8.28 一战730

M51 V38

AA: Largo Piano公司一向以来生产专业钢琴家演奏用的钢琴，但近年来revenue下降，department of development的director说人家Allegro musical instrument最近引入了一批inexpensive的电子琴，我们也应该向他们学习。而且Consumer will find instant acceptance with our digital pianos because of our reputation.

AI: 有一个opinion说extending average human life expectancy significantly会place enormous burden on our resources and lower the quality of life for everyone. 

数学：

PS一个是1995年投资8000元，每一年是前一年投资下降10%，问5年后最接近哪个数。

还有一道DS是给出三角形PQR, PR，PQ, QR分别是8,4,x, 问x对应的那个角是不是大于90度。给出两个条件(I) x>4.5; (II)x<6.5。

阅读第一篇就是关于库存的。Inventory-smoothing model认为库存可以用来缓冲demand的fluctuation, 所以high price fluctuation应该对应sales下降（这个理解可能有误，我当时是一边看一边做笔记，只记得一个high price fluctuation和一个对应的下降，但不记得是不是sales下降)。但empirical research using the aggregate data (这里有题，问aggregation of data）得出的结论是相反的。有些学者再用seasonality-adjusted empirical research还是无法detect the signs of these corporate activities.  记得一篇读下来印象就是research的结果统统与理论不符。那道关于aggregation of data起什么作用的题我犹豫了很久，最后选了个选项是to consider the possibility that it masked the applicability of the model in individual firms。

另外三篇阅读分别是苏联进化论, 然后就是废奴制度和女权，最后是海怪。

关于SC, 我感觉我做到的SC是做了这么多SC题以来最难的，充分证实了我关于SC实战>GWD>rep>OG的观点。最记得有一题是the economists' arguments...., but she was not convinced by the slightest of it.  其中一个选项是convinced by it, even the slightest. 另一个选项是convinced by the slightest of them. 最后基于主谓一致选了后者，但实际生活当中人们常常说convinced by the slightest of it. 至于有没有语法错误就不知道了……

关于CR, 记得倒数第二题是什么prosecutor 和prospective defendent以及Evidence过了多年之后不应该用于against谁谁谁，当时只剩下2分多钟，只好随便选了一个选项。

有一道CR题是经济学家认为央行不应该升息，因为贸易surplus会导致出口比进口增速快，而升息会reduce investment spending, and since____(complete the argument). 

我选的是因为很多进口的公司investment in imported equipment。

教训：

1) 数学差不多就行了，不用太纠结。我本来最担心数学，因为Prep裸考都是47左右的样子，最后实战的时候有不少题也是猜的，没想到得了51分。看来数学估计错个2-3道也是可以51分的啊……

2) Verbal还是要pace. 原以为我prep和做GWD的时候verbal时间绰绰有余，就想实战也可以不用看时间答题。事实证明我花了比较多的时间在自己相当自信的SC上面。（我做新Prep破解2的时候已经可以保证比较高的正确率，因此考前对SC还是较有信心的) 另外感觉SC的考题很多都是选项里面有两个都是平行结构没什么毛病，但必须到句子里面找逻辑关系的题。这种题目相当的tricky, 而且Prep破解和GWD好像遇到的也不多。

感谢楼主分享啊·~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

感谢楼主的经验分享，感觉平时的SC练习欠火候，看来真要好好在这上面好好花时间了……

恩 谢谢楼主

有同学问我关于苏联进化论阅读机经背景资料，以下是我自己在网上找的一点：

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Ivanovich_Schmalhausen

Ivan Ivanovich Schmalhausen was born in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) on April 23, 1884 to Luise Schmalhausen (Luisa Ludwigovna Schmalhausen) and Johannes Theodor Schmalhausen (1849–1894). His father was one of the founding fathers of Russian paleobotany^[1].

In 1901 Ivan Ivanovich Schmalhausen graduated gymnasium and enrolled at Kiev University, but was expelled a year later after taking a part in the student disturbances. In 1902 he resumed his university studies at Kiev. Around 1902 he became acquainted with the founder of the Russian school of evolutionary morphology, Alexey Severtzov (1866–1936). He went on to become Professor of Darwinism at Moscow University and Director of the Institute for Evolutionary Morphology.

In 1904 Schmalhausen, under the guidance of Severtzov, completed his first scientific work on the embryonic development of lungs in a Grass Snake. He graduated from the university on 1909.

In 1910 Schmalhausen married Lydia Kozlova, a teacher of French from a small provincial Russian town.

In 23 August 1948 he became victim of order 1208, one of a series signed by Minister of Higher Education in the USSR, S. Kaftanov, which led to the mass dismissals of many university professors. This destroyed his career, as it removed his professorship and also decreed that his books and research projects be destroyed. This was because he was accused of being a Weissmannist and pro-Morganist, who promoted the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection, at a time when T. D. Lysenko and his followers were emphasising a process of heredity that focused on interaction with the environment and the inheritance of acquired characteristics along Lamarckian lines. This theory was being put into practice in agriculture under Michurin, who claimed to have improved wheat using Lamarckian techniques, and was central to the Stalin's politics which stressed that hard work led to improvement in future generations.

He had just written his book Factors of Evolution, which was translated into English and published in the west in 1949, and he continued to live in the USSR, returning to work in Morphology.