新GRE阅读练习题8

　　On each day of the Monday through Friday workweek, exactly two of three employees—George, Hilda, and Irene—must remain on duty in the office to answer tele-phones during the noon to 1 p.m. lunch break. In the　scheduling of telephone duty the following constraints must be met：

　　Hilda and Irene have telephone duty together on Tuesday.

　　George and Hilda have telephone duty together onThursday.

　　No one can have telephone duty on more than four of the five days of the week.

　　1.Which of the following can be the week's telephone duty schedule?

　　Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

　　(A) George George Hilda George Hilda Hilda Irene Irene Hilda Irene

　　(B) George Hilda George Hilda George Hilda Irene Hilda Irene Irene

　　(C) George Hilda George George George Irene Irene Hilda Hilda Hilda

　　(D) Hilda Hilda George George Hilda Irene Irene Hilda Hilda Irene

　　(E) Hilda Hilda George George George Irene Irene Hilda Irene Irene

　　2.If Hilda has telephone duty for exactly two days of the week, which of the following must be true?

　　(A)George and Irene have telephone duty together on Wednesday.

　　(B)George and Hilda have telephone duty together on Friday.

　　(C)Hilda and Irene have telephone duty together on Wednesday.

　　(D)Hilda and Irene have telephone duty together on Friday.

　　(E)Irene has telephone duty for exactly three days of the week.

　　3.If Hilda and Irene have telephone duty together on

　　Monday and on Wednesday, which of the following must be true?

　　(A)George and Hilda have telephone duty together on Friday.

　　(B)George and Irene have telephone duty together on Friday.

　　(C)George has telephone duty on exactly three of the days of the week.

　　(D)Hilda has telephone duty on exactly three of the days of the week.

　　(E)Irene has telephone duty on exactly three of the days of the week.

　　4.If George and Hilda have telephone duty together on Monday and George and Irene have telephone duty together on Friday, any of the following can be true EXCEPT：

　　(A)George and Hilda have telephone duty together on Wednesday.

　　(B)George and Irene have telephone duty together on Wednesday.

　　(C)George has telephone duty for four days of the week.

　　(D)Irene has telephone duty for four days of the week.

　　(E)Hilda and Irene have telephone duty together for two days of the week.

　　5.If there is one pair of employees who have telephone duty together for three of the five days, which of the following must be true?

　　(A)George has telephone duty on Wednesday.

　　(B)George and Hilda have telephone duty together for three days of the week.

　　(C)Hilda and Irene have telephone duty together for three days of the week.

　　(D)One of the three employees has telephone duty for exactly two days of the week.

　　(E)Exactly one of the workers has telephone duty for exactly three days of the week.

　　6.Any of the following can be true EXCEPT：

　　(A)One pair of employees has telephone duty together for exactly one day of the week

　　(B)One pair of employees has telephone duty together for exactly four days of the week

　　(C)The pair of employees that has telephone duty together on Monday also has telephone duty together on Wednesday

　　(D)The pair of employees that has telephone duty together on Tuesday also has telephone duty together on Wednesday

　　(E)The pair of employees that has telephone duty together on Thursday also has telephone duty together on Friday

　　答案：CAB DDB

 

新GRE阅读练习题的延伸阅读——GRE阅读技巧详解

 

　　GRE阅读技巧：宏观中的“必读”与“不读”

　　所谓宏观，即使明确文章结构。再清楚一点说，即使我们要知道主题句的所在位置以及每段大意。

　　让我们今天来了解一下什么是主题句，ETS的阅读文章中主题句通常会以什么形式出现。和中国考生自己写作文不一样的是，美国人的阅读文章中从来都不出现“I think that， in my opinion， as far as I am considered”此类语言做主题句。通常来说美国人的主题句有两种形式：

　　主题句两种形式：

　　1. 判断句(含情态动词，系动词，正负褒贬词的句子)；

　　2. 概括文章将来结构。

掌握好了主题句判断方法，很多文章学生便可以很快把握文章的结构框架，帮助后面文章的理解。