详略结合有效读GRE阅读文章

详略结合有效读GRE阅读文章（共4篇）

篇1：详略结合有效读GRE阅读文章

“详读”新GRE阅读主题句

从宏观上来分析，新GRE阅读文章可能包罗万象、支离破碎，但都会贯穿一个思想，一条主线，作者往往通过一句话或两句话阐述其内容和关注的焦点，我们称其为文章的核心，也可以称之为TS(主题句)，TS对于从宏观角度把握整篇文章的结构以及领会文章的逻辑框架作用很大，抓住TS也就找到了文章的行文脉络。

阅读文章每段的首句和末句一定也要仔细看，一般都会从某种程度上表征全文的核心，尤其适用于自然科学类文章。

“详读”新GRE阅读逻辑关系词

新GRE阅读，我们更重要的是把握文章逻辑结构，包括段与段之间的关系、甚至句与句之间的关系。阅读文章中的转折、对比及强调词的前后往往阐述的内容或是对比，或是对立，或是让步，或是强调，经常会成为出题点。我们对于这些词汇要时刻小心，做好标记，有助于理清句子的逻辑结构。

“略读”新GRE阅读补充信息

新GRE阅读对核心及逻辑题比重的增加，更要求考生在有限的时间内合理安排时间，重点关注的是句子的主干成分，及“主、谓、宾”。

在新GRE阅读理解中可以略读插入成分，如逗号后紧跟which、who、介词、动名词，或两个逗号间是对人名、地名及书名的补充说明。那从第一个逗号开始到后面最临近的标点符号(逗号或句号)间是插入成分，我们可先忽略不读。在该处做标记，以便定位时返回阅读，

读的过程中，应该注意的问题：

(1)GeneralUnderstanding:

主要是解决两个问题：

A.MainIdeaorPoint

B.LogicalDevelopmentorOrganization

(2)SpecificUnderstanding:

主要是解决两个问题：

A.SpecificDetails

B.LogicalDetails(细节中最为重要的东西，也是最需要我们在读文章时思考和掌握的细节)

(3)Evaluating:

主要是解决三个问题：

A.Implication

B.Furtherapplication

C.Tone/attitude

不管是在新GRE阅读考试还是在旧GRE阅读里面，要想做对题目首先要对文章内容了解清楚，否则我们如何把握要点。希望上面三个新GRE逻辑阅读方法能帮助大家解决逻辑阅读问题，希望考生们取得满意成绩。

篇2：详略结合有效读GRE阅读文章

新的gre阅读考试应该把重点放在文章的要点上

对于一个gre考试阅读来说，最重要的是结构，所以首先要注意聚焦，作者的聚焦态度、评价、缺陷和有待改进的地方。然后集中阅读每一段的第一段和第一句，注意开头和过渡，如果不懂继续往下看，只关心关系是顺还是转。同时，我们还需要记笔记，特别是新意、TS、判断句、虚拟语气、强对比、强转折、最高层次、唯一性、比较层次、列举、大写名词、时间、地点、人名等不要细读，只要记住位置，简单地做个记号。阅读的速度一定很快。如果你不会读书，你就不会读书。如果你能少读，你就会少读。如果你能读一篇很长的文章，你必须只看框架。如果你有足够的胆量略读、记笔记、读问题、准确定位，在解决问题时需要特别注意以下gre阅读重点：

一。强对比、强转折、双重否定

2。尤其是

三。标记大写名词和斜体

四。明确与时间有关的句子

5个。找出重复的关键词及其意义

6。虚拟语气与让步语气

7号。转过去比较一下，找出双方是谁

8个。文章的背景，作者的观点和倾向，以及最重要的评价

新GRE阅读题的分类应明确

一。根据写作方法：陈述、论证

2。按照写作程序：新旧观点、现象解释、结论解释和问题解决

三。按主题：文学评论、美国历史、弱势群体、生命科学

新GRE阅读总体思路与方法

先读这篇文章，然后做问题。快读，大胆省略。记住：阅读问题的时间比阅读文章的时间长。一般建议采用两次法。第一次通读，重点是文章的结构、重点和作者的态度。在回答问题时读第二遍。同时，在解决任何问题时，gre阅读技巧,gre考试培训都要回到原来的位置，严格把握文本的对应关系，找到每一个正确答案的依据，决不能凭记忆或知识背景来做问题。特别是不要仔细阅读，不需要理解文章的意思，速度一定要快，做笔记，时间不够，看不到每一段的第一段和第一句话。然后，我们每天积累几个GRE句子。简而言之，阅读的关键是“速度定向重写”。

GRE阅读练习之蝴蝶产卵

Upon maturity,monarch butterflies travel hundreds of miles from their places of origin and lay their eggs on milkweed. The caterpillars that emerge feed on milkweed and absorb the glycosides in milkweed sap. The specific glycosides present in milkweed differ from region to region within the monarch butterfly’s range. Mature butterflies retain the glycosides in a mature monarch butterfly could be used to determine its place of origin.

Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?

A. Mature monarch butterflies do not feed on parts of milkweed that contain glycosides.

B. The glycosides in milkweed sap are slightly toxic to caterpillars of other species.

C. The vast majority of the monarch butterflies that are laying eggs in a given region will have traveled there from a single region.

D. There are substances other than glycosides in milkweed sap that accumulate in a monarch caterpillar and are retained in the body of the mature butterfly.

E. There are certain glycosides that are found in the sap of all milkweeds, no matter where they grow within the monarch butterfly’s range.

GRE阅读文章定点问题

1. 写作用意题

这类题是针对文章某些内容的作用进行的提问，也就是题干中问到的这个具体事物在文章中出现时作者的用意是什么?所有的GRE文章都是议论文，作者提到具体的事物大体上有几种关系：支持、证明、解释或反对某观点，也就是说具体的事物总是和观点发生联系的。通常情况，给定行数题和写作用意题是混合出现的。

2. 给定行数题

给定行数，顾名思义，就是在题目中已经明确的给出了所考查内容的行数，题目中所涉及的内容也是有关给定行数所述内容的作用或者相关内容。这就需要考生在做这类题时，根据题目中所提示的行数，回到原文中去定位。但是有一点需要注意，像这类明确地给出行数地题，通常情况，答案都不在所给定地行数处，也不是给定行数内容地直接改写，因为出题者不会直接告诉你答案在哪，所以，在做这类题时，除了要根据它所提示的信息，还要结合所给行数的上下文的情况再做选择。

GRE阅读文章重点

重在结构,关注focus,关注作者对focus的态度、评价,缺陷及需要改进的地方

重点读首段和各段首句,注意起承转合,看不懂的继续往下看,只关心是顺接还是转折关系

作笔记：尤其是新观点、TS、判断句、虚拟语气、强对比、强转折、最高级、唯一性、比较级、列举,大写名词、时间,地点,人名等,不要精读,记住位置即可需作笔记的部分：(作笔记是为了定位方便)

TS直接标在文章旁边

关键词直接在文中标出

人名、地名、斜体字记行号、首字母及评价L10, D, +第10行出现D,正评价

强对比L10 ><标记行号

强转折标记位置

unless,缺陷标记位置

比较级、最高级,唯一性=, >, <标记行号,用于文字对应

大列举标记位置,可能考except或罗马数字题

泛指化题型is driven to标记位置

速度一定要快,能不读则不读,能少读则少读,长文章一定要只看框架,大胆的略读粗读,做笔记,读题,精确定位,解题需要特别注意的内容：

a:强对比、强转折、双重否定

b:比较级、最高级、唯一性、“所有”, only, in particular

c:大写名词、斜体字做好标记

d:有关时间的句子,弄清楚前后关系

e:反复出现的关键词,弄清其含义

f:虚拟、让步语气

g:转折、比较弄清比较双方是谁

篇3：gre考试阅读文章如何快速读懂

gre阅读考试如何提分?

1.一句话只看一遍，充分利用自己的gre考试语法知识，时刻把握句子主干，修饰成分要毫无感觉得快速浏览(这里的“毫无感觉”不是略读，而是不希望过多的修饰成分或插入成分影响对句子主干的理解，这四个字需要自己体会)。

2.做标记除了大写字母、时间年代、最高级、转折标志词、因果标志词、列举、让步、强对比以外，还要标记出并列连接词(如and)、分号、冒号、表示作者态度的词(这个比较难，需要自己体会收集)，原因我会在下面的取舍中谈到。我的做标记的小窍门：标记符号不要只用一种(如下划线)，也不要过多，个人感觉最多三种(如括号、圆圈、下划线)，分别标记原因、转折和其他，不过我自己只用下划线和括号。

3.一定要取舍。我以前的标准是：

a)让步分句(如：带although的分句、带it is true的分句、带do的分句等)一律跳过(但是用括号括起来)，只看后半个分句;

b)such as后的内容一律跳过，也用括号括起来，不过我会数数列举的个数，如果是4个，则必出题，其他个数不用管，出题了再回头看;

c)for example举例只要提炼关键词的首字母就可以了，也要括起来，重点看后面或前面的结论。

d)原因——标志词常为BECause、since——一律跳过，括起来，只看结果。比较容易被忽略的是result in和result from，遇到这两个，我在下面划横线做标记。

e)老观点只把握gre阅读文章关键词、知道讲的是什么就行，其他一律跳过。

f)冒号后一律跳过，冒号下做标记。

g)分号后一律跳过，因为表示并列，内容和前面大体一致，分号做标记，出题的话再回来看。

现在的标准是：上面这些全看，因为速度上来了，但看这些内容时仍然是“毫无感觉”地看，可以不用担心它们会分散注意力了。

当这些内容都做标记后，文章结构就非常清楚了，哪儿是举例、哪儿是结论、哪儿是原因、哪儿是转折一目了然，定位非常容易。

4. (本来想把这条放在第一位的)我的提高阅读速度的不二法门：反复阅读已经读过的文章，5遍左右吧!慢慢地就会产生一种直觉，知道哪里略读哪里重读。

GRE阅读练习题：地球冷暖周期通过石头含铁量推定

Recent studies of sediment in the North Atlantic’s deepwaters reveal possible cyclical patterns in the history of Earth’s climate. Therock fragments in these sediments are too large to have been transported thereby ocean currents; they must have reached their present locations by travelingin large icebergs that floated long distances from their point of origin beforemelting.

Geol.ist Gerard Bond noticed that some of the sedimentgrains were stained with ironoxide, evidence that they originated in localeswhere glaciers had overrun outcrops of red sandstone. Bond’s detailed analysisof deep-water sediment cores showed changes in the mix of sediment sources overtime: the proportion of these red-stained grains fluctuated back and forth fromlows of 5 percent to highs of about 17 percent, and these fluctuations occurredin a nearly regular 1,500-year cycle.

Bond hypothesized that the alternating cycles might beevidence of changes in ocean-water circ

ulation and therefore in Earth’sclimate. He knew that the sources of the red-stained grains were generallycloser to the North Pole than were the places yielding a high proportion of“clean” grains. At certain times, apparently, more icebergs from the ArcticOcean in the far north were traveling south well into the North Atlantic beforemelting and shedding their sediment. Ocean waters are constantly moving, andwater temperature is both a cause and an effect of this movement. As watercools, it becomes denser and sinks to the ocean’s bottom. During some periods,the bottom layer of the world’s oceans comes from cold, dense water sinking inthe far North Atlantic. This causes the warm surface waters of the Gulf Streamto be pulled northward. Bond realized that during such periods, the influx ofthese warm surface waters into northern regions could cause a large proportionof the icebergs that bear red grains to melt before traveling very far into theNorth Atlantic. But sometimes the ocean’s dynamic changes, and waters from theGulf Stream do not travel northward in this way. During these periods, surfacewaters in the North Atlantic would generally be colder, permitting icebergsbearing red-stained grains to travel farther south in the North Atlantic beforemelting and depositing their sediment.

The onset of the so-called Little Ice Age (1300-1860),which followed the Medieval Warm Period of the eighth through tenth centuries,may represent the most recent time that the ocean’sdynamic changed in this way. If ongoing climate-history studies support Bond’shypothesis of 1,500-year cycles, scientists may establish a major natural rhythmin Earth’s temperatures that could then be extrapolated into the future.Because the midpoint of the Medieval Warm Period was about A.D. 850, anextension of Bond’s cycles would place the midpoint of the next warm intervalin the twenty-fourth century.

21.1. According to the passage, which of the following istrue of the rock fragments contained in the sediments studied by Bond?

A. The majority of them are composed of red sandstone.

B. They must have reached their present location over 1,500 years ago.

C. They were carried byicebergs to their present location.

D. Most of them were carried to their present location during a warm period inEarth’s climatic history.

E. They are unlikely to have been carried to their present location during theLittle Ice Age.

21.2. In the final paragraph of the passage (lines 27-33),the author is concerned primarily with

A. answering a question about Earth’s climatic history

B. pointing out a potential flaw in Bond’s hypothesis

C. suggesting a new focus for the study of ocean sediments

D. tracing the general history of Earth’s climate

E. discussing possibleimplications of Bond’s hypothesis

21.3. According to the passage, Bond hypothesized that whichof the following circumstances would allow red-stained sediment grains to reachmore southerly latitudes?

A. Warm waters being pulled northward from the GulfStream

B. Climatic conditions causing icebergs to melt relatively quickly

C. Icebergs containing a higher proportion of iron oxide than usual

D. The formation of more icebergs than usual in the far north

E. The presence of coldsurface waters in the North Atlantic

21.4. It can be inferred from the passage that in sedimentcores from the North Atlantic’s deep waters, the portions that correspond tothe Little Ice Age

A.. differ very little in composition from theportions that correspond to the Medieval Warm Period

B. fluctuate significantly in composition between the portions corresponding tothe 1300s and the portions corresponding to the 1700s

C. would be likely tocontain a proportion of red-stained grains closer to 17 percent than to 5percent

D. show a much higher proportion of red-stained grains in cores extracted fromthe far north of the North Atlantic than in cores extracted from further south

E. were formed in part as

答案：CEEC

GRE阅读结构解析

1.一句话只看一遍，充分利用自己的语法知识，时刻把握句子主干，修饰成分要毫无感觉得快速浏览(这里的“毫无感觉”不是略读，而是不希望过多的修饰成分或插入成分影响对句子主干的理解，这四个字需要自己体会)。

2.做标记除了大写字母、时间年代、最高级、转折标志词、因果标志词、列举、让步、强对比以外，还要标记出并列连接词(如and)、分号、冒号、表示作者态度的词(这个比较难，需要自己体会收集)，原因我会在下面的取舍中谈到。我的做标记的小窍门：标记符号不要只用一种(如下划线)，也不要过多，个人感觉最多三种(如括号、圆圈、下划线)，分别标记原因、转折和其他，不过我自己只用下划线和括号。

3.一定要取舍。我以前的标准是：

a)让步分句(如：带although的分句、带itistrue的分句、带do的分句等)一律跳过(但是用括号括起来)，只看后半个分句;

b)suchas后的内容一律跳过，也用括号括起来，不过我会数数列举的个数，如果是4个，则必出题，其他个数不用管，出题了再回头看;

c)forexample举例只要提炼关键词的首字母就可以了，也要括起来，重点看后面或前面的结论。

d)原因——标志词常为BECause、since——一律跳过，括起来，只看结果。比较容易被忽略的是resultin和resultfrom，遇到这两个，我在下面划横线做标记。

e)老观点只把握关键词、知道讲的是什么就行，其他一律跳过。

f)冒号后一律跳过，冒号下做标记。

g)分号后一律跳过，因为表示并列，内容和前面大体一致，分号做标记，出题的话再回来看。

篇4：详略结合有效读GRE阅读文章

根本解决办法是多读

从长远来看，解决阅读速度不快的根本办法是多读。阅读速读提高不上去很大程度上是因为考生还不习惯英语到自己语言的理解，需要一个切换理解的时间。比如看到一个词，要先想到这个词的意思，然后理解整句话。要解决这个问题显然就是需要熟练，不断地接触英语相关的资料，在不断地阅读中多理解，即使不是精读也要试图理解一片文章的大概和基本逻辑，经过联系使中间这个切换时间越来越短，最后达到完全不需要切换的语言感觉。短期来看，针对新GRE考试可以尝试多做笔记，用自己熟悉的符号记录或者标注各种语言的重要信息，这样做题时候回文定位会省事很多。

提高细节把握能力

GRE阅读速度提高了可能还存在一个问题，就是阅读的感觉不好，细节重点抓不住。不少同学做题时可以大概理解一片文章讲的是什么，但是对于一些细节，和关键问题还是理解模糊或者无法理解的问题。这种问题可能是由于同学们自己阅读一些长难句的困难，面对一些结构复杂的长句子无所适从，建议长难句方面有困难的同学可以参考一下专门针对性的长难句教材，比如杨鹏老师的长难句材料，各种语法点总结的很好，很有针对性。还有就是针对一些专业词汇做特殊的记忆，比如考生不常见的地质学、气象学和天文学等领域的词汇。

思路不适应要积累阅读量

对于思路上不太适应GRE逻辑思维的同学，平时可以多注意积累其他方面的阅读量，哪怕是中文文章的，尝试理解那些有一定逻辑难度的文章，这样可以跳过语言这一环，直接训练自己的思路。对于GRE阅读的考试，哪怕是整个GRE考试的备考来说，都会发现背景知识越丰富，得到的帮助会更多。

时间充分可以精读练习

对于备考时间比较充裕的考生可以尝试将阅读文章做完题之后精读，把每一个句子的意思都搞懂，都能翻译出来，不会的单词去查。这这个过程可以发现自己在语法和背景知识方面的漏洞，然后再去理解一篇文章的大意。

GRE阅读题目解析:蚂蚁用真菌创造菜园

Some attine ants carry vegetation into their nests and add fungal material, thereby creating “gardens” in which fungal food for the ants grow. Because the ants play the behaviorally active role, it seems compelling to say that they cultivate and control the passive fungi. But even if that is true, the symbiotic association has existed for so long that cultivar traits may have evolved in the fungi that benefit the fungi but not necessarily the ants. Furthermore, many microorganisms have developed sophisticated mechanisms to manipulate the physiology and behavior of their symbiotic animals. It is not implausible, therefore, that the ants’ fungi have evolved chemical and physiological schemes that alter ant behavior to serve the fungus’ reproductive interests, possibly even compromising the reproductive interests for the ant hosts.

1. The passage points out which of the following in order to explain the appeal of the notion that some attine ants cultivate and control fungus?

A. The ants play the behaviorally active roles in the symbiotic relationship.

B. The ants purposefully carry vegetation into their nests for their own consumption.

C. Fungus is physiologically a passive substance.

D. Other organisms are able to manipulate their symbiotic partners.

E. The chemical and physiological properties of the fungus are subject to ant influence.

2. In the context in which it appears, the word “manipulate” most nearly means

A. influence

B. oversee

C. coerce

D. deceive

E. outmaneuver

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Some attine ants carry vegetation into their nests and add fungal material, thereby creating “gardens” in which fungal food for the ants grow.

一些 A 蚁把植物带回巢穴，再加入真菌材料，于是创造出一个生产真菌的 “ 菜园 ” 供养蚁群。

(attine ants 没查到比较准确的译法，也许可以译作 “ 真菌培育蚁 ”，也许指的就是 “ 切叶蚁 ”，待定。)

2

Because the ants play the behaviorally active role, it seems compelling to say that they cultivate and control the passive fungi.

因为蚁的是这一行为的主动方，说它们种植和控制被动的真菌似乎比较有说服力。

3

But even if that is true, the symbiotic association has existed for so long that cultivar traits may have evolved in the fungi that benefit the fungi but not necessarily the ants.

但即便这是真的，这种共生关系也存在了如此久，以至于被栽种的真菌可能已经进化出一些对自己有利，对蚁未必有利的遗传特征。

(cultivar 栽种品种

trait 遗传特征)

4

Furthermore, many microorganisms have developed sophisticated mechanisms to manipulate the physiology and behavior of their symbiotic animals.

此外，许多微生物都发展出复杂的机制，操纵与之共生的动物的生理机能和行为。

5

It is not implausible, therefore, that the ants’ fungi have evolved chemical and physiological schemes that alter ant behavior to serve the fungus’ reproductive interests, possibly even compromising the reproductive interests for the ant hosts.

因此，有可能蚁栽种的真菌，已经进化出化学和生理策略，改变蚁的行为，为真菌的生殖利益服务，甚至可能危害到了宿主蚁的生殖利益。

1. The passage points out which of the following in order to explain the appeal of the notion that some attine ants cultivate and control fungus?

A. The ants play the behaviorally active roles in the symbiotic relationship.

B. The ants purposefully carry vegetation into their nests for their own consumption.

C. Fungus is physiologically a passive substance.

D. Other organisms are able to manipulate their symbiotic partners.

E. The chemical and physiological properties of the fungus are subject to ant influence.

选 A

文章开始提出了一种现象，蚂蚁和蘑菇共生。

关于这一现象，有两种解释，一种是蚂蚁种蘑菇;一种是蘑菇控制蚂蚁。

题目问我们第一种解释的根据，定位句 2，Because the ants play the behaviorally active role，选 A 。

2. In the context in which it appears, the word “manipulate” most nearly means

A. influence

B. oversee

C. coerce

D. deceive

E. outmaneuver

选 A

influence 影响，支配

oversee 监督，监视

coerce 强制，逼迫

deceive 欺骗，误导

outmaneuver 以计谋、智力取胜(对手)

GRE阅读题目解析:英国文学传记

P45

The editors of the essay collection Romantic biography tell us repeatedly that biography is an invention of the Romantic period in British literature (late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries), yet we are never shown that process of invention motion. Hazlitt, the most prominent example of the Romantic biographer, is almost invisible. The Romantic period was not just the period in which biography was invented---or, rather, the period in which some of its informing principles were invented, since biography could just as easily be said to have originated in the scandalous memoirs that formed part of the pre-Romantic culture of the novel. It was also the period in which biography, through its sheer ubiquity, became an object of major ideological significance within British culture.

1. The passage mentions the “scandalous memoirs ” that were written prior to the Romantic period primarily in order to

A. indicate an alternative account of the origins of biography

B. compare these memoirs to Romantic biography

C. explain how biography became ubiquitous in British culture

D question the ideological significance accorded to biography

E. suggest that biographies were not as popular as memoirs

2. According to the passage, biography attained great significance within British culture during the Romantic period because biographies

A. were associated with scandal

B. were easy to read and comprehend

C. were so widespread in Britain at the time

D. challenged conventional British ideologies

E. contributed to the development of the novel

P45

1

The editors of the essay collection Romantic biography tell us repeatedly that biography is an invention of the Romantic period in British literature (late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries), yet we are never shown that process of invention motion.

文集 R B 的编辑们一再告诉我们，传记是英国文学浪漫主义时期(十八世纪晚期和十九世纪早期)的独创，却从未向我们展示创造的过程。

(我推测 Romantic biography 是个 typo，应写作 Romantic Biography，是书名;如果 biography 小写无误，则 Romantic biography 指的是 浪漫主义时期的传记，那么关于这一主题的文集，应该写为 essay collection(s) of / about / concerning (the) Romantic biographies。

翻译采取了第一种理解。)

2

Hazlitt, the most prominent example of the Romantic biographer, is almost invisible.

H，作为浪漫主义时期最杰出的传记作家的代表，几乎无人知晓。

3

The Romantic period was not just the period in which biography was invented -- or, rather, the period in which some of its informing principles were invented, since biography could just as easily be said to have originated in the scandalous memoirs that formed part of the pre-Romantic culture of the novel.

浪漫主义时期并非传记文体被创造的时期，—— 更确切地说，不是我们熟悉的那些原则被确立的时期，因为传记据称起源于 scandlous memoirs，后者是 前浪漫主义 时期小说文化的一部分。

(scandalous memoirs 意会吧，没查到权威或公认的译法)

4

It was also the period in which biography, through its sheer ubiquity, became an object of major ideological significance within British culture.

也正是在浪漫主义时期，传记作品通过普及式的传播，成为英国文化最重要的意识形态宣传工具。

(sheer 十足的，完全的

ubiquity 无所不在

object 直译，应取 “(受关注、欣赏等)的对象、客体 ”，或理解为 “ … 的目标 ” 。意译跳跃比较大。)

1. The passage mentions the ”scandalous memoirs ” that were written prior to the Romantic period primarily in order to

A. indicate an alternative account of the origins of biography

B. compare these memoirs to Romantic biography

C. explain how biography became ubiquitous in British culture

D question the ideological significance accorded to biography

E. suggest that biographies were not as popular as memoirs

选 A

scandalous memoirs 出现在句 3：

The Romantic period was not just the period in which biography was invented -- or, rather, the period in which some of its informing principles were invented, since biography could just as easily be said to have originated in the scandalous memoirs that formed part of the pre-Romantic culture of the novel.

文章前三句，一直围绕着 Romantic biography 的来源，句 1 出现的编辑们 editors 说，biography is an invention of the Romantic period in British literature，但作者认为他们一直拿不出证据，we are never shown that process of invention motion，可推测作者的态度。

综合句 3，给出了另一种说法，an alternative account 。

2. According to the passage, biography attained great significance within British culture during the Romantic period because biographies

A. were associated with scandal

B. were easy to read and comprehend

C. were so widespread in Britain at the time

D. challenged conventional British ideologies

E. contributed to the development of the novel

选 C