【尚友论】新gre复习资料OG三套阅读理解.docVIP

使用说明 内容为新GRE(GRE revised) OG中的阅读梯度练习，参照阅读2772设置，答案被隐藏。显示的方法是鼠标左键单击“常用”工具栏“显示/隐藏编辑标记”按钮（只有WORD才有此按钮，写字板没有）。再次单击又被隐藏。见下图：  SET 2. Reading Comprehension Questions: Easy For each of Questions 1 to 9, select one answer choice unless otherwise instructed. 1. A person who agrees to serve as mediator between two warring factions at the request of both abandons by so agreeing the right to take sides later. To take sides at a later point would be to suggest that the earlier presumptive impartiality was a sham. The passage above emphasizes which of the following points about mediators? A They should try to form no opinions of their own about any issue that is related to the dispute. B They should not agree to serve unless they are committed to maintaining a stance of impartiality. C They should not agree to serve unless they are equally acceptable to all parties to a dispute. D They should feel free to take sides in the dispute right from the start, provided that they make their biases publicly known. E They should reserve the right to abandon their impartiality so as not to be open to the charge of having been deceitful. Questions 2 to 5 are based on the following reading passage. Was Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) a great composer? On its face, the question seems absurd. One of the most gifted prodigies in the history of music, he produced his first masterpiece at sixteen. From then on, he was recognized as an artist of preternatural abilities, not only as a composer but also as a pianist and conductor. But Mendelssohn’s enduring popularity has often been at odds — sometimes quite sharply — with his critical standing. Despite general acknowledgment of his genius, there has been a noticeable reluctance to rank him with, say, Schumann or Brahms. As Haggin put it, Mendelssohn, as a composer, was a “minor master . . . working on a small scale of emotion and texture.” 2. Select a sentence in the passage whose function is to indicate the range of Mendelssohn’s