《GRE考试官方指南》章节试读

《GRE考试官方指南》的笔记-第365页

The discussion of Dr. Karp's tone in the forth paragraph, for example, is a rhetorical critique, not a logical one. There is an attempt to talk about evidence ("He needs to have more details..."), but the focus in this paragraph is on "selling" the reader, not creating a persuasive argument. Because of its limited development and language control, this response earns a score of 3.

《GRE考试官方指南》的笔记-第209页 - 7.1.1 Integers

The integer 1 is not a prime number, and the integer 2 is the only prime number that is even.

《GRE考试官方指南》的笔记-第73页 - 4 GRE Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions

Many critics of Emily Brontё's novel Wuthering Heights see its second part as a counterpoint that comments on, if it does not reverse, the first part, where a romantic reading receives more confirmation. Seeing the two parts as a whole is encouraged by the novel's sophisticated structure, revealed in its complex use of narrators and time shifts. Granted that the presence of these elements need not argue for an authorial awareness of novelistic construction comparable to that of Henry James, their presense does encourage attempts to unify the novel's heterogeneous parts. However, any interpretation that seeks to unify all of the novel's diverse elements is bound to be somewhat unconvincing. This is not because such an interpretation necessarily stiffens into a thesis (although rigidity in any interpretation of this or of any novel is always a danger), but because Whthering Heights has recalcitrant elements of undeniable power that, ultimately, resist inclusion in an all-encompassing inerpretation. In this respect, Wuthering Heights shares a feature of Hamlet.

《GRE考试官方指南》的笔记-第208页 - 7.1.1 Integers

1 is a factor of every integer; 1 is not a multiple of any integer except 1 and -1.
0 is a multiple of every integer; 0 is not a factor of any integer except 0.

《GRE考试官方指南》的笔记-第69页 - 4 GRE Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions

Philosophy, unlike most other subjects, does not try to extend our knowledge by discovering new information about the world. Instead it tries to deepen our understanding through rumination of what is already closet to us — the experiences, thoughts, concepts, and activities that make up our lives but that ordinarily escape our notice precisely because they are so familiar. Philosophy begins by finding utterly mysterious the things that are most prosaic.