2010年4月份GMAT閱讀真題(04.03)(三)

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11 巖洞壁畫
    V1 by ttss
    一篇關(guān)于巖洞壁畫。類似于一篇托福閱讀,主要講一個地方有很多史前人類留下的巖畫,但是有的位置很深,有的卻是open的。主要列了兩種觀點,第一段的觀點如何如何,但是這個觀點的弊端是解釋了啥啥啥,沒有解釋了啥啥啥;第二段說的另一個觀點,同樣說,這樣能解釋啥啥啥,但不能解釋啥啥啥。包括這些動物是不是當時hunting的主要對象啊,人們是不是靠這個來學習打獵啊。這篇有兩道高亮題。一題是針對最后一句,在For example后面,答案往前一句小論點找就可以。一題是考第二段第一句,高亮了an alternertive觀點,問題忘了。
    V2 by streamsun
    前一段大意是說一個理論解釋這個現(xiàn)象在一些偏遠地區(qū)的很深的山洞里發(fā)現(xiàn)了很多壁畫,懷疑和hunting之類的有關(guān).這些在深處的壁畫畫的都是大型動物,可能是來標記imprison的動物的.這個理論解釋了為什么這些畫都在偏遠的深山里.
    后一段大意是說在另外的不是深山的地方也有壁畫,這些壁畫可能是用來描述記錄這個地區(qū)都有些什么動物之類的.這些畫很detail,很精確的反應了動物的樣子.
    問題:哪種畫最不可能出現(xiàn)..好像有一個選項是半人半鳥,還有一個選項是蛇和鳥?
    好像也有道"根據(jù)文章可以indicate..."的題
    V3 by Shawnsea
    前一段大意是說一個理論解釋這個現(xiàn)象在一些偏遠地區(qū)的很深的山洞里發(fā)現(xiàn)了很多壁畫,懷疑和hunting之類的有關(guān).這些在深處的壁畫畫的都是大型動物,可能是來標記imprison的動物的.這個理論解釋了為什么這些畫都在偏遠的深山里.
    后一段大意是說在另外的不是深山的地方也有壁畫,這些壁畫可能是用來描述記錄這個地區(qū)都有些什么動物之類的.這些畫很detail,很精確的反應了動物的樣子.
    問題:哪種畫最不可能出現(xiàn)..好像有一個選項是半人半鳥,還有一個選項是蛇和鳥?
    好像也有道"根據(jù)文章可以indicate..."的題
    12 科技的發(fā)展對經(jīng)濟的影響
    V1 by ttss
    還有一篇是講Technology如何使用好。也是用了兩個研究的觀點,兩段。一開篇就說Technology是被人們認為有很大貢獻的,促進進步提高生產(chǎn)力之類,但是這也看行業(yè)。第一段里提到Liang Li和另一個學者的研究顯示。。。
    第二段提到的是另一項研究,關(guān)于美國和英國生產(chǎn)成本差異的,說美國的啥公司和英國的啥公司合并了組成了M公司,但是科學家發(fā)現(xiàn),。。(這里有一個很重要的等式關(guān)系,但是記不清了,有題)大意是在美國....可以買135千瓦時..還有多少worker-hours,在英國卻只能買30多千瓦時,啥啥worker-hours,這句話里還有electricity這個詞,忘記主語是什么了。對應的題目就是問你能得出什么結(jié)論,有兩個選項比較糾結(jié),一個是英國工人更便宜,另一個忘了。文章接下來說那么合理的利用technology以降低成本提高利潤就應該在美國多買點啥少買點啥,而在英國相反,少買點啥多買點啥,這兩個事物好像分別是electricity和worker-hours。
    V2 by shelly1030
    介紹科技的發(fā)展對經(jīng)濟的影響,舉例說明美國和英國對于workers和machines的應用不同,造成不同的profit,題目問的都還算簡單,遇到的時候仔細看看吧,我就不說答案了,沒記住。
    13 政府對于保險行業(yè)的態(tài)度
    V1 by shelly1030
    一個超長的閱讀,講的是AFI機構(gòu),似乎是說政府對于保險行業(yè)的態(tài)度,然后有個AFI的機構(gòu)反對政府的觀點,之后又舉例子等等,哪位牛人遇到此題可以詳細補充,實在太長,沒看全。
    14 美國勞動者的立場(GWD17-24-27原文)
    V1 by streamsun:,問題都一摸一樣,(GWD有5個問題,考了后4道)
    In 1938, at the government-convened National Health Conference, organized labor emerged as a major proponent of legislation to guarantee universal health care in the United States. The American Medical Association, representing physicians’ interests, argued for preserving physicians’ free-market prerogatives. Labor activists countered these arguments by insisting that health care was a fundamental right that should be guaranteed by government programs.
    The labor activists’ position represented a departure from the voluntarist view held until 1935 by leaders of the American Federation of labor (AFL), a leading affiliation of labor unions; the voluntarist view stressed workers’ right to freedom from government intrusions into their lives and represented national health insurance as a threat to workers’ privacy. AFL president Samuel Gompers, presuming to speak for all workers, had positioned the AFL as a leading opponent of the proposals for national health insurance that were advocated beginning in 1915 by the American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL), an organization dedicated to the study and reform of labor laws. Gompers’ opposition to national health insurance was partly principled, arising from the premise that governments under capitalism invariably served employers’, not workers’, interests. Gompers feared the probing of government bureaucrats into workers’ lives, as well as the possibility that government-mandated health insurance, financed in part by employers, could permit companies to require employee medical examinations that might be used to discharge disabled workers.
    Yet the AFL’s voluntarism had accommodated certain exceptions: the AFL had supported government intervention on behalf of injured workers and child laborers. AFL officials drew the line at national health insurance, however, partly out of concern for their own power. The fact that AFL outsiders such as the AALL had taken the most prominent advocacy roles antagonized Gompers. That this reform threatened union-sponsored benefit programs championed by Gompers made national health insurance even more objectionable.
    Indeed, the AFL leadership did face serious organizational divisions. Many unionists, recognizing that union-run health programs covered only a small fraction of union members and that unions represented only a fraction of the nation’s workforce, worked to enact compulsory health insurance in their state legislatures. This activism and the views underlying it came to prevail in the United States labor movement and in 1935 the AFL unequivocally reversed its position on health legislation.
    問題(我只找到了4道,希望streamsun同學確認下)
    24. Q24:
    The passage suggests which of the following about the voluntarist view held by leaders of the AFL regarding health care?
    A. It was opposed by the AALL.
    B. It was shared by most unionists until 1935.
    D. It maintained that employer-sponsored health care was preferable to union-run health programs.
    E. It was based on the premise that the government should protect child laborers but not adult workers.
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    25. Q25:
    The primary purpose of the passage is to
    A. account for a labor organization’s success in achieving a particular goal
    B. discuss how a labor organization came to reverse its position on a particular issue
    C. explain how disagreement over a particular issue eroded the power of a labor organization
    D. outline the arguments used by a labor organization’s leadership in a particular debate
    E. question the extent to which a labor organization changed its position on a particular issue
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    26. Q26:
    Which of the following best describes the function of the sentence in lines 42-45 (“Yet … child laborers”)?
    A. It elaborates a point about why the AFL advocated a voluntarist approach to health insurance.
    B. It identifies issues on which the AFL took a view opposed to that of the AALL.
    C. It introduces evidence that appears to be inconsistent with the voluntarist view held by AFL leaders.
    D. It suggests that a view described in the previous sentence is based on faulty evidence.
    E. It indicates why a contradiction described in the previous paragraph has been overlooked by historians.
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    27. Q27:
    According to the passage, Gompers’ objection to national health insurance was based in part on his belief that
    A. union-sponsored health programs were less expensive than government-sponsored programs
    B. most unionists were covered by and satisfied with union-sponsored health programs
    C. it would lead some employers to reduce company-sponsored benefits
    D. it could result in certain workers unfairly losing their jobs
    E. the AFL should distance itself from the views of the American Medical Association