作为一个久经考场、考试成瘾的人，参加这么多场GRE考试，摸清了很多不为人知的“门道”。
今天给大家分享的“门道”是【如何判断自己进入了Hard模式】。
有同学想，判断自己进Hard还不简单，不就是题目变难了吗？可是你眼中的“难”，真的是ETS眼中的“难”吗？你不会的题≠难题。
填空的难题主要体现在2点：
1. 双空、三空联动。很多同学读长难句的能力本来就弱，一个句子再碰到两、三个空，直接崩溃。这就是为什么很多即使语文160以上的同学做“36套”还是觉得难，“36套”就是训练大家句内关系和联动的。
2. 选项。Easy级别的选项都是“两正一负”直接选“负”，毫无悬念；而Hard级别的题目往往是“两负一正”在两个“负”当中比较，甚至是“三正”里面选最合适的情况。
阅读的难度主要体现在文章中取反次数增多。
但是如果想要用阅读的难度来判断自己是不是进了Hard，不太可行。因为通过收集的大量判据，以及个人考试的主观经验来说，Medium到Hard，阅读的难度变化很小。
可是，作为一名专业的阅读老师，在参加了如此多次的考试之后，还是找到了Hard模式里面特别高频的三篇文章。所以如果你考试遇到了下面三篇文章，那么恭喜你，进入Hard模式了！
第一篇：
这篇文章并不存在于市面上任何所谓“阅读机经”中，但是是8月份GRE火箭机经班讲过的原文。这篇文章在真实考试中出现过两个版本的题目。其中一个版本的题目我们在8月火箭班讲过，另一个版本的题目将会在9月12日开课的GRE真题点题班给大家呈现。
原文内容如下：
As a classic text on alchemy, George Ripley’s Compound of Alchemy (1471) has received substantial scholarly attention, primarily focused on the English print editions published by Ralph Rabbards (1591). However, the work known to sixteenth-and early seventeenth-century Europe was not the Compound known today from Rabbards’ editions. Rabbards strived to produce the fullest possible version of the text, including two prefatory poems, “Prologue” and “Preface”, and an associated dedicatory poem. Yet no authoritative “master text” dates from Ripley’s lifetime in which all of these elements are preserved. Rather, the Compound’s text was adapted over a century of circulation in the form of multiple copies, later reassembled by diligent scribes – a process that continued even after the work’s translation into Latin and European vernaculars.
第二篇：
《GRE阅读170篇精讲精析》第68篇
这篇文章也有两个版本的题目，第一个版本的题目请见《GRE阅读170篇精讲精析》，第二个版本的题目在8月GRE火箭机经班讲过。
Before feminist literary criticism emerged in the 1970s, the nineteenth-century United States writer Fanny Fern was regarded by most critics (when considered at all) as a prototype of weepy sentimentalism –a pious, insipid icon of conventional American culture. Feminist reclamations of Fern, by contrast, emphasize her nonsentimental qualities, particularly her sharply humorous social criticism. Most feminist scholars find it difficult to reconcile Fern’s sardonic social critiques with her effusive celebrations of many conventional values. Attempting to resolve this contradiction, Harris concludes that Fern employed flowery rhetoric strategically to disguise her subversive goals beneath apparent conventionality. However, Tompkins proposes an alternative view of sentimentality itself, suggesting that sentimental writing could serve radical, rather than only conservative, ends by swaying readers emotionally, moving them to embrace social change.
第三篇：
《GRE阅读170篇精讲精析》第133篇
这篇文章只有一个版本的题目，大家可以在《GRE阅读170篇精讲精析》中做到。
放心，这篇我在考场上、一共遇见了三次，都是同样的题目。
There have been numerous well-documented extinctions of indigenous species caused by the introduction of non-indigenous predators and pathogens. However, surprisingly few extinctions of indigenous species can be attributed to competition from introduced species. For example, during the past 400 years, 4,000 plant species have been introduced into North America, and these non-indigenous plants currently account for nearly 20 percent of North America’s plant species. Yet no evidence exists that any indigenous North American plant species became extinct as a result of competition from introduced plant species. The scarcity of documented extinctions caused by competition from new species could mean that such extinctions take longer to occur than scientists initially believed or, alternatively, that extinctions are rarely cau sed by competition from nonindigenous species.
在之前的推送中我们讲过，GRE考试中的题目有“内循环”现象，但同一篇文章的题目有所不同。因此在上考场前务必把高频真题的文章读懂，以不变应万变。
9月12日开课的GRE真题点题班中，我们将讲解一套完整的在家考真题，与市面上流传的老机经不同，这套题中有真正的Hard级别的题目。让微臣老师带你吃透真·难题，考场上无所畏惧。
