GAMT备考 | RC如何用“结构法”解决主旨题?
GMAT考试的RC部分在考察时会出现各种题型,常见的大分类是:主旨题、细节题、逻辑题。而主旨题出现的频率也算是比较高的了。这种题型我们在做的过程经常会因为文章内容、或者部分单词、句子等因素导致正确率不是特别稳定。
题目练习
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文章:
Recent feminist scholarship concerning the United States in the 1920s challenges earlier interpretations that assessed the 1920s in terms of the unkept “promises” of the women’s suffrage movement. This new scholarship disputes the long-held view that because a women’s voting bloc did not materialize after women gained the right to vote in 1920, suffrage failed to produce long-term political gains for women. These feminist scholars also challenge the old view that pronounced suffrage a failure for not delivering on the promise that the women’s vote would bring about moral, corruption-free governance. Asked whether women’s suffrage was a failure, these scholars cite the words of turn-of-the-century social reformer Jane Addams, “Why don’t you ask if suffrage in general is failing?”
In some ways, however, these scholars still present the 1920s as a period of decline. After suffrage, they argue, the feminist movement lost its cohesiveness, and gender consciousness waned. After the mid-1920s, few successes could be claimed by feminist reformers: little could be seen in the way of legislative victories.
During this decade, however, there was intense activism aimed at achieving increased autonomy for women, broadening the spheres within which they lived their daily lives. Women’s organizations worked to establish opportunities for women: they strove to secure for women the full entitlements of citizenship, including the right to hold office and the right to serve on juries.
题目:
The passage is primarily concerned with
A.providing evidence indicating that feminist reformers of the 1920s failed to reach some of their goals
B.presenting scholarship that contrasts suffragist “promises” with the historical realities of the 1920s
C.discussing recent scholarship concerning the achievements of women’s suffrage during the 1920s and presenting an alternative view of those achievements
D.outlining recent findings concerning events leading to suffrage for women in the 1920s and presenting a challenge to those findings
E.providing support for a traditional view of the success of feminist attempts to increase gender consciousness among women during the 1920s
解题要点
第一段:A(表示某一群人)提出观点
第二段:However, B(另一个部分)提出不同的观点。
解题过程
Recent feminist scholarship(A) concerning the United States in the 1920s challenges earlier interpretations that assessed the 1920s in terms of the unkept “promises” of the women’s suffrage movement. This new scholarship disputes the long-held view that because a women’s voting bloc did not materialize after women gained the right to vote in 1920, suffrage failed to produce long-term political gains for women. These feminist scholars also challenge the old view that pronounced suffrage a failure for not delivering on the promise that the women’s vote would bring about moral, corruption-free governance. Asked whether women’s suffrage was a failure, these scholars(A) cite the words of turn-of-the-century social reformer Jane Addams, “Why don’t you ask if suffrage in general is failing?”
In some ways, however, these scholars(A)still present the 1920s as a period of decline. After suffrage, they argue, the feminist movement lost its cohesiveness, and gender consciousness waned. After the mid-1920s, few successes could be claimed by feminist reformers: little could be seen in the way of legislative victories.
During this decade, however(B), there was intense activism aimed at achieving increased autonomy for women, broadening the spheres within which they lived their daily lives. Women’s organizations worked to establish opportunities for women: they strove to secure for women the full entitlements of citizenship, including the right to hold office and the right to serve on juries. (与1,2段内容表述相反)
B.presenting scholarship that contrasts suffragist “promises” with the historical realities of the 1920s(次部分内容未提及,无法概括主旨。)
C.discussing recent scholarship concerning the achievements of women’s suffrage during the 1920s(1,2段内容的核心) and presenting an alternative view of those achievements(3段的内容概括,提出另外的看法)
D. outlining recent findings concerning events leading to suffrage for women in the 1920s and presenting a challenge to those findings(C选项的干扰答案,虽然作者态度有转折。但是态度并未达到质疑的程度。因此相对于C来说,D选项不选。)
E. providing support for a traditional view of the success of feminist attempts to increase gender consciousness among women during the 1920s(次部分内容未提及,无法概括原文。)
方法总结
对于主旨题,最清晰的解题思路就是通过文章的结构来归纳总结主旨内容。
上述文章属于4种文章结构中常见的对比式,因此文章中出现However的段落需要注意,判断是否是对比。
主旨题的选项就可以归纳为:主要讨论的点 + 反驳或相关的点