GRE阅读想要获得*,不仅要hold得住文章内容,更是要hold住题目的选项。
在我的课程中,我一直会强调一个理念叫做选项“全面对应”,它指的是正确答案一定是要和文章内容有着全面的对应的,如果有不对应的地方,一般都是错误选项。
今天我们来看一个易错的高频真题,我用这个错误率相当高的题来给大家示范一下什么叫选项要全面对应。
①In 1995, after an absence of nearly 70 years, wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park. ②During the wolf-free era, heavy browsing of aspen trees by elk populations spelled doom not only for trees themselves but for a host of other creatures dependent on them, such as beavers, whose population in Yellowstone crashed after wolves were removed. ③Without beavers to create ponds, wetland ecosystems--aquatic plants, amphibians, birds-were devastated. ④When wolves returned, grazers and browsers resumed normal patterns of behaviors, preferring safer, open areas over the dense cover and streamsides where carnivores can lurk. ⑤Keeping elk wary and on the move, wolves gave aspen and other young trees the opportunity to grow and become reestablished.
2. The author would most likely agree with which of the following claims about the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone?
A. It indirectly harmed some of the park's amphibian habitats
B. It reduced the number of elk feeding along streamsides
C. It led to greater species diversity among the park's grazers and browsers.
D. It significantly increased competition for food among the park's carnivores.
E. It fostered the resurgence of tree species that once flourished in the park's open areas.
误区
很多同学会根据题干定位到*后一句,然后原文说wolves gave aspen and other young trees the opportunity to grow and become reestablished,正好对应E选项It fostered the resurgence of tree species,然后就选了E。
如果你仔细的话,你会发现其实E选项只对了前半句;而that从句部分的内容至少有两个错误:
*,once flourished无中生有,我们并不知道这些tree曾经到底flourished与否;
第二,文中第四句明确提到,当狼被引入黄石公园后,这些食草动物更喜欢去safer, open areas的地方觅食,而不喜欢去dense cover and streamsides的地方觅食(因为捕食者能够在这些地方埋伏),所以,open areas的tree是更加得不到resurgence的机会的。
综上,E选项不正确。