组建齐心学习小组 备考2008（GMAT0803学习小组 上海地区的考友群）

zhaojialin

前些时间太忙了，已经落后大家好多，现在拼命追赶，感觉要看的东西太多。

01.07作业：

1.完成情况：作业完成。正确率70%。未限时。

2.个人增加：做了一部分gwd31（网上下载的）里的题目，按顺序一套套做，可是好像没有下载到答案，能不能放到CD上大家交流一下？

Q1:

According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.

 

1. minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
2. minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
3. minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
4. it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
5. it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

   Answer:

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Q2:

Charles Lindbergh, for his attempt at a solo transatlantic flight, was very reluctant to have any extra weight on his plane, he therefore refused to carry even a pound of mail, despite being offered $1,000 to do so.

 

1. Charles Lindbergh, for his attempt at a solo transatlantic flight, was very reluctant to have any extra weight on his plane, he therefore
2. When Charles Lindbergh was attempting his solo transatlantic flight, being very reluctant to have any extra weight on his plane, he
3. Since he was very reluctant to carry any extra weight on his plane when he was attempting his solo transatlantic flight, so Charles Lindbergh
4. Being very reluctant to carry any extra weight on his plane when he attempted his solo transatlantic flight was the reason that Charles Lindbergh
5. Very reluctant to have any extra weight on his plane when he attempted his solo transatlantic flight, Charles Lindbergh

   Answer:

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Q3:

For protection from the summer sun, the Mojave lived in open-sided, flat-topped dwellings known as shades, each a roof of poles and arrowweed supported by posts set in a rectangle.

 

1. each a roof of poles and arrowweed
2. each a roof of poles and arrowweed that are being
3. with each being a roof of poles and arrowweed
4. with roofs of poles and arrowweed to be
5. with roofs of poles and arrowweed that are

   Answer:

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Q4 to Q6:

        Prior to 1965 geologists assumed

       that the two giant rock plates meeting at

       the San Andreas Fault generate heat

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                through friction as they grind past each

  (5)      other, but in 1965 Henyey found that

temperatures in drill holes near the

fault were not as elevated as had

been expected.  Some geologists

wondered whether the absence of

 (10)      friction-generated heat could be

explained by the kinds of rock com-

posing the fault.  Geologists’ pre-1965

assumptions concerning heat gen-

erated in the fault were based on

 (15)      calculations about common varieties of

rocks, such as limestone and granite;

but “weaker” materials, such as clays,

had already been identified in samples

retrieved from the fault zone.  Under

 (20)      normal conditions, rocks composed of

       clay produce far less friction than do

       other rock types.

       In 1992 Byerlee tested whether

these materials would produce friction

 (25)      10 to 15 kilometers below the Earth’s

surface.  Byerlee found that when clay

samples were subjected to the thou-

sands of atmospheres of pressure

they would encounter deep inside the

 (30)      Earth, they produced as much friction

as was produced by other rock types.

The harder rocks push against each

       other, the hotter they become; in other

words, pressure itself, not only the

 (35)      rocks’ properties, affects frictional

heating.  Geologists therefore won-

dered whether the friction between the

plates was being reduced by pockets

of pressurized water within the fault that

push the plates away from each other.

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Q4:

The passage suggests which of the following regarding Henyey’s findings about temperature in the San Andreas Fault?

             

1. Scientists have yet to formulate a definitive explanation for Henyey’s findings.
2. Recent research suggests that Henyey’s explanation for the findings should be modified.
3. Henyey’s findings had to be recalculated in light of Byerlee’s 1992 experiment.
4. Henyey’s findings provided support for an assumption long held by geologists.
5. Scientists have been unable to duplicate Henyey’s findings using more recent experimental methods.

Answer:

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Q5:

The passage is primarily concerned with

             

1. evaluating a method used to test a particular scientific hypothesis
2. discussing explanations for an unexpected scientific finding
3. examining the assumptions underlying a particular experiment
4. questioning the validity of a scientific finding
5. presenting evidence to support a recent scientific hypothesis

Answer:

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Q6:

The passage mostly agree that Heney’s findings about temperature in the San Andreas Fault made the greatest contribution in that they      

 

1. revealed an error in previous measurements of temperature in the San Andreas Fault zone
2. indicated the types of clay present in the rocks that form the San Andreas Fault
3. established the superiority of a particular technique for evaluating data concerning friction in the San Andreas Fault
4. suggested that geologists had inaccurately assumed that giant rock plates that meet at the San Andreas Fault generate heat through friction
5. confirmed geologists’ assumptions about the amount of friction generated by common varieties of rocks, such as limestone and granite

Answer:

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Q7:

For similar cars and drivers, automobile insurance for collision damage has always cost more in Greatport than in Fairmont.  Police studies, however, show that cars owned by Greatport residents are, on average, slightly less likely to be involved in a collision than cars in Fairmont.  Clearly, therefore, insurance companies are making a greater profit on collision-damage insurance in Greatport than in Fairmont.

 

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

 

1. Repairing typical collision damage does not cost more in Greatport than in Fairmont.
2. There are no more motorists in Greatport than in Fairmont.
3. Greatport residents who have been in a collision are more likely to report it to their insurance company than Fairmont residents are.
4. Fairmont and Greatport are the cities with the highest collision-damage insurance rates.
5. The insurance companies were already aware of the difference in the likelihood of collisions before the publication of the police reports.

   Answer:

 

3.必做作业：疑问题：

CRNo.14

Within 20 years it will probably be possible to identify the genetic susceptibility an individual may have toward any particular disease.Eventually,effective strateties will be discovered to counteract each such susceptibility.Once these effective strategies are found,therefore,the people who follow them will never get sick.

The argument above is based on which of the following assumptions?

A  For every disease there is only one strategy that can prevent its occurrence.

B  In the future,genetic will be the only medical specialty of any importance.

C  All human sicknesses are in part the result of individuals` genetic susceptibilities.

D  All humans are genetically susceptible to some diseases.

E  People will follow medical advice when they are convinced that it is effective.

I chose C.But in the argument, the anther said people ‘will never get sick’. Answer C only suggest

‘in part the result’.I think C can not completely meet the assumption.

SC No.18

Computers are becoming faster, more powerful, and more reliable, and so too are modems, they are the devices to allow two or more computers to share information over regular telephone lines.

A  so too are modems, they are the devices to allow

B  so too are modems, the devices that allow

C  so too modems, the devices allowing

D  also modems, they are the devices that allow

E  also modems, which are the devices to allow

I do not know why E is not correct.

RC第一篇错第二第七题。这应该是一篇解释现象回答问题型的文章吧。问题基本上都是细节题目，把握好文章的结构，仔细阅读应该不难。

heaus

OG-11 69和OG-11 92 一个省that可以,一个不可以,原来是这样子的...

that的用法，要看它用于什么样的从句中：
定语从句：指代物或人，作主语时，不可省略；作宾语时，可省略。当先行词是人和物时，一般不省略。
名词性从句包括：主语从句，宾语从句，表语从句和同位语从句。在以上名词性从句中，只有在宾语从句中菜可以省略；其他情况下，都不可省略。
强调句型：It is ...that...中的也不能省略

bonbonhu

以下是引用赋梦小取在2008-1-10 22:52:00的发言：

OG11黄本的SC马上就要做完了，这两天会每天布置逻辑30题，改错10题，估计15号能结束OG第一遍复习，然后会抽一天晚上，组织大家对第一遍复习进行在线讨论，然后就进入SC单项突破。

大家请把这一周的作业整理好，复制到一个WORD文档上，周末会抽查作业。请假的队友忙完后，请把落下的作业补上。

谢谢大家对学习小组的支持！

hi,dear:

       怎么这两天布置的逻辑都是20T呢？虽然偶是希望少一点的拉。

       队长，辛苦你了

bonbonhu

01.11作业
OG11(黄)改错第111-120题（SC111~120题）  
OG11(黄)逻辑第51-70题（CR51~70题）
OG11(黄)阅读第5篇（RC21~26题）

                完成情况（完成；SC：正确率90%，12mins;

                   CR：正确率100%，12 mins ;RC  正确率100%11mins）

 

虽然已经是第二遍做OG，正确率已经不是很有参考性，但是按照格式还是将其贴出来。

这些题目虽然都已经熟悉，但是明显感觉SC的T在下手的时候还是不太有把握，相比较而言RC和CR的T要有把握的多，目前还不知道这是什么原因。

 

最难题：SC111,OG
            

111.
                As a baby emerges from the darkness of the womb with a rudimentary sense of vision, it would be rated about 20/500, or legally blind if it were an adult with such vision.

(A) As a baby emerges from the darkness of the womb with a rudimentary sense of vision, it would be rated about 20/500, or legally blind if it were an adult with such vision.

(B) A baby emerges from the darkness of the womb with a rudimentary sense of vision that would be rated about 20/500, or legally blind as an adult.

(C) As a baby emerges from the darkness of the womb, its rudimentary sense of vision would be rated about 20/500; qualifying it to be legally blind if an adult.

(D) A baby emerges from the darkness of the womb with a rudimentary sense of vision that would be rated about 20/500; an adult with such vision would be deemed legally blind.

(E) As a baby emerges from the darkness of the womb, its rudimentary sense of vision, which would deemed legally blind for an adult, would be rated about 20/500.

 

 

看了以前的自己的选项，也是错选成了B. og10上的讨论这样写到：

In choice A, it, the subject of the main clause, seems to refer to baby, the subject of the subordinate clause; thus, A seems to state that the newbom baby, rather than its sense of vision, would be rated 20/500 . Similarly, choices B and E use awkward and ambiguous phrasing that suggests that the sense of vision, rather than an adult with 20/500 vision, would be considered legally blind. C incorrectly uses the semicolon, which should separate independent clauses, to set off a verb phrase.
                The phrase if an adult in C is also illogical, since it states that a baby could also be an adult. D is the best choice.

 

疑问题：CR51, OG

51.   Biometric access-control systems—those using fingerprints, voiceprints, and so forth, to regulate admittance to restricted areas—work by degrees of similarity, not by identity. After all, even the same finger will rarely leave exactly identical prints. Such systems can be adjusted to minimize refusals of access to legitimate access‑ seekers. Such adjustments, however, increase the likelihood of admitting impostors.

Which of the following conclusions is most strongly supported by the information above?

(A) If a biometric access-control system were made to work by identity, it would not produce any correct admittance decisions.

(B) If a biometric access-control system reliably prevents impostors from being admitted, it will sometimes turn away legitimate access-seekers.

(C) Biometric access-control systems are appropriate only in situations in which admittance of impostors is less of a problem than is mistaken refusal of access.

(D) No biometric access-control systems—based, for example, on numerical codes—are less likely than biometric ones to admit impostors.

(E) Anyone choosing an access-control system should base the choice solely on the ratio of false refusals to false admittances.

 

阅读

Questions in:

 

21.      main idea;

22.      detail;

23.      detail;

24.      infer;

25.      analogy;

26.      structure

 

 

NOTE

 

 

 

SC – 111~120                   

 

B A C C E B B E C C

D

 

115，Idiom: consider A B. When consider means think or believe after careful deliberation, it does not require as or any other expression before the object.

 

116, Market is also the subject of the second verb, which should be is bringing, not are bringing.

 

赋梦小取

  怎么这两天布置的逻辑都是20T呢？虽然偶是希望少一点的拉。

不少队友，前些日子的作业还没及时完成，所以这两天布置得少点，大家尽量趁周末把作业补上

bonbonhu

01.12作业
OG11(黄)改错第121-130题（SC121~130题）  
OG11(黄)逻辑第70-90题（CR70~90题）
OG11(黄)阅读第6篇（RC27~31题）

完成情况（完成；总时间：29mins;正确率100%）

 

 

最难题：SC122,OG

122.
                More than 30 years ago Dr. Barbara McClintock, the Nobel Prize winner, reported that genes can “jump,” as pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another.

(A) as pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another

(B) like pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another

(C) as pearls do that move mysteriously from one necklace to others

(D) like pearls do that move mysteriously from one necklace to others

(E) as do pearls that move mysteriously from one necklace to some other one

 

疑问题：SC123, OG

123.
                In Holland, a larger percentage of the gross national product is spent on defense of their coasts from rising seas than is spent on military defense in the United States.

(A) In Holland, a larger percentage of the gross national product is spent on defense of their coasts from rising seas than is spent on military defense in the United States.

(B) In Holland they spend a larger percentage of their gross national product on defending their coasts from rising seas than the United States does on military defense.

(C) A larger percentage of Holland’s gross national product is spent on defending their coasts from rising seas than the United States spends on military defense.

(D) Holland spends a larger percentage of its gross national product defending its coasts from rising seas than the military defense spending of the United States.

(E) Holland spends a larger percentage of its gross national product on defending its coasts from rising seas than the United States does on military defense.

 

阅读

Questions in:

 

27.      main idea: The statement of primary purpose must embrace all three strategies rather than focus on just one;

28.      infer: line 9;

29.      attitude;

30.      detail: 不认识ubiquitous这个单词，所以在A和C之间犹豫了好长时间，看来虽然大n们都认为不必要专门背单词，但是对于欧这种都还给老师的人来讲，单词还是很重要的;

31.      detail

 

 

 

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这几天一直重感冒,睡觉花了太多的时间. 先把作业贴上,难题分析等稍后补上

01.11作业
OG11(黄)改错第121-130题（SC111~120题） 20min,  错误率 4/10 
OG11(黄)逻辑第70-90题（CR51~70题）未计时,错误率 7/20
OG11(黄)阅读第6篇（RC27~31题）11min, 错误率:3/6

01.12作业
OG11(黄)改错第121-130题（SC121~130题), 错误率:3/10
OG11(黄)逻辑第70-90题（CR70~90题）,错误率 3/20
OG11(黄)阅读第6篇（RC27~31题）8min, 错误率: 2/5

个人补充:白勇语法网络课堂第一章

bonbonhu

69.   A report by the American
                    Academy for the Advancement of Science has concluded that much of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed comes from the incineration of wastes.

(A) much of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed comes

(B) much of the currently uncontrolled dioxins that North Americans are exposed to come

(C) much of the dioxins that are currently uncontrolled and that North Americans are exposed to comes

(D) many of the dioxins that are currently uncontrolled and North Americans are exposed to come

(E) many of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed come

正确答案E

92.   Despite protests from some waste-disposal companies, state health officials have ordered the levels of bacteria in seawater at popular beaches to be measured and that the results be published.

(A) the levels of bacteria in seawater at popular beaches to be measured and that the results be

(B) that seawater at popular beaches should be measured for their levels of bacteria, with the results being

(C) the measure of levels of bacteria in seawater at popular beaches and the results to be

(D) seawater measured at popular beaches for levels of bacteria, with their results

(E) that the levels of bacteria in seawater at popular beaches be measured and the results

正确答案也是E,都没有省略that啊？

bonbonhu

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bonbonhu

1.13日作业

OG11(黄)改错第131-138题（SC131~138题）  
OG11(黄)逻辑第91-110题（CR91~110题）
OG11(黄)阅读第7篇（RC32~36题）

                完成情况（完成；总用时：40m;SC：正确率100%;

                   CR：正确率95% ;RC  正确率80%）

                个人增加 (阅读mindfree的帖子：有感受的内容摘录如下：首先我认为CR与SC的不同之处在于:SC是选最好的答案, 而CR是选择正确答案. 虽然在题目中经常问”most seriously weaken (support)”, 其实答案只有一个正确! 绝对不会出现两个答案都削弱或都加强但一个作用弱一个作用强的情况. 换个说法, 除答案外其它选项都错.

在CR中, 无论怎么强调阅读都是不够的. 我看到很多人的考试经验里都说逻辑很难, 题目很长, 答案很难找等等. 问题是什么? 阅读理解. 他们可能对逻辑推理, 逻辑关系以及各类题型都理解得很透彻了. 但是当读不懂题或没有理顺文章逻辑关系时, 还是很难找到正确答案. 举我自己的例子说明, 当我自己不是很在意地复习时, 我读题干就是用眼睛去看题目, 读完了, 只知道文章里的字我都认识, 原文什么意思以及逻辑关系根本不知道. 如果在实际考试中是这种情况, 既浪费时间, 又增加了心理负担. 所以, 我对crack CR的第一条建议是active reading. 每读完一部分, 应该知道其逻辑作用, 是premises还是conclusion; 是作者的观点还是作者要反驳的观点等等. 和做阅读是一样的, 边读边想. 还有, 我认为CR阅读和RC阅读不一样的是, CR中的每句话和绝大部分的词汇对做题都很关键. 在阅读是不能跳过任何细节. 一段文章可能有几个或几层逻辑关系, 答案可能是针对其中任何一个逻辑关系. 所以要通读段落并理解.

由于CR的种类和方法很多, 我和其他版主商量后会补充入门方法和解题思路. 我主要讲讲基本的两点: 无关选项和out of scope.
因为Verbal总体的时间是大概平均每题1分40秒左右, 但是阅读相对耗时间, 所以在CR上节省时间是关键. 节省时间最好的方法(同样应用与阅读和SC)是POE(point of elimination)排除法.
找到无关选项是用POE(排除法)的关键. 无关选项主要有: 涉及不同(新)概念并且对新概念没有解释, 没有解释原文的现象, 或涉及与原文无关的内容. 比如说原文谈论的是数量的比较, 选项中是与数量无关的内容. 我个人经验是GMAT无关选项的套路差不多, 平时做题是可以注意观察.
Out of scope是判断迷惑选项的一个办法. 原文的逻辑关系就象几个链条互相联接, 如果选项中的内容在逻辑关系以外,答案经常不是正确答案.

最难题：CR110,OG
            

110.
                “Fast cycle time” is a strategy of designing a manufacturing organization to eliminate bottlenecks and delays in production. Not only does it speed up production, but it also ensures quality. The reason is that the bottlenecks and delays cannot be eliminated unless all work is done right the first time.

The claim about quality made above rests on a questionable presupposition that                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

(A) any flaw in work on a product would cause a bottleneck or delay and so would be prevented from occurring on a “fast cycle” production line

(B) the strategy of “fast cycle time” would require fundamental rethinking of product design

(C) the primary goal of the organization is to produce a product of unexcelled quality, rather than to generate profits for stockholders

(D) “fast cycle time” could be achieved by shaving time off each of the component processes in a production cycle

(E) “fast cycle time” is a concept in business strategy that has not yet been put into practice in a factory

not A unless B表达为：A→B，文中表达即瓶颈和延误消失→所有的工作都在第一时间做对，

非B→非A，既没有做对→有瓶颈和延误，是正确答案的改写：any flaw in work →bottleneck or delay

 

疑问题：CR96, OG

96.   Commentator: The theory of trade retaliation states that countries closed out of any of another country’s markets should close some of their own markets to the other country in order to pressure the other country to reopen its markets. If every country acted according to this theory, no country would trade with any other.

The commentator’s argument relies on which of the following assumptions?

(A) No country actually acts according to the theory of trade retaliation.

(B) No country should block any of its markets to foreign trade.

(C) Trade disputes should be settled by international tribunal.

(D) For any two countries, at least one has some market closed to the other.

(E) Countries close their markets to foreigners to protect domestic producers.

阅读

Questions in:

32~36                  

 

C A A C B

    B

 

32.  main idea;

33.  infer: 把题目看反了，看成是问the United States government’s definition is xxx;

34.  infer;

35.  detail;

36. 

 

 

NOTE

SC – 131~138

135，Idiom: apprenticeship as is correct; apprenticeship of being is an incorrect idiom

CR – 91~110

A E D C E D D E C E E C B C E D A C D A

                                     D

93，D: There will not be a market for its patents since some of the corporations have already done the same or similar research.

        E: unrelated

104, tariffs+ transportation < 10% manufacturing costs→ tariffs < 10% manufacturing costs

问：哪里有OG11新增的CR讨论链接啊？