為了幫助考生們更好地備戰(zhàn)GRE，出國留學網GRE欄目為您帶來“2017年GRE閱讀考試題型講解”，希望對大家有所幫助!
總體宏觀變化
從ETS官方網站的敘述中，最為核心的整個考試的變化趨勢為如下幾點：
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
逐點分析，不難發(fā)現(xiàn)幾乎每條都于閱讀部分難度和重要性的提高分不開的。所為cognitive認知性能力，是所有閱讀測試的核心，即主要依賴文章本身而非經驗性的一種理解能力。不僅在能力上提出了更高要求，閱讀文章本身不論從選擇題材的廣度，每個Section考察的篇幅數(shù)量都大大提升。在計算機新媒介的輔助下，ETS把GRE閱讀注冊商標般的推理也提高到新的層次進行考察。簡而言之，閱讀可謂成為了新GRE考試中的重中之重。
樣題剖析
筆者對給出的樣題中閱讀部分做一個綜合評述，慢慢揭開新GRE閱讀的神秘面紗。在對題目做完剖析之后，總結相關的變化和值得注意的要點。
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 1920's 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 Milhaud's and Gershwin's experiments. In 1927 he completed his first large-scale work, the blues- and jazz-inspired Yamekraw, which included borrowings from spirituals and Johnson's 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.....
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