2016年GRE填空考試出現(xiàn)異常結(jié)構(gòu)section

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    今日GRE考試從考生給我的報(bào)分來(lái)看,難度并不算高,與3月7日的考試難度基本持平。很多考生心中有一個(gè)疑惑,GRE考試為了保持公平性,每次考試的難度不是應(yīng)該一致的么?為什么會(huì)存在有些考試難度較高,有些考試難度較低的說(shuō)法呢??從絕對(duì)意義角度講,GRE考試為了保證考試公平性,因此無(wú)論在何時(shí)、無(wú)論在何地參加的哪一場(chǎng)GRE考試,難度會(huì)持平。
    但是,第一,GRE考試本身正在變難,這是不爭(zhēng)的事實(shí),現(xiàn)在考試的題目和OG的題目難度相去甚遠(yuǎn);第二,我們所謂的難度是針對(duì)中國(guó)學(xué)生,中國(guó)學(xué)生英語(yǔ)基礎(chǔ)薄弱,可能會(huì)受到單詞量等因素的干擾,所以我們一般認(rèn)為沒(méi)有生片怪癖詞匯,普遍句子難度不大而邏輯思維強(qiáng)度大的場(chǎng)次對(duì)中國(guó)學(xué)生有利,生詞程度高但邏輯簡(jiǎn)單的場(chǎng)次對(duì)于中國(guó)學(xué)生反而不利。試想,如果連題目都讀不懂,何談邏輯呢?所以有的時(shí)候真是幾個(gè)單詞難倒英雄漢。
    讓我們接下來(lái)繼續(xù)盤點(diǎn)一下本次考試的情況吧。
    1. 3月15日作文
    本次作文考題依然延續(xù)了兩套題目策略,北京新東方GRE作文寧立波老師在針對(duì)本次考試的點(diǎn)題班中點(diǎn)中作文題目,上過(guò)點(diǎn)題班的同學(xué)是不是寫作文的時(shí)候都笑了出來(lái)了呢?
    本次作文issue題目為:
    (1) 19 Governments should focus on solving the immediate problems of today rather than on trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future.
    (2) 112. Requiring university students to take a variety of courses outside their major fields of study is the best way to ensure that students become truly educated.
    argument 題目為:
    (1) ”Butter has now been replaced by margarine in Happy Pancake……
    (2) ”During the past year, Quiot Manufacturing had 30 percent more on-the-job accidents ……
    2. 3月15日考試異常結(jié)構(gòu)情況
    在這次考試中,多位同學(xué)向我們反映某一個(gè)Verbal Section并非以正常的結(jié)構(gòu)出現(xiàn)。這幾年GRE考試結(jié)構(gòu)穩(wěn)定在以text completion開始,sentence equivalence 穿插其中的方式。而這次考試有些同學(xué)遇到了一個(gè)section以閱讀開始,10道閱讀題目結(jié)束后才出現(xiàn)了4個(gè)sentence equivalence,然后緊跟著6個(gè)text completion。這種情況我所知道的還是第一次出現(xiàn),不過(guò)我的預(yù)判應(yīng)該很有可能是一個(gè)加試的section,因?yàn)樗惴值膕ection和大部分加試都遵循著經(jīng)典結(jié)構(gòu)。在以往的考試中有同學(xué)跟我匯報(bào)過(guò)在一個(gè)section中碰到過(guò)8個(gè)三空題,6選二出現(xiàn)在了第一題等情況,后來(lái)根據(jù)判據(jù)確定那個(gè)section為加試。
    所以同學(xué)們?cè)诳紙?chǎng)上如果遇到了不規(guī)則的section不需要緊張,一來(lái)根據(jù)歷史經(jīng)驗(yàn)加試的可能性極大,而來(lái)GRE考試可以調(diào)整做題順序,還是可以按照你舒服的方式完成題目。
    3. 本次考試機(jī)經(jīng)放送
    當(dāng)然,在總結(jié)的最后還是給大家?guī)?lái)一些福利,送幾道填空機(jī)經(jīng),祝福大家3月29日再戰(zhàn)順利哦!更多詳情,請(qǐng)關(guān)注北京新東方GRE點(diǎn)題班。
    (1) 雖然早期的Florence Nightingale 的傳記傾向于______, LS這個(gè)人很irreverent 的essay駛?cè)肓诵碌念I(lǐng)域,讓批評(píng)他成為了可接受的事情,甚至還很流行。
    參考答案: sycophantic
    陪考詞匯難詞: pedantic / censorious
    (2) 機(jī)經(jīng)定位原文:During the recent citizen-scientist event, the amateur astonished the organizer by having the schedule of the galaxies ahead of a long time. Buoyed by the alacrity, the scientists went on to ask more-complicated questions that led to studies they had never imagined.(出自韓冰、潘晨光老師2014.9月份發(fā)布的GRE機(jī)經(jīng)考古50題,本次考試原題復(fù)現(xiàn))
    考察詞匯:astonished/ buoyed/ alacrity
    (3) 通常我們提到的human communities 和insect colonies 的parallel 是______, 昆蟲因?yàn)榛蚨献?,人類通常與nonrelatives 合作。
    機(jī)經(jīng)定位原文:Today, we know that the parallels between human communities and insect states do not reach very far. The amazing degree of cooperation found among social insects is essentially due to the strong family ties within ant hills or bee hives. Humans, by contrast, often collaborate with non-related partners.
    (4) It is important to differentiate between scientifically inaccurate ideas that are conceptually unproductive and understandings that are inaccurate, yet can foster learning of more sophisticated understandings. The former are simply wrong; the latter can be seen as incomplete, overly simplistic, or tied to only a few limited contexts.
    考察詞匯: unproductive / foster