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　　新东方北京学校GRE阅读女神高宇琪老师在此与大家分享《新GRE阅读真题70篇》。

　　GRE70篇真题具体包括46篇中短篇阅读，7篇长阅读和17道逻辑单题。

　　新GRE阅读真题70篇都是实打实地在GRE考试中重现率很高的题目。有多高呢?在2015年10月17日GRE考试中第一个计分section就遇到了两篇(5道题)——第1篇和第40篇。

　　此处与大家分享的《新GRE阅读真题70篇》修订了typo， 比如说skink打成了skin，少了冒号之类;修订了答案，扫了一眼网上的答案看到一篇长阅读错了两道…当然我们的答案不一定是对的，不过万神和我各做了一遍，都是这个答案，那应该差不多。

　　下面与大家分享第一篇：

　　Passage 1

　　A divide between aesthetic and technical considerations has played a crucial role in mapmaking and cartographic scholarship. Since nineteenth century cartographers, for instance, understood themselves as technicians who did not care about visual effects, while others saw themselves as landscape painters. That dichotomy structured the discipline of the history of cartography. Until the 1980s, in what Blakemore and Harley called “the Old is Beautiful Paradigm,” scholars largely focused on maps made before 1800, marveling at their beauty and sometimes regretting the decline of the pre-technical age. Early mapmaking was considered art while modern cartography was located within the realm of engineering utility. Alpers, however, has argued that this boundary would have puzzled mapmakers in the seventeenth century, because they considered themselves to be visual engineers.

　　1. According to the passage, Alpers would say that the assumptions underlying the “paradigm” were

　　A. inconsistent with the way some mapmakers prior to 1800 understand their own work

　　B. dependent on a seventeenth-century conception of mapmaking visual engineering

　　C. unconcerned with the difference between the aesthetic and technical questions of mapmaking

　　D. insensitive to divisions among cartographers working in the period after 1800

　　E. supported by the demonstrable technical superiority of mapmaking made after 1800

　　2. It can be inferred from the passage that, beginning in the 1980s, historians of cartography

　　A. placed greater emphasis on the beauty of maps made after 1800

　　B. expanded their range of study to include more material created after 1800

　　C. grew more sensitive to the way mapmakers prior to 1800 conceived of their work

　　D. came to see the visual details of maps as aesthetic objects rather than practical cartographic aids

　　E. reduced the attention they paid to the technical aspects of mapmaking

　　答案：A B

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　　名师介绍：高宇琪，《GRE长难句图解与精练》的作者。深厚的英文功底，扎实的语言能力。能够从最基础层面给学生剖析GRE的精髓和逻辑。虽说学术能力强大，却是个不折不扣的“萌妹纸”!

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