做过GRE阅读真题的同学，都会发现其实GRE阅读中的词汇、语法和雅思、托福阅读差不多，毕竟GRE阅读更多考查的是大家的逻辑推理能力。
但这也免不了，有时候ETS会出一些“刁钻”的题，比如下面这篇，如果不认识选项中的一个词，本题就多半凉凉。
例 题
①In recent decades, scholars of American literature have skillfully revealed authors’ simultaneous accommodation and resistance to an increasingly commercialized, capitalized environment during the early nineteenth century. ②Historians of the period have not, however, fully exploited literary criticism, due to the disciplinary boundaries that mark contemporary academic research. ③Few historians have extensive training in critical theory and its specialized languages, and the sheer volume of work in early American history and literature challenges anyone who would master either field, much less both. ④Moreover, historians study people across the nation, but much literary scholarship called “American” actually examines works produced in northeastern states. ⑤And historians usually study the operations of capitalism in its details, while literary critics produce a generalized picture of literary commodification.
Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.
3. The passage cites which of the following as reasons for historians’ failure to fully exploit literary criticism?
A. The amount of scholarship involved
B. The distinctive nature of literary criticism
C. The ahistorical quality of much literary criticism
解 析
这道题很多同学都能根据题干中的historians’ failure to fully exploit literary criticism，定位到第二句。
然后根据disciplinary boundaries（学科界限、学科差异）能够对应到distinctive nature（因为学科界限，所以这些历史学家没能够充分利用文学评论，毕竟隔行如隔山），B选项正确；
同时，C选项ahistorical quality并找不到对应，排除。
至于本题的A选项，很多的同学最初也是以scholarship找不到对应而排除，这不是奖学金吗？
全文就没有提到任何关于奖学金的逻辑，所以A不对啊。但是scholarship除了有大家熟识的奖学金的意思外，还有一个常用的解释：学术研究。
这就构成了本题的一个“刁钻”考点，如果不认识这个词，本题就会漏选。