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1、GRE阅读课外练习（取舍+实战）一、取舍Passage1：Schoolsexpecttextbookstobeavaluablesourceofinformationforstudents.Myresearchsuggests,however,thattextbooksthataddresstheplaceofNativeAmericanswithinthehistoryoftheUnitedStatesdistorthistorytosuitaparticularculturalvaluesystem.Insometextbooks,forexampl
2、e,settlersarepicturedasmorehumane,complex,skillful,andwisethanNativeAmerican.Inessence,textbooksstereotypeanddeprecatethenumerousNativeAmericancultureswhilereinforcingtheattitudethattheEuropeanconquestoftheNewWorlddenotesthesuperiorityofEuropeancultures.AlthoughtextbooksevaluateN
3、ativeAmericanarchitecture,politicalsystems,andhomemaking,Icontendthattheydoitfromanethnocentric,Europeanperspectivewithoutrecognizingthatotherperspectivesarepossible.Oneargumentagainstmycontentionassertsthat,bynature,textbooksareculturallybiasedandthatIamsimplyunderestimatingchil
4、dren’sabilitytoseethroughthesebiases.Someresearchersevenclaimthatbythetimestudentsareinhighschool,theyknowtheycannottaketextbooksliterally.Yetsubstantialevidenceexiststothecontrary.Tworesearchers,forexample,haveconductedstudiesthatsuggestthatchildren’sattitudesaboutparticularcult
5、urearestronglyinfluencedbythetextbooksusedinschools.Giventhis,anongoing,carefulreviewofhowschooltextbooksdepictNativeAmericaniscertainlywarranted.Passage2：Attheendofthenineteenthcentury,arisinginterestinNativeAmericancustomsandanincreasingdesiretounderstandNativeAmericanculturepro
6、mptedethnologiststobeginrecordingthelifestoriesofNativeAmerican.Ethnologistshadadistinctreasonforwantingtohearthestories:theywereafterlinguisticoranthropologicaldatathatwouldsupplementtheirownfieldobservations,andtheybelievedthatthepersonalstories,evenofasingleindividual,couldincr
7、easetheirunderstandingoftheculturesthattheyhadbeenobservingfromwithout.InadditionmanyethnologistsattheturnofthecenturybelievedthatNativeAmericanmannersandcustomswere1rapidlydisappearing,andthatitwasimportanttopreserveforposterityasmuchinformationascouldbeadequatelyrecordedbeforet
8、heculturesdisappearedforever.Therewere,h
