者相关内容。这就需要考生在做这类题时,根据题目中所提示的行数,回到原文中去定位。但是有一点需要注意,像这类明确地给出行数地题,通常情况,答案都不在所给定地行数处,也不是给定行数内容地直接改写,因为出题者不会直接告诉你答案在哪,所以,在做这类题时,除了要根据它所提示的信息,还要结合所给行数的上下文的情况再做选择。
2. 写作用意题
这类题是针对文章某些内容的作用进行的提问,也就是题干中问到的这个具体事物在文章中出现时作者的用意是什么?所有的GRE文章都是议论文,作者提到具体的事物大体上有几种关系:支持、证明、解释或反对某观点,也就是说具体的事物总是和观点发生联系的。通常情况,给定行数题和写作用意题是混合出现的。
下面我们看一个例子:
In the early 1950s, historians who studied pre-industrial Europe began, for the first time in large numbers, to investigate more of the pre-industrial European population than the 2 or 3 percent who comprised the political and social elite: the kings, generals, judges, nobles, bishops, and local magnates who had hitherto usually filled history books.
One way out of this dilemma was to run to the records of legal courts, for here the voices of the non-elite can most often be heard, as witnesses, plaintiffs, and defendants. These documents have acted as a point of entry into the mental world of the poor. Historians such as Le Roy Ladurie have used the documents to extract case histories, which have illuminated the attitudes of different social group and have revealed how the authorities administered justice.
The author mentions Le Roy Ladurie (Line 30)in order to _____
give an example of a historian who has made one kind of use of court records
cite a historian who has based case histories on the birth, marriage, and death records of the non-elite
identify the author of the quotation cited in the previous sentence
gain authoritative support for the view that the case history approach is the most fruitful approach to court records
point out the first historian to realize the value of court records in illuminating the beliefs and values of the non-elite
分析:
这道题就属于典型的写作用意型, 同时又给出了指定的行数。Le Roy Ladurie 出现在文章的第二段,题目中已经明确给出行数(Line 30), 这样,通过这个信息,我们可以迅速的回到原文找到相关信息。Le Roy Ladurie很明显是作者举的一个例子,但是举这个例子的作用是什么?这个问题就要结合这段的内容去分析,这段的开头说One way out of this dilemma was to run to the records of legal courts,根据这句话我们可以知道,Le Roy Ladurie的出现应该是研究法庭记录的一个例子。所以,这道题正确选项是A. 当然,选项如果写成 illustrate that these documents have acted as a point of entry into the mental world of the poor 也是可以的。
需要注意的是,像这类写作用意题,它的答案选项第一个主动词并不具有判别意义,不管是illustrate, 还是give an example, 还是verify,还是别的类似的词汇,都是平等同义词,不需要过多的关注。
小结:
上面是对细节题中两种比较重要的题型进行的分析,通过分析,我们知道,给定行数题和写作用意题通常是混在一起出现的。答案一定不要盲目地停留在所给定地行数处,考生一定要联系上下文的内容去分析答案。
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