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 还有50天，可是备考状态大不如以前，单词记得慢又少，verbal部分错的多，阅读还是一到长阅读就懵。文学评论和历史还是错误百出，要怎么继续提高，作文也写到麻木，真的能坚持自己最初的想法到最后吗？ 实验进度也慢，不知道自己整天在干嘛，没有提高却每天都很忙，可能需要转换复习的方式，将holostudy转成specific，一项一项慢慢来比较好。 那目前最需要解决的便是verbal部分，reading和tc，tc做的慢，每次到reading都没有时间，继续定时做题，提高做题效率和理解能力，主要还是英文水平不够高，理解不到位且花的时间多。

     Late-eighteenth-century English cultural authorities seemingly concurred that women readers should favor history, seen as edifying, than fiction, which was regarded as frivolous and reductive. Readers of Marry Ann Hanway’s novel Andrew Stewart, or the Northern Wanderer, learning that its heroine delights in David Hume’s and Edward Gibbon’s histories, could conclude that she was more virtuous and intelligent than her sister, who disdains such reading. Likewise, while the naïve, novel-addicted protagonist of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland, finds history a chore, the sophisticated, sensible character Eleanor Tilney enjoys it more than she does the Gothic fiction Catherine prefers. Yet in both cases, the praise of history is more double-edged than it might actually appear. Many readers have detected a protofeminist critique of history in Catherine’s protest that she dislikes reading books filled with men “and hardly any women at all.” Hanway, meanwhile...

“Blues is for singing,” writes folk musicologist Paul Oliver, and “is not a form of folk song that stands up particularly well when written down.” A poet who wants to write blues can attempt to avoid this problem by poeticizing the form—but literary blues tend to read like bad poetry rather than like refined folk song. For Oliver, the true spirit of the blues inevitably eludes the self-conscious imitator. However, Langston Hughes, the first writer to grapple with these difficulties of blue poetry, in fact succeeded in producing poems that capture the quality of genuine, performed blues while remaining effective as poems. In inventing blues poetry, Hughes solved two problems: first, how to write blues lyrics in such a way that they work on the printed page, and second, how to exploit the blues form poetically without losing all sense of authenticity. There are many styles of blues, but the distinction of importance to Hughes is between the genres referred to as “folk blues” and “classi...

     Mary Barton, particularly in its early chapters, is a moving response to the suffering of the industrial worker in the England of the 1840s. What is most impressive about the book is the intense and painstaking effort made by the author, Elizabeth Gaskell, to convey the experience of everyday life in working class homes. Her method is partly documentary in nature: the novel includes such features as a carefully annotate reproduction of dialect, the exact details of food prices in an account of a tea party, an itemized description of the furniture of the Bartons’ living room, and a transcription (again annotated) of the ballad “The Oldham Weaver”. The interest of this record is considerable, even though the method has a slightly distancing effect.      As a member of the middle class, Gaskell could hardly help approaching working-class life as an outside observer and a reporter, and the reader of the novel is always conscious of this fact. But there is ...

Historian F. W. Maitland observed that legal documents are the best—indeed, often the only—available evidence about the economic and social history of a given period. Why, then, has it taken so long for historians to focus systematically on the civil (noncriminal) law of early modern (sixteenth- to eighteenth-century) England? Maitland offered one reason: the subject requires researchers to "master an extremely formal system of pleading and procedure." Yet the complexities that confront those who would study such materials are not wholly different from those recently surmounted by historians of criminal law in England during the same period. Another possible explanation for historians' neglect of the subject is their widespread assumption that most people in early modern England had little contact with civil law. If that were so, the history of legal matters would be of little relevance to general historical scholarship. But recent research suggests that civil litigatio...

Recently an unusually high number of dolphins have been found dead of infectious diseases, and most of these had abnormally high tissue concentrations of certain compounds that, even in low concentrations, reduce dolphins’ resistance to infection. The only source of these compounds in the dolphins’ environment is boat paint. Therefore, since dolphins rid their bodies of the compounds rapidly once exposure ceases, their mortality rate should decline rapidly if such boat paints are banned. Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument? A- The levels of the compounds typically used in boat paints today are lower than they were in boat paints manufactured a decade ago. B- In high concentrations, the compounds are toxic to many types of marine animals. C- The compounds break down into harmless substances after a few months of exposure to water or air. D- High tissue levels of the compounds have recently been found in some marine animals, but there is no record of any of tho...

A portrait type that appeared with relentless frequency in eighteenth-century England is the familiar image of a gentleman poised with one hand inside his partially unbuttoned waistcoat. Standard interpretations of this portrait posture offer observations of correspondence—demonstrating either that it mirrors actual social behavior or that it borrows from classical statuary. Such explanations, however, illuminate neither the source of this curious convention nor the reason for its popularity. It is true that in real life the "hand-in" was a common stance for elite men. Still, there were other ways of comporting the body that did not become winning portrait formulas. And even if the "hand-in' portrait does resemble certain classical statues, what accounts for the adoption of this particular pose? Which of the following might provide an explanation for the popularity of hand-in portraits that would satisfy the author of the passage? ❑ An eighteenth-century English eti...

 PPT2-ETS verbal：156 (stable) Quant：158（waterloo） 从来没有低过164的数学，心情十分的不悦还有55天，结果水平退后了？？？ 最近心情非常的不平静：导师有个去加拿大1.5年的项目，也和自己的课题相关，非常想去，但是如果去了意味着延毕半年。 自己的这个留学目标到底最终能不能完成，加拿大的项目我是非常想去，可是为什么会觉得时间长不想去，我到底在担心什么？如果按申请时间，明年10-11月，是担心错过申请季，要多读1年研究生。但是这一年的研究生也是在国外读的，相当于工作/实习，有工资。并且自己也很想去看看外面的世界，如果去不了最后，我应该也会非常的失落。 所以自己的内心已经有想法了，就在没有确定的时候希望老师能不能帮忙把时间控制在1年左右，不是很希望延毕。但是延毕有什么呢？我最后一年也是在国外，不懂自己到底在担心什么。 最后想来想去就是我想去，但同时希望可以赶上国外博士的申请季，所以如果最后结果是延毕我也会同意去的，只是现在在老师还不确定的时间下，希望可以争取时间赶上申请和毕业。并且在咨询过以前的老师和同学之后，发现这个项目还是利大于弊，是应该坚持的好机会。如果最后确定还是1.5年，我也回同意延毕一年时间去的，我会想办法说服父母，结果还是一样。希望我能实现自己的目标和梦想~ 太纠结的性格，不知道自己和导师沟通过程中，他能否完全明白自己的意思。怕老师误会，多愁善感的人啊！！！能不能放开心，不要纠结这么多，不然每次模考都不静心，成绩只会越来越差。

When selecting a nest, the female of the river blenny (a small fish) appears to be sensitive to both size and orientation. Blennies deposit their eggs preferably in nests under large stones and in nests facing southeast. Southeast-facing nests contain larger egg clutches, a fact that cannot be completely explained by differences in nest stone sizes. Moreover, in a recent study, current speeds upstream of the nest and at the nest entrance were similar for nests facing southeast and those facing in other directions. A southeast-facing entrance per se thus seems to be the specific nest feature preferred by females, rather than the effect of selective positioning on current at nest entrance. The reasons for this preference are unclear, however. 1. The passage is concerned with which of the following A. determining the different ways in which current speeds can influence the nesting preferences of female river blennies B. establishing nest orientation as a determining factor in egg laying ...

Meggers argued that agriculture depends on extracting nutrients from soils into edible crops,so premodern societies in Amazonia could never grow large because underlying soils are impoverished. In Meggers’ view the population size that a culture could reach depended upon the agricultural potential of its environment. Meggers accepted that fish and turtle resources of the Amazon made possible the long riverside villages the explorer Orellana described in 1542, but she dismissed as exaggerated Carvajal’s estimates of tens of thousands of people in those settlements, and she was sure those settlements did not have inland counterparts. Supporting this point, the Omagua, a riverbank people and one of the greatest chiefdoms observed by Carvajal as a member of Orellana’s expedition, regarded hinterland forests as unpopulated wilderness. 1. In the context of the passage the highlighted sentence serves to A. explain the broader rationale for a conclusion described in the preceding sentence B. s...

Some attine ants carry vegetation into their nests and add fungal material, thereby creating “gardens” in which fungal food for the ants grow. Because the ants play the behaviorally active role, it seems compelling to say that they cultivate and control the passive fungi. But even if that is true, the symbiotic association has existed for so long that cultivar traits may have evolved in the fungi that benefit the fungi but not necessarily the ants. Furthermore, many microorganisms have developed sophisticated mechanisms to manipulate the physiology and behavior of their symbiotic animals. It is not implausible, therefore, that the ants’ fungi have evolved chemical and physiological schemes that alter ant behavior to serve the fungus’ reproductive interests, possibly even compromising the reproductive interests for the ant hosts. 1. The passage points out which of the following in order to explain the appeal of the notion that some attine ants cultivate and control fungus? A. The ants ...

Analyzing levels of proportional representation of American Indians in state and local government jobs is important for several reasons. First, the basic idea underlying the theory of representative bureaucracy is that the demographic composition of bureaucracy should mirror the demographic composition of the general public. This is because in addition to its symbolic value, increased access to managerial position may lead to greater responsiveness on the part of policy makers to the policy interests of traditionally disadvantaged groups such as American Indians. Second, the focus on higher level jobs in bureaucracies (as opposed to non-managerial positions) is especially important because managerial positions represent a major source of economic progress for members of traditionally disadvantaged groups, as these jobs confer good salaries, benefits, status, security, and mobility. Third, it is important to know if there has been growth in the American Indian share of more desirable p...

By 1950, the results of attempts to relate brain processes to mental experience appeared rather discouraging. Such variations in size, shape, chemistry, conduction speed, excitation threshold, and the like as had been demonstrated in nerve cells remained negligible in significance for any possible correlation with the manifold dimensions of mental experience. Purpose: to claim that by 1950 attempts to link brain processes and mental experience had been discouraging . Near the turn of the century, it had been suggested by Hering that different modes of sensation, such as pain, taste, and color, might be correlated with the discharge of specific kinds of nervous energy. However, subsequently developed methods of recording and analyzing nerve potentials failed to reveal any such qualitative diversity. It was possible to demonstrate by other methods refined structural differences among neuron types; however, proof was lacking that the quality of the impulse or its condition was influenced...

The painting know as red star at night depicts a red star shining prominently over a farmhouse on a hill. The painting has long been believed to be work of the 19th century french artist jean paul lapierre, because the red paint used for the star matches the paint lapierre used to highlight important elements in several of his other works. This belief must be incorrect, because lapierre painted from direct observations of his subject and the stars and constellations depicted in the painting were not visible ion france during lapierre's lifeitme. Each of the following, if true, would weaken the argument against the long-held belief about the painting's origin except A) Many artists of the 19th century used each others' work as subjects painting the same sense but incorporating their own stylistic elements. B) Lapierre often travelled widely to meet artists in other countries and learn form their methods and exp. C) the red paint used in Red Star at night was available only ...

 Princeton Review--GRE online test verbal: 156 Quant: 164 Aim--V 156; Q 167; AW 4

 最近喜欢一个YouTube频道，叫the dodo man。 很喜欢这两位youtuber，很认同也很欣赏他们的价值观--跳出舒适圈。这也是常常激励着我自己的一句话，看见他们的影片，就很想要做一些疯狂的事情。 更加知道自己想要的是什么，继续加油~

 从开始备考到现在已经将近一年时间，从最开始的对这个考试陌生的感觉到现在逐渐熟悉。距离考试还有六十多天，心情有焦虑、紧张、期待与兴奋。希望能早日结束这个漫长的过程，但又不确定最后的结果如何，有点担忧，当然也不缺自信。在脚踏实地的备考过程中，的确也收获了很多，对人生的思考，理性思维的锻炼，当然最主要的是语言的进步。准备过程中，逐步确定自己的目标与方向，渐渐地没有迷茫与不安，希望两个月后能收获好的结果！ 常常思考自己的选择，人生的意义，在不断地探索中找到归属。

 The revival of mural painting that has occurred in San Francisco since the 1970s, especially among the Chicano population of the city’s Mission District, has marked differences from its social realist forerunner in Mexico and the United States some 40 years earlier. Rather than being government sponsored and limited to murals on government buildings, the contemporary mural movement sprang from the people themselves, with murals appearing on community buildings and throughout college campuses. Perhaps the biggest difference, however, is the process. In earlier twentieth-century Mexico, murals resulted from the vision of individual artists. But today’s murals are characteristically the products of artists working with local residents on design and creation. Such community engagement is characteristic of the Chicano art movement as a whole, which  evolved from the same foundations as the Chicano civil rights movement of the mid-1960s . Both were a direct response to the needs o...

 Animals live longer when their calorie intake is restricted to two-thirds of what is considered normal for their species. Animals so restricted are also generally healthier: most disease, including cancer, diabetes, and neurodegenerative illness, are forestalled. This phenomenon was long attributed to a simple slowing of metabolism (cells’ production of energy from fuel molecules) and consequent reduction of its toxic by-products in response to less food. In fact, however, calorie restriction does not slow mammalian metabolism, and in yeast and worms, metabolism is both sped up and altered. Some scientists now theorize that calorie restriction is a biological stressor that, like natural food scarcity, induces a more complex defensive response, which in mammals includes changes in cellular defenses and repair. structure:  1. restrict food intake--live longer 2. reason: slow metabolism 3. author： however--slowing metabolism is not the reason    evidence: the rates of ...

 A critical consensus has emerged that Mary McCarthy will be remembered primarily as an essayist rather than as a novelist. But despite her formidable gifts as a polemical and discursive writer, and for all her reputation as an intellectual who sacrificed feeling to intelligence, what powers McCarthy’s best essays are her fictional rather than strictly intellectual gifts. She makes her points by telling stories or by way of vivid description, arresting images and subtle characterization. And for all her exacting sense of fact, McCarthy’s greatest contribution was to blur the distinctions between different kinds of prose writing: to show how fiction could be opened up to the thinking mind and how essays could profit from the techniques of fiction. For the following question, consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply. 1. The author of the passage suggests that Mary McCarthy’s writing is characterized by A. The use in her essays of devices more typical in works...