单词难，句子长，结构复杂是GRE阅读的“难度出圈”标签。大家都知道GRE词汇难，但在脱离运用的情况下去背单词，并不能完全感受其难点，毕竟GRE也不是仅考察词汇的拼写，最关键还是应用。为了让大家能够更直观去感受GRE词汇的难度，本文今天为大家带来的是简单等级的阅读片段，一起来看看吧！

easy等级

On its face, the question seems absurd. One of the most gifted prodigies in the history of music, he produced his first masterpiece at sixteen. From then on, he was recognized as an artist of preternatural abilities, not only as a composer but also as a pianist and conductor.

Consequently, the 1950s saw a growing number of women engaged in farm labor, even though rhetoric in the popular media called for the return of women to domestic life.

prodigies

【释义】prodigy的复数 n. 天才，壮举

【例句】As a child-prodigy pianist, organist and composer, Saint-Saëns was sometimes called a French Mozart.

preternatural

【释义】adj. 不寻常的，超自然的

【例句】The attorney general, for all his preternatural caution, doesn’t sound inclined to shrink from the implications of the evidence. 

rhetoric

【释义】n. 修辞，花言巧语

【例句】The media almost never discuss what the sweeping dismantling of public services inherent in the rhetoric of the antigovernment movement would mean in practice.