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1、2024年GRE阅读真题之OG 今日我给大家整理了GRE阅读真题之OG1,一起来学习吧，下面我就和大家共享，来观赏一下吧。 GRE阅读真题之OG Passage 1 OG-1 Passage 1 Reviving the practice of using elements of popular music in classical composition, an approach that had been in hibernation in the United States during the 1960s, composer Philip Glass (born 1937) embra

2、ced the ethos of popular music without imitating it. Glass based two symphonies on music by rock musicians David Bowie and Brian Eno, but the symphonies sound is distinctively his. Popular elements do not appear out of place in Glasss classical music, which from its early days has shared certain har

3、monies and rhythms with rock music. Yet this use of popular elements has not made Glass a composer of popular music. His music is not a version of popular music packaged to attract classical listeners; it is high art for listeners steeped in rock rather than the classics. 1. The passage addresses wh

4、ich of the following issues related to Glasss use of popular elements in his classical compositions? A. How it is regarded by listeners who prefer rock to the classics B. How it has affected the commercial success of Classs music C. Whether it has contributed to a revival of interest among other com

5、posers in using popular elements in their compositions D. Whether it has had a detrimental effect on Glasss reputation as a composer of classical music E. Whether it has caused certain of Glasss works to be derivative in quality 2. The passage suggests that Glasss work displays which of the followin

6、g qualities? A. A return to the use of popular music in classical compositions B. An attempt to elevate rock music to an artistic status more closely approximating that of classical music C. A long-standing tendency to incorporate elements from two apparently disparate musical styles 3. Select the s

7、entence that distinguishes two ways of integrating rock and classical music. GRE阅读真题之OG Passage 2 OG-1 Passage 2 A person who agrees to serve as mediator between two warring factions at the request of both abandons by so agreeing the right to take sides later. To take sides at a later point would be

8、 to suggest that the earlier presumptive impartiality was a sham. 1. The passage above emphasizes which of the following points about mediators? A. They should try to form no opinions of their own about any issue that is related to the dispute. B. They should not agree to serve unless they are commi

9、tted to maintaining a stance of impartiality. C. They should not agree to serve unless they are equally acceptable to all parties to a dispute. D. They should feel free to take sides in the dispute right from the start, provided that they make their biases publicly known. E. They should reserve the

10、right to abandon their impartiality so as not to be open to the charge of having been deceitful. GRE阅读真题之OG Passage 3 OG-1 Passage 3 Was Felix Mendelssohn (18091847) a great composer? On its face, the question seems absurd. One of the most gifted prodigies in the history of music, he produced his fi

11、rst masterpiece at sixteen. From then on, he was recognized as an artist of preternatural abilities, not only as a composer but also as a pianist and conductor. But Mendelssohns enduring popularity has often been at odds sometimes quite sharply with his critical standing. Despite general acknowledgm

12、ent of his genius, there has been a noticeable reluctance to rank him with, say, Schumann or Brahms. As Haggin put it, Mendelssohn, as a composer, was a “minor masterworking on a small scale of emotion and texture.” 1. Select a sentence in the passage whose function is to indicate the range of Mende

13、lssohns musical talents. 2. The passage suggests that anyone attempting to evaluate Mendelssohns career must confront which of the following dichotomies? A. The tension between Mendelssohns career as a composer and his career as a pianist and conductor B. The contrast between Mendelssohns popularity

14、 and that of Schumann and Brahms C. The discrepancy between Mendelssohns popularity and his standing among critics D. The inconsistency between Mendelssohns reputation during his lifetime and his reputation since his death E. The gap between Mendelssohns prodigious musical beginnings and his decline

15、 in later years. 3. The author mentions Schumann and Brahms primarily in order to A. provide examples of composers who are often compared with Mendelssohn B. identify certain composers who are more popular than Mendelssohn C. identify composers whom Mendelssohn influenced D. establish the milieu in

16、which Mendelssohn worked E. establish a standard of comparison for Mendelssohn as a composer GRE阅读真题之OG Passage 4 OG-1 Passage 4 While most scholarship on womens employment in the United States recognizes that the Second World War (19391945) dramatically changed the role of women in the workforce, t

17、hese studies also acknowledge that few women remained in manufacturing jobs once men returned from the war. But in agriculture, unlike other industries where women were viewed as temporary workers, womens employment did not end with the war. Instead, the expansion of agriculture and a steady decreas

18、e in the number of male farmworkers combined to cause the industry to hire more women in the postwar years. Consequently, the 1950s saw a growing number of women engaged in farm labor, even though rhetoric in the popular media called for the return of women to domestic life. 1. It can be inferred fr

19、om the passage that the manufacturing and agricultural sectors in the United States following the Second World War differed in which of the following respects? A. The rate of expansion in each sector B. The percentage of employees in each sector who were men C. The trend in the wages of men employed

20、 in each sector D. The attitude of the popular media toward the employment of women in each sector E. The extent to which women in each sector were satisfied with their jobs 2. Which of the following statements about womens employment in the United States during and after the Second World War is mos

21、t clearly supported by the passage? A. Most women who joined the workforce during the Second World War wanted to return to domestic life when the war ended. B. The great majority of women who joined the workforce during the Second World War were employed in manufacturing jobs. C. The end of the Seco

22、nd World War was followed by a large-scale transfer of women workers from manufacturing to agriculture. D. The increase in womens employment that accompanied the Second World War was longer lasting in agriculture than it was in manufacturing. E. The popular media were more forceful in calling for women to join the workforce during the Second World War than in calling for women to return to domestic life after the war. GRE阅读真题之OG答案 Passage第一题其次题第三题第四题1EAC“His classics.”2B3“From conductor.”CE4BD