GRE 全真模擬考 #5：全真綜合模擬
難度：實戰級 | 主題：混合高難度文章 | 出題老師：威威老師
考試總覽
| 部分 | 題型 | 題數 | 建議時間 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verbal Reasoning 1 | RC + TC + SE | 20 題 | 30 分鐘 |
| Verbal Reasoning 2 | RC + TC + SE | 20 題 | 30 分鐘 |
| Quantitative Reasoning | 數學英文題 | 10 題 | 15 分鐘 |
| Analytical Writing | Issue + Argument | 2 篇 | 各 30 分鐘 |
SECTION 1：VERBAL REASONING（20 題）
PART A：READING COMPREHENSION（10 題）
Long Passage（Questions 1-4）
Read the following passage and answer questions 1-4.
The relationship between language and thought has been debated for centuries, but the modern form of the controversy can be traced to the work of Benjamin Lee Whorf, an amateur linguist who studied under Edward Sapir at Yale in the 1930s. Whorf’s central claim—often called the linguistic relativity hypothesis—was that the grammatical structure of a language shapes the habitual patterns of thought of its speakers. His most famous example involved the Hopi language, which Whorf argued lacked grammatical tenses for time and consequently led its speakers to conceptualize temporality in a fundamentally different way from speakers of Indo-European languages. The Whorfian hypothesis, in its strongest form, implied that speakers of different languages inhabit different cognitive worlds.
The empirical fate of Whorf’s claims has not been kind. Beginning in the 1960s, linguistic anthropologists who examined Hopi more carefully demonstrated that Whorf had simply been wrong about its grammatical features: Hopi does have systematic ways of expressing temporal relations, just not through the Indo-European mechanism of verb inflection. This debunking, combined with the rise of Noam Chomsky’s universal grammar theory—which posited a deep cognitive structure shared by all human languages—pushed the linguistic relativity hypothesis to the margins of respectable linguistics for several decades.
In recent years, however, a more modest version of the relativity hypothesis has staged a remarkable comeback, bolstered by carefully controlled experimental evidence rather than impressionistic fieldwork. Researchers have demonstrated, for instance, that speakers of languages that use absolute spatial coordinates (north/south/east/west) rather than relative ones (left/right) exhibit measurably superior spatial orientation abilities. Russian speakers, whose language obligatorily marks shades of blue with distinct basic color terms (goluboy for light blue, siniy for dark blue), are faster at discriminating between blue hues that straddle this lexical boundary than English speakers, for whom the distinction is merely a matter of modifying adjectives. These effects are real, replicable, and theoretically significant. But they are also subtle, domain-specific, and a far cry from the grand Whorfian vision of language as a prison house of thought. What the neo-Whorfian research demonstrates is not that language determines thought but that it nudges attention in certain directions, making some distinctions cognitively easier or more automatic than they would otherwise be. The difference between linguistic determinism and linguistic influence is the difference between a cage and a habit.
1. The primary purpose of the passage is to:
(A) Defend Whorf’s original claims about the Hopi language against recent criticism (B) Trace the trajectory of the linguistic relativity hypothesis from its strong formulation through its decline to its current, more modest revival (C) Argue that Chomsky’s universal grammar theory has been conclusively disproven by neo-Whorfian research (D) Demonstrate that Russian and Hopi are linguistically superior to English (E) Propose a new theory of linguistic relativism that synthesizes Whorf and Chomsky
2. According to the passage, which of the following contributed to the decline of the linguistic relativity hypothesis in the 1960s?
(A) Whorf was discovered to have fabricated his data on Hopi grammar. (B) Chomsky’s universal grammar theory gained prominence in linguistics. (C) Hopi speakers refused to participate in further linguistic studies. (D) The Russian language was shown to lack basic color terms. (E) Experimental psychology abandoned the study of language entirely.
3. The author uses the contrast between “cage” and “habit” to characterize the difference between:
(A) Whorf’s original theory and Sapir’s earlier formulation (B) Linguistic determinism and the more modest form of linguistic influence supported by neo-Whorfian research (C) Chomsky’s universal grammar and Whorf’s linguistic relativity (D) Absolute spatial coordinates and relative spatial coordinates (E) Russian color perception and English color perception
4. Select the sentence that most directly articulates the “more modest version” of the linguistic relativity hypothesis that current research supports.
Short Passage A（Questions 5-6）
Read the following passage and answer questions 5-6.
Game theory, since its formalization by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern in 1944, has been applied to an astonishing range of phenomena: nuclear strategy, evolutionary biology, international trade negotiations, and even marital conflict. Its analytical power derives from its elegant reduction of complex strategic situations to mathematical models in which rational actors pursue defined payoffs. But this reduction comes at a cost. The assumption of rational self-interest that makes game-theoretic models tractable is also, critics charge, what makes them unrealistic. Real human beings cooperate in prisoner’s dilemmas far more often than game theory predicts; they punish unfair behavior even when doing so is costly to themselves; they are influenced by norms, emotions, and identities that have no place in the formal apparatus. Defenders of game theory respond that these deviations from rationality are themselves amenable to game-theoretic analysis—that models incorporating altruistic preferences, reputation effects, and bounded rationality can capture the very behaviors that the simple models miss. The debate, in other words, is not whether game theory is useful but how much of the richness of human social life it can accommodate without losing the precision that makes it powerful.
5. The passage suggests that a limitation of classical game theory is its:
(A) Inability to model any form of strategic interaction (B) Excessive mathematical complexity that makes it inaccessible to non-specialists (C) Reliance on an assumption of rational self-interest that does not always describe actual human behavior (D) Exclusive focus on evolutionary biology at the expense of social phenomena (E) Refusal to acknowledge the contributions of von Neumann and Morgenstern
6. According to the passage, defenders of game theory argue that:
(A) The assumption of rational self-interest should be abandoned entirely (B) Mathematical models have no place in the social sciences (C) More sophisticated models can incorporate the behaviors that simple models miss (D) Human cooperation in prisoner’s dilemmas proves that game theory is useless (E) Only nuclear strategy can be adequately modeled using game-theoretic methods
Short Passage B（Questions 7-8）
Read the following passage and answer questions 7-8.
The concept of “ecosystem services”—the benefits that humans derive from natural ecosystems, including pollination, water purification, carbon sequestration, and flood control—was developed in the 1990s as a strategic intervention in environmental policy. The idea was audacious in its pragmatism: by assigning economic value to processes that markets had treated as free, environmentalists hoped to make the case for conservation in the only language that policymakers and corporations reliably understood—the language of cost-benefit analysis. The strategy has had notable successes, including the development of carbon markets and payments for watershed protection. But it has also generated a vigorous critique from within the environmental movement. Critics argue that the ecosystem services framework, for all its strategic cleverness, implicitly concedes the premise that nature is valuable only insofar as it serves human interests. What happens to a wetland whose “services” can be more cheaply replicated by human engineering? What becomes of species that perform no economically measurable function? The instrumental logic that the framework deploys to protect nature may, in the long run, undermine the ethical conviction that nature deserves protection regardless of its utility. The price of speaking the language of economics, the critics warn, is that you may forget how to speak any other.
7. According to the passage, the ecosystem services framework was designed to:
(A) Replace all existing environmental regulation with market-based mechanisms (B) Prove that nature has no economic value and should be protected for purely spiritual reasons (C) Make the case for conservation using the economic language that influences policy and business decisions (D) Demonstrate that wetlands are economically inferior to human-engineered alternatives (E) Convince environmentalists to abandon the goal of species protection
8. The concluding sentence of the passage (“The price of speaking the language of economics…”) suggests that critics believe the ecosystem services framework:
(A) Has succeeded in protecting all threatened ecosystems (B) Should be immediately abandoned in favor of direct government regulation (C) Risks eroding the deeper ethical basis for environmental protection (D) Has been misunderstood by policymakers and corporations alike (E) Provides the only viable strategy for conservation in the modern era
Short Passage C（Questions 9-10）
Read the following passage. For question 9, consider each answer choice separately and select ALL that apply. For question 10, select one answer choice.
The history of medicine is often narrated as a triumphalist march from ignorance to knowledge, from superstition to science. But this narrative obscures as much as it reveals. The nineteenth-century transition from miasma theory—which held that diseases were caused by “bad air”—to germ theory was undoubtedly an intellectual advance, but it was also a social and political transformation with winners and losers. Miasma theory had supported a public health strategy focused on sanitation, urban planning, and environmental reform—measures that benefited entire communities regardless of individual behavior. Germ theory, by contrast, located the cause of disease in specific microorganisms and, by implication, in the individual bodies they infected and the behaviors that enabled transmission. The shift from environmental to individual-level explanations had profound consequences for public health policy, gradually displacing the broad sanitary reforms of the nineteenth century with an increasing emphasis on personal hygiene, vaccination, and—eventually—lifestyle modification. The story of this transition is not simply one of scientific progress, because the kind of knowledge we produce about disease shapes the kind of interventions we consider appropriate, the kind of responsibilities we assign, and, ultimately, the kind of society we build around health and illness.
9. According to the passage, which of the following are consequences of the shift from miasma theory to germ theory? Select ALL that apply.
[A] Public health policy increasingly emphasized individual behavior rather than environmental conditions. [B] Sanitation and urban planning ceased entirely as public health concerns. [C] Responsibility for health was progressively located in individual bodies and behaviors.
10. The author would most likely agree with which of the following statements about medical knowledge?
(A) Medical knowledge is purely objective and develops independently of social and political forces. (B) The germ theory of disease was a regressive development that should be reversed. (C) The forms of medical knowledge we develop have consequences for how we organize society and assign responsibility. (D) Miasma theory was scientifically superior to germ theory in every respect. (E) Medical historians should focus exclusively on the scientific validity of past theories.
PART B：TEXT COMPLETION（6 題）
11. (One Blank) The neuroscientist’s latest paper offers a ______ critique of the widely held assumption that conscious decision-making precedes action; she marshals an array of experimental evidence suggesting that the sequence is, in important respects, the reverse.
(A) perfunctory (B) trenchant (C) obsequious (D) desultory (E) laudatory
12. (One Blank) The diplomat’s account of the negotiation was remarkable for its studied ______; at no point in three hundred pages did she express a clear opinion about any of the principals involved or any of the decisions reached.
(A) partisanship (B) neutrality (C) vitriol (D) prolixity (E) indignation
13. (Two Blanks) The documentary filmmaker’s style is deliberately (i) ______; she refuses to provide narration, background music, or any other conventional cues that would guide the audience toward a particular interpretation, a strategy that some critics find (ii) ______ and others find maddeningly evasive.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
|---|---|
| (A) didactic | (D) manipulative |
| (B) unobtrusive | (E) refreshing |
| (C) polemical | (F) tendentious |
14. (Two Blanks) The architectural historian argued that the building’s much-praised eclecticism was in fact a sign of creative (i) ______ rather than of confident synthesis; the architect had borrowed from too many traditions without (ii) ______ them into a coherent aesthetic vision.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
|---|---|
| (A) exhaustion | (D) assimilating |
| (B) exuberance | (E) acknowledging |
| (C) audacity | (F) rejecting |
15. (Three Blanks) The literary critic’s analysis of the novel was simultaneously (i) ______ and (ii) ______: her close reading of the text’s imagery was meticulous and illuminating, but her insistence on interpreting every narrative choice as an encoded political allegory led her to (iii) ______ the more straightforward pleasures the novel offers.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) | Blank (iii) |
|---|---|---|
| (A) penetrating | (D) reductive | (G) amplify |
| (B) superficial | (E) expansive | (H) overlook |
| (C) misguided | (F) nuanced | (I) celebrate |
16. (Three Blanks) The historian of colonialism argued that the archive itself is not a (i) ______ repository of facts but a (ii) ______ institution whose organization, inclusions, and exclusions reflect the power structures that produced it; to read colonial archives (iii) ______ is to reproduce the very epistemologies that enabled colonial domination.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) | Blank (iii) |
|---|---|---|
| (A) neutral | (D) transparent | (G) critically |
| (B) obsolete | (E) politically charged | (H) naively |
| (C) comprehensive | (F) democratizing | (I) selectively |
PART C：SENTENCE EQUIVALENCE（4 題）
17. The committee’s final report was a masterpiece of ______ language; it was possible to read the document in its entirety without determining whether the authors actually recommended the policy they had been convened to evaluate.
(A) forthright (B) unequivocal (C) equivocal (D) decisive (E) ambiguous (F) candid
18. The biographer’s treatment of her subject was notable for its refusal to either ______ or condemn; she presented the statesman’s achievements and failures with an evenness that allowed readers to form their own judgments.
(A) extol (B) criticize (C) venerate (D) excoriate (E) admonish (F) adulate
19. The research team’s methodology was so rigorously ______ that even the most skeptical reviewers could find no procedural flaw or unexamined assumption in the experimental design.
(A) slapdash (B) meticulous (C) haphazard (D) scrupulous (E) cursory (F) perfunctory
20. The novelist’s prose has a quality of ______ that is rare in contemporary fiction; every sentence feels weight-bearing and essential, with not a word that could be removed without loss.
(A) verbosity (B) economy (C) prolixity (D) concision (E) redundancy (F) circumlocution
SECTION 2：VERBAL REASONING（20 題）
PART A：READING COMPREHENSION（8 題）
Long Passage（Questions 1-3）
Read the following passage and answer questions 1-3.
The question of whether economic inequality is intrinsically unjust or merely instrumentally harmful has divided political philosophers for centuries, but the terms of the debate shifted significantly with the publication of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice in 1971. Rawls argued that inequalities are justified only if they benefit the least advantaged members of society—a principle he called the “difference principle.” This was a radical reorientation of the debate because it accepted that some degree of inequality might be morally permissible while simultaneously setting a demanding condition on when that permissibility obtains. Inequality was not to be condemned per se; rather, the burden of proof was shifted to those who would defend it, and the standard of proof was set deliberately high.
Rawls’s critics on the left have argued that the difference principle does not go far enough. G.A. Cohen, in a series of influential essays collected in Rescuing Justice and Equality (2008), contended that Rawls’s willingness to tolerate inequalities that satisfy the difference principle reflects an illicit concession to the self-interested motivations of the talented. If a society could be arranged such that inequalities benefiting the worst-off are unnecessary because the talented would work just as hard under an egalitarian distribution, then Rawls’s principles would permit an injustice that a more rigorously egalitarian theory would condemn. For Cohen, justice is not about designing institutions that accommodate selfishness; it is about identifying what a truly just society would look like, whether or not human beings as they currently are could be motivated to inhabit it.
Critics on the right, meanwhile, have challenged the difference principle from the opposite direction. Robert Nozick, in Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), argued that any patterned principle of distributive justice—including the difference principle—requires continuous interference with the free choices of individuals. If a just distribution is achieved at time T1, and individuals then freely engage in exchanges, gifts, and bequests that alter the distribution at time T2, the resulting distribution is just regardless of whether it satisfies any pattern, including one that benefits the least advantaged. For Nozick, liberty upsets patterns, and justice consists in the history of how holdings were acquired and transferred, not in the pattern they form at any given moment.
This three-way debate—between Rawlsian liberalism, left egalitarianism, and right libertarianism—remains the central fault line in contemporary distributive justice theory. What is striking about these positions is not merely their substantive disagreements but their divergent conceptions of what a theory of justice is supposed to do. For Rawls, a theory of justice provides principles for the design of basic social institutions. For Cohen, it identifies the moral truth about what individuals owe one another, regardless of institutional feasibility. For Nozick, it specifies the historical conditions under which holdings are legitimately acquired and transferred. These meta-theoretical differences are in some respects more intractable than the first-order disagreements about equality, because there is no obvious neutral standpoint from which to adjudicate a dispute about what the point of adjudication is.
1. Which of the following best describes the organization of the passage?
(A) A single theory is presented, defended against objections from two opposing perspectives, and ultimately vindicated. (B) A foundational theory is introduced, criticisms from two opposing directions are presented, and a meta-theoretical observation about the nature of the debate is offered. (C) Three competing theories are described in chronological order, and the most recent is shown to be superior to its predecessors. (D) A historical narrative of political philosophy from 1971 to 2008 is provided, followed by a prediction about future developments. (E) The concept of economic inequality is defined, its causes are analyzed, and policy solutions are evaluated.
2. According to the passage, G.A. Cohen’s critique of Rawls is based on the claim that the difference principle:
(A) Is too demanding in the obligations it places on the talented (B) Unfairly penalizes the least advantaged members of society (C) Makes an unwarranted concession to the self-interest of talented individuals (D) Has been empirically disproven by economic data collected since 1971 (E) Contradicts Rawls’s own earlier work on political obligation
3. Select the sentence that most directly articulates the meta-theoretical observation that the author identifies as the deepest source of disagreement among the three positions.
Short Passage A（Questions 4-5）
Read the following passage and answer questions 4-5.
The concept of “intersectionality,” introduced by legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989, has been described as the most important theoretical contribution that critical race theory has made to social thought. Crenshaw’s original insight was deceptively simple: systems of oppression—racism, sexism, class exploitation—do not operate independently but intersect in ways that produce distinctive forms of disadvantage that cannot be captured by analyzing any single axis of identity in isolation. A Black woman’s experience of discrimination is not simply the sum of the discrimination faced by Black people and the discrimination faced by women; it is a qualitatively distinct phenomenon that existing legal frameworks were structurally incapable of recognizing.
The concept’s extraordinary influence across the humanities and social sciences is undeniable. Yet its very success has generated concerns about conceptual stretching. As intersectionality has migrated from legal scholarship to sociology, literary criticism, public health, and corporate diversity training, its meaning has become increasingly diffuse. Some critics charge that intersectionality has been hollowed out into a generic synonym for “diversity” or “complexity,” stripped of its original critical edge and its specific commitment to analyzing overlapping structures of power. The irony is acute: a concept designed to reveal how institutional structures produce distinctive forms of marginalization has itself been absorbed by the very institutions it sought to critique, and in the process has been domesticated into something considerably less threatening.
4. The passage suggests that Crenshaw’s concept of intersectionality:
(A) Has been universally rejected by scholars in the humanities and social sciences (B) Is primarily concerned with distinguishing between racism and sexism as separate phenomena (C) Was originally designed to expose how overlapping systems of oppression create distinctive forms of disadvantage (D) Is most effectively applied in corporate diversity training programs (E) Has been proven to be scientifically inaccurate by subsequent research
5. The author’s characterization of intersectionality’s migration across disciplines as “domestication” implies that:
(A) The concept has become more powerful and influential than Crenshaw originally intended (B) The concept’s critical potential has been diluted as it has been adopted by mainstream institutions (C) Intersectionality was always intended to be applied in corporate settings (D) Crenshaw has endorsed all subsequent applications of her concept (E) The concept should be abandoned entirely due to its conceptual vagueness
Short Passage B（Questions 6-8）
Read the following passage. For question 6, consider each answer choice separately and select ALL that apply. For questions 7-8, select one answer choice.
The replication crisis in psychology—the discovery that a disturbing proportion of published findings cannot be reproduced when independent laboratories attempt to replicate them—has prompted a period of intense methodological self-scrutiny. The causes of the crisis are now fairly well understood: small sample sizes that produce unreliable estimates, “p-hacking” (the practice of analyzing data in multiple ways until a statistically significant result emerges), publication bias in favor of positive results, and incentives that reward novel, surprising findings over careful, confirmatory work. The field has responded with a suite of reforms—preregistration of studies, larger sample sizes, open data and materials, and registered replication reports—that have substantially improved research practices in the affected subdisciplines.
However, some commentators have drawn overly broad conclusions from the replication crisis, suggesting that it discredits the entire enterprise of psychological science. This is a category error. The replication crisis exposed specific, identifiable flaws in specific research practices; it did not reveal any deep epistemological impossibility in the study of mind and behavior. Fields that have implemented rigorous methodological reforms—cognitive psychology, for instance—have demonstrated high replication rates, while subfields that have resisted reform continue to produce unreliable results. The appropriate response to learning that some of our knowledge claims were built on sand is not to conclude that building is impossible but to learn how to build on rock.
6. According to the passage, which of the following contributed to the replication crisis in psychology? Select ALL that apply.
[A] The use of small sample sizes in research studies [B] Publication practices that favor positive over negative or null results [C] A fundamental epistemological flaw that makes psychological science impossible
7. The author characterizes the claim that the replication crisis discredits psychology entirely as a “category error” because:
(A) The crisis only affects studies conducted before 2010 (B) Psychology is not a science and therefore cannot have a replication crisis (C) The crisis revealed problems with specific practices, not an impossibility of studying mind and behavior (D) Replication is not a valid criterion for evaluating scientific claims (E) The crisis was entirely fabricated by critics of psychological science
8. The metaphor of “building on sand” versus “building on rock” is used to contrast:
(A) Cognitive psychology with social psychology as academic disciplines (B) Research built on unreliable methods with research built on rigorous methods (C) Qualitative and quantitative approaches to psychological research (D) Laboratory experiments with field studies (E) Individual differences research with group-level research
PART B：TEXT COMPLETION（7 題）
9. (One Blank) The political commentator’s predictions have proven so reliably ______ that her columns are now read less for insight than for the grim pleasure of watching her latest forecast fail to materialize.
(A) prescient (B) accurate (C) erroneous (D) insightful (E) provocative
10. (One Blank) The musician’s later albums exhibit a striking ______ of style: where her early work jumped restlessly between genres, her recent compositions are unified by a distinctive sonic palette that is immediately recognizable as hers.
(A) eclecticism (B) homogeneity (C) versatility (D) fragmentation (E) catholicity
11. (Two Blanks) The investigative journalist’s report was both (i) ______ and (ii) ______: its conclusions were devastating, but every claim was backed by documentation so thorough that even the targets of the investigation could not identify a factual error.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
|---|---|
| (A) incendiary | (D) meticulous |
| (B) anodyne | (E) slapdash |
| (C) equivocal | (F) cavalier |
12. (Two Blanks) The philosopher’s argument against utilitarianism is (i) ______ in its logic but (ii) ______ in its implications: if she is right, then many widely accepted moral intuitions about rights and justice must be abandoned, a conclusion she draws without flinching.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
|---|---|
| (A) fallacious | (D) reassuring |
| (B) compelling | (E) unsettling |
| (C) pedestrian | (F) trivial |
13. (Two Blanks) The anthropologist’s account of gift-giving rituals in Polynesian societies (i) ______ the conventional economic assumption that exchange is motivated by the pursuit of individual advantage; she showed that the elaborate system of reciprocal obligations she documented served to (ii) ______ social bonds rather than to maximize utility.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
|---|---|
| (A) corroborates | (D) dissolve |
| (B) challenges | (E) cement |
| (C) ignores | (F) monetize |
14. (Three Blanks) The environmental historian’s thesis is that the distinction between “natural” and “human-caused” environmental change, while (i) ______ as a legal and moral category, is (ii) ______ at the ecological level; human beings have been reshaping landscapes for millennia, and many ecosystems that we now seek to preserve as “pristine” are in fact products of long histories of human (iii) ______.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) | Blank (iii) |
|---|---|---|
| (A) indispensable | (D) coherent | (G) neglect |
| (B) irrelevant | (E) untenable | (H) intervention |
| (C) pernicious | (F) self-evident | (I) observation |
15. (Three Blanks) The literary scholar’s argument that the novel’s much-celebrated ambiguity is in fact a carefully constructed (i) ______ rather than an organic feature of the narrative has proven (ii) ______; subsequent archival research has revealed that the author deliberately (iii) ______ passages that would have resolved key uncertainties, leaving the text deliberately open to multiple interpretations.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) | Blank (iii) |
|---|---|---|
| (A) accident | (D) prescient | (G) inserted |
| (B) artifact | (E) refuted | (H) excised |
| (C) flaw | (F) discredited | (I) preserved |
PART C：SENTENCE EQUIVALENCE（5 題）
16. The critic’s review was so thoroughly ______ that readers unfamiliar with the novel might conclude that it had no redeeming qualities whatsoever—a judgment that even the critic himself would probably not endorse upon reflection.
(A) adulatory (B) scathing (C) laudatory (D) vitriolic (E) panegyric (F) measured
17. The ecosystem’s resilience in the face of repeated disturbances was ______: scientists had predicted that the coral reef would collapse after the third bleaching event, but it regenerated with a vigor that defied every model.
(A) predictable (B) astonishing (C) anticipated (D) startling (E) expected (F) formulaic
18. The philosopher’s writing is characterized by an almost painful ______; she refuses to advance a claim without first considering every possible objection, a habit that makes her arguments unassailable but her prose exhausting.
(A) brevity (B) thoroughness (C) concision (D) comprehensiveness (E) succinctness (F) superficiality
19. The historian’s thesis about the origins of the conflict was ______ by the discovery of diplomatic correspondence that directly contradicted the timeline of events she had constructed.
(A) corroborated (B) undermined (C) buttressed (D) subverted (E) fortified (F) substantiated
20. The critic’s embrace of the controversial film was remarkably ______ given her long history of dismissing works that traffic in exactly the kind of graphic violence that the film deploys so extensively.
(A) consistent (B) anomalous (C) predictable (D) aberrant (E) characteristic (F) inevitable
SECTION 3：QUANTITATIVE REASONING（10 題）
1. A researcher collects data from 240 participants. She finds that 55% are female, and of the females, 40% have completed graduate education. How many female participants in the study have NOT completed graduate education?
(A) 52.8 (B) 72.6 (C) 79.2 (D) 88.0 (E) 96.4
2. If xy ≠ 0 and 3x² = 12xy - 9y², what is the value of x/y?
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) Either 1 or 3 (D) Either -1 or -3 (E) 4
3. A rectangular plot of land has a diagonal of 25 meters and a width of 7 meters. What is the area of the plot in square meters?
(A) 84 (B) 144 (C) 156 (D) 168 (E) 175
4. A scholarship fund of 2,000 more than the previous student. What is the amount received by the student who gets the largest scholarship?
(A) 8,000 (C) 11,000 (E) $12,000
5. A data set consists of 8 numbers. The mean is 20, the median is 22, and the mode is 24. If all numbers are positive integers and the largest number is 28, which of the following could be the smallest number in the set?
(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 16
6. A company’s revenue increased by r% from 2022 to 2023 and by s% from 2023 to 2024. If the revenue in 2024 is p% greater than the revenue in 2022, which of the following expresses p in terms of r and s?
(A) r + s (B) r + s + rs/100 (C) (r + s)/100 (D) (r + s + rs)/100 (E) rs/100
7. A bag contains 6 red balls, 4 blue balls, and 5 green balls. If two balls are drawn at random without replacement, what is the probability that both balls are the same color?
(A) 31/105 (B) 62/210 (C) 1/3 (D) 62/105 (E) 2/5
8. If the sum of the reciprocals of two positive integers is 5/6, and the integers differ by 1, what is the larger integer?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
9. A fair coin is flipped 5 times. What is the probability of getting at least 4 heads?
(A) 5/32 (B) 3/16 (C) 1/4 (D) 5/16 (E) 3/8
10. Function f is defined by f(x) = 2x + 3. Function g is defined by g(x) = x² - 1. What is the value of f(g(3))?
(A) 13 (B) 16 (C) 19 (D) 22 (E) 25
SECTION 4：ANALYTICAL WRITING
ISSUE ESSAY
Prompt
“The most significant challenges facing humanity today—climate change, pandemics, economic inequality, the governance of artificial intelligence—are global in scope and cannot be solved by any single nation acting alone. Therefore, nations should be willing to cede significant portions of their sovereignty to international governing bodies that can coordinate effective collective responses.”
Task: Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your viewpoint.
腦力激盪指南
支持論點：
- 全球暖化、病毒傳播不認國界——單邊行動有系統性的 free-rider 問題（每個國家都有動機搭便車）
- 歷史先例：歐盟示範了主權部分讓渡如何能提升整體福利；國際民航組織（ICAO）成功統一了全球航空安全標準
- 目前以「國家自願承諾」為基礎的體系（如 Paris Agreement）已被證明不足以應對問題的規模與急迫性
- AI 監管尤其需要全球化框架——AI 開發競賽（alignment vs. capabilities race）不可能由各國獨立管理
反對論點：
- 民主正當性問題：國際治理機構缺乏直接對人民負責的機制，容易淪為不透明且遙遠的官僚體系
- 強權綁架風險：國際機構容易被大國壟斷，以「全球治理」之名行霸權之實
- 國家主權是少數能夠保護弱勢族群與文化多樣性的機制——放棄主權可能導致文化與政治同質化
- 歷史上，民族國家間的競爭（而非合作）在許多領域推動了進步（太空競賽、疫苗研發）
我的立場： 部分同意。全球問題需要全球協調，但「cede significant sovereignty」的說法過於籠統。應區分不同領域：排放標準、AI 安全協議等 specific regulations 可以委託給國際機構；但核心主權（國防、稅收、民主程序）不應讓渡。關鍵是 build institutions smartly, not cede sovereignty wholesale.
模範作文（492 words）
The claim that nations should cede significant sovereignty to international bodies in order to address global challenges is both intuitively appealing and deeply problematic. The intuition is sound: problems that ignore borders require solutions that transcend them. But the prescription—ceding sovereignty to international institutions—assumes a degree of institutional competence, democratic legitimacy, and global consensus that currently does not exist and may not be achievable in the foreseeable future. The more defensible position is that enhanced international coordination is essential, but that it should be built through carefully designed treaties and agreements rather than through wholesale transfers of sovereignty.
The strongest element of the argument is its diagnosis of the problem. Climate change, pandemic preparedness, and artificial intelligence governance share a structural feature that political theorists call a “collective action problem”: each nation has an incentive to free-ride on the efforts of others, and the aggregate result of individually rational choices is collectively catastrophic. The Paris Agreement’s reliance on voluntary nationally determined contributions, while politically realistic, has produced emissions trajectories that fall dramatically short of what climate stabilization requires. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that even wealthy nations with sophisticated public health systems cannot protect themselves when a virus circulates unchecked elsewhere. These are not hypothetical concerns; they are empirically documented failures of the nation-state system to address problems whose scale exceeds its architecture.
However, the claim’s prescription leaps from this diagnosis to a cure whose side effects may be worse than the disease. The democratic deficit of international institutions is not a minor inconvenience; it is a fundamental problem of political legitimacy. The European Union, often held up as the most successful example of pooled sovereignty, faces persistent challenges of democratic accountability, as citizens of member states feel increasingly alienated from decisions made in Brussels by bodies they did not elect and cannot easily remove. If even the EU—embedded in a region with relatively high levels of economic development, cultural affinity, and political stability—struggles with legitimacy, the prospects for more ambitious global institutions accountable to populations with vastly different values, interests, and levels of development are considerably dimmer.
Moreover, the claim conflates international coordination with sovereignty cession, which are different things. The Montreal Protocol on ozone-depleting substances, widely regarded as the most successful international environmental agreement in history, did not require nations to cede sovereignty; it established binding targets that each nation implemented through its own domestic legal frameworks, backed by trade sanctions and a multilateral fund that assisted developing countries with compliance. The lesson of Montreal is that effective global governance does not require supranational government; it requires mutually agreed rules with credible enforcement mechanisms, which is a more modest—but more achievable—goal.
The path forward is not to dismantle national sovereignty in the name of global problems but to design international agreements that are binding, enforceable, and equitable, while respecting the democratic processes through which citizens hold their governments accountable. Global challenges demand global responses, but those responses must be built on the hard work of negotiation and institution-building rather than on the fantasy of a world government that no population would accept and no political theory can legitimate.
ARGUMENT ESSAY
Prompt
The following appeared in a business magazine article on workplace productivity:
“A two-year study conducted at TechnoCorp, a mid-sized software company, found that employees who were permitted to work from home three days per week completed 15% more projects per quarter than employees who worked exclusively in the office. Additionally, the company’s employee satisfaction survey showed that remote workers rated their work-life balance 23% higher than in-office workers. The company also reported saving $1.2 million annually in real estate costs after reducing its office space by 40%. These findings conclusively demonstrate that a hybrid remote work model is superior to traditional in-office work in every relevant dimension, and all companies should adopt it immediately.”
Task: Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
邏輯謬誤分析
Flaw 1 — 選擇偏差（Selection Bias）： 遠距工作可能是由表現本就較好的員工「選擇」或「被允許」的，而不是 remote work 使他們表現更好。如果只有 senior employees 被允許 WFH，而 junior employees 必須在 office，productivity 差距可能反映的是經驗與能力的差異而非工作模式的差異。
Flaw 2 — 生產力指標的侷限性（Narrow Productivity Metric）： 「completed 15% more projects per quarter」——projects 的大小、複雜度是否相同？WFH 員工是否在做較小規模的 project？quality 是否有差異？需考慮 productivity 的多維度（協作品質、mentorship、長期創新）。
Flaw 3 — 普遍化問題（Generalizability）： TechnoCorp 是軟體公司——軟體開發本身就相對適合 remote work。這結論能否推廣到製造業、醫療業、零售業？「all companies should adopt」是沒有根據的過度推論。
Flaw 4 — 未量化的成本（Hidden Costs Not Considered）： 文章 only reports savings，沒有提及 remote work 的潛在成本：IT security、home office equipment stipends、管理訓練、員工孤立與職涯發展的隱性成本。Work-life balance 提升 23% 也需審視——問卷對象是否只有留下來的員工？離開的人（可能因為無法適應 remote work）未被納入。
Flaw 5 — 房地產節省的重複計算（Sunk Cost Fallacy）： 節省 $1.2 million real estate costs 是一次性的或持續的效益？如果辦公室租約本來就快到期且市場租金下降，40% 節省可能被誇大。這個數字需要 context。
模範作文（475 words）
The article presents TechnoCorp’s experience with hybrid remote work as conclusive proof that all companies should adopt the model immediately. However, the recommendation depends on answers to a series of critical questions that the article simply does not address. Without satisfactory answers, the argument collapses into a particularly aggressive form of overgeneralization.
The most fundamental question concerns how employees were assigned to remote work versus in-office conditions. The article describes employees who “were permitted” to work from home, which strongly suggests that remote work was not randomly assigned but was a privilege granted selectively. What criteria determined who received this permission? If remote work was made available to senior employees with established track records while junior employees were required to work in the office, then the 15% productivity difference may reflect pre-existing differences in experience, skill, and autonomy rather than any causal effect of the work arrangement. A randomized controlled trial—or at minimum a rigorous statistical analysis controlling for employee seniority, role, and prior performance—would be necessary to disentangle selection effects from treatment effects. If the apparent productivity advantage disappears once these variables are controlled for, the central pillar of the argument collapses.
A second set of questions concerns the measurement and meaning of the productivity data. The article cites “projects completed per quarter” as the metric, but this raises questions about project comparability. Do remote and in-office workers handle projects of similar scope, complexity, and strategic importance? If remote employees were assigned smaller, more modular projects while in-office employees handled complex, collaborative initiatives, the metric is comparing fundamentally different kinds of work. Additionally, does the metric capture quality, not just quantity? A 15% increase in project completion is a hollow achievement if those projects generate more bugs, require more rework, or fail to meet client expectations. Evidence on code quality metrics, client satisfaction scores, and long-term project outcomes would be needed to evaluate whether the productivity gains are real or illusory.
The question of generalizability demands particular scrutiny. TechnoCorp is a mid-sized software company, an industry in which individual coding tasks can often be performed independently and asynchronously. Would the same results obtain in manufacturing, healthcare, retail, or education—sectors where physical presence is often integral to the work itself? Even within knowledge work, the collaborative dynamics of a law firm, a design studio, or a research laboratory may differ substantially from those of a software company. The article provides no evidence—and no theoretical argument—that TechnoCorp’s experience generalizes beyond its specific organizational and industrial context. Without such evidence, the leap from “worked at one software company” to “all companies should adopt” is an exercise in speculation.
Finally, the cost savings claim raises unanswered questions of its own. The $1.2 million in real estate savings is presented as net benefit, but remote work imposes its own costs: IT infrastructure and security, home office stipends, management training for remote leadership, and the potential long-term costs of reduced mentorship, weaker organizational culture, and the erosion of the informal knowledge transfer that occurs in co-located environments. A comprehensive accounting that captures both the savings and the new costs of remote work would be required to evaluate the financial case for the recommendation.
ANSWER KEY：答案與詳解
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| 題號 | 答案 | 詳解（中文） |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | B | 主旨題。全文追蹤 linguistic relativity hypothesis 從 Whorf 的強版本，到 1960 年代的衰退，再到 neo-Whorfian 的 modest revival。 |
| 2 | B | 細節題。Whorf 理論的衰退因素之一是 Chomsky 的 universal grammar theory 崛起，將語言相對論推至語言學的邊緣。 |
| 3 | B | 推論題。最後一句 “The difference between linguistic determinism and linguistic influence is the difference between a cage and a habit” 對比 linguistic determinism（cage）與 linguistic influence（habit）。 |
| 4 | ”What the neo-Whorfian research demonstrates is not that language determines thought but that it nudges attention in certain directions, making some distinctions cognitively easier or more automatic than they would otherwise be.”() | 選句題。這句話直接說明了當前 neo-Whorfian 研究支持的 modest version：語言不是決定思想而是 nudges attention，使某些區分在認知上更容易或更自動。 |
| 5 | C | 細節題。限制是 “The assumption of rational self-interest that makes game-theoretic models tractable is also, critics charge, what makes them unrealistic.” |
| 6 | C | 細節題。defenders 認為 “models incorporating altruistic preferences, reputation effects, and bounded rationality can capture the very behaviors that the simple models miss.” |
| 7 | C | 細節題。ecosystem services framework 的初衷是 “make the case for conservation in the only language that policymakers and corporations reliably understood—the language of cost-benefit analysis.” |
| 8 | C | 推論題。結尾句暗示以經濟學語言說話的代價是可能喪失倫理基礎——你忘了如何用其他語言說話了。 |
| 9 | A, C | 多選題。A 正確（emphasis on individual behavior）；C 正確（responsibility located in individual bodies）；B 錯誤（sanitation 並未完全停止，只是相對被淡化）。 |
| 10 | C | 推論題。作者認為 “the kind of knowledge we produce about disease shapes the kind of interventions we consider appropriate, the kind of responsibilities we assign, and, ultimately, the kind of society we build.” |
| 11 | B | trenchant（犀利的、一針見血的）。用大量實驗證據來批駁一個普遍接受的假設——這需要尖銳有力的批判。 |
| 12 | B | neutrality（中立性）。300 頁中從未對任何人或決定表達明確意見，說明刻意維持中立。 |
| 13 | B, E | unobtrusive（不介入的）and refreshing（令人耳目一新的）。不提供旁白、背景音樂等引導觀眾的線索——有人覺得 refreshing，有人覺得 evasive。 |
| 14 | A, D | exhaustion（枯竭）and assimilating（吸收、整合）。折衷主義不是自信的整合，而是創造力的枯竭——借用了太多傳統但未能將它們整合為一致的審美視野。 |
| 15 | A, D, H | penetrating（敏銳深入的）、reductive（簡化還原的）、overlook（忽略）。文本細讀精湛（penetrating），但把所有敘事選擇都解讀成政治寓言是 reductive，導致她忽略了小說最直觀的樂趣。 |
| 16 | A, E, H | neutral（中立的）、politically charged（帶有政治色彩的）、naively（天真地）。殖民檔案不是中立的事實儲存庫，而是政治色彩濃厚的制度。天真地閱讀檔案就是在複製殖民的認識論。 |
| 17 | C, E | equivocal & ambiguous（模稜兩可的、含糊的）。讀完整份文件仍無法判斷作者是否建議該政策——說明語言故意含糊不清。 |
| 18 | A, F | extol & adulate（讚美、極力讚揚）。“refusal to either ______ or condemn” 需要一個與 condemn 相反的字。Adulate 和 extol 都表示極力讚美。 |
| 19 | B, D | meticulous & scrupulous（極度細心謹慎的）。最吹毛求疵的審查者也找不出程序瑕疵——說明方法極度嚴謹。 |
| 20 | B, D | economy & concision（精簡、簡潔）。“every sentence feels weight-bearing and essential, with not a word that could be removed” 對應用字精簡 economy/concision。 |
Verbal Reasoning Section 2 答案
| 題號 | 答案 | 詳解（中文） |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | B | 結構題。文章先介紹 Rawls 的 difference principle，再呈現左右兩翼的批評，最後提出 meta-theoretical observation 說明更深層的分歧。 |
| 2 | C | 細節題。Cohen 的批評是 difference principle 反映了 “an illicit concession to the self-interested motivations of the talented.” |
| 3 | ”These meta-theoretical differences are in some respects more intractable than the first-order disagreements about equality, because there is no obvious neutral standpoint from which to adjudicate a dispute about what the point of adjudication is.”() | 選句題。這是最終的分析性評論：關於「理論該做什麼」的 meta-disagreement 比關於平等本身的實質爭論更難解決。 |
| 4 | C | 細節題。intersectionality 原始設計是揭露 “how overlapping systems of oppression create distinctive forms of disadvantage.” |
| 5 | B | 推論題。作者說 intersectionality “has been domesticated into something considerably less threatening”，暗示其批判潛力因被主流機構吸收而被稀釋。 |
| 6 | A, B | 多選題。A 對應 small sample sizes；B 對應 publication bias in favor of positive results；C 是作者明確反對的過度推論（category error）。 |
| 7 | C | 細節題。複製危機暴露了特定做法的缺陷，而非證明了心理科學認識論上的不可能性。 |
| 8 | B | 推論題。沙子 vs. 岩石的隱喻對比不嚴謹的研究方法與嚴謹的研究方法。 |
| 9 | C | erroneous（錯誤的）。她的專欄被讀不是因為洞見，而是因為看她的預測再度失準的有趣——所以預測總是 erroneous。 |
| 10 | B | homogeneity（同質性、一致性）。早期風格跳躍，後期有統一的 sonic palette——homogeneity of style。 |
| 11 | A, D | incendiary（引爆性的）and meticulous（極度細心的）。結論具毀滅性（incendiary），但所有主張都有無可挑剔的文獻支撐（meticulous）。 |
| 12 | B, E | compelling（具說服力的）and unsettling（令人不安的）。邏輯令人信服，但含意令人不安——許多普遍的道德直覺必須被放棄。 |
| 13 | B, E | challenges（挑戰）and cement（鞏固）。禮物交換挑戰了個人利益最大化的假設，其功能是鞏固社會連結而非最大化效用。 |
| 14 | A, E, H | indispensable（不可或缺的）、untenable（站不住腳的）、intervention（干預）。natural vs. human-caused 的區分在法律道德上不可或缺，但在生態學層面上是站不住腳的——許多被視為「原始」的生態系其實是長期人類干預的產物。 |
| 15 | B, D, H | artifact（人為製作的產物）、prescient（有先見之明的）、excised（刪除）。小說中的 ambiguity 是精心構建的 artifact 而非自然特徵。後續檔案研究揭示作者故意刪除了會消除關鍵不確定性的段落，證明學者的論點極具先見之明（prescient）。 |
| 16 | B, D | scathing & vitriolic（嚴厲的、尖酸的）。以至於讀者會覺得小說毫無可取之處——這顯示批評極度嚴厲。 |
| 17 | B, D | astonishing & startling（令人震驚的、驚人的）。科學家預測會崩潰的珊瑚礁強勁恢復——這 defied every model，令人震驚。 |
| 18 | B, D | thoroughness & comprehensiveness（徹底性、全面性）。“refuses to advance a claim without first considering every possible objection” 對應思考的周延與徹底。 |
| 19 | B, D | undermined & subverted（被削弱、被顛覆）。外交書信 directly contradicted 她建構的事件時間軸，所以她的論文被顛覆。 |
| 20 | B, D | anomalous & aberrant（異常的、反常的）。“remarkably” 暗示反常——她一向 dismiss graphic violence，這次卻 embraced 這部爭議性電影。 |
Quantitative Reasoning 答案
| 題號 | 答案 | 詳解 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | C | 240 * 0.55 = 132 females. 132 * 0.6 = 79.2 females who have NOT completed graduate education. |
| 2 | C | 3x² - 12xy + 9y² = 0. Divide by 3: x² - 4xy + 3y² = 0. (x - y)(x - 3y) = 0. So x = y or x = 3y. x/y = 1 or 3. |
| 3 | D | width = 7, diagonal = 25. length² = 25² - 7² = 625 - 49 = 576, length = 24. Area = 24 * 7 = 168. |
| 4 | E | Let the smallest amount be a. Then a + (a+2000) + (a+4000) + (a+6000) = 36000. 4a + 12000 = 36000. 4a = 24000. a = 6000. Largest = 6000 + 6000 = 12000. |
| 5 | C | Mean * 8 = 160. Median = 22 for 8 numbers means the 4th and 5th values average to 22. Mode = 24 means 24 appears most often. The set has to sum to 160. The largest is 28. If the set includes 24 appearing multiple times, the values need to be configured so the sum works. Let me think: 8 numbers, sorted. Median = (4th + 5th)/2 = 22, so 4th + 5th = 44. The mode is 24. The largest is 28. Let me try: if we have [a, b, c, d, e, f, g, 28] where d+e=44, and 24 appears at least twice. Sum = 160. Let me try: [?, ?, ?, 22, 22, 24, 24, 28]. Sum so far: 22+22+24+24+28 = 120. Remainder for 3 numbers: 40. If the smallest is 8: [8, 12, 20, 22, 22, 24, 24, 28] sum = 160. Mode = 24? No, 22 and 24 both appear twice. Need 24 to appear most. Try: [10, 10, 20, 20, 24, 24, 24, 28] → sum = 160. Median = (20+24)/2 = 22. Mode = 24. Smallest = 10. So C (10) works. |
| 6 | B | Revenue in 2024 relative to 2022 = (1 + r/100)(1 + s/100) = 1 + (r+s)/100 + rs/10000. So p = r + s + rs/100. |
| 7 | A | P(both same) = P(both red) + P(both blue) + P(both green) = (C(6,2) + C(4,2) + C(5,2)) / C(15,2) = (15 + 6 + 10) / 105 = 31/105. |
| 8 | B | Let integers be n and n+1. 1/n + 1/(n+1) = 5/6. (2n+1)/[n(n+1)] = 5/6. 6(2n+1) = 5n(n+1). 12n + 6 = 5n² + 5n. 5n² - 7n - 6 = 0. (5n + 3)(n - 2) = 0. n = 2 (positive). Larger = 3. |
| 9 | B | P(at least 4) = P(exactly 4) + P(exactly 5) = C(5,4)(1/2)⁵ + C(5,5)(1/2)⁵ = 5/32 + 1/32 = 6/32 = 3/16. |
| 10 | C | g(3) = 3² - 1 = 9 - 1 = 8. f(8) = 2(8) + 3 = 16 + 3 = 19. |
寫作評分標準（0-6 分制）
| 分數 | 描述 |
|---|---|
| 6.0 | Outstanding. Articulates a clear, insightful position; develops with compelling, well-organized reasoning and sophisticated examples; excellent command of language with virtually no errors. |
| 5.0 | Strong. Generally insightful position; logical development with effective examples; clear organization; strong control of vocabulary and syntax; minor errors only. |
| 4.0 | Adequate. Clear position with competent reasoning and relevant examples; adequate organization; satisfactory language control; some errors but meaning remains clear. |
| 3.0 | Limited. Some competent analysis but limited in depth; examples underdeveloped; organization lapses; noticeable and sometimes intrusive language errors. |
| 2.0 | Seriously Flawed. Weak in analysis; lacking in relevant support; poor organization; serious and frequent language errors that interfere with meaning. |
| 1.0 | Fundamentally Deficient. Demonstrates essentially no analytical writing; incoherent; severe and persistent errors make comprehension difficult. |
| 0.0 | Off-topic, not in English, or no meaningful text submitted. |
本回單字表（20 個高難度 GRE 字彙）
| 英文 | 中文意思 | 出處 |
|---|---|---|
| linguistic relativity | 語言相對論 | RC Long Passage |
| debunking | 揭穿；揭發錯誤 | RC Long Passage |
| neo-Whorfian | 新沃爾夫學派 | RC Long Passage |
| miasma | 瘴氣（古代疾病理論） | RC Short C |
| trenchant | 犀利的；一刀見血的 | TC (11) |
| obsequious | 諂媚的；奉承的 | TC (11) |
| desultory | 散漫的；不連貫的 | TC (11) |
| epistemologies | 認識論（知識的理論） | TC (16) |
| equivocal | 模稜兩可的 | SE (17) |
| adulate | 極力讚揚；奉承 | SE (18) |
| concision | 簡潔；精簡 | SE (20) |
| difference principle | 差異原則（Rawls 用語） | RC S2 Long |
| egalitarianism | 平等主義 | RC S2 Long |
| libertarianism | 自由意志主義 | RC S2 Long |
| intersectionality | 交織性（社會批判理論） | RC S2 Short A |
| domesticated | 被馴化的；被主流化的 | RC S2 Short A |
| homogeneity | 同質性；均一性 | TC (S2-10) |
| incendiary | 引爆性的；煽動性的 | TC (S2-11) |
| excised | 被切除的；被刪除的 | TC (S2-15) |
| vitriolic | 尖酸刻薄的 | SE (S2-16) |
自我評分追蹤表
| 部分 | 滿分 | 得分 | 正確率 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verbal Section 1 (RC) | 10 | /10 | % |
| Verbal Section 1 (TC) | 6 | /6 | % |
| Verbal Section 1 (SE) | 4 | /4 | % |
| Verbal Section 1 總分 | 20 | /20 | % |
| Verbal Section 2 (RC) | 8 | /8 | % |
| Verbal Section 2 (TC) | 7 | /7 | % |
| Verbal Section 2 (SE) | 5 | /5 | % |
| Verbal Section 2 總分 | 20 | /20 | % |
| Quantitative Reasoning | 10 | /10 | % |
| 全卷總分 | 50 | /50 | % |
威威老師的話： 恭喜你完成了全部五回模擬考！這是難度最高的一回——文章主題混合了語言學、賽局理論、醫學史、政治哲學、心理學方法論，深度與廣度都是實戰等級。如果你能在這一回取得 75% 以上的正確率，恭喜你，你已經具備了 GRE Verbal 160+ 的實力！
最後提醒：
- 五回模擬考中的所有不認識的單字，請全部整理到你的單字卡中
- 閱讀理解錯的題目，請重讀原文，確認自己為什麼選錯（是被陷阱選項誤導？還是沒抓到重點？）
- Text Completion 與 Sentence Equivalence 主要考的是單字量與邏輯推理的結合——不要只背單字，要學會從上下文推測語氣與轉折
- 寫作部分，練習在 30 分鐘內完成至少 450 字的論證
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