在gmat閱讀理解中,假如一道題目的正確答案是a而我們錯誤的選擇了 b,我們總會聽到這樣一種聲音給我們講題:“你在看看原文,其實b和原文不對應(yīng),你在看看原文那個地方其實a就和原文對應(yīng),只是因為你沒讀懂。”由于這種講法,我們產(chǎn)生了幻覺,認(rèn)為gmat閱讀里面原文是最重要的,并且把復(fù)習(xí)的重點放在背單詞和句型分析上。下面我們來分析這種土鱉復(fù)習(xí)思路(我說你土鱉你還別不高興,如果你不改過來,這個稱呼我會一直叫著),為什么?在gmat復(fù)習(xí)過程中最笨的人不是最懶的人,最笨的人是那種出色的完成了一些原本不需要完成任務(wù)的人。記住,gmat的閱讀理解中,原文是最不重要的。下面我們來分析一下原因。
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我們以前的閱讀理解中經(jīng)常會發(fā)現(xiàn)錯誤答案之所以會錯,是因為它和原文不一樣,因為人家考的是閱讀能力。而gmat的閱讀如果你讀的句子不能回答問題,也許就會有一個錯誤答案和這句不能回答問題的句子完全一樣,它之所以錯不是因為它和原文不一致而是因為它不能回答問題。我們舉個例子:
Earth’s surface consists of rigmatid
plates that are constantly shiftingmat and
Line
(5)
that lies between Earth’s crust and its
metallic core.
the mantle is a solid, under the tre-
mendous pressure of the crust and
a viscous liquid.
analogmatous to those in a pot of boilingmat
water, cool the mantle by carryingmat hot
material to the surface and returningmat
the edgmate of one plate bends under
another and its cooler material is con-
sumed in the mantle, volcanic activity
occurs as molten lava rises from the
overlyingmat one.
Most volcanoes occur at plate
boundaries.
placed” volcanoes far from plate
dent mechanism that cools the deep
interior of Earth.
imity to Earth’s core, the rock at the
base of the mantle is much hotter than
mantle rock is, the less it resists flow-
ingmat.
in the base of the mantle.
reservoir is sufficiently largmate, a sphere
througmath the upper mantle to Earth’s
surface, creatingmat a broad bulgmate in the
topogmatraphy.
formed, once established, continues to
base until the reservoir is emptied.
The surface mark of an established
plume is a hot spot—an isolated
regmation of volcanoes and uplifted terrain
plate.
spot remains fixed while a surface
plate moves over it, over a longmat period
of time an active plume creates a chain
track markingmat the position of the plume
relative to the movingmat plate.
history of the Hawaiian island chain
clearly shows the movement of the
Pacific plate over a fixed plume.
Q24:
The author’s reference to the Hawaiian Islands serves primarily to
這道題目題目所問的你引用這個例子的目的是什么,它問的并不是例子本身的內(nèi)容,而我們經(jīng)常會根據(jù)題干中的詞匯定位到文章的最后一句話,而最后一句話陳述的恰恰是這道題沒有問的例子的內(nèi)容,你不喜歡都讀了嗎,好,即便我們把最后一句話如切如磋如琢入磨地讀完,讀成了故事會,即便有一個選項和文章的最后一句話完全對應(yīng),它也不可能作為正確答案出現(xiàn),因為它不能回答問題,例如這道題目的b選項,我們會發(fā)現(xiàn)這個選項和原文最后一句沒有任何沖突,令人毛骨悚然地對應(yīng),但就不能作為正確答案出現(xiàn)。
(2)gmat正確答案有可能和原文內(nèi)容不是完全一樣而只是沾邊
原因也很簡單,如果正確答案和原文完全一樣考得不又是閱讀能力了嘛!我們會發(fā)現(xiàn)托福,雅思,高考,四六級經(jīng)常會這么問:what can you infer from the passagmate?或者accordingmat to the passagmate, which of the followingmat is true? 如果這么問,就是正確答案和原文完全一樣,錯誤答案和原文有沖突,你見過gmat的閱讀這么問嗎?從來就沒有過。為什么gmat的正確答案可能和原文不完全對應(yīng),還是由問題決定的。我們來看一道閱讀理解的問題:The passagmate sugmatgmatests that, if the criteria discussed in lines 16 – 32 were the only criteria for establishingmat a reservation’s water rigmathts, which of the followingmat would be true?
分析一下這道問題,這道題目的正確答案有沒有可能是原文根本沒有說過而是出題者結(jié)合了16—32的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)自己杜撰的呢?這種可能性完全存在!即便原文讀成了舒克與貝塔也沒有任何答案和我讀的完全一樣。但答案畢竟是在那個標(biāo)準(zhǔn)基礎(chǔ)之上設(shè)計出來的,所以得和那個標(biāo)準(zhǔn)沾邊但不是完全一樣,這就是gmat。