第一节 单词和句子
考察能力及阅读思维
GMAT阅读考查考生理解文章中的术语的能力和对英语语言的整体理解能力。虽然考试不测试考生的词汇量，但要求考生掌握一定的术语，测试考生解释文章中特定术语的能力。题目也测试考生理解英语的能力，这些问题要求考生要对文章具有整体理解的能力。
例如下面的文章：
It was once believed that the brain was independent of metabolic processes occurring elsewhere in the body. In recent studies, however, we have discovered that the production and release in brain neurons of the neurotransmitter serotonin （neurotransmitters are compounds that neurons use to transmit signals to other cells） depend directly on the food that the body processes.
上面的文字中出现了大量的专业术语，比如metabolic, neurons, neurotransmitter, serotonin。对于中国考生而言，当看到文章生词较多时会有一种恐惧感，顿时会有一种心理暗示，即文章读不懂题目一定做不对。其实，在考试中这种情况是很常见的，在此提醒考生注意，GMAT阅读是逻辑的考试，而不是英文和中文翻译的考试，所以在出现大量的专业词汇读不懂时，一定要注意提炼文章的逻辑结构。
请看下面的题目：
Which of the following titles best summarizes the contents of the passage?
（A） Neurotransmitters: Their Crucial Function in Cellular Communication
（B） Diet and Survival: An Old Relationship Reexamined
（C） The Blood Supply and the Brain: A Reciprocal Dependence
（D） Amino Acids and Neurotransmitters: The Connection Between Serotonin Levels and Tyrosine
（E） The Effects of Food Intake on the Production and Release of Serotonin: Some Recent Findings
阅读思维
阅读心得
第二节 观点逻辑关系
考察能力及阅读理解
GMAT阅读考查考生理解观点逻辑关系的能力，即要求考生评价文中某一观点的优点和缺点，或者评价文中观点的重要性。
例如，在美国历史上，女性经常从事低工资、低技能的工作这种社会现象，经济学家提出了三种理论来解释。先提出A解释，说不能有效解释这种现象；然后提出B解释，将B解释也否定了；最后提出C解释，认为是合理的解释，可以有效解释女性经常从事低工资、低技能的工作这种社会现象。
考试时要求考生对A、B、C三种解释进行评价：A解释是负评价；B解释是大负小正评价，整体是将B否定的，所以是大负的评价。那为什么B解释会有小正评价呢？因为相对于A解释作者后提出B解释，说明B有优于A解释的地方，所以B解释有小正评价。C解释是正评价。
请看下面的文章：
During the 1950's and 1960's, the primary economic development strategy of local governments in Europe was to attract manufacturing industries. Unfortunately, this strategy was usually implemented at another community's expense...
In the 1970's the strategy shifted from this zero-sum game （A situation in which a gain by one person or side must be matched by a loss by another person or side） to one called “high-technology development”. Although this approach was preferable to victimizing other geographical areas by taking their jobs, it also had its shortcomings...
Recently, local governments have increasingly come to recognize the advantages of yet a third strategy: the promotion of homegrown small businesses...
上面的文章对于第一段谈到的经济发展战略manufacturing industries是负评价，由unfortunately可以看出来；对于第二段谈到的经济发展战略high-technology development是大负小正评价，由Although...preferable（+）, shortcoming（-）可以看出来；对于第三段谈到的经济发展战略homegrown small businesses是正评价，由advantages可以看出来。了解逻辑关系对于了解阅读出题重点和快速阅读法有重要意义。
请看下面的题目：
The author of the passage mentions which of the following as an advantage of hightechnology development?
（A） It encourages the modernization of existing manufacturing facilities
（B） It promotes healthy competition between rival industries
（C） It encourages the growth of related industries
（D） It takes full advantage of the existing workforce
（E） It does not advantage one local workforce at the expense of another
阅读思维
请看下面的文章：
Conventional wisdom has it that large deficits in the United States budget cause interest rates to rise. Two main arguments are given for this claim. According to the first, as the defici increases, the government will borrow more to make up for the ensuing shortage of funds. Consequently, it is argued, if both the total supply of credit （money available for borrowing） and the amount of credit sought by nongovernment borrowers remain relatively stable, as is often supposed, then the price of credit （the interest rate） will increase. That this is so suggested by the basic economic principle that if supplies of a commodity （here, credit） remain fixed and demand for that commodity increases, its price will also increase. The second argument supposes that the government will tend to finance its deficits by increasing the money supply with insufficie regard for whether there is enough room for economic growth to enable such an increase to occur without causing inflation. It is then argued that financiers will expect the deficit to cause inflat and will raise interest rates, anticipating that because of inflation the money they lend will be worth less when paid back.
文中前面谈到老观点的第一个观点，后面谈到老观点的第二个观点，根据上面的方法，According to the first...its price will also increas的文字可以简单浏览或直接跳读。另外，从The second argument...这个长难句也可以看出后面是考查的重点。
阅读心得
第三节 事实推论
考察能力及阅读理解
GMAT阅读要求考生在阅读某些文字后，在文中陈述的事实基础上做出推论。由于美国人在思考问题时，思维是受限制的（limited），而中国考生思考问题时，思维是不受限制的（unlimited），这就导致在推论时，中国考生会带上自己的主观意识或背景信息，这种做法是极其错误的。
请看下面的例子：
例1：
买房子送老婆。
例2：
Additionally, the human capital theory explains why there was a high concentration of women workers in certain low-skill jobs, such as weaving, but not in others, such as combing or carding, by positing that because of their primary responsibility in child rearing women took occupations that could be carried out in the home.（除此之外，人力资本理论解释了为什么大量女性在某些低技能过多集中，比如weaving，而不是其他的，比如combing和carding，之所以这样假设是因为女性主要的责任是养育孩子，所以只能从事一些拿回家里做的工作。）
请看下面的题目：
The passage suggests that combing and carding differ from weaving in that combing and carding are
（A） low-skill jobs performed primarily by women employees
（B） low-skill jobs that were not performed in the home
（C） low-skill jobs performed by both male and female employees
（D） high-skill jobs performed outside the home
（E ） high-skill jobs performed by both male and female employees
阅读思维