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 本来今天还是想在实验室看书复习，但是昨天晚上临时学姐让我帮忙实验，所以我今天一大早就到实验室，完成实验之后，想说去拿假条然后直接去图书馆复习。离开实验室时，因为同学们都在，所以难以避免的跟同学告知了自己的行程，本意是不想说的，但实在没有想到好的理由，就跟座位附近几个同学说了。 拿假条的流程也真是繁琐和消耗心力，明明线上审批已经结束还要求线下也完成审批。所以上午在审批老师开会的情况下，我回宿舍看了会verbal填空的错题。 然后不知为何，心情开始激动了起来，明明距离考试还有3天，现在开始兴奋会不会太早啊，万一考试那天心情不好不是一下全完了。其实昨天晚上就有心情突然激动的感觉，晚上睡觉前也需要一段时间来平复自己的内心。怎么说呢，在自己学习和复习GRE的过程，已经近1年时间。希望自己的努力可以拥有自己理想的成绩，但也担忧限于自己的学习能力和英语水平，以及自己学习效率，对知识点的吸收程度，又担心没有完美的分数，可能对自己的要求过高但有没有良好地认识到自己地水平以及复习地时间局限。 根据之前几次模考地预测，verbal应该在154-156之间，quant应该在167左右，aw均分3左右，算下来，总分应该是324左右，但由于期间有几次模考成绩下降，心里难免压力增大，不知道最后是否能拿到自己平时模考地水平。and 作文模考时，issue部分总是会写不完，最根本的原因，自己觉得应该是在单词地拼写上面，打字的速度是快了，但是因为单词拼写的不确定难免需要思考久一点的时间，所以这两天需要集中复习，常用的单词，如argument的connection unsound ungrounded untenable等等包括 technology vehicle 等等这些单词word和平时拼写时都有人工纠错，在没有纠错时就很有可能拼写错误。 这两天的复习计划，一是看错题verbal部分和quant部分，还有quant的知识点，二是作文部分的构思和单词的拼写。 从60天开始记录自己的心情，到现在还剩3天，坚持住夏夏。风雨过后必定有彩虹。

 随着进入到不到两周的考试倒计时，内心有点兴奋，相信自己的付出都会有回报 like one says "just do it, it pays." 昨天和学妹去酒吧，我生平第一次躺在了酒吧的厕所里。其实那短短的10几分钟前后，我的意识都还是蛮清醒的，包括知道自己的酒劲上来了，只想单纯的自己呆着缓一缓，但瞬间超级困，就那样倒在了“天堂”的地板上，准备睡上一会。天呐，从未想过自己做出如此不得体的行为，下次还是要有所节制--还有下次吗？一直相信自己都是self-discipline 类型的人。em去酒吧放松一下也不算什么，主要是，第一次知道自己的酒量“惊人”。如此生活，真是让人又爱又恨。一方面，又想要靠近，另一方面，又想要远离。 在备考GRE的同时，随着接触欧美文化和文学艺术，自己也一直在思考，自己想要过的生活是什么。虽然知道，最后普通人的生活都是一样的，安稳平静地生活，有一份体面的工作，support 自己的同时可以追求自己的爱好与兴趣。但在看过更好的生活之后，也清楚地知道我想要的生活不止这样，至少物质生活不仅是江南大学硕士文凭可以满足我的。但是也能感受到自己的物欲正在逐渐增加，所以什么样的价值观才是适合自己的。 也同时有反思自己一直戒不掉的计较与恶性竞争的想法，总是担心自己怕被超越从而给别人施压。非常了解这是一个不好的，甚至是致命的想法和行为，但总是在自我保护上，拒绝给别人提供帮助，因为害怕超越。心态什么的，要如何放平，包括现在也在努力做一些改变，在说了或做了不好的事情后，经过自己的思考，尝试去补救，坦诚地对待自己地内心，接受自己地这些想法，也不用害怕担心被别人评论，一方面是I am who I am,另一方面是我也在尝试去改正这些缺点，尽量不让这些确定影响别人。 关于文学与艺术，在“搞事业”的路上，我慢慢地放弃了自己内心对兴趣，生活地热爱，我也能感受到这一点，总是告诉自己，等xxx结束了，再xxxx。殊不知，人的生命总有一次，时间过去了就不再重来。但是自己这样对得失很看重的性格，总是这样对自己说“等工作”“等拿到自己想要的物质生活”。目前在让自己变强的路上也是为自己赢得日后的自由。 感叹归感叹，遗憾归遗憾，还是跟自己说，等GRE考完！ 一直很喜欢一个理念，work hard，play hard。 最理想的生活，还是，既能朝九晚五，也能浪迹天涯，随...

The recently announced discovery of the first known planet orbiting a pulsar (the ultra-dense, pulsating remnant off the supernova explosion of a star) turned out to be based on faulty data. Had this discovery been confirmed, theorists would have had difficulty accounting for the existence of such a planet. The supernova would certainly have destroyed any preexisting planets. This particular pulsar is relatively young, allowing little time for a new planet to have coalesced, and it rotates relatively slowly, implying that it has not interacted with any nearby star since the supernova. But newer evidence of a different pulsar with planets is more promising. This is a rapidly spurring “millisecond pulsar” thought to be a much older object that has pulled gaseous material from a stellar neighbor, causing its rotational speed to increase. Leftover, unconsumed gas around such a pulsar could, in theory, coalesce into planets. Or the pulsar’s radiation might have vaporized a companion star, ...

距离GRE考试还有19天， 昨天做了套powerprep plus，花了39刀（心疼）； verbal 153； quant 165； issue 2（没写完） argument 3 对比康奈尔的要求： verbal 153-160 刚好达标 quant 155-166 上限 aw 3.5-5.5 不达标 作文是硬伤，写不完真的惨。要构思，找观点和阐述。边思考边打字真的慢，虽然自己已经练了一段时间的盲打，不知道为什么打字还是会按不准键，可能笔记本的大小不够施展的， 要继续练习。 verbal从9月一开始的模考156 到后面154，现在掉在153，单词的积累量是增加了。但对文本的理解能力好像老是不到位，容易想多，暗示词不能准确把握。可能还是对单词的具体意思不够了解，之前掌握的熟词刚好是答案，现在掌握的生词多了，又不能很好地判断他们的区别，一知半解所以容易误选。而且，没有很仔细认真地检查每一道题目。 quant 第一个section只错了一个，但是进入到hard 模式之后错误率明显上升，的确这段时间都没有在做quant，但是verbal地阅读理解能力上去了。果真，还是有得有失。还没具体分析quant和verbal的错题，但还是觉得自己在考试过程中容易分心，没有很仔细，上次模考也出现空闲期间玩手机，可能有影响到自己的思路。 最难的是issue，明明花了这么多money 在上课上，但还是效果不明显。一个是写不完，然后找不到点。可能还是要多看范例，找别人想的点，临时突击一下，那几个高频的作文，老是怕自己写离题。argument勉勉强强可以写完，将自己想要找的几个点说完。但是可能还是有逻辑不顺和解释不清楚，以及单词的问题，所以机改只有3分。先写issue，再写argument明显自己的写作思路更顺，用词更丰富。所以真正考试的时候，考试之前要多看几篇issue题目，以确保自己的思路通顺，同时这几周的时间要有意识地练习自己地盲打水平，有意识地加快自己地打字速度，保证考试地时候至少issue要能写完，检查什么地就不奢望了。。。 记得之前看过一篇文章，介绍gre备考过程，不要放弃，及时到最后一刻，当时那位同学在去考场地路上抓到一篇原题。所以，最后这18天，要继续背单词（是药不能停），verbal继续保证每天两篇tc，4篇阅读。同时有时间也要增加quant的练习，quant也从167掉到...

❶ Pueblo Bonito, the most impressive of the "great houses" at the prehistoric Chaco Canyon site in New Mexico, comprised over 600 rooms and 4 to 5 stories. ❷ Traditional interpretations have viewed the great houses as almost entirely residential with some archaeologists estimating the population of Pueblo Bonito at 1,200. ❸ But Windes recently challenged this view by pointing out the paucity of hearths recorded during the excavation of Pueblo Bonito, which revealed only 3 upper-story hearths, in contrast to 59 ground-floor hearths: habituation rooms would have required hearths for cooking and heat. ❹ It is possible, however, that the collapse of upper-story floors disturbed evidence of upper-story hearth to such an extent that they were not revealed by early excavations such as those conducted by Pepper's field crews in the 1890s and Judd's in the 1920s. ❺ Additionally, reliance on room features for early population estimates is complicated by the Chacoan's later ...

Since the 1970s, archaeological sites in China's Yangtze River region have yielded evidence of sophisticated rice-farming societies that predate signs of rice cultivation elsewhere in East Asia by a thousand years. Before this evidence was discovered, it had generally been assumed that rice farming began farther to the south. This scenario was based both on the geographic range of wild or free-living rice, which was not thought to extend as far north as the Yangtze, and on archaeological records of very early domestic rice from Southeast Asia and India (now known to be not so old as first reported). Proponents of the southern-origin theory point out that early rice-farming societies along the Yangtze were already highly developed and that evidence for the first stage of rice cultivation is missing. They argue that the first hunter-gatherers to develop rice agriculture must have done so in this southern zone, within the apparent present-day geographic range of wild rice. Yet while m...

 距离考试只有不到30天的时间，从每天算着时间减少，到现在已经能明显感受到紧张感。国庆放假期间其实的确也没有真正静下心来复习，有些焦虑。包括实验进度，去加拿大交流，食化助教等，一系列事情一直分散自己的学习注意力。可能也是学习到达瓶颈期的表现，一方面还想提高，另一方面好像没有冲劲一般，害怕自己的水平下降，有效学习时间严重降低。 在国庆期间，老师确认明年半年时间加拿大交换项目，之后心态也调整地更好了。按部就班地复习和完成实验，上午半天verbal，下午午休后开始实验，晚上quant或者作文，主要是后半天长时间需要分配给实验。每天睡前，magoosh单词一个list。直接照着单词书背单词现在来说，一是太枯燥无法一直注意力集中，一直没有语境，背单词地效率比较低。所以在睡觉前半小时刷完一个list 50个单词也是蛮快的。magoosh的单词和考试大纲也比较贴切，熟悉词和生词的占比比较好（对我来说）。有些时候，在实验等待期间也拿来被magoosh。 目前TC会做的比之前更好，对句子的理解和分析（包括情感包含和逻辑分析），但是阅读部分理解还是有些比较困难。尤其在文学部分，一直被按在地上摩擦，基本上都错。从过往模考结果来看，最主要的是verbal时间分配问题，每次做到阅读部分时间都不足。所以TC要加快速度，该放就放，pay attention to time limits。但是TC的质量又决定最后能不能进hard模式，总之就是在有限时间内认真仔细对待每一道题目。 ppt的两套免费样题都已经被我做完了，计划这周或下周做一套付费PLUS。争取在考试前吧plus做完，再怎么也应该做完两套。算下来，从暑期每周一节writing/verbal class到现在，也给教育机构贡献了1000多，还有1000多要付。。。希望考试现场可以发挥好，但是自己练习作文我的问题也是时间不够。构思上花的时间太多了，argument最近都没什么时间好好做。所以考前一周也需要多看看之前的argument举例。argument还是有套路可循的，一是conclusion unsound/untenable/unfounded。。。另一个是说明理由。Issue部分其实很多都可以拆分成不同的层级，从personal到government，从individual到group，说明每个issue的复杂性，体现自己的c...

 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 ...

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 ...

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

 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 ...