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GRE考试中，阅读的难度一直碾压填空和数学，让许多同学困扰不已。专业晦涩的名词、长难句、错综复杂的逻辑，常常让大家无从下手。
今天就和大家分享如何用思维导图法梳理逻辑、轻松拆解所有阅读！
在读一篇阅读的前三句时，牢记一个目的：
总结出一句核心问题。
这个方法，可以快速抓住文章的核心话题，遇到主旨题、作用题，轻松解答。还可以帮我们规避很多无关信息，像年代、地点、信息给得再多，如果不能让我们读完，帮助梳理出核心问题，就可以先留下个基本印象，不用着重记忆。
附赠一条小提示，GRE阅读，往往让你看了一堆细节信息，迟迟不亮出核心句，这个时候，大家要耐心读下去，并在接下来的二、三句话，提炼出核心问题。
让我们看一个例子：
例题
Three core samples taken from different locations on the bed of Lake Tokotan consist mainly of organic-rich clay but also contain two sand layers at a depth indicating deposition in the seventeenth century. The coastal freshwater lake is replenished entirely by rainfall and surface seepage, and the absence of river inflow eliminates fluvial deposition as a possible origin for the sand layers. The sand layers are thicker on the lake’s seaward side, suggesting landward transport of the sand at the time of its deposition. In these layers, the diatoms (algae with glasslike cell walls) are very rare and in a fragmented state, suggesting their deposition by strong currents. In sum, then, the most probable explanation for the sand layers is that they were deposited either by unusually large storm surges or else by tsunamis (i.e., tidal waves). It is difficult to distinguish tsunami deposits form storm-surge deposits. But Lake Tokotan is protected by a sand barrier and connected to the sea by a shallow, narrow outlet, and the velocities of the current through this narrow entrance during a storm surge are unlikely to be strong enough to transport sand and gravel far into the lake. It can be inferred, therefore, that the sand layers were deposited by tsunami waves that overtopped and caused severe erosion of the sand.
这篇阅读读完第一句，发现它是堆砌事实的陈述句，并没有表达文章想讨论的核心问题。耐心读第二句，eliminates fluvial deposition as a possible origin for the sand layers，这句让我们明白了作者的意图，即通过分析，排除或认可各种可能性，来判断sand layer形成的来源是什么。考场上，可以在草稿纸上写出，文章的中心问题是：What’s the origin of sand layer?
在后续的阅读中，可以用自己的标志、符号，加上抓取出的几个关键词，梳理出文章的逻辑框架。我们继续来看下，刚刚的文章如何围绕核心问题，画出思维导图：
Q: What is the origin of sand layers?
False: Fluvial deposition
True: landward, currents
-storm---> narrow entrance--->false
-tsunamis--->True
A: Tsunamis.
是不是一目了然？虽然简洁，但相信认真读文章的同学们都会发现，它记录下了文章最有价值的信息，让大家在考场上节省时间，事半功倍。
我们再看一个例子：
例题
At first glance, the place of Henry James among Modernist writers remains somewhat problematic. His dozen or more novels and scores of short stories obey the classic rules. Unlike Modernist novels, whose focus on characters' inner lives provoked critics, complaints that“nothing happens" James's plots move forward at a relentless pace, with denouements occurring where convention has put them, at the end. Their dialogue, if at times high-flown, is naturalistic, their author appears as an all-knowing presence. Despite these literary orthodoxies, though, James's works, especially his late novels, show something amazingly new and unexpected. His explorations of consciousness shy at no complexity and lend his otherwise conventional novels the focus on interiority that characterizes the Modernist project in fiction.
通过第一句，可以整理出一个问题：Henry James到底算不算现代主义作家？接下来我们整理文章的逻辑结构，首先我们看到的是，HJ的特点包括Classic、Naturalist、重视情节的发展。与此平行的一条逻辑是，Modernistic关注角色的内在。从Despite these literary orthodoxies, though，这一句开始，第三条逻辑出现了，并且出现一个对比关系，HJ的大量小说和HJ的晚期小说之间形成对比，HJ晚期小说的特点是关注人物的内心活动，因此和Modernist靠拢了。
把这段冗长的文字叙述，转化成思维导图，就清晰多了。
Q: Is Henry James a Modernist?
No: HJ is a classic, naturalist.
Modernist: inner lives.
Yes: HJ’s later works: unexpected, interiority.
A: Yes. Proved by his later works.
模考真实笔记示例
一个核心问题，三条平行逻辑，出现对比关系的两条，我们用双箭头加一个叉，表示了反差关系，用“：”表示某事物的特点是什么。大家可以用自己的符号和标记，把一段文字精简为一张导图，这样在考场上解题又快又准。
读完文章后，用一句话回答我们之前的问题。这个方法，有助于认清作者真正的立场是什么，理解作者最终的观点和态度，同样有助于回答作用类和主旨类的题目哦。
最后，让我们运用这三步，攻克一篇长阅读：
冗长的大段落，经过系统的梳理也可以变得更加有条理，做题也更丝滑！
模考真实笔记示例
通过这三个步骤的拆解，相信同学们已经对如何用思维导图法拆解GRE阅读有了一个相对清晰的认知了。接下来，可以多找找阅读题练习，逐步熟悉和掌握方法啦！
除此之外，我们也为大家整理了一份超！全！的！GRE阅读思维导图，通过各种角度的拆解，帮助大家拿下阅读！！
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