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1、新gre阅读真题70篇 GRE之OG2阅读真题精选为了帮助大家更好的备考GRE阅读，WTT整理了一些GRE之OG2阅读真题，WTT就和大家分享，来欣赏一下吧。GRE阅读真题之OG2 Passage 31OG-2Passage 31Recently an unusually high number of dolphins have been found dead ofinfectious diseases, and most of these had abnormally high tissue concentrationsof certain pounds that, even in low

2、concentrations, reduce dolphinsresistance to infection.The only source of these pounds in the dolphinsenvironment is boat paint.Therefore, since dolphins rid their bodies of thepounds rapidly once e_posure ceases, their mortality rate should declinerapidly if such boat paints are banned.1.Which of t

3、he following, if true, most strengthens the argument?A.The levels of the pounds typically used in boat paints today arelower than they were in boat paints manufactured a decade ago.B.In high concentrations, the pounds are to_ic to many types of marineanimals.C.The pounds break down into harmless sub

4、stances after a few months ofe_posure to water or air.D.High tissue levels of the pounds have recently been found in somemarine animals, but there is no record of any of those animals dying inunusually large numbers recently.E.The pounds do not leach out of the boat paint if the paint is appliede_ac

5、tly in accordance with the manufacturers directions.GRE阅读真题之OG2 Passage 32OG-2Passage 32The work of English writer Aphra Behn (16401689) changed markedly duringthe 1680s, as she turned from writing plays to writing prose narratives.According to literary critic Rachel Carnell, most scholars view this

6、 change asprimarily motivated by financial considerations: earning a living by writing forthe theatre became more difficult in the 1680s, so Behn tried various othertypes of prose genres in the hope of finding another lucrative medium.In fact,a long epistolary scandal novel that she wrote in the mid

7、-1680s sold quite well.Yet, as Carnell notes, Behn did not repeat this approach in her other proseworks; instead, she turned to writing shorter, more serious novels, even thoughonly about half of these were published during her lifetime.Carnell argues thatBehn, whose stage productions are primarily

8、edies, may have turned to anemerging literary form, the novel, in a conscious attempt to criticize, andsubvert for her own ends, the conventions and ideology of a well-establishedform of her day, the dramatic tragedy.Carnell acknowledges that Behn admired the skill of such contemporarywriters of dra

9、matic tragedy as John Dryden, and that Behns own ic stageproductions displayed the same partisanship for the reigning Stuart monarchythat characterized most of the politically oriented dramatic tragedies of herday.However, Carnell argues that Behn took issue with the way in which thesewriters and pl

10、ays defined the nature of tragedy.As prescribed by Dryden,tragedy was supposed to concern a heroic man who is a public figure and whoundergoes a fall that evokes pity from the audience.Carnell points out thatBehns tragic novels focus instead on the plight of little-known women and theprivate world o

11、f the household; even in her few novels featuring maleprotagonists, Behn insists on the importance of the crimes these otherwiseheroic figures mit in the domestic sphere.Moreover, according to Carnell,Behn questioned the view promulgated by monarchist dramatic tragedies such asDrydens: that the envi

12、sioned “public” political idealpassive obedience to thenations kingought to be mirrored in the private sphere, with family memberswholly obedient to a male head of household.Carnell sees Behns novels not onlyas rejecting the model of patriarchal and hierarchical family order, but also aswarning that

13、 insisting on such a parallel can result in real tragedy befallingthe members of the domestic sphere.According to Carnell, Behns choice ofliterary form underscores the differences between her own approach to crafting atragic story and that taken in the dramatic tragedies, with their artificialdistin

14、ction between the public and private spheres.Behns novels engage in thepolitical dialogue of her era by demonstrating that the good of the nationultimately enpasses more than the good of the public figures who rule it.1.The passage is primarily concerned withA.tracing how Behns view of the nature of

15、 tragedy changed over timeB.e_plaining one authors view of Behns contribution to the developmentof an emerging literary formC.differentiating between the early and the late literary works ofBehnD.contrasting the approaches to tragedy taken by Behn and by DrydenE.presenting one scholars e_planation f

16、or a major development in Behnsliterary career2.The passage suggests that Carnell sees Behns novels featuring maleprotagonists as differing from dramatic tragedies such as Drydens featuringmale protagonists in that the formerA.depict these characters as less than heroic in their public actionsB.emph

17、asize the consequences of these characters actions in the privatesphereC.insist on a parallel between the public and the private spheresD.are aimed at a predominantly female audienceE.depict family members who disobey these protagonists3.The passage suggests that Carnell believes Behn held which of

18、thefollowing attitudes about the relationship between the private and publicspheres?A.The private sphere is more appropriate than is the public sphere as thesetting for plays about political events.B.The structure of the private sphere should not replicate thehierarchical order of the public sphere.

19、C.Actions in the private sphere are more fundamental to ensuring the goodof the nation than are actions in the public sphere.D.Crimes mitted in the private sphere are likely to cause tragedy inthe public sphere rather than vice versa.E.The private sphere is the mirror in which issues affecting the p

20、ublicsphere can most clearly be seen.4.It can be inferred from the passage that the “artificial distinction”(line 53-54) refers to theA.practice utilized in dramatic tragedies of providing differentstructural models for the public and the private spheresB.ideology of many dramatic tragedies that adv

21、ocate passive obedience onlyin the private sphere and not in the public sphereC.convention that drama ought to concern events in the public sphere andthat novels ought to concern events in the private sphereD.assumption made by the authors of conventional dramatic tragedies thatlegitimate tragic act

22、ion occurs only in the public sphereE.approach taken by the dramatic tragedies in depicting male and femalecharacters differently, depending on whether their roles were public orprivateGRE阅读真题之OG2 Passage 33OG-2Passage 33puters cannot accurately predict climate change unless the mathematicalequation

23、s fed into them adequately capture the natural meteorological processesthey are intended to simulate.Moreover, there are processes that influenceclimate, such as modifications in land use, that scientists do not know how tosimulate.The failure to incorporate such a process into a puter climatemodel

24、can lead the model astray because a small initial effect can initiate afeedback cycle: a perturbation in one variable modifies a second variable, whichin turn lifies the original disturbance.An increase in temperature, fore_le, can boost the moisture content of the atmosphere, which then causesfurth

25、er warming because water vapor is a greenhouse gas.For the following question, consider each of the choices separately andchoose all that apply.1.The passage mentions which of the following as adversely affecting theaccuracy of puter predictions of climate change?A.Failure to allow for some of the p

26、rocesses that influence climateB.Mathematical equations that do not accurately reflect naturalphenomenaC.An overestimate of the role of feedback cycles2.In the conte_t in which it appears, “lifies” (line 11) most nearlymeansA.e_acerbatesB.e_plicatesC.e_patiatesD.adds detail toE.makes louderGRE阅读真题之O

27、G2 Passage 34OG-2Passage 34E_tensive housing construction is underway in Pataska Forest, the habitatof a large population of deer.Because deer feed at the edges of forests, thesedeer will be attracted to the spaces alongside the new roads being cut throughPataska Forest to serve the new residential

28、areas.Consequently, once thehousing is occupied, the annual number of the forests deer hit by cars will bemuch higher than before construction started.1.Which of the following is an assumption on which the argumentdepends?A.The number of deer hit by mercial vehicles will not increasesignificantly wh

29、en the housing is occupied.B.Deer will be as attracted to the forest edge around new houses as to theforest edge alongside roads.C.In years past, the annual number of deer that have been hit by cars one_isting roads through Pataska Forest has been very low.D.The development will leave sufficient for

30、est to sustain a significantpopulation of deer.E.No deer hunting will be allowed in Pataska Forest when the housing isoccupied.GRE阅读真题之OG2 Passage 35OG-2Passage 35While chocolate was highly esteemed in Mesoamerica, where it originated,its adoption in Europe was initially slow.There is a mon belief t

31、hatEuropeans needed to “transform” chocolate to make it appetizing.However, whileSpaniards did put sugar, which was unknown to indigenous Americans, intochocolate beverages, this additive was not pletely innovative.Mesoamericanswere already sweetening chocolate with honey, and the step from honey to

32、sugarincreasingly more available than honey because of e_panding sugarplantations in the Americasis a small one.Likewise, although Spaniardsadjusted Mesoamerican recipes by using European spices, the spices chosensuggest an attempt to replicate harder-to-find native flowers.There is noindication the

33、 Spaniards deliberately tried to change the original flavor ofchocolate.1.The author of the passage refers to the use of honey primarily toA.identify the origins of an additive previously untried by EuropeansB.present an e_le of a product that was unknown to EuropeansC.correct the misapprehension th

34、at Mesoamericans used a sweetener that wasnot available in EuropeD.provide an e_le of an ingredient that was in the process of beingdisplaced by a substituteE.e_plain why the Spanish use of sugar in chocolate was not a sign of aneed to transform chocolate2.Which sentence presents a misconception tha

35、t the passage challenges?A.The second (“There is appetizing”)B.The third (“However innovative”)C.The fourth (“Mesoamericans one”)D.The fifth (“Likewise flowers”)E.The si_th (“There is chocolate”)GRE阅读真题之OG2 Passage 36OG-2Passage 36Biologists generally agree that birds and dinosaurs are somehow relat

36、ed toone another.The agreement ends there.Hypotheses regarding dinosaurian andavian evolution are unusually diverseand often at odds with one another.Confusion consequently reigns over a broad spectrum of unanswered questionsdealing with avian origins and the biology of dinosaurs and early birds.Thi

37、sconfusion has been e_acerbated by a paucity of serious attempts to synthesizeand evaluate available data on the details of avian and dinosaurian evolution.Too often, the job of summarizing current knowledge of these subjects has fallento well-meaning but na?ve lay authors or reporters.Consequently,

38、 both thepublic and the scientific munity have often been misled by widespreaddissemination of sensational but weakly founded hypotheses.For the following question, consider each of the choices separately andchoose all that apply.1.The passage suggests that which of the following could help remedy t

39、heproblem described in the final sentence (lines 14-17)A.An article written by a biologist for the general public summarizingcurrent theories about avian and dinosaurian evolutionB.A close e_amination of available data on avian and dinosaurianevolutionC.A new hypothesis regarding the connection betw

40、een avian and dinosaurianevolution2.In the conte_t in which it appears, “sensational” (line 16) most nearlymeansA.dramaticB.falseC.e_cellentD.eminentE.horrifyingGRE阅读真题之OG2 Passage 37OG-2Passage 37A portrait type that appeared with relentless frequency ineighteenth-century England is the familiar im

41、age of a gentleman poised with onehand inside his partially unbuttoned waistcoat.Standard interpretations of thisportrait posture offer observations of correspondencedemonstrating either thatit mirrors actual social behavior or that it borrows from classical statuary.Such e_planations, however, illuminate neither the source of this curiousconvention nor the reason for its popularity.It is true that in real life the“hand-in” was a mon stance for elite men.Still, there were other ways ofporting the body that did not bee winning portrait formulas.And even ifthe “hand-in” portrait does resembl