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首先，在新版的OG中，阅读部分的题目总数没有发生变化。而是用六篇新文章替换了之前六篇旧文。在这六篇新文中，GMAT还是体现了自己的题材多元化，人文类文章和自然科学类文章都有涉及。尤其是出现了多篇跟女权相关的文章，由于文章语言抽象，缺乏相应背景知识，这也是很多考生在考场上最怕碰到的一类文章。但是GMAT明确表示自己不会考察任何学术背景知识，所以我们在进行阅读是文章不应分题材，所有文章的阅读都应该是强调文章逻辑而不是本身的学术内容。我们具体拿一篇新文为例：
It is an odd but indisputable fact that the seventeenth-century English women who are generally regarded as among the forerunners of modern feminism are almost all identified with the Royalist side in the conflict between Royalists and Parliamentarians known as the English Civil Wars. Since Royalist ideology is often associated with the radical patriarchalism of seventeenth-century political theorist Robert Filmer— a patriarchalism that equate family and kingdom and assets the divinely ordained absolute power of the king and, by analogy, of the male head of the household—historians have been understandably puzzled by the fact that Royalist women wrote the earliest extended criticisms of the absolute subordination of women in marriage and the earliest systematic assertions of women’s rational and moral equality with men. Some historians have questioned the facile equation of Royalist ideology with Filmerian patriarchalism; and indeed, there may have been no consistent differenceds between Royalists and Parliamentarians on issues of family organization and women’s political rights, but in that case one would expect early feminists to be equally divided between the two sides.
Catherine Gallagher argues that Royalism engendered feminism because the ideology of absolute monarchy provide a transition to an ideology of the absolute self. She cites the example of the notoriously eccentric author Margaret Cavendish(1626-1673), duchess of Newcastle. Cavendish claimed to be as ambitious as any women could be, but knowing that as a women sehe was excluded from the pursuit of power in the real world, she resolved to be mistress of her own world, the “immaterial world” that any person can create within her own mind—and, as a writer, on paper. In proclaiming what she called her “singularity”, Cavendish insisted that she was self-sufficient being within her mental empire, the center of her own subjective universe rather than a satellite orbiting a dominant male planet. In justifying this absolute singularity, Cavendish repeatedly invoked the model of the absolute monarch, a figure that became the metaphor for self-enclosed, autonomous nature of the individual person. Cavendish’s successors among early feminists retained her notion of woman’s sovereign self, but they also sought to break free from the complete political and social isolation that her absolute singularity entailed.
很多同学第一句看到出现feminism之后就会心头一紧，继续往后读就会发现本文写的内容非常抽象，很难理解。于是读完之后云里雾里。但是，我们刚提到过，GMAT文章题材其实不重要，关键的是我们要能读懂文章的逻辑结构。那么下面我们一起来解析一下。
第一句：
It is an odd but indisputable fact that the seventeenth-century English women who are generally regarded as among the forerunners of modern feminism are almost all identified with the Royalist side in the conflict between Royalists and Parliamentarians known as the English Civil Wars.
第一段：
第一句逻辑简图：
第二句：Since Royalist ideology is often associated with the radical patriarchalism of seventeenth-century political theorist Robert Filmer— a patriarchalism that equate family and kingdom and assets the divinely ordained absolute power of the king and, by analogy, of the male head of the household—historians have been understandably puzzled by the fact that Royalist women wrote the earliest extended criticisms of the absolute subordination of women in marriage and the earliest systematic assertions of women’s rational and moral equality with men.
解析：看到打头的since, 我们可以意识到，在行文逻辑上作者要开始给解释了，那具体解释什么呢?我们先来看到主句，主句说historians puzzled，应该意识到puzzle跟首句的odd是对应的。所以我们就明确了本句是想解释首句提到的那个fact为什么是odd或者puzzled。
第二句逻辑简图：
第三句：Some historians have questioned the facile equation of Royalist ideology with Filmerian patriarchalism; and indeed, there may have been no consistent differenceds between Royalists and Parliamentarians on issues of family organization and women’s political rights, but in that case one would expect early feminists to be equally divided between the two sides.
解析：这句话出现文章难点，不知道各位看官有没有读出本句话的功能以及最后哪个转折的目的?
文章之前有提到说”feminism=R” 是奇怪的，原因是R=patri 而patri强调的是男性权利。所以本句就出现了一群历史学家在质疑很有可能R跟patri其实不是真的相同，而且P和R也什么不同。如果真的是这样的话，我们就会预期feminists 在R和P中等分的。很显然这与事实是不相符的。因此这个转折就否定了本句的historian，从而说明R=patri 是不能被质疑的。
第三句逻辑简图：
第二段：
第一句：Catherine Gallagher argues that Royalism engendered feminism because the ideology of absolute monarchy provide a transition to an ideology of the absolute self.
解析：本句CG开始解释R(=patri)为什么可以产生feminism(也就是说feminism=R其实并不odd。)
逻辑简图：
第二句：She cites the example of the notoriously eccentric author Margaret Cavendish(1626-1673), duchess of Newcastle.
解析：从第二句开始进一步例证CG的解释。(例子不会出现新信息而且不影响行文方向)
后文：具体展开例子。我们在这里就不详解例子了，例子应该是我们快读的内容。那我们一起来快读一下，挑取强词。
例子：Cavendish claimed to be as ambitious as any women could be, but knowing that as a women sehe was excluded from the pursuit of power in the real world, she resolved to be mistress of her own world, the “immaterial world” that any person can create within her own mind—and, as a writer, on paper. In proclaiming what she called her “singularity”, Cavendish insisted that she was self-sufficient being within her mental empire, the center of her own subjective universe rather than a satellite orbiting a dominant male planet. In justifying this absolute singularity, Cavendish repeatedly invoked the model of the absolute monarch, a figure that became the metaphor for self-enclosed, autonomous nature of the individual person. Cavendish’s successors among early feminists retained her notion of woman’s sovereign self, but they also sought to break free from the complete political and social isolation that her absolute singularity entailed.
文章整体逻辑简图：
通过分析我们发现：GMAT阅读文章的新趋势：
1. 文章很长，但是我们分析完后发现信息量其实很小
2. 文章题材抽象，但是我们在不翻译的情况下也读懂了文章逻辑结构。所谓文章逻辑结构，就是通过各种动词和连词去强化句内、句间关系;同时能挑出验证关系的强词。
那么下面让我们来看几道题目：
OG-16-RC96：
The author of the passage refers to Robert Filmer (underlined) primarily in order to
A. show that Royalist ideology was somewhat more radical than most historians appear to realize
B. qualify the claim that patriarchalism formed the basisi of Royalist ideology
C. question the view that most early feminists were associated with the Royalist faction
D. highlight an apparent tension between Royalist ideology and the ideas of early feminists
E. argue that Royalists held conflicting opinions on issues of family organization and women’s political rights
解析：
首先看到题干中最后的in order to可以先判断出来是目的题，我们总在强调目的题本质考察的是句内句间关系。那么我们回归到句内句间关系上。题目问的RF是在文章第二句。通过我们之前对文章的分析，我们知道第二句的功能是在解释为什么第一句描述的现象是odd的。所以答案应该是D：强调R和feminists之间的敌意(与odd/puzzled对应)
OG16-RC97
The passage suggests which of the following about the seventeenth-century English women mentioned in line 2?
A. Their status as forerunners of modern feminism is not entirely justified.
B. They did not openly challenge the radical patriarchalism of Royalist Filmerian ideology.
C. Cavendish was the first among these women to criticize women’s subordination in marriage and assert women’s equality with men.
D. Their views on family organization and women’s political rights were diametrically opposed to those of both Royalist and Parliamentarian ideology.
E. Historians would be less puzzled if more of them were identified with the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil Wars.
解析：
细节题。我们总在强调细节题的本质就是压缩定位范围。通过定位，我们发现本题问的English women 就是那群feminism的forerunner。所以正确答案是E。但是要注意的是E是把文章内容进行了一个双重否定：原文说feminism=R所以非常奇怪;正确选项改写为 如果feminism=P那么就不会那么令人困惑。这样的改写是可以接受的。
OG16-RC100
The primary purpose of the passage is to
A. trace the historical roots of a modern sociopolitical movement
B. present one scholar’s explanation for a puzzling historical phenomenon
C. contrast two interpretations of the ideological origins of a political of a political conflict
D. establish a link between the ideology of an influential political theorist and that of a notoriously eccentric writer
E. call attention to some points of agreement between opposing sides in an ideological debate
解析：
文章主旨题。本篇文章结构为：第一段描述了一个 odd fact， 第二段给了一个引用的解释。所以正确答案为B
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