Inrecentyears，teachersofintroductorycoursesinAsianAmericanstudieshavebeenfacingadilemmanonexistentafewdecadesago，whenhardlyanytextsinthatfieldwereavailable.Today，excellentanthologies(文选)andotherintroductorytextsexist，andbooksonindividualAsianAmericannationalitygroupsandongeneralissuesimportantforAsianAmericansarepublishedalmostweekly.Evenprofessorswhoareexpertsinthefieldfinditdifficulttodecidewhichofthesetoassigntostudents；nonexpertswhoteachinrelatedareasandarelookingforwritingsforandbyAsianAmericanstoincludeinsurveycoursesareinanevenworseposition.Acomplicatingfactorhasbeenthecontinuinglackofspecializedone-volumereferenceworksonAsianAmericans，suchasbiographicaldictionariesordesktopencyclopedias.SuchworkswouldenablestudentstakingAsianAmericanstudiescourses(andprofessorsinrelatedfields)tolookupbasicinformationonAsianAmericanindividuals，institutions，history，andculturewithouthavingtowadethrough（费力的阅读冗长或艰深的材料）mountainsofprimarysourcematerial.Inaddition,givensuchworks，AsianAmericanstudiesprofessorsmightfeelmorefreetoincludemorechallengingAsianAmericanmaterialintheirintroductoryreadinglists，sincegoodreferenceworksallowstudentstoacquireontheirownthebackgroundinformationnecessarytointerpretdifficultorunfamiliarmaterial.(221words)1.Theauthorofthepassageisprimarilyconcernedwithdoingwhichofthefollowing？(A)Respondingtoacriticism(B)Describingacourseofstudy(C)Discussingaproblem(D)Evaluatingapastcourseofaction2.The“dilemma”mentionedinline3canbestbecharacterizedasbeingcausedbythenecessitytomakeachoicewhenfacedwitha(A)Lackofacceptablealternatives(B)Lackofstrictstandardsforevaluatingalternatives(C)Preponderanceofbadalternativesascomparedtogood(D)Multitudeofdifferentalternatives3.Biographicaldictionariesanddesktopencyclopediasare____.(A)primarysourcematerials(B)introductorytexts(C)excellentanthologies(D)referencematerials4.ThepassageimpliesthatwhichofthefollowingwastrueofintroductorycoursesinAsianAmericanstudiesafewdecadesago？(A)Therangeofdifferenttextbooksthatcouldbeassignedforsuchcourseswasextremelylimited.(B)Thetextsassignedasreadingsinsuchcourseswereoftennotverychallengingforstudents.(C)Studentsoftencomplainedaboutthetextsassignedtotheminsuchcourses.(D)Suchcourseswereofferedonlyatschoolswhoselibrarieswererichinprimarysources.5.Accordingtothepassage，theexistenceofgoodone-volumereferenceworksaboutAsianAmericanscouldresultin(A)IncreasedagreementamongprofessorsofAsianAmericanstudiesregardingthequalityofthesourcesavailableintheirfield(B)AnincreaseinthenumberofstudentssigningupforintroductorycoursesinAsianAmericanstudies(C)IncreasedaccuracyinwritingsthatconcernAsianAmericanhistoryandculture(D)TheinclusionofawiderrangeofAsianAmericanmaterialinintroductoryreadinglistsinAsianAmericanstudies1.文章初读：（只读各段首句）第一段首句：Inrecentyears，teachersofintroductorycoursesinAsianAmericanstudieshavebeenfacingadilemmanonexistentafewdecadesago，whenhardlyanytextsinthatfieldwereavailable.翻译：近些年，亚裔美国人研究中教授基础课程的老师一直面临着一个困境。而几十年前那个领域没有那么多可选的教材时，这个困境是不存在的。评：这句话给出了文章的大背景，一种现象。提到了问题解决型文章的标志性词汇dilemma。这是一句非常经典的GMAT阅读句子，逻辑内容很丰富，如下表示：几十年前→没有dilemma→几乎没有书现在→有dilemma→？？？？（书很多）很明显，作者通过这个句子想暗示的是，现在书很多。...
