大家都知道GRE官方指南對(duì)閱讀視角的要求嗎?今天小編和大家分享GRE閱讀中非常重要的一個(gè)概念——視角。
官方指南中,說(shuō)明了GRE閱讀考察的是以下一系列能力:
Reading Comprehension questions are designed to test a wide range of abilities required to read and understand the kinds of prose commonly encountered in graduate school. Those abilities include:
understanding the meaning of individual words
understanding the meaning of individual sentences
understanding the meaning of paragraphs and larger bodies of text
distinguishing between minor and major points
summarizing a passage
drawing conclusions from the information provided
reasoning from incomplete data, inferring missing information
understanding the structure of a text, how the parts relate to one another
identifying the author’s perspective
identifying the author’s assumptions
analyzing a text and reaching conclusions about it
identifying strengths and weaknesses
developing and considering alternative explanations
其中identifying the author’s perspective是一項(xiàng)要求我們識(shí)別視角的能力。除此以外,還有Try to distinguish ideas that the author is advancing from those he or she is merely reporting.我們?cè)谧x文章的過(guò)程中,需要區(qū)分哪些觀點(diǎn)是作者所支持的,以及哪些觀點(diǎn)只是作者轉(zhuǎn)述的。這里就要提到GRE閱讀視角最重要的二分法:作者的觀點(diǎn)VS作者引用的觀點(diǎn)。