Verbal Reasoning

　　在这次的考试中，考试组合基本上都是Q+V+Q+V+Q，应该说参加这次考试的同学RP不错，在前三次考试都是加试V的情况下，ETS也终于换口味了。

　　PART I 填空

　　1. 经典的机经三空题，本次考试完美再现：

　　As the study of the foundation of western Shanghai reveals, there was, a sense of elegance in the refined, simple lines that characterized the entire row, bereft of the exuberant, emphatic, assertive, ornament that constituted the latest British architectural fashion, which expressed its detestation of Palladianism and neoclassicism - London's Regent Street then being regarded as abhorrent - calling it the product of a ------ "shopocracy". The ------ of Western architectural taste - oscillating between simplicity and ornamental ------ - must have bemused Chinese observers who had long accepted that both approaches were valid and could co-exist.

　　解析：答案为BFH。讲解从略。

　　2. 老题改编：以前老G时代的双空题，本次考试意外粗线，下面是老题。

　　Though extremely _____ about his own plans, the man allowed his associates no such privacy and was constantly ____ information about what they intended to do next.

　　A idiosyncratic……altering

　　B guarded……eschewing

　　C candid……uncovering

　　D reticent……soliciting

　　E fastidious……ruining

　　解析：此题考法为代词型同义重复，第一空对应着后面的such privacy取同，第二空跟no such privacy取同，答案选D;reticent表示沉默的，solicit这里表恳求。

　　不过说到了老题新考，新GRE考试还曾经考过下面这道原封不动的老题：

　　Unenlightened authoritarian managers rarely recognize a crucial reason for the low levels of serious conflict among members of democratically run work groups: a modicum of tolerance for dissent often prevents ___.

　　A demur

　　B schism

　　C cooperation

　　D compliance

　　E shortsightedness

　　此题答案为B。

　　3. 稍有变化的老题改编：我先给出老题，在给出新题。

　　[1]. The children's ___ natures were in sharp contrast to the even-tempered dispositions of their parents.

　　A mercurial

　　B blithe

　　C phlegmatic

　　D introverted

　　E artless

　　这是一道GRE的老题，答案选A mercurial，与后面的even-tempered取反，不认识的可以自己查字典。

　　[2]. 上面说的是原来的老题，当然本次考试是做了点变形，答案没有mercurial，应该选的是choleric (易怒的，暴躁的)。下面附上他们的英文解释：

　　even-tempered: not quickly angered or excited; placid; calm.

　　choleric: easily angered; bad-tempered.

　　最后关于choleric这个词也要稍微说下，这个词来源于古希腊的体液学说，相关的还有另外三个词sanguine, melancholy, phlegmatic.其实都挺重要的，可以查一下看看意思。

　　PART II 逻辑阅读

　　1. 逻辑

　　没有找到可靠机经，故从略，考的题型都是加强，削弱以及假设，但值得注意的是，发现在考场上，相同的题干，有时候题目的问法却不同，所以大家应该要有的思想准备就是逻辑机经不能随便套，还是要理解。

　　2. 阅读

　　1. 高频机经red maple再次现身，red maple这个阅读题在3月9号考过，这次又考到了。

　　[1]. 提出旧理论，提出解释1反驳旧理论：美国东部的red maple越来越多?，一种观点认为这个和全球二氧化碳的增多全球变暖有关，然后红枫树对这个很敏感，?美的红枫的光合作用加强?，数量增多?(Some scientists think the increased atmospheric carbon dioxide help with photosynthesis of Maple Tree.)。However, this didn't cause the number of other trees in the same area to increase。说oak也对这个敏感，但却没有这种情况(But, the photosynthesis ability of Maple tree may not necessarily be better than oak trees.)，所以这种解释?成?。