GRE阅读考试的本质是什么？

其实GRE阅读的本质是逻辑+结构+观点+同义替换，大家先看看下面这篇文章，你就知道你和master的差距了。

同学们先按照自己的方法看吧！

Notable as important nineteenth-century novels by women, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights treat women very differently. Shelley produced a “masculine” text in which the fates of subordinate female characters seem entirely dependent on the actions of male heroes or anti-heroes. Bronte produced a more realistic narrative, portraying a world where men battle for the favors of apparently high-spirited, independent women. Nevertheless, these two novels are alike in several crucial ways. Many readers are convinced that the compelling mysteries of each plot conceal elaborate structures of allusion and fierce, though shadowy, moral ambitions that seem to indicate metaphysical intentions, though efforts by critics to articulate these intentions have generated much controversy. Both novelists use a storytelling method that emphasizes ironic disjunctions between different perspectives on the same events as well as ironic tensions that inhere in the relationship between surface drama and concealed authorial intention, a method I call an evidentiary narrative technique.

你是怎样看的，或者说你自己的水平自己知道。来看看我们是怎么教你的吧。

首先，你得区别什么是主题，什么是细节。

刚才的文章应该是这样看的！

Notable as important nineteenth-century novels by women, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights treat women very differently. Shelley produced a “masculine” text in which the fates of subordinate female characters seem entirely dependent on the actions of male heroes or anti-heroes. Bronte produced a more realistic narrative, portraying a world where men battle for the favors of apparently high-spirited, independent women. Nevertheless, these two novels are alike in several crucial ways. Many readers are convinced that the compelling mysteries of each plot conceal elaborate structures of allusion and fierce, though shadowy, moral ambitions that seem to indicate metaphysical intentions, though efforts by critics to articulate these intentions have generated much controversy. Both novelists use a storytelling method that emphasizes ironic disjunctions between different perspectives on the same events as well as ironic tensions that inhere in the relationship between surface drama and concealed authorial intention, a method I call an evidentiary narrative technique.

这篇文章的主题，我们已经给你们加粗了。文章第一句说的是这两本小说对待女性是如何的不同。关键词是不同的。然后后面的2句是具体告诉你，它们分别是如何具体的不同。

这2句和前面的逻辑关系是：主题--细节的逻辑关系。

或者说是总分的关系，Nevertheless一词表示转折，大家数同学也就仅仅知道是表示转折，我们应该知道在文章里，它转折的是前面哪一点？应该是转折了differently一词，所以转折后面的内容很快就出现了alike一词！

那许多同学看完alike这一句，普遍的做法就是又来翻译。可是我们应该清楚，alike后面的斜体部分是细节，它们在具体阐述这两本小说的具体的内容。我们清楚到这里即可。

所以文章的关键词就3个：

differently--nevertheless--alike

我们来试试做题

1. The primary purpose of the passage is to.

(A) defend a controversial interpretation of two novels

(B) explain the source of widely recognized responses to two novels

(C) delineate broad differences between two novels

(D) compare and contrast two novels

(E) criticize and evaluate two novels

这题你选什么？

2. According the passage, Frankenstein differs from Wuthering Heights in its

(A) use of multiple narrators

(B) method of disguising the author’s real purposes

(C) portrayal of men as determiners of the novel’s action

(D) creation of a realistic story

(E) controversial effect on readers

这题呢？不过你得思考一下，题目里得its代表什么？

3. Which of the following narrative strategies best exemplifies the “evidentiary narrative technique” mentioned in line 24?

(A) Telling a story in such a way that the author’s real intentions are discernible only through interpretations of allusions to a world outside that of the story

(B) Telling a story in such a way that the reader is aware as events unfold of the author’s underlying purposes and the ways these purposes conflict with the drama of the plot

(C) Telling a story in a way that both directs attention to the incongruities among the points of view of several characters and hints that the plot has a significance other than that suggested by its mere events

(D) Telling a story as a mystery in which the reader must deduce, from the conflicting evidence presented by several narrators, the moral and philosophical significance of character and event

(E) Telling a story from the author’s point of view in a way that implies both the author’s and the reader’s ironic distance from the dramatic unfolding of events

有同学会说最后一题好难哦。那么我们想说，同学，你有考过托福？如果有，应该知道托福阅读里有一道题目叫句子简化题。没错，这题其实一样的，在阅读里，一旦考到细节的部分就只能是同义替换，也就是类似于句子简化题。你看C选项和最后一句基本完全一个意思啊！

比如：下面的部分相同的部分用同一种颜色表示。

其他没有标出来的，同学们自己找：

Both novelists use a storytelling method that emphasizes ironic disjunctions between different perspectives on the same events as well as ironic tensions that inhere in the relationship between surface drama and concealed authorial intention, a method I call an evidentiary narrative technique.

和

Telling a story in a way that both directs attention to the incongruities among the points of view of several characters and hints that the plot has a significance other than that suggested by its mere events.

所以你现在知道，为何学生考完会说，通过这样的GRE阅读方法，再看GRE阅读，怎么感觉和托福阅读一样简单啊。