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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 5月14日GRE阅读真题 GRE考试：5月14日GRE阅读真题 GRE考试精品课程  (1)逻辑单题/削弱/中等  The damage that trucks do to highways escalates dramatically with the weight borne per axle. New regulations increase the maximum permitted vehicle weight; these regulations will therefore allow onto the highway trucks capable of doing even more damage than those currently permitted.  1. The argument is open up to criticism on the grounds that it  A. fails to establish that the level of damage done by trucks is a serious problem  B. omits evidence about one of the two relevant factors  C. ignores the possibility that careful driving can lessen damage to highways  D. presumes that trucks are the only vehicles capable of causing substantial damage to highways  E. presumes that something is bound to happen just because it is allowed to happen  (2)短文章/观点论证/社会历史/易  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 p