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1、GRE阅读备考不知道该看什么书3篇下面是我整理的GRE阅读备考不知道该看什么书3篇，以供借鉴。GRE阅读备考不知道该看什么书1Mary Barton, particularly in its early chapters, is a moving response to the suffering of the industrial worker in the England of the 1840s. What is most impressive about the book is the intense and painstaking effort made by the author,
2、 Elizabeth Gaskell, to convey the experience of everyday life in working-class homes. Her method is partly documentary in nature: the novel includes such features as a carefully annotated reproduction of dialect, the exact details of food prices in an account of a tea party, an itemized description
3、of the furniture of the Bartons living room, and a transcription (again annotated) of the ballad “The Oldham Weaver.” The interest of this record is considerable, even though the method has a slightly distancing effect.As a member of the middle class, Gaskell could hardly help approaching working-cl
4、ass life as an outside observer and a reporter, and the reader of the novel is always conscious of this fact. But there is genuine imaginative re-creation in her accounts of the walk in Green Heys Fields, of tea at the Bartons house, and of John Barton and his friends discovery of the starving famil
5、y in the cellar in the chapter “Poverty and Death.” Indeed, for a similarly convincing re-creation of such families emotions and responses (which are more crucial than the material details on which the mere reporter is apt to concentrate), the English novel had to wait 60 years for the early writing
6、 of D. H. Lawrence. If Gaskell never quite conveys the sense of full participation that would completely authenticate this aspect of Mary Barton, she still brings to these scenes an intuitive rec.nition of feelings that has its own sufficient conviction.The chapter “Old Alices History” brilliantly d
7、ramatizes the situation of that early generation of workers brought from the villages and the countryside to the urban industrial centers. The account of Job Legh, the weaver and naturalist who is devoted to the study of biol.y, vividly embodies one kind of response to an urban industrial environmen
8、t: an affinity for living things that hardens, by its very contrast with its environment, into a kind of crankiness. The early chaptersabout factory workers walking out in spring into Green Heys Fields; about Alice Wilson, remembering in her cellar the twig-gathering for brooms in the native village
9、 that she will never again see; about Job Legh, intent on his impaled insectscapture the characteristic responses of a generation to the new and crushing experience of industrialism. The other early chapters eloquently portray the development of the instinctive cooperation with each other that was a
10、lready becoming an important tradition among workers.13.1. Which of the following best describes the authors attitude toward Gaskells use of the method of documentary record in Mary Barton?(A) Uncritical enthusiasm(B) Unresolved ambivalence(C) Qualified approval(D) Resigned acceptance(E) Mild irrita
11、tion13.2. According to the passage, Mary Barton and the early novels of D. H. Lawrence share which of the following?(A) Depiction of the feelings of working-class families(B) Documentary objectivity about working-class circumstances(C) Richly detailed description of working-class adjustment to urban
12、 life(D) Imaginatively structured plots about working-class characters(E) Experimental prose style based on working-class dialect13.3. Which of the following is most closely anal.ous to Job Legh in Mary Barton, as that character is described in the passage?(A) An entomol.ist who collected butterflie
13、s as a child(B) A small-town attorney whose hobby is nature phot.raphy(C) A young man who leaves his familys dairy farm to start his own business(D) A city dweller who raises exotic plants on the roof of his apartment building(E) A union organizer who works in a textile mill under dangerous conditio
14、ns13.4. It can be inferred from examples given in the last paragraph of the passage that which of the following was part of “the new and crushing experience of industrialism” (lines 46-47) for many members of the English working class in the nineteenth century?(A) Extortionate food prices(B) Ge.raph
15、ical displacement(C) Hazardous working conditions(D) Alienation from fellow workers(E) Dissolution of family ties13.5. It can be inferred that the author of the passage believes that Mary Barton might have been an even better novel if Gaskell had(A) concentrated on the emotions of a single character
16、(B) made no attempt to re-create experiences of which she had no firsthand knowledge(C) made no attempt to reproduce working-class dialects(D) grown up in an industrial city(E) managed to transcend her position as an outsider13.6. Which of the following phrases could best be substituted for the phrase “this aspect of Mary Barton” in line 29 without changing the meaning of the passage as a whole
