在职备战——大道至简

abjure

叹服~~livia太强了，说得真好
就这样的环境也能考verbal 38...orz

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/3/16 16:02:53)

强烈同意。

livia2012

没错没错！包括C干扰选项中的 “other bugs”题目中讨论的是某种bug——不过这里就将的没有OG明确，OG更加直白的在一开始就说了“suffer an allergic reaction to certain sulfi tes, ”，K家则是说a certain computer program creates temporary files on the computer on which it is installed然后再说the files里面包括的bug,隐蔽性更加强啊。

BTW， K家是不是可以上网站上注册然后免费做一套CAT的说？我记得BABAY以前说过好像，我给忘了.....

谢谢livia jj分析，太精彩了！学到了不少，特别是如何提炼key words，判断out-of-scope，怪不得你RC/CR那么强大....再次感谢分享。
另外我看这道题的时候回想起之前做过的一道Kaplan的练习题，有些神似：

A certain computer program creates temporary files on the computer on which it is installed. The files contain a programming error, or "bug", that, in rare cases, may cause the computer to freeze up. The temporary files are purged 90 days after the program is installed. Since no program will copy the bug to any other file, any computer containing the program that freezes more than 90 days after the program has been installed does not freeze because of this program.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the conclusion above?

A.     A computer that freezes due to the installation of the program in question produces a display that is similar to that which is displayed when computers freeze for many other reasons.
B.    The code that causes the freezing will be eliminated in a future release of the program.
C.    Other bugs in the programming may reveal themselves more than 90 days after the program is installed.
D.    A person can copy the programming code containing the bug to other files that are purged with less frequency than the temporary files.
E.    There are some computers on which the program is installed that appear to be unaffected by the programming bug.

--
The conclusion of the stimulus is that computers that freeze up more than 90 days after the program is installed – that is, after the temporary files containing the programming bug are purged – must freeze for reasons other than a reaction to the bug. The evidence is that the temporary files containing the bug are purged 90 days after the installation, and that neither the program itself nor any other program copies the bug to any longer-lived file. The assumption is that the bug cannot be copied by any other means. Since choice (D) contradicts this assumption, it is the correct choice.
Choice (A) is outside the scope – the display on the computer when it freezes is not mentioned in the stimulus, either for the program in question or for any other program!
Choice (B) is also immaterial – the stimulus is about the bug as it currently affects computers, not about its imminent demise.
Choice (C) is irrelevant, since we're only discussing one particular bug.
Choice (E) is outside the scope. We're concerned only with the computers the bug does affect, not the ones it doesn't affect.

我觉得神似的地方是：

conclusion:

-computer would NOT freeze because of the bug associated with the program(if >90 days ... so that the program is automatically purged)
-allergic people would NOT (when drinking the wine) get allergy to sulfi tes(if sulfi tes has NOT been added by the wine maker)

assumption

-the bug can NOT be copied by any other means
-the sulfi tes can NOT exist by any other means (for example, "naturally present" in the wine)

先来如约分享下OG CR题目

84 Many people suffer an allergic reaction to certain sulfi tes, including those that are commonly added to wine as
preservatives. However, since there are several winemakers who add sulfi tes to none of the wines they produce,
people who would like to drink wine but are allergic to sulfi tes can drink wines produced by these winemakers
without risking an allergic reaction to sulfi tes.

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

(A) These winemakers have been able to duplicate the preservative effect produced by adding sulfi tes by
means that do not involve adding any potentially allergenic substances to their wine.

(B) Not all forms of sulfi te are equally likely to produce the allergic reaction.

(C) Wine is the only beverage to which sulfi tes are commonly added.

(D) Apart from sulfi tes, there are no substances commonly present in wine that give rise to an allergic reaction.

(E) Sulfi tes are not naturally present in the wines produced by these winemakers in amounts large enough to
produce an allergic reaction in someone who drinks these wines.

我想用这道题和大家探讨下，怎么确定out of scope,也就是那些选项是来打酱油的无关选项。

通读题干后，premise 1  many people对certain sulfi tes过敏，包括被夹在葡萄酒中用作防腐剂的certain sulfi tes，
                    premise 2 一些酒商的酒里面不加certain sulfi tes
                    结论：过敏的人可以喝不加certain sulfi tes酒商造的酒
                   问题是assumption
我读完以后，觉得最核心的概念就是几个字：certain sulfi tes，被酒商加入酒中，过敏

在选项中，A These winemakers have been able to duplicate the preservative effect produced by adding sulfi tes by
means that do not involve adding any potentially allergenic substances to their wine.
读到黑体字部分开始有out of scope的感觉，因为这个东西对葡萄酒的防腐功能并非重点，重点是“过敏”，无关排除

B Not all forms of sulfi te are equally likely to produce the allergic reaction.
黑体字对应的是题干中的certain,很明显又超出了讨论范围，无关

C Wine is the only beverage to which sulfi tes are commonly added.
看到绝对化形容词要警惕，况且这完全和题目没啥关系，对葡萄酒中的ST是不是过敏，和葡萄酒是不是唯一被加入ST的饮料无关；

(D) Apart from sulfi tes, there are no substances commonly present in wine that give rise to an allergic reaction.
看到这里，就可以考虑排除了，再次重申，本题讨论的是对不对ST过敏的问题，“without risking an allergic reaction to sulfi tes”题目中一直在强调，如果不放心，还可以继续看，看到no substances 可以肯定排除了，讨论的对象已经与题目无关

(E) Sulfi tes are not naturally present in the wines produced by these winemakers in amounts large enough to
produce an allergic reaction in someone who drinks these wines.
这个选项之所以正确，除了排除法，还有几个点很招人喜欢，are not naturally present迅速和题干中的重要 概念之一“被酒商加入”有所呼应，再看后面 large enough to produce an allergic reaction 又和句子的核心概念，ST是否引起过敏对应，即使不能完全理解E选项的意思，此时也应该果断选择E了。

CR题，考察的是我们怎么在干扰信息中找到逻辑主线的能力，所以在做题时时刻保持头脑清醒，不被海量信息迷惑是最关键的一点，其实这也是未来工作中非常需要的素质之一。

-- by 会员 livia2012 (2012/3/17 0:00:23)

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/3/17 2:34:12)

lovecloris

居然发两遍：（ 这层帮忙盖楼

lovecloris

非常感谢livia，很有收获，我理解你的key words是作者语意表述的重心。CR真是精读，一个词都不能省，我SC习惯读主干了，所以SC困扰不大，但CR就暴露问题了。

桑心啊，看了baby这题，第二遍慢看翻译才看懂，看懂就立马会选了。

livia，我一快就扫视而英文，但脑子里的翻中文是各种片断破碎信息，SC停了两天感觉立马差了，难句和SC对于我，一天都不能停：（

babybearmm

哈哈，还真是~~GMAT那几招被你摸透了，无关选项就那么些套路。这题A的"display"也跟OG那题A的"preservative effect"类似，无关话题。

你在kaplan网站上免费注册之后，可以做practice，SC/CR/RC各自一个set，比如SC是25分钟22道题。他家的CAT模考似乎要到free events那里去注册，就像网上课堂那样，老师先介绍GMAT啊如何备考啊打广告啊，给你提供code，然后你再用那个code敲开CAT考试。免费的就一套，注册任何一次free event都是一样的。

没错没错！包括C干扰选项中的 “other bugs”题目中讨论的是某种bug——不过这里就将的没有OG明确，OG更加直白的在一开始就说了“suffer an allergic reaction to certain sulfi tes, ”，K家则是说a certain computer program creates temporary files on the computer on which it is installed然后再说the files里面包括的bug,隐蔽性更加强啊。

BTW， K家是不是可以上网站上注册然后免费做一套CAT的说？我记得BABAY以前说过好像，我给忘了.....

谢谢livia jj分析，太精彩了！学到了不少，特别是如何提炼key words，判断out-of-scope，怪不得你RC/CR那么强大....再次感谢分享。
另外我看这道题的时候回想起之前做过的一道Kaplan的练习题，有些神似：

A certain computer program creates temporary files on the computer on which it is installed. The files contain a programming error, or "bug", that, in rare cases, may cause the computer to freeze up. The temporary files are purged 90 days after the program is installed. Since no program will copy the bug to any other file, any computer containing the program that freezes more than 90 days after the program has been installed does not freeze because of this program.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the conclusion above?

A.     A computer that freezes due to the installation of the program in question produces a display that is similar to that which is displayed when computers freeze for many other reasons.
B.    The code that causes the freezing will be eliminated in a future release of the program.
C.    Other bugs in the programming may reveal themselves more than 90 days after the program is installed.
D.    A person can copy the programming code containing the bug to other files that are purged with less frequency than the temporary files.
E.    There are some computers on which the program is installed that appear to be unaffected by the programming bug.

--
The conclusion of the stimulus is that computers that freeze up more than 90 days after the program is installed – that is, after the temporary files containing the programming bug are purged – must freeze for reasons other than a reaction to the bug. The evidence is that the temporary files containing the bug are purged 90 days after the installation, and that neither the program itself nor any other program copies the bug to any longer-lived file. The assumption is that the bug cannot be copied by any other means. Since choice (D) contradicts this assumption, it is the correct choice.
Choice (A) is outside the scope – the display on the computer when it freezes is not mentioned in the stimulus, either for the program in question or for any other program!
Choice (B) is also immaterial – the stimulus is about the bug as it currently affects computers, not about its imminent demise.
Choice (C) is irrelevant, since we're only discussing one particular bug.
Choice (E) is outside the scope. We're concerned only with the computers the bug does affect, not the ones it doesn't affect.

我觉得神似的地方是：

conclusion:

-computer would NOT freeze because of the bug associated with the program(if >90 days ... so that the program is automatically purged)
-allergic people would NOT (when drinking the wine) get allergy to sulfi tes(if sulfi tes has NOT been added by the wine maker)

assumption

-the bug can NOT be copied by any other means
-the sulfi tes can NOT exist by any other means (for example, "naturally present" in the wine)

先来如约分享下OG CR题目

84 Many people suffer an allergic reaction to certain sulfi tes, including those that are commonly added to wine as
preservatives. However, since there are several winemakers who add sulfi tes to none of the wines they produce,
people who would like to drink wine but are allergic to sulfi tes can drink wines produced by these winemakers
without risking an allergic reaction to sulfi tes.

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

(A) These winemakers have been able to duplicate the preservative effect produced by adding sulfi tes by
means that do not involve adding any potentially allergenic substances to their wine.

(B) Not all forms of sulfi te are equally likely to produce the allergic reaction.

(C) Wine is the only beverage to which sulfi tes are commonly added.

(D) Apart from sulfi tes, there are no substances commonly present in wine that give rise to an allergic reaction.

(E) Sulfi tes are not naturally present in the wines produced by these winemakers in amounts large enough to
produce an allergic reaction in someone who drinks these wines.

我想用这道题和大家探讨下，怎么确定out of scope,也就是那些选项是来打酱油的无关选项。

通读题干后，premise 1  many people对certain sulfi tes过敏，包括被夹在葡萄酒中用作防腐剂的certain sulfi tes，
                    premise 2 一些酒商的酒里面不加certain sulfi tes
                    结论：过敏的人可以喝不加certain sulfi tes酒商造的酒
                   问题是assumption
我读完以后，觉得最核心的概念就是几个字：certain sulfi tes，被酒商加入酒中，过敏

在选项中，A These winemakers have been able to duplicate the preservative effect produced by adding sulfi tes by
means that do not involve adding any potentially allergenic substances to their wine.
读到黑体字部分开始有out of scope的感觉，因为这个东西对葡萄酒的防腐功能并非重点，重点是“过敏”，无关排除

B Not all forms of sulfi te are equally likely to produce the allergic reaction.
黑体字对应的是题干中的certain,很明显又超出了讨论范围，无关

C Wine is the only beverage to which sulfi tes are commonly added.
看到绝对化形容词要警惕，况且这完全和题目没啥关系，对葡萄酒中的ST是不是过敏，和葡萄酒是不是唯一被加入ST的饮料无关；

(D) Apart from sulfi tes, there are no substances commonly present in wine that give rise to an allergic reaction.
看到这里，就可以考虑排除了，再次重申，本题讨论的是对不对ST过敏的问题，“without risking an allergic reaction to sulfi tes”题目中一直在强调，如果不放心，还可以继续看，看到no substances 可以肯定排除了，讨论的对象已经与题目无关

(E) Sulfi tes are not naturally present in the wines produced by these winemakers in amounts large enough to
produce an allergic reaction in someone who drinks these wines.
这个选项之所以正确，除了排除法，还有几个点很招人喜欢，are not naturally present迅速和题干中的重要 概念之一“被酒商加入”有所呼应，再看后面 large enough to produce an allergic reaction 又和句子的核心概念，ST是否引起过敏对应，即使不能完全理解E选项的意思，此时也应该果断选择E了。

CR题，考察的是我们怎么在干扰信息中找到逻辑主线的能力，所以在做题时时刻保持头脑清醒，不被海量信息迷惑是最关键的一点，其实这也是未来工作中非常需要的素质之一。

-- by 会员 livia2012 (2012/3/17 0:00:23)

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/3/17 2:34:12)

-- by 会员 livia2012 (2012/3/17 10:43:27)

babybearmm

livia jj，逗死我了.....Kaplan今天的题目，居然还是这个套路：

A certain type of mold known to cause a skin rash was discovered in the air-conditioning system of an office building where the workers had been complaining of this skin rash. The company hired to eliminate the mold cleaned out the entire air-conditioning system with a spray that was scientifically proven to kill this type of mold within 30 days. Therefore, any worker's skin rash appearing more than 30 days after the air-conditioning system had been cleaned could not have been caused by this particular mold.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the conclusion above?

A.    The skin rash caused by the mold resembles rashes caused by common allergies.
B.    Excessive moisture buildup in the AC system, which was the primary cause of the mold, was subsequently eliminated by repairs to the system.
C.    The spray used to eliminate the mold is not effective against all types of organisms that may grow in AC systems.
C.    The mold found in the building's AC system can survive and breed in many parts of the building, including the carpeting.
E.    In buildings whose AC systems are infested with this mold, some individuals do not develop skin rashes.

--
The passage concludes that, since the mold in the AC system must all have been killed within 30 days of spraying, skin rashes that developed more than 30 days after spraying were not caused by the mold. To weaken this conclusion, the correct answer must show that some mold must have survived the spraying. Choice (D) does this by stating that there are places in the building other than the AC system where the mold could survive, and perhaps continue to cause skin rashes among workers. Therefore, (D) is the correct choice.

Choice (A) is a 180; it strengthens the conclusion by reinforcing the idea that new skin rashes in the building, and possibly even the earlier rashes, can be attributed to causes other than the mold. Choices (B), (C), and (E) are all out of scope; they do not address the question whether skin rashes that occurred more than 30 days after the spraying were caused by the mold.

livia2012

是呀是呀，其实看透了就发现，考来考去，万变不离其宗~
我这几天各种忙，忙疯了，都没来更新最新的复习进度。抽空概括下，就是每天做10道CR,40SC+4pRC,以及各种查漏补缺分析，今天晚上恢复番茄更新！

livia jj，逗死我了.....Kaplan今天的题目，居然还是这个套路：

A certain type of mold known to cause a skin rash was discovered in the air-conditioning system of an office building where the workers had been complaining of this skin rash. The company hired to eliminate the mold cleaned out the entire air-conditioning system with a spray that was scientifically proven to kill this type of mold within 30 days. Therefore, any worker's skin rash appearing more than 30 days after the air-conditioning system had been cleaned could not have been caused by this particular mold.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the conclusion above?

A.    The skin rash caused by the mold resembles rashes caused by common allergies.
B.    Excessive moisture buildup in the AC system, which was the primary cause of the mold, was subsequently eliminated by repairs to the system.
C.    The spray used to eliminate the mold is not effective against all types of organisms that may grow in AC systems.
C.    The mold found in the building's AC system can survive and breed in many parts of the building, including the carpeting.
E.    In buildings whose AC systems are infested with this mold, some individuals do not develop skin rashes.

--
The passage concludes that, since the mold in the AC system must all have been killed within 30 days of spraying, skin rashes that developed more than 30 days after spraying were not caused by the mold. To weaken this conclusion, the correct answer must show that some mold must have survived the spraying. Choice (D) does this by stating that there are places in the building other than the AC system where the mold could survive, and perhaps continue to cause skin rashes among workers. Therefore, (D) is the correct choice.

Choice (A) is a 180; it strengthens the conclusion by reinforcing the idea that new skin rashes in the building, and possibly even the earlier rashes, can be attributed to causes other than the mold. Choices (B), (C), and (E) are all out of scope; they do not address the question whether skin rashes that occurred more than 30 days after the spraying were caused by the mold.

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/3/17 16:45:23)

livia2012

逻辑确实是字字珠玑，不能略读~我SC差，所以SC也从来不敢略读，倒是间接使得逻辑受益了。
没事儿的，亲爱的，逻辑本来就容易用很多生僻信息来迷惑你，这是考试目的之一。我也是SC一天都不能停啊~

非常感谢livia，很有收获，我理解你的key words是作者语意表述的重心。CR真是精读，一个词都不能省，我SC习惯读主干了，所以SC困扰不大，但CR就暴露问题了。

桑心啊，看了baby这题，第二遍慢看翻译才看懂，看懂就立马会选了。

livia，我一快就扫视而英文，但脑子里的翻中文是各种片断破碎信息，SC停了两天感觉立马差了，难句和SC对于我，一天都不能停：（

-- by 会员 lovecloris (2012/3/17 12:17:35)

babybearmm

恭喜livia jj刷到考位啦~加油

livia2012

DAY 34——过去几天没来得及番茄，这是补昨天的

经历家中，公司各种事情，终于从昨天开始又番茄了（昨天忘了打完成，今天没法标记了，都完成了），目前还没开始弄数学，也没来得及模考，哎