很多同学在做GRE题目时会非常关注but/yet/however这一类的转折词,并且会默认这些转折词的出现一定是标志着“取反”逻辑。但实际上,无论是在GRE填空还是GRE阅读中这种“默认”都坑惨了很多同学
大家先来做一道阅读题来测试一下自己对于but逻辑是否存在重大误解,然后我们来总结一下“but”在GRE中的奥义!
Early in the twentieth century, San Francisco was the main venue for African American jazz musicians on the West Coast of the United States. Musical activity was centered in a district known as the Barbary Coast, where an abundance of nightclubs provided ample work opportunities for local players and drew musicians and other entertainers, many of them African American, from throughout the country. In 1921, as part of its Prohibition-era efforts, the government closed the Barbary Coast. This closure was the decisive event that established Los Angeles as the premier center for jazz on the West Coast. Once the Barbary Coast was shut down, it became far harder for jazz musicians to make a living in San Francisco; thus, many headed south to Los Angeles.
Yet even before that closing, the center of jazz activity had begun to swing southward. With the largest and fastest growing African American urban community in the West, as well as the growing movie industry and an emerging recording industry, Los Angeles was already a magnet for jazz musicians from other parts of the country, especially New Orleans, where jazz players suffered a devastating blow with closing of the Storyville district in 1917.
第一段:Prohibition使得Jazz center 从SF转移到了LA
第二段:但是,在Prohibition之前就有很多因素开始让Jazz center 从SF转移到了LA了。
我们在分析GRE阅读时永远要“形式优先”而非“内容优先”。
这其实也是我在课上反复强调的一件事儿,GRE阅读考的不是让我们用“自己的逻辑”去拼凑文章的信息。而应该是利用“作者的逻辑形式”来对信息建立正确的理解。
所以只有当“转折词前有引用观点”的情况下,我们才会把这个转折朝“质疑”的方向去理解。否则,我们无论如何不应该读出质疑。
第一段:很多人觉得,是Prohibition的出现使得Jazz center 从SF转移到了LA
第二段:但是,在Prohibition之前就有很多因素开始让Jazz center 从SF转移到了LA了。
但就是这样一个看起来不起眼的视角标志,就会完全改变我们对这篇文章的逻辑理解。这就是“形式优先”带给我们的意义。
总结
通过今天的分享,希望同学们之后在做GRE题时,不要过分简化逻辑!“but表转折”是一种过分笼统化的逻辑概括,并不能帮助我们解决GRE题目,同学们需要系统性学习GRE中会出现的所有“精准逻辑”和“具体功能”才能更好地应对GRE题目的考点!