P1: 对一部作品Anagan（一印巴女作家的著名作品）的pointed的观点是从政治角度考虑。但是，作者认为仅仅从政治方面看这部作品是不对的，它的literature的意义也很重大。
P2: 讨论了该作品的背景和内容，Set in British India and moving in to post independence Pakistan, Aangan is the story of dystopic home where the battles of the world are played out…它所描述的政治都只是为它的故事做背景，它的作者并没有偏向哪一方、没有明显政治目的。
P3: 讨论了该女作家的写法：说女作家appropriates and subverts采用了两种写作手法，一种是traditional的写法，还有种是narrative的独特手法。作者从一个带有anger的女子的角度出发来叙述她身边的人和事情，从而透露出那个时代的特点之类
P4: 这部作品的作者和Emily Bronte她们这些著名的女权作家比较。到底是这些女作家影响了anagan这部作品的作家而写出了跟《简爱》类似的作品、还是她们的作品只是一个巧合，这是一个moot question.
题目集中在前三段：一题问了一个subvert的含义，一题问infer了作者对该女作家的何种态度，一题问infer了作者对该作品的何种看法，还有一题好像也infer大概是问写作手法
印度女作家的那本书的背景(转贴前人的。。。)
Inner Courtyard (Aangan) : A Novel/Khadija Mastur. Translated by Neelam Hussain. New Delhi, Kali for Women, 2001, 274 p., ISBN 81-86706-45-8.
Book Description
"Narrated in the intimate anger of a young woman’s journal-keeping voice this novel explores the politics of sex and class through the lives of women compelled to live their lives in the seclusion of the inner courtyard or aangan. Set in thirties India, Inner Courtyard is the story of a dystopic home where the battles of the world are played out. Based on the interiority of women’s lives it explores realpolitik through the personal and political affiliations of one family." (jacket)
About the Author
Khadija Mastur (1927-1982) was a member of the Progressive Writers' Association, formed by a group of left-leaning intellectuals in 1935. She wrote several collections of short stories and two novels.
Khadija Mastur was born in 1927 in Lucknow and grew up in a family that valued learning, reading and political dialogue. Mastur and her younger sister Hajira Masroor, worked actively for the Muslim League in 1946, and a year later, when Partition came along, her family migrated to Lahore, Pakistan. Khadija Mastur wrote in a simple but eloquent style. She the author of several collections of short stories and two novels, Aangan (The Courtyard) and Zamin (Earth). She was posthumously honored with the Baba-e-Urdu, Dr. Abdul Haq Award for her collection of short stories Thanda Meetha Pani (Cold, Sweet Water).
Inner Courtyard or Aangan, Khadija Mastur’s first published novel, written in 1952 over eight months, is Mastur’s best loved and most acclaimed fiction. Set in British India and moving in to post independence Pakistan, Aangan is the story of dystopic home where the battles of the world are played out. Based on the of women’s lives, the inner courtyard, it explores realpolitick through the diverse political affiliations of the members of one family. That it does so without espousing any one shade of opinion makes Aangan a politically sensitive and not a political novel. Khadija Mastur deals with the theme of the Freedom Movement, not from the perspective of men but from the point of view of the women whose lives were changed radically by the decisions made by men in the public arena. It is a powerful novel built around female protagonists and the ways in which they mediate their space in society while condemned to the enclosed world of the inner courtyard, enmeshed in and sustained by strong familial ties and age-old customs.
Maths
1. DS: 说一条线过(a,b)和(c,d)点，该线的slope为positive么？
(1) 该线和x轴和y轴的截距乘积为正 (2) (a-c)(b-d)<0
我选了D
2. FF那道问两个班的人合在一起median和mean关系的题，按照题目给的数字算出来是无法确定的，选了E。
3. 根号x, x和x^2的median是否等于mean?
(1) 根号x=x^2 (2) 根号x+x+x^2=3x
好像选了D
4. 以下那个数字满足x<x^3<x^2, 此题简单，选的是-1/2
一点废话总结：
之前模了一次prep M47 V41，所以最近突击了一下数学，尤其是DS。数学jj太重要了，今天考时前十题基本都没有jj，往后面做可爱的jj就纷纷现身了。。。尤其以近两三天的jj为多，总共有十题左右吧，所以我也混了个数学满分。
但是本来有信心的verbal却惨败，见到那印度女作家题还挺开心，以为来到了高分题库，结果怎一个惨字了得，verbal究竟要如何才能保持稳定性呢??????大家给点意见吧！！！下决心二战了，继续折腾!
顺便表扬一下成都考场，只有6个位子，环境比我当年考GRE时好多了，液晶屏，电脑的键盘和鼠标也很新，监考老师态度也很好。。。。下次还在这里考，呵呵呵
另外，有个小提醒，当每个section倒计时到十几秒到二十几秒不等的时候就会自动切断，好像prep是会到最后一秒的吧，不知是我以前没有注意还是怎么的，大家要小心啊。。。
