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GMAT阅读查知识点汇总： 主旨（Main idea）旨在考察我们对文章整体的把握程度，对文章的结构的分析能力和把控能力，以及对作者逻辑的判断。 支持主题（Supporting ideas）旨在考察我们对文章细节的认知。 推断（Inference）旨在考察我们对文章的深度理解，以及逻辑推断能力。 逻辑结构（Logical structure）旨在考察我们对作者写作目的更深层次的认识，以及文章本身的逻辑 应用文中的信息于文章之外（Applying information to a context outside the passage itself）旨在考察我们对文章整体或某处细节的把握，选项中出现的东西都不属于文章，但要“貌离神合”。思想和文章并无二致，但是载体千变万化。 评价（Evaluation）旨在考察我们对文章中某一段的主旨意思的理解，以及对作者作此段落或词的用意的理解。 应用（Application）旨在考察我们对文章细节的深度认知，并达到可以应用总结的地步。 注意这种考题在GMAT中不像我们国内的英语考试一样，一问就是承上启下，这里要仔细站在作者的角度体会作者的写作心理和写作用意。 Practice Test #1ReadingComprehension(1~61) Essay 1 During the nineteenth century, occupational information about women that was provided by the United States census--a population count conducted each decade--became more detailed and precise in response to social changes. Through 1840, simple enumeration by household mirrored a home-based agricultural economy and hierarchical social order: the head of the household (presumed male or absent) was specified by name, whereas other household members were only indicated by the total number of persons counted in various categories, including occupational categories. Like farms, most enterprises were family-run, so that the census measured economic activity as an attribute of the entire household, rather than of individuals. The 1850 census, partly responding to antislavery and womens rights movements, initiated the collection of specific information about each individual in a household. Not until 1870 was occupational information analyzed by gender: the census superintendent reported 1.8 million women employed outside the home in gainful and reputable occupations. In addition, he arbitrarily attributed to each family one woman keeping house. Overlap between the two groups was not calculated until 1890, when the rapid entry of women into the paid labor force and social issues arising from industrialization were causing womens advocates and women statisticians to press for more thorough and accurate accounting of