GRE阅读：从情境模拟到技能考核

　　Policymakers must confront the dilemma that fossil fuels continue to be an indispensable source of energy even though burning them produces atmospheric accumulations of carbon dioxide that increase the likelihood of potentially disastrous global climate change. Currently, technology that would capture carbon dioxide emitted by power plants and sequester it harmlessly underground or undersea instead of releasing it into the atmosphere might double the cost of generating electricity. But because sequestration does not affect the cost of electricity transmission and distribution, delivered prices will rise less, by no more than 50 percent. Research into better technologies for capturing carbon dioxide will undoubtedly lead to lowered costs.

　　1. The passage implies which of the following about the current cost of generating electricity?

　　It is higher than it would be if better technologies for capturing carbon dioxide were available.

　　It is somewhat less than the cost of electricity transmission and distribution.

　　It constitutes at most half of the delivered price of electricity.

　　It is dwelt on by policymakers to the exclusion of other costs associated with electricity delivery.

　　It is not fully recovered by the prices charged directly to electricity consumers.

　　对上文的逻辑进行提炼我们发现，得出这样一个逻辑推理链条：

　　环保技术(technology that would capture carbon dioxide emitted by power plants and sequester it harmlessly underground or undersea instead of releasing it into the atmosphere)增加一倍发电成本(double the cost of generating electricity)。环保技术不改变传输成本(the cost of electricity transmission and distribution)。最终价格(delivered prices)增加不超过50%。

　　最终价格=发电成本+传输成本使用环保技术后，发电成本增加了原来的一倍，但是最终价格增长不超过50%，可以得出结论，发电成本，最多占最终价格的50%。

　　新GRE阅读篇幅缩短，数量增加，题型更加多样化，各位考生在新GRE阅读理解训练时应多加总结积累经验，不要盲目追求数量，提高新GRE阅读能力不是一日之功，要打好“持久战”。

 

GRE阅读：从情境模拟到技能考核的延伸阅读——GRE阅读高分技巧

 

　　1.题目类型固定或所涉及考点为已做标记范畴

　　1)问事物之间的关系，定位到同时标记这两个事物的地方。

　　2)问作者态度，定位到有态度词标记的地方。

　　3)问事物的缺陷，直接定位到标记缺陷处。

　　4)问文章大意类的主旨题定位与TS

　　5)问全文focus的特征，首先到TS处定位。

　　6)问文章结构、段落作用、行文方法类的主旨题定位于SE。

　　7)问作者举某个例子的目的，或者作者引用一段文字为了说明什么，这类就写作用意提问的题目一般定位于例子或者引述文字的上文。

　　8)提干句以IF结尾的改进型或取非题，定位在原文缺陷处或者有unless的句子。

　　9)如果题目为EXCEPT题，可以先看看原文的标记中有没有列举内容;如果有，很可能是答案所在。

　　2.题干有特征词的题目

　　1）最高级、比较级、数字、以大写字母开头的专有名词、年代、特殊历史时期、引号、斜体字。

　　2）选项标志词与题干核心词双重定位

　　3）段落定位

这两个GRE高分阅读定位技巧是在总结了众多考生的实际经验的基础上总结出来的，非常具有实用价值。所以希望大家在考试的过程中，能加以应用。