新gre考试：阅读题对词汇的考察(上)

　　如何应对新gre考试词汇也成为改革后的热点话题之一，新gre阅读考试考察词汇量明显增多，更多的考察单词的用法和精确含义，可见ets对新gre考试词汇的要求并没有放松。

　　首先，新GRE阅读中出现了词汇题，即直接问你某个单词是什么意思

　　我们在看一道样题中公布的阅读题对于词汇是如何考查的：

　　Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following reading passage.

　　Scholarship on political newspapers and their editors is dominated by the view that as the United States grew, the increasing influence of the press led, ultimately, to the neutral reporting from which we benefit today. Pasley considers this view oversimplified, because neutrality was not a goal of early national newspaper editing, even when editors disingenuously stated that they aimed to tell all sides of a story. Rather, the intensely partisan ideologies represented in newspapers of the early republic led to a clear demarcation between traditional and republican values. The editors responsible for the papers content ―especially those with republican agendas ―began to see themselves as central figures in the development of political consciousness in the United States.

　　10. In the context in which it appears, disingenuously most nearly means

　　A. insincerely

　　B. guilelessly

　　C. obliquely

　　D. resolutely

　　E. pertinaciously

　　如果当年，我们在课堂是总结的天真纯朴类的单词把握的比较好，如下：如何申请到理想的大学?

　　天真纯朴的

　　ingenuous=guileless=naive=simple=artless=unsophisticated

　　那么这道题，对于我们的同学来说就完全是送分题，对于阅读能力整体偏弱的中国学生来说，这样的题目必须拿下。而拿下这些题目的最好手段，无疑就是按照我们在老G词汇班同样的强度来把握词汇。

　　更为重要的是，从新老GRE的官方OG来看，阅读考察共有13项能力，首当其冲的就是understanding the meaning of individual words. 显然，词汇量，是阅读理解的基础。经过研究新GRE的官方OG中的阅读文章可以得出结论，新GRE阅读中的词汇难度有了明显的上升，这种上升是由于老G中的类反单词进入文章和题目引起的。以下例子中可以反映出该结论。

　　新gre考试词汇更多的考单词的用法和精确含义，同时填空中也加深了阅读理解能力的考察，因此大量的阅读训练必不可少，总之，在备考新gre考试词汇时要注意单词的延伸意义，积累单词的同义词与反义词，做好打持久战的准备。