3个sections中，填空题目没有遇到老题目，题目的难度随section 顺序有比较明显的提高，最直接体现就是3空题目的增多。我的第一个Section 遇到一个3空题，感觉也不是特别难。第二第三个section 都遇到至少2道3空题，题干长度、句式复杂程度、句义复杂程度都有明显提高。再就是单词难度，3个section加起来至少有5道题目，单词影响到我的答案选择了。当然，这只能怪自己，毕竟是没有任何准备的"纯裸考"。成绩也只能算勉强过得去，161分。

　　有一道题，说一幅画的作者把erect的主题内容的突出显示出来，在背景的（   ） 的树林的衬托之下。

　　我选的是list. 应该没错。红宝书一直在强调list倾斜的义项，算是熟词僻义。

　　还有一个6选2题目，选项中直接出现trite 和 banal. 直接就选定了。

　　阅读理解的文章的难度没有感觉明显变化，第2个语文section 甚至没有一篇长文章。但多选题目在后两个section有所增加，也算增加难度的一种方式。

　　最值得一说的是，第一个语文section 出现一篇 90年代的老题，具体是1994年10月 的一篇文章， 参见大白本April 1990-October 1994 280-282页。同学们中广泛流传的《GRE GMAT LSAT阅读大全》中也能找到：

　　The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1868, prohibits state governments from denying citizens the "equal protection of the laws." Although precisely what the framers of the amendment meant by this equal protection clause remains unclear, all interpreters agree that the framers' immediate objective was to provide a constitutional warrant for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which guaranteed the citizenship of all persons born in the United States and subject to United States jurisdiction. This declaration, which was echoed in the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, was designed primarily to counter the Supreme Court's ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford that Black people in the United States could be denied citizenship. The act was vetoed by President Andrew Johnson, who argued that the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, did not provide Congress with the authority to extend citizenship and equal protection to the freed slaves. Although Congress promptly overrode Johnson's veto, supporters of the act sought to ensure its constitutional foundations with the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.

　　The broad language of the amendment strongly suggests that its framers were proposing to write into the Constitution not a laundry list of specific civil rights but a principle of equal citizenship that forbids organized society from treating any individual as a member of an inferior class. Yet for the first eight decades of the amendment's existence, the Supreme Court's interpretation of the amendment betrayed this ideal of equality. In the Civil Rights Cases of 1883, for example, the Court invented the "state action" limitation, which asserts that "private" decisions by owners of public accommodations and other commercial businesses to segregate their facilities are insulated from the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law.

　　After the Second World War, a judicial climate more hospitable to equal protection claims culminated in the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that racially segregated schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Two doctrines embraced by the Supreme Court during this period extended the amendment's reach. First, the Court required especially strict scrutiny of legislation that employed a "suspect classification," meaning discrimination against a group on grounds that could be construed as racial. This doctrine has broadened the application of the Fourteenth Amendment to other, nonracial forms of discrimination, for while some justices have refused to find any legislative classification other than race to be constitutionally disfavored, most have been receptive to arguments that at least some nonracial discriminations, sexual discrimination in particular, are "suspect" and deserve this heightened scrutiny by the courts. Second, the Court relaxed the state action limitation on the Fourteenth Amendment, bringing new forms of private conduct within the amendment's reach.

　　17. Which of the following best describes the main idea of the passage?

　　(A) By presenting a list of specific rights, framers of the Fourteenth Amendment were attempting to provide a constitutional basis for broad judicial protection of the principle of equal citizenship.

　　(B) Only after the Supreme Court adopted the suspect classification approach to reviewing potentially discriminatory legislation was the applicability of the Fourteenth Amendment extended to include sexual discrimination.

　　(C) Not until after the Second World War did the Supreme Court begin to interpret the Fourteenth Amendment in a manner consistent with the principle of equal citizenship that it expresses.

　　(D) Interpreters of the Fourteenth Amendment have yet to reach consensus with regard to what its framers meant by the equal protection clause.

　　(E) Although the reluctance of judges to extend the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment to nonracial discrimination has betrayed the principle of equal citizenship, the Supreme Court's use of the state action limitation to insulate private activity from the amendment's reach has been more harmful.

　　18. The passage suggests that the principal effect of the state action limitation was to

　　(A) allow some discriminatory practices to continue unimpeded by the Fourteenth Amendment

　　(B) influence the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v, Board of Education

　　(C) provide expanded guidelines describing prohibited actions

　　(D) prohibit states from enacting laws that violated the intent of the Civil Rights Act of 1866

　　(E) shift to state governments the responsibility for enforcement of laws prohibiting discriminatory practices

　　19. The author's position regarding the intent of the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment would be most seriously undermined if which of the following were true?

　　(A) The framers had anticipated state action limitations as they are described in the passage.

　　(B) The framers had merely sought to prevent discriminatory acts by federal officials.

　　(C) The framers were concerned that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 would be overturned by the Supreme Court.

　　(D) The framers were aware that the phrase "equal protection of the laws" had broad implications.

　　(E) The framers believed that racial as well as non-racial forms of discrimination were unacceptable.

　　20. According to the passage, the original proponents of the Fourteenth Amendment were primarily concerned with

　　(A) detailing the rights afforded by the principle of equal citizenship

　　(B) providing support in the Constitution for equal protection for all citizens of the United States

　　(C) closing a loophole that could be used to deny individuals the right to sue for enforcement of their civil rights

　　(D) asserting that the civil rights protected by the Constitution included nonracial discrimination as well as racial discrimination

　　(E) granting state governments broader discretion in interpreting the Civil Rights Act of 1866

　　21. The author implies that the Fourteenth Amendment might not have been enacted if

　　(A) Congress' authority with regard to legislating civil rights had not been challenged

　　(B) the framers had anticipated the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education

　　(C) the framers had believed that it would be used in deciding cases of discrimination involving non-racial groups

　　(D) most state governments had been willing to protect citizens' civil rights

　　(E) its essential elements had not been implicit in the Thirteenth Amendment

　　22. According to the passage, which of the following most accurately indicates the sequence of the events listed below?

　　I. Civil Rights Act of 1866

　　II. Dred Scott v. Sandford

　　III. Fourteenth Amendment

　　IV. Veto by President Johnson

　　(A) I, II, III, IV

　　(B) I, IV, II, III

　　(C) I, IV, III, II

　　(D) II, I, IV, III

　　(E) III, II, I, IV

　　23. Which of the following can be inferred about the second of the two doctrines referred to in lines 39-41 of the passage?

　　(A) It caused some justices to rule that all types of discrimination are prohibited by the Constitution.

　　(B) It shifted the focus of the Supreme Court from racial to nonracial discrimination.

　　(C) It narrowed the concern of the Supreme Court to legislation that employed a suspect classification.

　　(D) It caused legislators who were writing new legislation to reject language that could be construed as permitting racial discrimination.

　　(E) It made it more difficult for commercial businesses to practice racial discrimination.

　　经笔者核对，文章几乎一模一样，可以说完全一样。这次考察的题目没有老题这样多，17题（主旨题）18题（细节题）23题（推论题）肯定是考到了。

　　其中，第23题稍微变换花样。它把文章末段高亮一句突出显示，问能够得出关于第2条原则的什么推论。如果只看该句，是没有任何信息的，必须找到具体说第2条原则的文章末句，算时一个小小的花招。

　　阅读理解长文章整文照搬老G，是否给了我们道德的优越感来谴责ETS的懒惰呢？当然不是。我们应该高调鼓励ETS这么干么？最好也不要这样，否则效果适得其反，例如2010年10月重考悲剧。最得体的反应是，遇到你就偷着乐吧。对于仍在奋战的G友们来说，最有价值的信息就是老G文章的价值。一定要深入挖掘，做到文章内容题目答案了然于胸。这样才能避免类似笔者的尴尬，文章似乎是新的，又似乎在哪里见过，题目答案却全忘记了。

　　祝愿所有同学好运气，只遇到2个语文Section, 每个section都能遇到一篇老文章！

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