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【官方指南】GRE OG阅读题大全之古典音乐之美

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Reviving the practice of using elements of popular music in classical composition, an approach that had been in hibernation in the United States during the 1960s, composer Philip Glass (born 1937) embraced the ethos of popular music without imitating it. Glass based two symphonies on music by rock musicians David Bowie and Brian Eno, but the symphonies’ sound is distinctively his. Popular elements do not appear out of place in Glass’s classical music, which from its early days has shared certain harmonies and rhythms with rock music. Yet this use of popular elements has not made Glass a composer of popular music. His music is not a version of popular music packaged to attract classical listeners; it is high art for listeners steeped in rock rather than the classics.

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1. The passage addresses which of the following issues related to Glass’s use of popular elements in his classical compositions?

A. How it is regarded by listeners who prefer rock to the classics

B. How it has affected the commercial success of Class’s music

C. Whether it has contributed to a revival of interest among other composers in using popular elements in their compositions

D. Whether it has had a detrimental effect on Glass’s reputation as a composer of classical music

E. Whether it has caused certain of Glass’s works to be derivative in quality

2. The passage suggests that Glass’s work displays which of the following qualities?

A. A return to the use of popular music in classical compositions

B. An attempt to elevate rock music an artistic status more closely approximating that of classical music

C. A long-standing tendency to incorporate elements from two apparently disparate musical styles

3. Select the sentence that distinguishes two ways of integrating rock and classical music. 最后一句


A person who agrees to serve as mediator between two warring factions at the request of both abandons by so agreeing the right to take sides later. To take sides at a later point would be to suggest that the earlier presumptive impartiality was a sham.

1. The passage above emphasizes which of the following points about mediators?

A. They should try to form no opinions of their own about any issue that is related to the dispute.

B. They should not agree to serve unless they are committed to maintaining a stance of impartiality.

C. They should not agree to serve unless they are equally acceptable to all parties to a dispute.

D. They should feel free to take sides in the dispute right from the start, provided that they make their biases publicly known.

E. They should reserve the right to abandon their impartiality so as not to be open to the charge of having been deceitful.


Was Felix Was Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) a great composer? On its face, the question seems absurd. One of the most gifted prodigies in the history of music, he produced his first masterpiece at sixteen. From then on, he was recognized as an artist of preternatural abilities, not only as a composer but also as a pianist and conductor. But Mendelssohn’s enduring popularity has often been at odds — sometimes quite sharply — with his critical standing. Despite general acknowledgment of his genius, there has been a noticeable reluctance to rank him with, say, Schumann or Brahms. As Haggin put it, Mendelssohn, as a composer, was a “minor master . . . working on a small scale of emotion and texture.”

2. Select a sentence in the passage whose function is to indicate the range of Mendelssohn’s musical talents.

3. The passage suggests that anyone attempting to evaluate Mendelssohn’s career must confront which of the following dichotomies?

A. The tension between Mendelssohn’s career as a composer and his career as a pianist and conductor

B. The contrast between Mendelssohn’s popularity and that of Schumann and Brahms

C. The discrepancy between Mendelssohn’s popularity and his standing among critics

D. The inconsistency between Mendelssohn’s reputation during his lifetime and his reputation since his death

E. The gap between Mendelssohn’s prodigious musical beginnings and his decline in later years.

4. the author mentions Schumann and Brahms primarily in order to  A. provide examples of composers who are often compared with Mendelssohn

B. identify certain composers who are more popular than Mendelssohn

C. identify composers whom Mendelssohn influenced

D. establish the milieu in which Mendelssohn worked

E. establish a standard of comparison for Mendelssohn as a composer


While most scholarship on women’s employment in the United States recognizes that the Second World War (1939–1945) dramatically changed the role of women in the workforce, these studies also acknowledge that few women remained in manufacturing jobs once men returned from the war. But in agriculture, unlike other industries where women were viewed as temporary workers, women’s employment did not end with the war. Instead, the expansion of agriculture and a steady decrease in the number of male farmworkers combined to cause the industry to hire more women in the postwar years.

Consequently, the 1950s saw a growing number of women engaged in farm labor, even though rhetoric in the popular media called for the return of women to domestic life.
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6. It can be inferred from the passage that the manufacturing and agricultural sectors in the United States following the Second World War differed in which of the following respects?

A. The rate of expansion in each sector

B. The percentage of employees in each sector who were men

C. The trend in the wages of men employed in each sector

D. The attitude of the popular media toward the employment of women in each sector

E. The extent to which women in each sector were satisfied with their jobs

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7. Which of the following statements about women’s employment in the United States during and after the Second World War is most clearly supported by the passage?

A. Most women who joined the workforce during the Second World War wanted to return to domestic life when the war ended.

B. The great majority of women who joined the workforce during the Second World War were employed in manufacturing jobs.

C. The end of the Second World War was followed by a large-scale transfer of women workers from manufacturing to agriculture.

D. The increase in women’s employment that accompanied the Second World War was longer lasting in agriculture than it was in manufacturing.

E. The popular media were more forceful in calling for women to join the workforce during the Second World War than in calling for women to return to domestic life after the war.


Since the Hawaiian Islands have never been connected to other land masses, the great variety of plants in Hawaii must be a result of the long-distance dispersal of seeds, a process that requires both a method of transport and an equivalence between the ecology of the source area and that of the recipient area.

There is some dispute about the method of transport involved. Some biologists argue that ocean and air currents are responsible for the transport of plant seeds to Hawaii. Yet the results of flotation experiments and the low temperatures of air currents cast doubt on these hypotheses. More probable is bird transport, either externally, by accidental attachment of the seeds to feathers, or internally, by the swallowing of fruit and subsequent excretion of the seeds. While it is likely that fewer varieties of plant seeds have reached Hawaii externally than internally, more varieties are known to be adapted to external than to internal transport.

8. The author of the passage is primarily concerned with

A. discussing different approaches biologists have taken to testing theories about the distribution of plants in Hawaii

B. discussing different theories about the transport of plant seeds to Hawaii C. discussing the extent to which air currents are responsible for the dispersal of plant seeds to Hawaii

D. resolving a dispute about the adaptability of plant seeds to bird transport

E. resolving a dispute about the ability of birds to carry plant seeds long distances

9. The author mentions the results of flotation experiments on plant seeds (lines

7–8) most probably in order to

A. support the claim that the distribution of plants in Hawaii is the result of the long-distance dispersal of seeds

B. lend credibility to the thesis that air currents provide a method of transport for plant seeds to Hawaii

C. suggest that the long-distance dispersal of seeds is a process that requires long periods of time

D. challenge the claim that ocean currents are responsible for the transport of plant seeds to Hawaii

E. refute the claim that Hawaiian flora evolved independently from flora in other parts of the world


I enjoyed A Dream of Light & Shadow: Portraits of Latin American Women Writers for the same reasons that, as a child, I avidly consumed women’s biographies: the fascination with how the biographical details of another female’s life are represented and interpreted.

A Dream offers a rich read, varied in both the lives and texts of the women portrayed, and the perspectives and styles of the sixteen essayists. Yet, as an adult, I have come to demand of any really “great” book a self-consciousness about the tenuous nature of representations of reality, a critical contextualization of florid detail, and a self-awareness of the role of ideology in our lives. In these critical senses, A Dream is inadequate.

For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.

1. The author of the passage suggests that A Dream falls short in which of the following respects?

A. It does not appear to recognize that representations of reality can be unreliable.

B. It seems to focus on stylistic variety at the expense of accuracy of detail.

C. It offers a wealth of detail without sufficient critical examination of that detail.

2. Which of the following best describes the function of the second sentence (“A Dream  . . . essayists”) in the context of the passage as a whole?

A. To give examples of how A Dream presents fascinating portraits that display awareness of the tenuous nature of representations of reality

B. To elaborate on how A Dream fulfills the author’s childhood criteria for a pleasurable book

C. To suggest that the author enjoyed A Dream for reasons more sophisticated than the reasons she enjoyed certain books as a child

D. To illustrate ways in which the author finds A Dream to be inadequate in certain critical senses

E. To imply that A Dream is too varied in focus to provide a proper

contextualization of the biographical details it offers


During the day in Lake Constance, the zooplankton D. hyalina departs for the depths where food is scarce and the water cold. D. galeata remains near the warm surface where food is abundant. Even though D. galeata grows and reproduces much faster, its population is often outnumbered by D. hyalina.

3. Which of the following, if true, would help resolve the apparent paradox presented above?

A. The number of species of zooplankton living at the bottom of the lake is twice that of species living at the surface.

B. Predators of zooplankton, such as whitefish and perch, live and feed near the surface of the lake during the day.

C. In order to make the most of scarce food resources, D. hyalina matures more slowly than D. galeata .

D. D. galeata clusters under vegetation during the hottest part of the day to avoid the Sun’s rays.

E. D. galeata produces twice as many offspring per individual in any given period of time as does D. hyalina .


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Tocqueville, apparently, was wrong. Jacksonian America was not a fluid, egalitarian society where individual wealth and poverty were ephemeral conditions. At least so argues E. Pessen in his iconoclastic study of the very rich in the United States between 1825 and 1850.

Pessen does present a quantity of examples, together with some refreshingly intelligible statistics, to establish the existence of an inordinately wealthy class. Though active in commerce or the professions, most of the wealthy were not selfmade but had inherited family fortunes. In no sense mercurial, these great fortunes survived the financial panics that destroyed lesser ones. Indeed, in several cities the wealthiest one percent constantly increased its share until by 1850 it owned half of the community’s wealth. Although these observations are true, Pessen overestimates their importance by concluding from them that the undoubted progress toward inequality in the late eighteenth century continued in the Jacksonian period and that the United States was a class-ridden, plutocratic society even before industrialization.

4. According to the passage, Pessen indicates that all of the following were true of the very wealthy in the United States between 1825 and 1850 EXCEPT: A. They formed a distinct upper class.

B. Many of them were able to increase their holdings.

C. Some of them worked as professionals or in business.

D. Most of them accumulated their own fortunes.

E. Many of them retained their wealth in spite of financial upheavals.

5. Which of the following best states the author’s main point?

A. Pessen’s study has overturned the previously established view of the social and economic structure of early-nineteenth-century America.

B. Tocqueville’s analysis of the United States in the Jacksonian era remains the definitive account of this period.

C. Pessen’s study is valuable primarily because it shows the continuity of the social system in the United States throughout the nineteenth century.

D. The social patterns and political power of the extremely wealthy in the United States between 1825 and 1850 are well documented.

E. Pessen challenges a view of the social and economic systems in the United States from 1825 to 1850, but he draws conclusions that are incorrect.

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