gre閱讀需要考生具備的基本技能有:一定的詞匯量,對(duì)句子基本的理解,熟悉考點(diǎn)和題型,智能讀原文,選答案有方法、有技巧……這些技能都需要讀者在大量的練習(xí)和總結(jié)中逐漸培養(yǎng),下面就針對(duì)性練習(xí)給出一點(diǎn)建議。
1.分階段逐一解決問題
1)解決閱讀詞匯問題
2)了解長(zhǎng)難句
3)熟悉文章結(jié)構(gòu)的判斷
4)對(duì)固定考點(diǎn)及題型進(jìn)行強(qiáng)化記憶
5)了解并熟練快速定位與原文改寫的原則
2.卡時(shí)間強(qiáng)化練習(xí)
3. 考前分析、總結(jié),集中解決弱點(diǎn)
考前的分析和總結(jié)是必須要進(jìn)行的一個(gè)訓(xùn)練,之所以要進(jìn)行這個(gè)訓(xùn)練,一方面是在考前客觀的了解一下自己的實(shí)力,另一方面就是這種訓(xùn)練能夠幫助考生發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的弱點(diǎn),在考前進(jìn)行必要的彌補(bǔ)。筆者想借此機(jī)會(huì)給大家做個(gè)文章分析示范,希望對(duì)各位有所啟發(fā):
例文 筆記欄
In large part as a consequence of the feminist move-ment, historians have focused a great deal of attentionin recent years on determining more accurately the statusof women in various periods. Although much has been(5) accomplished for the modern period, premodern cultureshave proved more difficult: sources are restricted innumber, fragmentary, difficult to interpret, andoften contradictory. Thus it is not particularly surprisingthat some earlier scholarship concerning such cultures(10) has so far gone unchallenged. An example is JohannBachofen's 1861 treatise on Amazons, women-ruledsocieties of questionable existence contemporary withancient Greece.Starting from the premise that mythology and legend(15) preserve at least a nucleus of historical fact, Bachofenargued that women were dominant in many ancient soci-eties. His work was based on a comprehensive survey ofreferences in the ancient sources to Amazonian andother societies with matrilineal customs-societies in(20) which descent and property rights are traced through thefemale line. Some support for his theory can be found inevidence such as that drawn from Herofotus, the Greek"historian" of the fifth century B. C.,who speaks of anmazonian society, the Sauromatae, where the women(25) hunted and fought in wars. A woman in this society wasnot allowed to marry until she had killed a person inbattle.Nonetheless, this assumption that the first recorders of ancient myths have preserved facts is problematic. If one(30) begins by examining why ancients refer to Amazons, itbecomes clear that ancient Greek descriptions of suchsocieties were meant not so much to represent observedhistorical fact-real Amazonian societies-but rather tooffer "moral lessons" on the supposed outcome of(35) women's rule in their own society. The Amazons, wereoften characterized, for example, as the equivalents ofgiants and centaurs, enemies to be slain by Greek heroes.Their customs were presented not as those of a respect-able society, but as the very antitheses of ordinary Greek(40) practices.Thus, I would argue, the purpose of accounts of theAmazons for their male Greek recorders was didactic, toteach both male and female Greeks that all-femalegroups, formed by withdrawal from traditional society,(45) are destructive and dangerous. Myths about the Ama-zons were used as arguments for the male-dominatedstatus quo, in which groups composed exclusively ofeither sex were not permitted to segregate themselvespermanently from society. Bachofen was thus misled in(50) his reliance on myths for information about the status ofwomen. The sources that will probably tell contempo-rary historians most about women in the ancient worldare such social documents as grave-stones, wills, andmarriage contracts. Studies of such documents have(55) already begun to show how mistaken we are when wetry to derive our picture of the ancient world exclusivelyfrom literary sources, especially myths. L6-7 L(列舉考點(diǎn))L10 J B(Am)(觀點(diǎn)已知,具體例子略讀,紀(jì)錄大寫名詞);L15 SE(Structural Elements)(B提出的觀點(diǎn))L22 H(記錄專有名詞)L23 5 c(紀(jì)錄特殊年代)L24 Sa(記錄專有名詞)L28 SE(段首轉(zhuǎn)折,否定上文觀點(diǎn))L41 SE(作者觀點(diǎn),purpose of強(qiáng)驅(qū)動(dòng)短語,值得關(guān)注)L49 B-(misled反映作者對(duì)B持負(fù)態(tài)度,否定了B的結(jié)論)
文章結(jié)構(gòu)分析:
第一遍快速讀原文,讀者首先應(yīng)該對(duì)原文的結(jié)構(gòu)有個(gè)大致的把握。這篇文章的結(jié)構(gòu)分析如下:
首段,介紹了一個(gè)文化背景。在首段末尾,主人公J B登場(chǎng);
第2段,先闡述了B的觀點(diǎn)(women were dominant in many ancient societies)及作者提出此觀點(diǎn)所依據(jù)的前提(mythology and legend reserve fact),后用evidence證明之;
第3段,首句Nonetheless為一個(gè)強(qiáng)轉(zhuǎn)折詞,從前提上否定了B。
第4段,作者提出自己的看法,并從觀點(diǎn)上直接否定了B。全文末句,重申對(duì)B觀點(diǎn)前提的否定。
全文結(jié)構(gòu)組成為:除首段背景外,其余部分為"新觀點(diǎn)****舊觀點(diǎn)"型文章,重在"****",即對(duì)B觀點(diǎn)的駁斥。