市面上流傳的GRE閱讀機(jī)經(jīng)真題有三百多篇,同時(shí)又存在多種版本的答案和解析,有些疑難題目讓考生不知道聽誰的,還有些版本的解析像是用谷歌翻譯把同題目和選項(xiàng)翻譯了一下。我們認(rèn)為,GRE閱讀的解析,可以講得再清楚一點(diǎn)。
GRE不光有技巧,不光有快速解題法,GRE更加考察大家的邏輯硬實(shí)力,文字理解實(shí)打?qū)嵉纳疃?。良好的GRE備考應(yīng)當(dāng)在課堂上向老師學(xué)習(xí)快速解題法,取同取反邏輯的同時(shí),課下扎扎實(shí)實(shí)的讀懂每一句話。讀懂,是一切技巧使用的前提。皮之不存,毛將焉附?
有感于此,我們嘗試用比較長的時(shí)間,原創(chuàng)一個(gè)解析,力求做到超詳細(xì),大白話,包你懂。之前為大家推送了Passage 1 - Passage 76的解析,今天繼續(xù)為大家推出Passage 77(邏輯)解析,這篇閱讀一共有1段,共1道題。
Passage 77
Editors of major United States newsmagazines have been criticized for reducing the amount of space these magazines devote to international news. According to these editors, however, readers are wholly to blame for the reductions. After all, the editors point out, sales of magazine issues that prominently feature international news stories have declined significantly, and declining sales reflect declining reader interest. Yet even if true, this evidence does not refute the contention that editors should bear some of the blame for the reductions, unless editors are merely passive instruments responding to reader interest. And that is clearly an untenable view, since editors can often intensify reader interest in a news topic by giving it frequent coverage.
文章解析
第一句: Editors of major United States newsmagazines have been criticized for reducing the amount of space these magazines devote to international news.
白話版講解:
美國主要新聞雜志的編輯受到了批評,因?yàn)檫@些雜志討論國際新聞的篇幅減小了。
第二句: According to these editors, however, readers are wholly to blame for the reductions.
白話版講解:
但是,根據(jù)這些編輯的說法,讀者才是導(dǎo)致國際新聞篇幅減少的原因。
這句話表明編輯們對前面的說法進(jìn)行了反駁,為自己進(jìn)行了辯護(hù)。
第三句: After all, the editors point out, sales of magazine issues that prominently feature international news stories have declined significantly, and declining sales reflect declining reader interest.
白話版講解:
編輯指出,因?yàn)殛P(guān)注國際新聞的雜志期刊,它們的銷量大量減少。而銷量的減少就說明讀者的興趣在減少。
這句話繼續(xù)在闡述編輯為自己做出的辯護(hù)。
第四句: Yet even if true, this evidence does not refute the contention that editors are merely passive instruments responding to reader interest.
白話版講解:
但是,就算事實(shí)確實(shí)如此,這個(gè)證據(jù)也不能推翻這個(gè)觀點(diǎn),即編輯僅僅是被動(dòng)地回應(yīng)了讀者的興趣。
第五句: And that is clearly an untenable view, since editors can often intensify reader interest in a news topic by giving it frequent coverage.
白話版講解:
而這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)顯然站不住腳,因?yàn)榫庉嬁梢酝ㄟ^經(jīng)常去報(bào)道某個(gè)特定的新聞話題,來提升讀者對這個(gè)新聞話題感興趣的程度。
這兩句對編輯們的說法進(jìn)行了反駁。說明文章整體論證過程支持的還是第一句話的觀點(diǎn),也就是雜志討論國際新聞的篇幅減小了,主要責(zé)任在編輯身上。
題目解析
1. In the argument as a whole, the two highlighted portions play which of the following roles?
A. The first is evidence that has been used to support a position that the argument opposes; the second is a point that the argument raises to cast doubt on the reasoning used to support that position.
B. The first presents a claim, the truth of which is evaluated in the argument, the second is information introduced to cast doubt on that claim.
C. The first presents a claim, the truth of which is evaluated in the argument, the second provides evidence in support of that claim.
D. The first cites evidence in support of the main conclusion of the argument, the second states that conclusion.
E. The first states an assumption that is explicitly made to support the main conclusion of the argument, the second is a position that the argument as whole opposes.
本期答案:A
題目一:在這個(gè)論證過程中,兩個(gè)高亮的部分起了什么作用?
這道題的正確答案是 A。
整個(gè)論證過程支持的論點(diǎn)是第一句話,也就是編輯減少了雜志內(nèi)容中,討論國際新聞的篇幅。然后編輯對這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)進(jìn)行了辯解,認(rèn)為讀者才是導(dǎo)致國際新聞篇幅減少的原因,第一個(gè)高亮部分的內(nèi)容就是支持這些編輯的說法的證據(jù)。隨后,編輯的這些辯解被作者否定了,第二個(gè)高亮的部分就是去支持了作者對編輯的辯解進(jìn)行的反駁,說明編輯的辯解是站不住腳的。
A. 第一個(gè)高亮的部分是用來支持一個(gè)文章反對的觀點(diǎn)的,而第二個(gè)高亮的部分是指出了這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)站不住腳的地方。
B.第一個(gè)高亮的部分提出了一個(gè)觀點(diǎn),這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)是否真實(shí)在論證過程中得到了評估;第二個(gè)高亮部分是給出了信息去質(zhì)疑這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)。(第一個(gè)高亮的部分不是一個(gè)觀點(diǎn),而是用來支持前面提到的一個(gè)觀點(diǎn)的一些證據(jù),而且這個(gè)證據(jù)的真實(shí)性問題在原文中并沒有得到評估,原文只是說,就算這里的說法是真的,也如何如何。)
C.第一個(gè)高亮部分提出了一個(gè)觀點(diǎn),這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)是否真實(shí)在論證過程中得到了評估;第二個(gè)高亮部分是給出了信息去支持這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)。
D.第一個(gè)高亮部分引用了證據(jù)去支持這個(gè)論證的觀點(diǎn);第二個(gè)高亮部分總結(jié)進(jìn)行了總結(jié)。
E.第一個(gè)高亮部分指出了支持這個(gè)論證得出最終結(jié)論的假設(shè);而第二個(gè)高亮部分是整個(gè)論證所反對的觀點(diǎn)。(這個(gè)說法反了,第一個(gè)高亮部分這個(gè)論證的最終結(jié)論反對的觀點(diǎn),而第二個(gè)高亮部分是論證所支持的) |