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1、GRE阅读真题之OG 今天给大家整理了GRE阅读真题之OG1,一起来学习吧，下面就和大家分享，来欣赏一下吧。GRE阅读真题之OG Passage 1OG-1Passage 1Reviving 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 eth
2、os 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 Glasss classical music, which from its early days has shared certain harmonies and
3、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.1. The passage addresses which of the f
4、ollowing issues related to Glasss use of popular elements in his classical compositions?A. How it is regarded by listeners who prefer rock to the classicsB. How it has affected the commercial success of Classs musicC. Whether it has contributed to a revival of interest among other composers in using
5、 popular elements in their compositionsD. Whether it has had a detrimental effect on Glasss reputation as a composer of classical musicE. Whether it has caused certain of Glasss works to be derivative in quality2. The passage suggests that Glasss work displays which of the following qualities?A. A r
6、eturn to the use of popular music in classical compositionsB. An attempt to elevate rock music to an artistic status more closely approximating that of classical musicC. A long-standing tendency to incorporate elements from two apparently disparate musical styles3. Select the sentence that distingui
7、shes two ways of integrating rock and classical music.GRE阅读真题之OG Passage 2OG-1Passage 2A 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 earli
8、er presumptive impartiality was a sham.1. The passage above emphasizes which of the following points about mediators?A. They should try to form no opinions of their own about any issue that is related to the dispute.B. They should not agree to serve unless they are committed to maintaining a stance
9、of impartiality.C. They should not agree to serve unless they are equally acceptable to all parties to a dispute.D. They should feel free to take sides in the dispute right from the start, provided that they make their biases publicly known.E. They should reserve the right to abandon their impartial
10、ity so as not to be open to the charge of having been deceitful.GRE阅读真题之OG Passage 3OG-1Passage 3Was Felix Mendelssohn (18091847) 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 the
11、n on, he was recognized as an artist of preternatural abilities, not only as a composer but also as a pianist and conductor. But Mendelssohns enduring popularity has often been at odds sometimes quite sharply with his critical standing. Despite general acknowledgment of his genius, there has been a
12、noticeable reluctance to rank him with, say, Schumann or Brahms. As Haggin put it, Mendelssohn, as a composer, was a “minor masterworking on a small scale of emotion and texture.”1. Select a sentence in the passage whose function is to indicate the range of Mendelssohns musical talents.2. The passag
13、e suggests that anyone attempting to evaluate Mendelssohns career must confront which of the following dichotomies?A. The tension between Mendelssohns career as a composer and his career as a pianist and conductorB. The contrast between Mendelssohns popularity and that of Schumann and BrahmsC. The d
14、iscrepancy between Mendelssohns popularity and his standing among criticsD. The inconsistency between Mendelssohns reputation during his lifetime and his reputation since his deathE. The gap between Mendelssohns prodigious musical beginnings and his decline in later years.3. The author mentions Schu
15、mann and Brahms primarily in order toA. provide examples of composers who are often compared with MendelssohnB. identify certain composers who are more popular than MendelssohnC. identify composers whom Mendelssohn influencedD. establish the milieu in which Mendelssohn workedE. establish a standard
16、of comparison for Mendelssohn as a composerGRE阅读真题之OG Passage 4OG-1Passage 4While most scholarship on womens employment in the United States recognizes that the Second World War (19391945) dramatically changed the role of women in the workforce, these studies also acknowledge that few women remained
17、 in manufacturing jobs once men returned from the war. But in agriculture, unlike other industries where women were viewed as temporary workers, womens 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
18、 the industry to hire more women in the postwar years.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.1. It can be inferred from the passage that the manufacturing and agricultural
19、sectors in the United States following the Second World War differed in which of the following respects?A. The rate of expansion in each sectorB. The percentage of employees in each sector who were menC. The trend in the wages of men employed in each sectorD. The attitude of the popular media toward
20、 the employment of women in each sectorE. The extent to which women in each sector were satisfied with their jobs2. Which of the following statements about womens employment in the United States during and after the Second World War is most clearly supported by the passage?A. Most women who joined t
21、he workforce during the Second World War wanted to return to domestic life when the war ended.B. The great majority of women who joined the workforce during the SecondWorld War were employed in manufacturing jobs.C. The end of the Second World War was followed by a large-scale transfer of women work
22、ers from manufacturing to agriculture.D. The increase in womens employment that accompanied the Second WorldWar was longer lasting in agriculture than it was in manufacturing.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.GRE阅读真题之OG答案第一题第二题第三题第四题
