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GRE阅读真题之OG Passage 1
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Passage 1FhX小梦文库

Reviving the practice of using elements of popular music in classical composition, an approach that had been in hibernation in the United States during the 1960s, composer Philip Glass (born 1937) embraced the ethos of popular music without imitating it. Glass based two symphonies on music by rock musicians David Bowie and Brian Eno, but the symphonies’ sound is distinctively his. Popular elements do not appear out of place in Glass’s classical music, which from its early days has shared certain harmonies and rhythms with rock music. Yet this use of popular elements has not made Glass a composer of popular music. His music is not a version of popular music packaged to attract classical listeners; it is high art for listeners steeped in rock rather than the classics.FhX小梦文库

1. The passage addresses which of the following issues related to Glass’s use of popular elements in his classical compositions?FhX小梦文库

A. How it is regarded by listeners who prefer rock to the classicsFhX小梦文库

B. How it has affected the commercial success of Class’s musicFhX小梦文库

C. Whether it has contributed to a revival of interest among other composers in using popular elements in their compositionsFhX小梦文库

D. Whether it has had a detrimental effect on Glass’s reputation as a composer of classical musicFhX小梦文库

E. Whether it has caused certain of Glass’s works to be derivative in qualityFhX小梦文库

2. The passage suggests that Glass’s work displays which of the following qualities?FhX小梦文库

A. A return to the use of popular music in classical compositionsFhX小梦文库

B. An attempt to elevate rock music to an artistic status more closely approximating that of classical musicFhX小梦文库

C. A long-standing tendency to incorporate elements from two apparently disparate musical stylesFhX小梦文库

3. Select the sentence that distinguishes two ways of integrating rock and classical music.FhX小梦文库

GRE阅读真题之OG Passage 2FhX小梦文库

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A person who agrees to serve as mediator between two warring factions at the request of both abandons by so agreeing the right to take sides later. To take sides at a later point would be to suggest that the earlier presumptive impartiality was a sham.FhX小梦文库

1. The passage above emphasizes which of the following points about mediators?FhX小梦文库

A. They should try to form no opinions of their own about any issue that is related to the dispute.FhX小梦文库

B. They should not agree to serve unless they are committed to maintaining a stance of impartiality.FhX小梦文库

C. They should not agree to serve unless they are equally acceptable to all parties to a dispute.FhX小梦文库

D. They should feel free to take sides in the dispute right from the start, provided that they make their biases publicly known.FhX小梦文库

E. They should reserve the right to abandon their impartiality so as not to be open to the charge of having been deceitful.FhX小梦文库

GRE阅读真题之OG Passage 3FhX小梦文库

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Was Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) a great composer? On its face, the question seems absurd. One of the most gifted prodigies in the history of music, he produced his first masterpiece at sixteen. From then on, he was recognized as an artist of preternatural abilities, not only as a composer but also as a pianist and conductor. But Mendelssohn’s enduring popularity has often been at odds — sometimes quite sharply — with his critical standing. Despite general acknowledgment of his genius, there has been a noticeable reluctance to rank him with, say, Schumann or Brahms. As Haggin put it, Mendelssohn, as a composer, was a “minor master…working on a small scale of emotion and texture.”FhX小梦文库

1. Select a sentence in the passage whose function is to indicate the range of Mendelssohn’s musical talents.FhX小梦文库

2. The passage suggests that anyone attempting to evaluate Mendelssohn’s career must confront which of the following dichotomies?FhX小梦文库

A. The tension between Mendelssohn’s career as a composer and his career as a pianist and conductorFhX小梦文库

B. The contrast between Mendelssohn’s popularity and that of Schumann and BrahmsFhX小梦文库

C. The discrepancy between Mendelssohn’s popularity and his standing among criticsFhX小梦文库

D. The inconsistency between Mendelssohn’s reputation during his lifetime and his reputation since his deathFhX小梦文库

E. The gap between Mendelssohn’s prodigious musical beginnings and his decline in later years.FhX小梦文库

3. The author mentions Schumann and Brahms primarily in order toFhX小梦文库

A. provide examples of composers who are often compared with MendelssohnFhX小梦文库

B. identify certain composers who are more popular than MendelssohnFhX小梦文库

C. identify composers whom Mendelssohn influencedFhX小梦文库

D. establish the milieu in which Mendelssohn workedFhX小梦文库

E. establish a standard of comparison for Mendelssohn as a composerFhX小梦文库

GRE阅读真题之OG Passage 4FhX小梦文库

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While most scholarship on women’s employment in the United States recognizes that the Second World War (1939–1945) dramatically changed the role of women in the workforce, these studies also acknowledge that few women remained in manufacturing jobs once men returned from the war. But in agriculture, unlike other industries where women were viewed as temporary workers, women’s employment did not end with the war. Instead, the expansion of agriculture and a steady decrease in the number of male farmworkers combined to cause the industry to hire more women in the postwar years.FhX小梦文库

Consequently, the 1950s saw a growing number of women engaged in farm labor, even though rhetoric in the popular media called for the return of women to domestic life.FhX小梦文库

1. It can be inferred from the passage that the manufacturing and agricultural sectors in the United States following the Second World War differed in which of the following respects?FhX小梦文库

A. The rate of expansion in each sectorFhX小梦文库

B. The percentage of employees in each sector who were menFhX小梦文库

C. The trend in the wages of men employed in each sectorFhX小梦文库

D. The attitude of the popular media toward the employment of women in each sectorFhX小梦文库

E. The extent to which women in each sector were satisfied with their jobsFhX小梦文库

2. Which of the following statements about women’s employment in the United States during and after the Second World War is most clearly supported by the passage?FhX小梦文库

A. Most women who joined the workforce during the Second World War wanted to return to domestic life when the war ended.FhX小梦文库

B. The great majority of women who joined the workforce during the SecondFhX小梦文库

World War were employed in manufacturing jobs.FhX小梦文库

C. The end of the Second World War was followed by a large-scale transfer of women workers from manufacturing to agriculture.FhX小梦文库

D. The increase in women’s employment that accompanied the Second WorldFhX小梦文库

War was longer lasting in agriculture than it was in manufacturing.FhX小梦文库

E. The popular media were more forceful in calling for women to join the workforce during the Second World War than in calling for women to return to domestic life after the war.FhX小梦文库

GRE阅读真题之OG答案FhX小梦文库

Passage第一题第二题第三题第四题
1EAC“His … classics.” 
2B   
3“From … conductor.”CE 
4BD  

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