为什么GRE阅读分数提不高

为什么GRE阅读分数提不高1

1800 Thomas Dilworth’s New Guide to the English Dialogue was being widely used to teach reading in the United States. Dilworth's primer, unlike earlier ones, stressed the importance of children’s understanding what they read. While it is in fact unlikely that children would have recognized all the vocabulary Dilworth used, that was at least his stated goal. Dilworth recognized that primers should enable children to decode words from print with the form of language they already knew: speech. In contrast, many earlier authors assumed that, just as introductory Latin texts taught children an unknown language, introductory English texts should teach English as if it, too, were an unknown language—such their esoteric choice of vocabulary, it in effect became unknown.

1. According to the passage, the “earlier authors” adopted a model for English instruction that

A. mirrored the practice used in Latin instruction

B. was originally formulated by Dilworth

C. was less esoteric than that adopted by Dilworth

D. stressed familiarity with the peculiarities of English spelling

E. emphasized the importance of fluent and articulate speech

2. The author of the passage would probably agree with which of the following criticisms of English primers predating Dilworth’s?

A. Their Latinate grammatical terms poorly described the structures of English.

B. They failed to make effective use of the knowledge of language a child already possessed.

C. Their texts typically focused on subject matter that held little intrinsic interest for their readers.

D. They neglected to teach the language in a sufficiently systematic way.

E. They required a pedagogical method that few American teachers of the era possessed.

答案：

A B

为什么GRE阅读分数提不高2

Whereas Carlos Bulosan aimed through fiction and personal testimony to advance both Filipino civil rights in the United States and the social transformation of the Philippines, Yen Le Espiritu has set herself the task of recovering life histories of Filipino Americans. Her work brings Filipino Americans of the generation following the 1934-1965 immigration hiatus graphically to life. A special strength is the representation of Filipino American women, who were scarce among immigrants before the 1934 American curb on Filipino immigration but composed more than half of the immigrants to America since liberalization in 1965. Espiritu’s subjects document their changing sense of Filipino identity in the United States, much as Bulosan did as a member of the first substantial wave of immigrants.

1. According to the passage, both Bulosan and Espiritu do which of the following in their work?

A. Consider generational differences in Filipino immigrants’ responses to life in the United States

B. Attempt to make allowance for the demographic variations among Filipino immigrants to the United States

C. Employ fiction in addition to documenting actual life histories of Filipino immigrants to the United States

D. Represent how life in the United States has affected immigrants’ sense of Filipino identity

E. Examine the effects on Filipinos in the United States of the 1934 American curb on Filipino immigration

2. In the context in which it appears, “graphically” most nearly means

A. in writing

B. by means of drawing

C. impressionistically

D. diagrammatically

E. vividly

答案：

D E