4、问题解决、回答型

· 判断标志：
a. 首段出现了设问句。“How such large creatures, which weighed in some cases as much as a piloted hang-glider and had wingspans from 8 to 12 meters, solved the problems of powered flight, and exactly what these creatures were--reptiles or birds-are among the questions scientists have puzzled over.”
b. 首段出现了以下四个词语之一：Problem  difficulty  task   puzzle challenge,    criteria  requirement “How many really suffer as a result of labor market problems? This is one of the most critical yet contentious social policy questions.”“Excess inventory, a massive problem for many businesses, has several causes, some of which are unavoidable. Overstocks may accumulate through production overruns or …….
  errors.”

· TS  作者给予正评价的解决方案。
· 行文套路：problem（question）---solution（answers）---author ‘s attitude
· 阅读重点： 作者的态度评价 “In many ways, our social statistics exaggerate（表示负评价的实义动词） the degree of hardship. Unemployment does not have the same dire consequences today as it did in the 1930's when most of the unemployed were primary breadwinners, when income and earnings were usually much closer to the margin of subsistence, and when there were no countervailing social programs for those failing in the labor market.”

5、特别套路：

前面四种分类，都是根据文章的行文套路或者说是文章的“形式”来划分，而“特别套路”并非根据文章的“形式”，而是根据文章的“内容”，具体地说：如果有一篇GMAT文章是在“评述某人理论，评价某人著作或评判某人的观点”，那么这篇文章就是“特别套路”的GMAT文章。

· 判断标志
a. 开头出现：人名 (大写字母)+书名（斜体字母）Joseph Glarthaar's Forged in Battle is not the first excellent study of Black soldiers and their White officers in the Civil War, but it uses more soldiers' letters and diaries
b. 开头出现：人名+study, work analysis
· 主题句一般不是很明显，主要表现为对作品或观点的多个并列评价
· 行文套路
a. 一般会与前人比较，说出相同点（like），但是后面的部分必然会出现表示强对比（unlike）或强转折或 （But Yet However）的词汇，说明作者评价的这部作品或观点是“出彩”的
b. 对作品或观点的评价以正评价为主。
· 阅读重点： 作者的态度评价 （在GMAT文章中，作者主要使用情态动词、 自由褒贬词和实义动词来表示自己的评价）

最后，所有人都在说GMAT的阅读很难。我希望各位读者在不断提高英语水平的同时，注重把握这个考试所具有的独特规律性和GMAT文章所特有的套路，并辅之以大量练习。这样，你最终会感到自己原来以为极其困难的阅读，也可以变得较容易。我认为套路是考生得以在极短的时间内迅速把握GMAT文章的主干的最重要的“利器”，所谓“工欲善其事，必先利其器”，所以大家想要“善”GMAT这个“事”，必须要在揣摩GAMT文章的套路上多下点功夫。