剖析样题,揭开新GRE阅读的神秘面纱.docx

剖析样题，揭开新GRE阅读的神秘面纱 　　小编对给出的样题中阅读部分做一个综合评述，慢慢揭开新GRE阅读的神秘面纱。在对题目做完剖析之后，总结相关的变化和值得注意的要点。首先，先从宏观角度来看看GRE考试对阅读的考核内容。 　　从ETS 官方网站的叙述中，最为核心的整个考试的变化趋势为如下几点： 　　Greater emphasis on higher cognitive skills and less dependence on vocabulary 　　More text-based materials, such as reading passages 　　A broader selection of reading passages 　　Emphasis on skills related to graduate work, such as complex reasoning 　　Expansion of computer-enabled tasks (e.g., clicking on a sentence in a passage to highlight it) 　　Two 40-minute sections rather than one 30-minute section 　　逐点分析，不难发现几乎每条都于阅读部分难度和重要性的提高分不开的。所为cognitive 认知性能力，是所有阅读测试的核心，即主要依赖文章本身而非经验性的一种理解能力。不仅在能力上提出了更高要求，阅读文章本身不论从选择题材的广度，每个Section考察的篇幅数量都大大提升。在计算机新媒介的辅助下，ETS 把GRE阅读注册商标般的推理也提高到新的层次进行考察。简而言之，阅读可谓成为了新GRE考试中的重中之重。 　　样题剖析 　　Questions 6 through 8 are based on the following reading passage. 　　Music critics have consistently defined James P. Johnson as a great early jazz pianist, originator of the 1920s Harlem stride style, and an important blues and jazz composer. In addition, however, Johnson was an innovator in classical music, composing symphonic music that incorporated American, and especially African-American, traditions. 　　Such a blend of musical elements was not entirely new: by 1924 both Milhaud and Gershwin had composed classical works that incorporated elements of jazz. Johnson, a serious musician more experienced than most classical composers with jazz, blues, spirituals, and popular music, was particularly suited to expand Milhauds and Gershwins experiments. In 1927 he completed his first large-scale work, the bluesand jazz-inspired Yamekraw, which included borrowings from spirituals and Johnsons own popular songs. Yamekraw, premiered successfully in Carnegie Hall, was a major achievement for Johnson, becoming his most frequently performed extended work. It demonstrated vividly the possibility of assimilating contemporary popular music into the symphonic tradition. 　　本选文难度和风格几乎和现行的GRE 阅读没有