GMT考试:Testprep数学精解(3)_Essay

　　CHNIQUE IS QUITE EFFECTIVE IN CONVINCING PEOPLE THAT A CERTAIN POSITION IS C

　　ORRECT. WE ARE MORE LIKELY TO BELIEVE SOMETHING IF WE FEEL THAT WE CONCLUDED

　　IT ON OUR OWN, OR AT LEAST IF WE FEEL THAT WE WERE NOT TOLD TO BELIEVE IT.

　　A CONCLUSION PUT IN QUESTION FORM CAN HAVE THIS RESULT.

　　EXAMPLE:

　　THE NANUUTS BELIEVE THAT THEY SHOULD NOT TAKE FROM NATURE ANYTHING SHE CANNO

　　T REPLENISH DURING THEIR LIFETIME. THIS ASSURES THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS CAN

　　ENJOY THE SAME RICHES OF NATURE THAT THEY HAVE. AT THE CURRENT RATE OF DESTR

　　UCTION, THE RAIN FORESTS WILL DISAPPEAR DURING OUR LIFETIME. DO WE HAVE AN O

　　BLIGATION TO FUTURE GENERATIONS TO PREVENT THIS RESULT?

　　HERE THE AUTHOR TRUSTS THAT THE POWER OF HER ARGUMENT WILL PERSUADE THE READ

　　ER TO ANSWER THE QUESTION AFFIRMATIVELY.

　　TAKING THIS RHETORICAL TECHNIQUE ONE STEP FURTHER, THE WRITER MAY BUILD UP T

　　O THE CONCLUSION BUT LEAVE IT UNSTATED. THIS ALLOWS THE READER TO MAKE UP HI

　　S OWN MIND. IF THE BUILD-UP IS DONE SKILLFULLY, THE READER WILL BE MORE LIKE

　　LY TO A美国GREE WITH THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT FEELING MANIPULATED.

　　EXAMPLE:

　　HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN SHOULD CAST THE FIRST STONE. THERE IS NO ONE HERE WHO

　　DOES NOT HAVE A SKELETON IN HIS CLOSET.

　　THE UNSTATED BUT OBVIOUS CONCLUSION HERE IS THAT NONE OF THE PEOPLE HAS THE

　　RIGHT TO CAST THE FIRST STONE.

　　WHEN DETERMINING THE CONCLUSION’S SCOPE BE CAREFUL NOT TO READ ANY MORE OR L

　　ESSSINTOSIT THAN THE AUTHOR STATES. GMAT WRITERS OFTEN CREATE WRONG ANSWER-C

　　HOICES BY SLIGHTLY OVERSTATING OR UNDERSTATING THE AUTHOR’S CLAIM. CERTAIN W

　　ORDS LIMIT THE SCOPE OF A STATEMENT. THESE WORDS ARE CALLED QUANTIFIERS--PAY

　　CLOSE ATTENTION TO THEM. FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF THE MOST IMPORTANT QUANTIFI

　　ERS:

　　QUANTIFIERS

　　ALL EXCEPT LIKELY

　　SOME MOST MANY

　　ONLY COULD NO

　　NEVER ALWAYS EVERYWHERE

　　PROBABLY MUST ALONE

　　EXAMPLE:

　　WHETHER THE WORLD IS EUCLIDEAN OR NON-EUCLIDEAN IS STILL AN OPEN QUESTION.

　　HOWEVER, IF A STAR’S POSITION IS PREDICTED BASED ON NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY,

　　THEN WHEN A TELESCOPE IS POINTED TOSWHERESTHE STAR SHOULD BE IT WILL BE THER

　　E. WHEREAS, IF THE STAR’S POSITION IS PREDICTED BASED ON EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY,

　　THEN WHEN A TELESCOPE IS POINTED TOSWHERESTHE STAR SHOULD BE IT WON’T BE TH

　　ERE. THIS STRONGLY INDICATES THAT THE WORLD IS NON-EUCLIDEAN.

　　WHICH ONE OF THE FOLLOWING BEST EXPRESSES THE MAIN IDEA OF THE PASSAGE?

　　(A) THE WORLD MAY OR MAY NOT BE EUCLIDEAN.

　　(B) THE WORLD IS PROBABLY NON-EUCLIDEAN.

　　(D) THE WORLD IS EUCLIDEAN.

　　(E) THE WORLD IS NEITHER EUCLIDEAN NOR NON-EUCLIDEAN.