新GRE题库分类issue__按核心思想分.doc

题目总数有所减少，但是主要话题范围未变。出现频率较高的仍为教育类、社会类。 老题库中题目带有背景引导型内容的题目在新题库中背景内容都被删掉（写作时自主性更大，但破题可能需要更详细的考虑） 出现新题型：一类是给出原因和观点（claim+reason）,要求对原因和观点进行讨论，类似于原题库中的in order to 类的题目；另一类是就同一个问题给出两派观点，要求进行论证自己支持的一方。 题目中都附有说明。总体来看对逻辑论证结构更加重视。 括号内数字为老题库的网络通用顺序编号 A. Urgent and Long Run 19. Governments should focus on solving the immediate problems of today rather than on trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future. (56, comparison) 31. Society should make efforts to save endangered species only if the potential extinction of those species is the result of human activities. (121242,claim) 36. Governments should not fund any scientific research whose consequences are unclear. (44,claim) 72. Governments should not fund any scientific research whose consequences are unclear. (44,同新题36，claim) 80. Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed. (190) 88. Claim: Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed. Reason: It is inappropriate—and, perhaps, even cruel—to use public resources to fund the arts when peoples basic needs are not being met. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based. (190,参考新题80) 131. Claim: Researchers should not limit their investigations to only those areas in which they expect to discover something that has an immediate, practical application. Reason: It is impossible to predict the outcome of a line of research with any certainty. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based. 3, reasoning) B. Individual and Group (Leaders/Celebrities/Cities and Society/Nation) 2. To understand the most important characteristics of a society, one must study its major cities. (Claim) 4. Scandals are useful because they focus our attention on p