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2015年GRE考试阅读理解每日练-2

2015-01-20 19:29:59来源：网络

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　　Questions 4 to 5 are based on the following reading passage.　Tocqueville, apparently, was wrong. Jacksonian　America was not a fluid, egalitarian society where　individual wealth and poverty were ephemeral Line conditions. At least to argues E. Pessen in his iconoclastic study of the very rich in the United States between 1825 and 1850.　Pessen does present a quantity of examples, together with some refreshingly intelligible statistics, to establish　the existence of an inordinately wealthy class. Though active in commerce or the professions, most of the wealthy were not self-made, but had inherited family　fortunes. In no sense mercurial, these great fortunes　survived the financial panics that destroyed lesser ones.　Indeed, in several cities the wealthiest one percent constantly increased its share until by 1850 it owned half of the community‘s wealth. Although these observations are true, Pessen overestimates their　importance by concluding from them that the undoubted　progress toward inequality in the late eighteenth century continued in the Jacksonian period and that the United　States was a class-ridden, plutocratic society even　before industrialization. (162 words)

　　4. According to the passage, Pessen indicates that all of the following were true of the very wealthy in the United　States between 1825 and 1850 EXCEPT:

　　(A) They formed a distinct upper class.

　　(B) Many of them were able to increase their holdings.

　　(C)Some of them worked as professionals or in　business.

　　(D) Most of them accumulated their own fortunes.

　　(E) Many of them retained their wealth in spite of　financial upheavals.

　　5. Which of the following best states the author‘s main point?

　　(A) Pessen‘s study has overturned the previously established view of the social and economic structure of early nineteenth-century America.

　　(B) Tocqueville‘s analysis of the United States in the Jacksonian era remains the definitive account of this period.

　　(C) Pessen‘s study is valuable primarily because it shows the continuity of the social system in the United States throughout the nineteenth century.

　　(D) The social patterns and political power of the extremely wealthy in the United States between 1825 and 1850 are well documented.

　　(E) Pessen challenges a view of the social and economic system in the United States from 1825 to 1850, but he draws conclusions that are incorrect.

　　4. EXCEPT题：

　　A. 定位L7：“establish the existence of an inordinately wealthy class.”

　　B. 注意L11的不能self-made和 不能increasing holding是两个概念，文中的富二代们直接继承家产就是一个很好的例子。

　　C. 定位L9，“Though active in commerce or the professions”(再次在转折让步中设问)

　　D. 这个是self-made的准确重复了。

　　E. 定位L12，“In no sense mercurial, these great fortunes survived the financial panics”，其中“in no sense”表示一种否定强调，“mercurial”在填空题中考过，源于“Mercury”罗马神话中的墨丘利，希腊神话中的赫尔墨斯(Hermes)，

　　由于墨丘利口才出众，聪颖过人但又喜欢偷东西，所以有eloquence, ingenuity, or thievishness三个意思;正是因为具有聪明狡诈的商人特点，被奉为商业(merchant)之神;同时又因为墨丘利跑的很快(脚上穿着NIKE飞行靴)，所以又有了rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood的意思，所以太阳系中离太阳最近，跑的最快的行星-水星，由他的名字命名，这里用的是变幻莫测的含义(老G填空考的也是这个意思)，指的是在金融危机中，这些富人们，没有发生一丁点儿变化，毫发无伤的感觉。

　　5. 文章首先从正向介绍了P的观点，L16出现了转折之后，开始表达出了作者做P人的负评价，五个选项中只有E选项涵盖正负两层的含义。

　　以上就是新东方在线为大家总结的2015年GRE考试阅读理解每日练的相关内容，希望对大家有所帮助，最后预祝大家在GRE考试中取得优异的成绩!

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