GMAT考试:目睹逻辑之怪现状

    参加GMAT考试的考生,对于逻辑部分一直怀有一种特别的感觉。它似乎不同于写作、阅读、数学等其他部分。也许是GMAT考试的逻辑部分比较抽 象,GMAT考试逻辑部分又是最好拿分和最容易提分的,所以,参加GMAT考试的考生更应该谨慎对待怪相丛生的GMAT考试逻辑部分。

  圈内人常流行这样一句话:“勤奋的学生学GRE,聪明的学生学GMAT, not only-but also 的学LSAT。”

  如果说这句话多少有些道理的话,主要是指学GRE必背红宝书,非勤奋不足以克之;而GMATer必然面对逻辑,不耍小聪明不足以析之;而LSAT需两者俱备,方能拙巧兼用而破之。

  今备逻辑怪题两道,权做各位消遣、killing time之用,尤其适合大脑休闲日久,急需转动之人;岂不闻“用进废退”之说,the more 你用,the more你进;但请注意,对于美国这类考试,只需“小聪明”,且勿“大智慧”,otherwise心生魔翅,魂入鬼道,超越了出题者的IQ,最后落个“机 关算尽太聪明,反误了卿卿的姓名”。

    闲话少说,两道大菜,热气腾腾,趁热下箸:

  In Patton City, days are categorized as having heavy rainfall (more than two inches),

  moderate rainfall (more than one inch, but no more than two inches), light rainfall (at least a trace, but no more than one inch), or no rainfall. In 1990, there were fewer days with light rainfall than in 1910 and fewer with moderate rainfall, yet total rainfall for the year was 20 percent higher in 1990 than in 1910.

  If the statements above are true, then it is also possible that in Patton City

  A.the number of days with heavy rainfall was lower in 1990 than in 1910

  B.the number of days with some rainfall, but no more than two inches, was the same in 1990 as in 1910

  C.the number of days with some rainfall, but no more than two inches, was higher in 1990 than in 1910

  D.the total number of inches of rain that fell on days with moderate rainfall in 1990 was more than twice what it had been in 1910

  E.the average amount of rainfall per month was lower in 1990 than in 1910

    此题貌似极易,本可预估而出,没成想五项皆出预料之外,那选什么呢?此时的窗外,阳光SUNNY,百草初绿,盎盎然,大脑必有所思,求之不得,寤寐思服, right?

  In the United States, vacationers account for more than half of all visitors to what are technically called “pure aquariums” but for fewer than one quarter of all visitors to zoos, which usually include a “zoo aquarium” of relatively modest scope.

  Which of the following, if true, most helps to account for the difference described above between visitors to zoos and visitors to pure aquariums?

  A.In cities that have both a zoo and a pure aquarium, local residents are twice as likely to visit the aquarium as they are to visit the zoo.

  B.Virtually all large metropolitan areas have zoos,whereas only a few large metropolitan areas have pure aquariums.

  C.Over the last ten years,newly constructed pure aquariums have outnumbered newly established zoos by a factor of two to one.

  D.People who visit a zoo in a given year are two times more likely to visit a pure aquarium that year than are people who do not visit a zoo.

  E.The zoo aquariums of zoos that are in the same city as a pure aquarium tent to be smaller than the aquariums of zoos that have no pure aquarium nearby.

      这就是本人目睹的GMAT考试逻辑之怪现状。GMAT考试关键的不是你做了多少道题,而是有一双发现“怪”的眼睛,找到怪相,不仅仅是好玩,更重要的是从 GMAT考试逻辑部分的怪相中,总结背后的规律,找到GMAT考试逻辑陷阱,在日后的GMAT考试当中规避它。

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