GMAT阅读备考指导：阅读考查能力和阅读思维浅谈

　　实例解析4

　　(4)Understand and follow the development of quantitative concepts as they are presented in verbal material. This may involve the interpretation of numerical data or the use of simple arithmetic to reach conclusions about material in a passage. 简单来说，考查考生对数量概念关系的理解能力，即要求考生对文中的数字信息进行分析或者使用简单的数学运算。

　　请看下面的例子：

　　At the time, minorities constituted seventeen percent of the nation's population, but only four percent of the nation's self- employed. This ownership gap was held to be the result of past discrimination. Increasing the number of minority-owned firms was seen as a way to remedy this problem. In that context, providing funding to minority entrepreneurs in middle- and high-income brackets seemed justified.

　　It can be inferred that the “ownership gap” would be narrowed if which of the following were to occur?

　　(A) Minority entrepreneurs received a percentage of government contracts equal to that received by nonminority entrepreneurs.

　　(B) Middle- and high-income minority entrepreneurs gave more assistance to their low-income counterparts in the business community.

　　(C) Minority entrepreneurs hired a percentage of minority employees equal to the percentage of minority residents in their own communities.

　　(D) The percentage of self-employed minority persons rose to more than ten percent of all self-employed persons.

　　(E) Seventeen percent of all persons employed in small businesses were self-employed.

　　文章译文：在当时，少数民族占整个国家人口的17%,但只占整个国家当老板人数的4%。这种所有权差距被认为是过去的歧视而形成的。增加少数民族企业的数量被看作是解决该问题的一种方法。在那样的环境下，给中高收入的少数民族企业提高资金资助似乎是合理的。

　　题目解析：题干的ownership gap是指self-employed少数民族人数和非self-employed少数民族人数的差距。要缩小其差距只需要增加非self-employed少数民族人数的百分比就可以了。故答案选D。可见考查数量关系时，考生只需要清楚逻辑关系，不要求高深的数学知识。

　　提醒各位考生注意，若一个段落出现多个数字时，本段可以跳读，因为数量关系如何考查不清楚，若真的考查直接找有数字的段落定位也较为方便。

　　以上是GMAT阅读要求的阅读思维方式，希望各位考生在备考时多加练习和应用，从而更好地在考试中提高阅读速度，提高读文章时预测考点的能力，以及定位的准确性。

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