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　　接下来的几天给大家整理了历届gre考试阅读真题及解析，下面这篇是1994年2月gre考试阅读真题SECTION A部分。复习gre考试阅读的时候，gre考生应该以往年的真题为复习材料，从真题中总结阅读规律和特点才是制胜法宝。

　　Analyzing the physics of dance can add fundamentally to a dancer’s skill. Although dancers seldom see themselves totally in physical terms—as body mass moving through space under the influence of well-known forces and obeying physical laws—neither can they afford to ignore the physics of movement. For example, no matter how much a dancer wishes to leap off the floor and then start turning, the law of conservation of angular momentum absolutely prevents such a movement.

　　Some movements involving primarily vertical or horizontal motions of the body as a whole, in which rotations can be ignored, can be studied using simple equations of linear motion in three dimensions. However, rotational motions require more complex approaches that involve analyses of the way the body’s mass is distributed, the axes of rotation involved in different types of movement, and the sources of the forces that produce the rotational movement.

　　17. The primary purpose of the passage is to

　　(A) initiate a debate over two approaches to analyzing a field of study

　　(B) describe how one field of knowledge can be applied to another field

　　(D) dine and elaborate on an accepted scientific principle

　　(E) discuss the application of a new theory within a new setting

　　18. The author mentions all of the following as contributing to an understanding of the physics of dance EXCEPT:

　　(A) the law of conservation of angular momentum

　　(B) analyses of the way in which the body’s mass is distributed

　　(D) analyses of the sources that produce rotational motions

　　(E) the technical terms for movements such as leaps and turns

　　19. The author implies that dancers can become more skilled by doing which of the following?

　　(A) Ignoring rotational movements

　　(B) Understanding the forces that permit various movements

　　(D) Learning the technical terms utilized by choreographers

　　(E) Circumventing the law of conservation of angular momentum

　　20. Analysis of which of the following would require the kind of complex approach described in lines 14-19?

　　(A) A long leap across space

　　(B) A short jump upward with a return to the same place

　　(D) Short, rapid steps forward and then backward without turning

　　(E) Quick sidesteps in a diagonal line

　　Human relations have commanded people’s attention from early times. The ways of people have been recorded in innumerable myths, folktales, novels, poems, plays, and popular or philosophical essays. Although the full significance of a human relationship may not be directly evident, the complexity of feelings and actions that can be understood at a glance is surprisingly great. For this reason psychology holds a unique position among the sciences. “Intuitive” knowledge may be remarkably penetrating and can significantly help us understand human behavior, whereas in the physical sciences such commonsense knowledge is relatively primitive. If we erased all knowledge of scientific physics from our modem word, not only would we not have cars and television sets, we might even find that the ordinary person was unable to cope with the fundamental mechanical problems of pulleys and levers. On the other hand if we removed all knowledge of scientific psychology from our world, problems in interpersonal relations might easily be coped with and solved much as bore. We would still “know” how to avoid doing something asked of us and how to get someone to agree with us; we would still “know” when someone was angry and when someone was pleased. One could even offer sensible explanations for the “whys” of much of the self’s behavior and feelings. In other words, the ordinary person has a great and profound understanding of the self and of other people which, though unformulated or only vaguely conceived, enables one to interact with others in more or less adaptive ways. Kohler, in rerring to the lack of great discoveries in psychology as compared with physics, accounts for this by saying that “people were acquainted with practically all territories of mental life a long time bore the founding of scientific psychology.”

　　Paradoxically, with all this natural, intuitive, commonsense capacity to grasp human relations, the science of human relations has been one of the last to develop. Different explanations of this paradox have been suggested. One is that science would destroy the vain and pleasing illusions people have about themselves; but we might ask why people have always loved to read pessimistic, debunking writings, from Ecclesiastes (Ecclesiastes: n.[宗]传道书a book of wisdom literature in canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture) to Freud. It has also been proposed that just because we know so much about people intuitively, there has been less incentive for studying them scientifically; why should one develop a theory, carry out systematic observations, or make predictions about the obvious? In any case, the field of human relations, with its vast literary documentation but meager scientific treatment, is in great contrast to the field of physic in which there are relatively few nonscientific books.

　　21. According to the passage, it has been suggested that the science of human relations was slow to develop because

　　(A) intuitive knowledge of human relations is derived from philosophy

　　(B) early scientists were more interested in the physical world

　　(D) the scientific method is difficult to apply to the study of human relations

　　(E) people generally seem to be more attracted to literary than to scientific writings about human relations

　　22. The author’s statement that “Psychology holds a unique position among the sciences” (lines 8-9) is supported by which of the following claims in the passage?

　　(A) The full meaning of a human relationship may not be obvious.

　　(B) Commonsense understanding of human relations can be incisive.

　　(D) Subjective bias is difficult to control in psychological research.

　　(E) Psychological facts are too imprecise to lead to great discoveries.

　　23. According to the passage, an understanding of the self can be

　　(A) highly biased due to unconscious factors

　　(B) profound even when vaguely conceived

　　(D) irrelevant for understanding human relations

　　(E) more reliable than knowledge about other people

　　24. It can be inferred that the author would most likely agree with which of the following statements regarding people who lived bore the advent of scientific psychology?

　　(A) Their understanding of human relations was quite limited.

　　(B) They were uninterested in acquiring knowledge of the physical world.

　　(D) Their intuitions about human relations were reasonably sophisticated.

　　(E) They were more likely to hold pleasing illusions about themselves than are people today.

　　25. The author implies that attempts to treat human relations scientifically have thus far been relatively

　　(A) unilluminating

　　(B) paradoxical

　　(D) encouraging

　　(E) uninterpretable

　　26. The author rers to people who are attracted to “pessimistic, debunking writings” (line 44) in order to support which of the following ideas?

　　(A) Interesting books about human relations are typically pessimistic.

　　(B) People tend to ignore scientific explanations of human relations.

　　(D) A scientific approach human relations would undermine the pleasing illusions people hold of themselves.

　　(E) It is doubtful that the science of human relations developed slowly because of a desire to maintain pleasing illusions.

　　27. It can be inferred that the author assumes that commonsense knowledge of human relations is

　　(A) equally well developed among all adults within a given society

　　(B) considerably more accurate in some societies than in others

　　(D) typically unrelated to an individual’s interactions with other people

　　(E) usually sufficiently accurate to facilitate interactions with others

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