Introduction to the Verbal Reasoning Measure - …-（介绍语言推理测量）.pdf

GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS® Introduction to the Verbal Reasoning Measure Copyright © 2009 by Educational Testing Service. All rights reserved. ETS, the ETS logo, GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS, and GRE are registered trademarks of Educational Testing Service (ETS) in the United States and other countries. Introduction to the Verbal Reasoning Measure This document describes the types of questions contained in the Verbal Reasoning sections, gives you strategies for answering them, and presents some worked examples. Purpose and Format of the Verbal Reasoning Section The Verbal Reasoning section of the GRE measures your ability to analyze and evaluate written material and synthesize information obtained from it, to analyze relationships among component parts of sentences, and to recognize relationships among words and concepts. Verbal Reasoning questions appear in several formats, each of which is discussed in detail below. About half of the section requires you to read passages and answer questions on those passages. The other half requires you to read, interpret, and complete existing sentences, groups of sentences, - 1 - or paragraphs. All of the questions are multiple choice, with the number of choices varying, depending on the type of question. Verbal Reasoning Question Types The GRE Verbal Reasoning section contains three types of questions: Reading Comprehension, Text Completion, and Sentence Equivalence. In this section you will study each of these question types one by one, and you’ll learn valuable strategies for answering each type. Reading Comprehension Reading Comprehension questions are designed to test a wide range of abilities required to read and understand the kinds of prose commonly encountered in graduate school. Those abilities include: • understanding the meaning of individual words • u