我们都知道，新GRE考试的句子越来越来自于真实生活的文本，并加以改造。而什么样的文字可以用来改变成GRE题目呢，根据我们的经验是，太广泛了。现在新GRE和老GRE已经发生了翻天覆地的变化，更加强调考生对于整个句子的理解，而不是单个单词的考察。我们根据同学们贡献的机考经验（简称机经）、各位小站教育优秀老师的机考经验和一些散落机经题目的蛛丝马迹，为大家定位到了不少今年2014年前九个月填空机经原文，如果过你阅读中文机经不爽的话，那接下来这58个句子，是你上场之前必读的原句。
1. 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.
考察词汇：astonished/ buoyed/ alacrity
2. Computers make it spectacularly easy to search for particular pieces of information in downloaded texts. And doing research in this strategic, targeted manner can feel empowering. Instead of surrendering to the organizing logic of the book you are reading, you can approach the book with your own questions and glean precisely what you want from it. You, not the author, are the master.
考察词汇：empowering/ surrendering/ glean precisely what you want from it
3. There are two opposing theories about mountain formation and climate over the past 40 millions years: either the surge of mountain building caused the global cooling, or vice versa. The first of these two theories asserts that widespread mountain building cooled the earth as a result of the feedback between mountains and climate. For example, mountain glaciers tend to be self-perpetuating: once established, they increase the reflectivity of the surface, thus lowering the temperatures and allowing more ice to form.
考察词汇：caused/ feedback between/ self-perpetuating
4. (2014/1/19) Fossil “early whale” mother found, according to ScienceDaily 4 Feb 2009. A team of palaeontologists led by Philip Gingerich have found the fossil of “female whale with a fetus” in Pakistan. They also found a fossil male of the same species. The new fossil has been named Maiacetus inuus and is dated as 47.5 million years old. “Maiacetus” means mother whale and “inuus” refers to a Roman fertility god. The unborn baby ‘whale’ is orientated in the head down position, as occurs in land animals. Whales give birth tail first. Maiacetus is described as having “four legs modified for foot-powered swimming, and although these whales could support their weight on their flipper-like limbs, they probably couldn't travel far on land(此处原题换成了its flipper-like feat must have been clumsy for walking).” According to Gingerich and ScienceDaily, its “big teeth, well-suited for catching and eating fish, suggest the animals made their livings in the sea, probably coming onto land only to rest, mate and give birth.” Gingerich commented: "They clearly were tied to the shore. They were living at the land-sea interface and going back and forth."
考察词汇：adapted to/ in the sea / clumsy for
5. (2014/1/11) There were also few outlets for his wit and erudition, and even the reader acquainted with the bare outlines of Pushkin's biography (privileged upbringing, rebellious youth, exile, personal censorship by the tsar, marriage to a society beauty, untimely death in a duel) will be struck by the suffocating lack of creative freedom so vividly conveyed here. Pushkin's personal correspondence was intercepted, his movements monitored and his life closely tied to that of the court. Not only did Tsar Nicholas I's decision to oversee his career oblige him to submit all his manuscripts for inspection, but his perennially desperate finances entailed humiliating negotiations with the tsar's chief of secret police over his loans. And when Pushkin's wife caught Nicholas's eye, the increasingly beleaguered poet was coerced into becoming a junior courtier so that she could attend all the right balls.
考察词汇:stuck by/ suffocating lack of creative freedom/ monitored
6. (2014/1/19) Scientific papers often misrepresent what actually happened in the course of the investigations they describe. Misunderstandings, blind alleys, and mistakes of various sorts will fail to appear in the final written account. Nevertheless, the practice is nearly universal, because it is a more efficient means of transmitting results than an accurate historical account would be. Contrary to normal belief, this type of misrepresentation is condoned and accepted in scientific publications, whereas other transgressions are harshly condemned.
考察词汇： misrepresent/ efficiency/ a comprehensive historical account
7. Some forms of creative work, however, have never been protected by American law. These forms of creativity exist in IP's "negative space"—by which we mean the territory where IP law might regulate, but (perhaps for accidental or nonessential reasons) does not. The study of these unprotected forms of creativity ought to be of great interest. If we see these creative endeavors languishing as a result of uncontrolled copying, we might decide to extend law in order to curtail appropriation and induce investment and innovation. On the other hand, if an unprotected area of creative work thrives in the absence of legal rules against copying, we would do well to know how. We might also ask whether other currently protected forms of creativity could also flourish without expensive and potentially inefficient monopoly protections.
考察词汇：languishing/ extend/ thrives
在新GRE中让同学们感觉很难的词汇类比和反义词选择题目被取消，但是这并不意味着GRE对词汇的要求有明显的降低。从某种意义上说，GRE对词汇的考察只是变换了方式，显得更加科学罢了。
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