学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆---Day20的备考倒计时

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还有20天就要考了，之前很犹豫还来不来得及开贴。我是有自己的Excel备考计划表格的，虽然并不是每天都完成的很好……
但是计划表里没办法整理每天的总结和回顾。
咬咬牙，还是得记，得练，得回顾。
感觉这次二战杀鸡，就是一个不断在跟自己的记忆力作斗争，跟自己以往不按逻辑脉络思考问题的惰性在斗争。
一战考完好沮丧，怎么理解能力这么差。以前读书时最喜欢语文和英语了，是那种连语文的阅读理解问答题都几乎可以不错的人。可是对语言的热爱和自信在一战的时候被击垮到粉碎。刚考完的时候很恍惚，觉得自己怎么笨成这样子了，连人家说什么都不懂，RC烂到家，SC迷茫到无奈，CR一度特别紧张因为总是记不好七大类八大类的分类破题法，感觉真没救了。可脑子里就一句话：我不信邪。真的不信这个邪。


我的时间：最后20天全职备考
每天的复习时间：

• 6点半雷打不动起床，9点以前跑步、早饭、背单词
• 9点开始模考和分析总结。
• 争取中午做前一天的阅读小分队——专攻：文章逻辑思路的回忆能力。方法：通读全文，靠回忆写出structure。
• 2点开始专题复习攻破（下午学习效率比较差，还得加大力度T^T）
• 晚上查漏补缺，回顾，再次背单词巩固记忆力
  

我想要挑战自己，战胜自己过去的弱点。
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又要开始短期备考突破了，不想再开新帖。忠实记录吧。0904更新

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醒醒Shine

DAY19
复习内容：背单词、阅读小分队、IR做了一个多元推理题、GWDTN-2的SC和CR、重读baby姐姐关于主动和被动的解释（太精彩了摘录）、重读神猴关于RC的指导（大逻辑和小逻辑的把握）。

今日回顾：
一、主动与被动问题读完后我的心得：
1、抓住原句提供的信息：主语是谁，动词在哪，每个修饰成分的位置本意是想要修饰谁。
2、如果有被动语态，找到每个动词的动作发出者是否有特定人选还是泛指。
3、如果A有明显语法错误，再依据以上的主谓核心关系和各成分修饰关系，去split其他选项。
二、adj+n 和n to be adj的区别问题：
1、adj n这里adj是N的本质特性类，所以警惕v的分词形式在此充当主语的情况。要看v会不会有歧义。
2、n to be adj是n被赋予了adj的属性。such as human efforts/actions/interference/perception/etc
for instance, the following sentence is preferred:
henry bishop was the first musician to be knighted by a british monarch. --> knighting is performed by humans
the following is NOT preferred:
henry bishop was the first knighted musician in britain. --> this makes it seem as though being 'knighted' is an inherent quality with which henry bishop was born, or that he acquired it naturally/accidentally in some other way
三、pronoun的仅有2条原则：
(1). the antecedent must exist
(2). A pronoun and its antecedent must agree in numbe
四、数字比较类题型：数字是否被明确定义

GWD1-Q7:

A recent review of pay scales indicates that CEO’s now earn an average of 419 times more pay thanblue-collar workers, compared to a ratio of 42 times in 1980.

• that CEO’s now earn an average of 419 times more pay     than blue-collar workers, compared to a ratio of 42 times
• that, on average, CEO’s now earn 419 times the pay of blue-collar     workers, a ratio that compares to 42 times
• that, on average, CEO’s now earn 419 times the pay of blue-collar     workers, as compared to 42 times their pay, the ratio
• CEO’s who now earn on average 419 times more pay than blue-collar     workers, as compared to 42 times their pay, the ratio
• CEO’s now earning an average of 419 times the pay of blue-collar     workers, compared to the ratio of 42 times
  

"42 times" is followed by "their pay" and thus well-defined.
"the ratio" clearly refers to the preceding ratio "42 times" (Here the structure is appositive)
所以就说，这里出现的一切数值都定义明确。建议你用这种思路（数值定义是否明确？）
Ron:
the best reason i can give - actually the second-best reason, after 'because they said so' - is because of the EXTREMELY strong logical parallelism between '42 times their pay' and '419 times the pay of blue-collar workers'.  that absolute parallelism compels the pronoun and antecedent to be parallel as well.               
这个解释非常赞啊！来看看平行关系
42 times their pay
419 times the pay of blue-collar workers'
看吧，pronoun也对应上了，数值也对应上了，毫不含糊！

大D和baby姐的探讨：
Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity.
(A) that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
(B) of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(C) by which it is produced and understood has revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(D) by which it is produced and understood have revealed great complexity rather than underlying simplicity
(E) by which one produces and understands it have revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
Split #1. "the processes that produce ..."  VS.  "the processes by which it is produced ..."

baby姐的解答：
Split #1. "the processes that produce ..."  VS.  "the processes by which it is produced ..."

(1) "the processes that produce ..." is logically sound

Ask yourself: does it make sense to say "the processes produce the language" and "the processes make it understandable"?


Well, I ask this question because this question is important to consider. Only if the answer is "yes", the usage of "the processes that produce ..." is justified.
An example from Ron:
INCORRECT: The restaurant that we ate last Friday was crowded.   
(This sentence literally says that "we ate the restaurant" -oh my gosh!!!!)
CORRECT: The restaurant at which we ate last Friday was crowded.


I mentioned the above example because I want to say: when we use essential noun modifier "something that bla bla", we should make sure it is EITHER:
(a) "something" is the subject or object of the "that clause"

OR
(b) "something" is this kind of words: finding, opinion, belief, suggestion, etc. and "that bla bla" is to explain "something" in a clause.                    --However, this situation does not apply here.


So, back to this question, the answer is "yes".
"the processes" can be the subject.    i.e. we can say "the processes produce the language"
Therefore, the usage in A is justified.


(2) potential ambiguity in "the processes by which it is produced"


Consider the following two sentences. Does each of these two sentences make logical sense?
(a) Ancient Chinese produced the language by this process.
(b) This process produced the language.


As we discussed above, (b) makes logical sense.
Look at (a). It also makes sense, right? Using some process, people can produce a language.


So what I mean is:
if you, as a reader, see a sentence written as "the processes by which the language is produced", you may have two logically sound interpretations:
(a) some people (or nationality or whatever) produced the language by the processes
(b) the processes produced the language
So you CANNOT tell who/what produced the language!


--Let me extend beyond this question.
I hear a lot of people say "GMAT prefers active voice to passive voice". Even a GMAT instructor says this in explaining this question. (http://www.beatthegmat.com/nature-of-language-t91077-15.html)
But I want to say: BE CAREFUL!!! Do not AUTOMATICALLY choose the active voice answer choice.
We should understand WHY the particular voice is preferred in the GIVEN situation.
This example illustrates the potential ambiguity embedded in the passive voice. In fact, MGMAT SC Guide has a wonderful example:
INCORRECT: The dealer was asked to sell a painting by Picasso.
Is it "a painting by Picasso" or "the dealer was asked by Picasso"? Ambiguous!
If you change the sentence to active voice, saying "The boss asked the dealer to sell a painting by Picasso." then the ambiguity issue is perfectly resolved.
See? Same logic applies here. "the processes by which it is produced" is ambiguous.

醒醒Shine

DAY20
家里Wi-Fi又坏了，手机打卡就准备睡了。
今天就是背单词800+ 按照bat的方法整理千行笔记，收获很大！才整理完一半，明天誓必拿下剩下。然后按topic再归类一次。
阅读小分队也只有明天补了。

今日回顾：
1、A's B表达的是A拥有B。这一点跟B of A区别就很大了！
那道经典的festival' month和 month of festival终于弄明白了，泪。
2、ving前后逗号隔开，放句子中间，并不等于一定就夹心修饰了！
3、主句用了一般现在时，句子里依然可以had been！再次打碎以前背的各种原则。
4、究竟什么叫忠于原句句意，正确选项一定是原句句型吗？再次又碎…
明天补题。

醒醒Shine

为啥我家每晚七点半准时断网第二天六点半准时有网，泪…明天师傅来修。
今天单词800+刷完OG13分类了！BAT法
第一次有了豁然开朗的感觉，记一下体会：
1、SC稍微有点挑战的题，都是CR题。SC当CR做，意味着找到句子的因果、目的措施链。
2、复合句，多用尽量grammatically parallel原则 ==》 effectively and clear。句子强调谁，那么那个词在句子里放到同一个位置去！唯一例外的只有一题，原因是受限于动词的施与受。就是法国和德国石油那题。
3、单句，所有修饰成分和它一定是主从关系。牢记。
修饰成分传达的多半是CR里的：原因、结果、目的，真的再没更复杂。逻辑意思决定采用什么语法结构去修饰最effectively和 clear！牢记：why 决定how。再次豁然开朗…

醒醒Shine

今天背单词、千行笔记Sc整理大功告成！6月的数学寂静来了20题保持题感。
SC体会太太深了感觉做这么久SC终于有了突破。

回顾：
SC就是CR，每一个句子都有其逻辑组织关系，分类为两大类
1、单句。此时所有修饰成分跟他都是主从关系，所有！而修饰成分无外乎两种：定语补语丰富其内容；状语丰富起逻辑关系，包括结果、原因、对比。
2、复合句。表达对比、转折、因果三大类。强调了grammatically correct的原则。所有两个分句里要强调的逻辑关键词，要尽量放到等同的句子成分中去，才能最effectively地体现其关系和句意。

果然是大道至简。弄明白了SC的逻辑，做题错不远。这是今天最大的收获。

明天开始暴力总结RC和A的练笔了。继续保持题感。

醒醒Shine

今天周六，实在太累了昨晚趴在床上背单词睡着了。早上昏沉到8点才醒，爬起来迅速吃面包喝咖啡，好歹缓过来了。实在鼓不起劲头复习，和姐妹们一起聊到了中午。

复习内容：

• 阅读小分队
• 单词
• 6月的数学寂静做了30题
• GWD第三套不带RC测了一遍，错了4题。2个S，2个C。错的题都是大意粗心，没有不懂的。要得要耐心沉下来分析。
  

回顾：

• on condition that 是接虚拟语气的，用v的原型。
• SC读懂句意是王道！！
• CR一定要读清楚数据之间的关系：
  

Q4:

In the year following an eight-centincrease in the federal tax on a pack of cigarettes, sales of cigarettes fellten percent.  In contrast, in the yearprior to the tax increase, sales had fallen one percent.  The volume of cigarette sales is thereforestrongly related to the after-tax price of a pack of cigarettes.

The argument above requires which offollowing assumptions?

• During the year following the tax increase, the pretax price of     a pack of cigarettes did not increase by as much as it had during the year     prior to the tax increase.
• The one percent fall in cigarette sales in the year prior to     tax increase was due to a smaller tax increase.
• The pretax price of a pack of cigarettes gradually decreased     throughout the year before and the year after the tax increase.
• For the year following the tax increase, the pretax price of a     pack of cigarettes was not eight or more cents lower than it had been the     previous year.
• As the after-tax price of a pack of cigarettes rises, the     pretax price also rises.
  

tax上涨8分钱， 销量下滑了10%
tax没涨价之前，销量只下滑了1%
结论是tax影响了销量。

assumption= 销量下滑与tax无关的情况不存在；  tax一定能影响销量

我错选了1：涨tax之前的香烟价格没有和之前涨的一样多——我之前以为这证明了香烟价格对sales无影响。——两者都在涨价，根本看不出谁影响谁，所以无关。
正确答案是4：tax上涨后，税前价格并未下降超过8分——也就是说整体的售价一定比tax上涨前高，对于客户购买的时候而言，并未抵消tax的作用。——由此证明tax确实的影响，而不是其他。——也就是assumption的第一种类型了。（取非：如果两者价格抵消了，那么客户买的时候价格不变了，而销量还是下滑了，说明跟tax无关）

总结：这里其实就是在售价=税前价格+tax价格做文章。
题目只说了tax的情况，如果tax上涨但税前价格下跌，实际售价并未改变，那么售价对sales的影响不成立。

醒醒Shine

周日：单词、阅读小分队、GWD模考和订正一套，6月数学寂静30题。没有做主题复习。
周一：单词、阅读小分队、GWD第四套、6月数学寂静20题，刷OG RC认证订了2篇。找到了节奏，但是量太小。明天要把剩余22篇全部订完，按大小逻辑、作者语气、可能的出题点这三个内容突破。立此为据，必须完成！

回顾：
1、but和and都是可以comma+but后面不带完整句子的，打破我的旧思路。
GWD4:After several years of rapid growth, the healthy care company became one of the largest health care providers in the metropolitan area, but then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying
OG12-89.  Dirt roads may evoke the bucolic simplicith of another century, but financially strained townships point out that dirt roads cost twice as much to maintain as paved roads do.
35.   In laboratory rats, a low dose of aspirin usually suffices to block production of thromboxane, a substance that promotes blood clotting, but does not seriously interfere with the production of prostacyclin, which prevents clotting.
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31.  Even though many of her colleagues were convinced that genes were relatively simple and static, Brabara McClintock adhered to her own more complicated ideas about how genes might operate, and in 1983,at the age of 81, was awarded a Nobel Prize for her discovery that the genes in corn are capable of moving from one chromosomal site to another.   
111. Construction of the Roman Colosseum, which was officially known as the Flavian Amphitheater, began in A.D.69, during the reign of Vespasian, and was completed the Colosseum with a one-hundred-day cycle of religious pageants, gladitorial games, and spectacles.

2、几个转折含义的连词和副词，究竟细微差别——
1、并列：and
2、转折：but，however，while（带有同时发生的意思），whereas（然而）
3、让步：although/though
4、因果：because，for（比较简单关联的因果），in that（非常正式）
PS：一大波表达因果的adv——
thus, therefore, thereby, hence, namely, accordingly, then
其他adv——
perhaps， nonetheless

3、关于CR，我还是对涉及到简单比值关系的题目不熟，今天又错了一题。等刷完RC，重点CR总结这个一次。

4、今天百词斩第二遍也背完了，开始刷张红岩的红宝书+扇贝了。计划扇贝刷完开始看word smart。不知道考前能不能看完word smart，但是坚持背单词当空气和早餐一样日常的习惯下去！

小蘑菇开始打怪

加油加油！！~~~

醒醒Shine

小蘑菇开始打怪 发表于 2014-7-1 19:39
加油加油！！~~~

谢谢！
刷RC刷的好辛苦T^T 今天效率不行