4月14日GRE機(jī)經(jīng)及預(yù)測

4月14日GRE寫作Issue預(yù)測機(jī)經(jīng)：

"Sometimes imagination is a more valuable asset than experience. People who lack experience are free to imagine what is possible and thus can approach a task without constraints of established habits and attitudes."

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

題目翻譯

有時(shí)候想象力是比經(jīng)驗(yàn)更有價(jià)值的財(cái)富。缺少經(jīng)驗(yàn)的人得以自由的想象任何可能性，并且由此可以達(dá)成一個(gè)目標(biāo)而不受既定習(xí)慣和態(tài)度的限制。

Outline

I fundamentally agree with the speaker’s assertion; however, as the speaker implies, it is impossible not to overstate the comparative value of imagination.

1. One need only observe young children as they go about their daily lives to appreciate the role that pure imagination can play as an aid to accomplishing tasks.

2. The speaker’s contention also finds ample empirical support in certain forms of artistic accomplishment and scientific invention.

3. Of course, there are many notable exceptions to the rule that imagination unfettered by experience breeds remarkable insights and accomplishments.

4. On the other hand, it is important not to take this assertion about artistic and scientific accomplishment too far.

4月14日GRE寫作Argument預(yù)測機(jī)經(jīng)：

The following appeared in a health magazine.

"The citizens of Forsythe have adopted more healthful lifestyles. Their responses to a recent survey show that in their eating habits they conform more closely to government nutritional recommendations than they did ten years ago. Furthermore, there has been a fourfold increase in sales of food products containing kiran, a substance that a scientific study has shown reduces cholesterol. This trend is also evident in reduced sales of sulia, a food that few of the most healthy citizens regularly eat."

Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.

題目翻譯

以下文字出自于一本健康雜志：“Forsythe的居民采取了更健康的生活方式。他們對于最近一項(xiàng)調(diào)查的回答顯示，他們的飲食習(xí)慣比十年前更加貼近政府的營養(yǎng)建議。而且，含有kiran的食品銷量增長了四倍，在一次科學(xué)研究中發(fā)現(xiàn)kiran是一種能夠降低膽固醇水平的物質(zhì)。這種趨勢同樣也被sulia的銷量下降所證實(shí)，sulia是那些最健康的居民極少食用的食品。”

寫一篇文章，闡述需要哪些具體的證據(jù)來評價(jià)這個(gè)論證過程，并解釋這些證據(jù)如何削弱或強(qiáng)化這個(gè)論證過程。

題目分析

A. 前提[隱性]：Forsythe的居民飲食習(xí)慣越來越健康

B. 結(jié)論：the citizens of Forsythe have adopted more healthful lifestyles Forsythe的居民采取了更健康的生活方式

C. 論據(jù)：

1. Their responses to a recent survey show that in their eating habits they conform more closely to government nutritional recommendations than they did ten years ago.他們對于最近一項(xiàng)調(diào)查的回答顯示，他們的飲食習(xí)慣比十年前更加貼近政府的營養(yǎng)建議

2. There has been a fourfold increase in sales of food products containing kiran, a substance that a scientific study has shown reduces cholesterol.含有kiran的食品銷量增長了四倍，在一次科學(xué)研究中發(fā)現(xiàn)kiran是一種能夠降低膽固醇水平的物質(zhì)

3. This trend is also evident in reduced sales of sulia, a food that few of the most healthy citizens regularly eat.這種趨勢同樣也被sulia的銷量下降所證實(shí)，sulia是那些最健康的居民極少食用的食品

提綱(可攻擊點(diǎn))

1、KIRAN銷量增加是否是因?yàn)槿藗兛粗衅浣档湍懝檀妓�平的功�?除了采取更健康的生活方式以外，哪些其他因素會與含有kiran的食品銷量增加有更直接的關(guān)系?請舉例并簡述。

2、相對于十年前居民的飲食習(xí)慣(未知信息)，現(xiàn)在居民飲食習(xí)慣貼近政府的營養(yǎng)建議能否說明居民關(guān)注健康生活方式?除了關(guān)注健康，還有哪些其他可能會引起這樣的變化?

3、除了采取更健康的生活方式，其他因素是否與sulia的銷量下降有更直接的關(guān)系?

4、最健康的居民極少食用sulia能否有效說明sulia對健康生活有負(fù)作用?還有哪些其他解釋?

5、“最健康”的居民是否是“采取健康生活方式”的那部分人?可能存在哪些不同的情況?

6、除了采取更健康的生活方式以外，其他因素是否與飲食習(xí)慣比十年前更加貼近政府的營養(yǎng)建議有更直接的關(guān)系?

4月14日GRE閱讀邏輯預(yù)測機(jī)經(jīng)：

What makes a worker ant perform one particular task rather than another? From the 1970s to the mid-1980s, researchers emphasized internal factors within individual ants, such as polymorphism, the presence in the nest of workers of different shapes and sizes, each suited to a particular task. Other elements then considered to have primary influence upon an ant’s career were its age—it might change tasks as it got older—and its genetics. However, subsequent ant researchers have focused on external prompts for behavior. In advocating this approach, Deborah Gordon cites experiments in which intervention in a colony’s makeup perturbed worker activity. By removing workers or otherwise altering the nest conditions, researchers were able to change the tasks performed by individual workers.

It can be inferred from the passage that Gordon and earlier researchers would agree with which of the following statements about worker ants?

A. Disruption of the nest can affect workers’ roles.

B. Genetics predominates over other factors in determining a worker ant’s role.

C. An individual worker’s tasks can change during its lifetime.

正確答案：C

題目解析

disruption of the nest 是在文章的后一部分在討論DG的實(shí)驗(yàn)的時(shí)候提出來的新的結(jié)論，顯然這個(gè)是不能被earlier researchers認(rèn)可的。, researchers emphasized internal factors within individual ants, such as polymorphism, the presence in the nest of workers of different shapes and sizes, each suited to a particular task. Other elements then considered to have primary influence upon an ant’s career were its age—it might change tasks as it got older—and its genetics這里面出現(xiàn)的才是二者所共同認(rèn)可的。所以A選項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤。 B選項(xiàng)，文章顯然是沒有說過genetics是predominate的，所有的因素沒有出現(xiàn)一個(gè)排序，B選項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤。 既然年齡可以是一個(gè)影響因子，那么年齡變化，task也該變化，即在lifetime中task是改變的。C選項(xiàng)正確。

4月14日GRE填空等價(jià)預(yù)測機(jī)經(jīng)：

The name of the Sloane Matthew Library has long been _____ ; even longtime city residents assume it is a run-of-the-mill library, never suspecting what art treasures it contains.

A. revered；B. proposed；C. misleading；D. elevated；E. intriguing

正確答案：C

題目解析

分號前后語氣方向一致，其中never suspecting what art treasures it contains.說到大家認(rèn)為博物館里面沒啥特別的。那么空就選負(fù)向詞misleading

其它選項(xiàng)含義：A 尊敬 B 提議 D 提高，振奮 E 有趣的，令人著迷的

4月14日GRE數(shù)學(xué)預(yù)測機(jī)經(jīng)：

According to surveys at a company, 20 percent of the employees owned cell phones in 1994, and 60 percent of the employees owned cell phones in 1998. From 1994 to 1998, what was the percent increase in the fraction of employees who owned cell phones?

A. 3%；B. 20%；C. 30%；D. 200%；E. 300%

正確答案：D

題目解析

94年20%的人有手機(jī)，98年60%的人有手機(jī)，手機(jī)人數(shù)從20%增長到60%，其中增長的百分比為(60%-20%)/20%，也就是200%，所以選D。