GRE閱讀中否定就是不認可？too young too simple

所謂閱讀，其實讀的是出題人的小心思。人家暗送了秋波，我們可不能做鋼鐵直男呀~get人家的春光明媚的小眼神才能牽手嘉賓成功。

所以，可別做個愣頭青老想著文章有啥，題目就得寫啥，婉約隱晦的小巧思才是成功路上危機重重的陷阱所在。

GRE閱讀中迂迴表達常見方式之一：

雙重否定表示肯定

這種不好好說話的方式經常絆倒善良可愛的同學們。比如我們看兩個例子：

Passage 125

While

few

people

doubt

that captive cetaceans are adept at imitation or that they reproduce behaviors taught by researchers， biologists seeking insight into cetaceans’ behavior in their natural habitats must rely on deduction rather than experiments。

few：很少 doubt:質疑

很少有人質疑，那就是大家認可呀~所以人們對於doubt後面that所引導的內容是肯定態度。

Passage 326

B。 The Hittite tablets and the Iliad are not derived from a common source that had no

basis in historical fact。

Not derived from...：不是來自於……

Had no basis：沒有基礎

tablets和L

都不是來自於沒有歷史事實的常識，雙重否定表示肯定，也就是tablets和L都是來自於歷史事實。

GRE閱讀中拐彎抹角不好好說話已是常態，燒死幾個腦細胞都想不明白到底在說啥~所以如果句子裡一旦出現各種表示否定意義的詞語，一定要提高警惕，捋一捋它究竟想鬧哪樣~

下面這道題是最近點播頻率很高的一道題。有一個選項很多同學都容易漏選。

這裡友情提示，結合我們前面結合我們前面說的有關否定資訊的內容仔細琢磨一下DB的觀點到底有哪些。

DB認為別人沒有做好的事情=DB認為應該去做到的事情。

Passage 215

W。E。B。 Du Bois’ exhibit of African American history and culture at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle attracted the attention of a world of sociological scholarship whose value his work challenged。 Du Bois believed that Spencerian sociologists failed in their attempts to gain greater understanding of human deeds because their work examined not deeds but theories and because they gathered data not to affect social progress but merely to theorize。 In his exhibit， Du Bois sought to present cultural artifacts that would shift the focus of sociology from the construction of vast generalizations to the observation of particular， living individual elements of society and the working contributions of individual people to a vast functioning social structure。

For the following question， consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply。

2. The passage implies that Du Bois believed which of the following statements about sociology?

A。 It should contribute to the betterment of society。

B。 It should study what people actually do。

C。 It should focus on how existing social structures determine individual behavior。

人名很可愛，可以幫助我們快速做定位。不要有資訊遺漏哦~否定資訊想一想，DB認為應該做到的事情是什麼呢？

所以，這題可以選誰呢？

答案解析

Du Bois believed that Spencerian sociologists failed in their attempts to gain greater

understanding of human deeds because their work examined not deeds but theories and because they gathered data not to affect social progress but merely to theorize。

DB認為S社會學者沒有實現對於人類行為的理解。因為他們的工作沒有審視deeds而是theories，並且他們收集的資料沒有用來影響社會進步而只是影響了theorize。

證明，DB人為，應該審視deed，應該用資料來為社會進步做貢獻。取反來的。否定他人，所以他人觀點的反面就是自己認可的。

因此，選A。

最後一句，概括大意選B。