新GRE閱讀對于詞匯的考察.

　　新GRE閱讀可以說是GRE詞匯的直接體現(xiàn)，做題選擇什么的技巧是一個方面，能夠讀懂文章的內(nèi)容才是做GRE閱讀的最好方法，所以有關(guān)于GRE詞匯在閱讀中的考察，也應(yīng)該有所了解。

　　首先，新GRE閱讀中出現(xiàn)了詞匯題，即直接問你某個單詞是什么意思

　　我們在看一道樣題中公布的閱讀題對于詞匯是如何考查的：

　　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 benit 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&apos 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

　　如果當(dāng)年，我們總結(jié)的天真純樸類的單詞把握的比較好，如下：

　　天真純樸的

　　ingenuous=guileless=naive=simple=artless=unsophisticated

　　那么這道題，對于我們的同學(xué)來說就完全是送分題，對于GRE閱讀能力整體偏弱的中國學(xué)生來說，這樣的題目必須拿下。而拿下這些題目的最好手段，無疑就是按照我們在老GRE詞匯班同樣的強度來把握詞匯。

　　更為重要的是，從新老GRE的官方OG來看，GRE閱讀考察共有13項能力，首當(dāng)其沖的就是“understanding the meaning of individual words.” 顯然，詞匯量，是閱讀理解的基礎(chǔ)。經(jīng)過研究新GRE的官方OG中的閱讀文章可以得出結(jié)論，新GRE閱讀中的詞匯難度有了明顯的上升，這種上升是由于老GRE中的類反單詞進入文章和題目引起的。以下例子中可以反映出該結(jié)論。

　　在新GRE的OG閱讀中，有一篇2句話的文章。

　　“a person who agrees to serve as mediator between two warring factions at the request of both abandons by so agreeing the right to take sides later. To take sides at a later point would be to suggest that the earlier presumptive impartiality was a sham.”

　　若熟悉老GRE類反，馬上可以聯(lián)想到這些題：

　　類比：intercessor: mediate= translator: interpret

　　consensus: factionalism=expedition:foot-dragging

　　反義：faction <> unity

　　factional <> ecumenical

　　factious <> cooperative

　　debunk <> perpetuate to sham

　　sham <> genuine

　　同時我們注意到，下劃線的詞匯在閱讀黃皮書中沒有出現(xiàn)過。

　　另外有一篇文章

　　“Was Felix Mendelssohn(1809-1847) a great composer? On its face, the question seems absurd. One of the most gifted prodigies in the history of music, he produced his first masterpiece at sixteen. From then on, he was recognized as an artist of preternatural abilities, not only as a composer but also as a pianist and conductor. But Mendelssohn’s enduring popularity has often been at odds—sometimes quite sharply—with his critical standing. Despite general acknowledgement of his genius, there has been a noticeable reluctance to rank him with, say, Schumann or Brahms. As Haggin put it, Mendelssohn, as a composer, was a “minor master…working on a small scale of emotion and texture.”

　　同樣，老GRE中考到下劃加粗詞匯的類比反義題：

　　類比：prodigy: person= miracle: occurrence

　　反義：preternatural <> ordinary/prosaic

　　綜上所述，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)，新GRE改革之后，對于單詞的考察并沒有降低，反而有所提高，因此，同學(xué)們在復(fù)習(xí)備考新GRE閱讀的過程中，絕對不能放松對詞匯的學(xué)習(xí)，萬丈高樓平地起，只有精確熟練的掌握單詞，才有可能在征服新GRE考試的道路上立于不敗之地。