GRE阅读题的选项中经常会出现一些“抽象表达”，看起来都“认识”，但是很多同学一选就会错。错了之后还百思不得其解…
这是因为很多同学只是知道这些表达的“字面意思”，而不知道它们所代表的“逻辑含义”。这种层面的“认识”对解GRE题目来说是完全不够的。
之前就分享过几次阅读中经常出现的“看似简单实则有坑”的抽象表达。今天我们继续这个话题，再来分享一个“一看就会，一选就错”的词：inconsistency
这个词肯定任何同学都认识，表示“不一致”。在GRE阅读的题目选项中很经常会见到它，常见的语境是：
inconsistencies in a view
很多人觉得GRE的唯一难点就是词汇量要求太高。
但是最近的研究走访了很多考生，却发现很多单词过关的同学也没有取得理想的成绩。
The primary purpose of the passage is to
· point out an inconsistency in a popular view （ T/F ）
an inconsistency “in” a popular view指的是这个观点自己“自相矛盾”！
下面我们做一道题巩固一下！
Much recent work has examined the claim that women encounter increasing obstacles relative to men as they move up the organizational ladder in business. This proposition, which we term the increasing-disadvantage model, is a core element of the popular glass ceiling metaphor. Despite continued widespread public acceptance of the glass ceiling idea and some consistent findings, most research to date has failed to support the increasing-disadvantage model. Indeed, several studies based on private-sector firms find that women’s mobility prospects improve, rather than decline, as they climb upward in corporate hierarchies. In the public sector, researchers have found either no sex differences in mobility or a larger female disadvantage in lower grades.
Comparing cross-sectional national samples of workers, Baxter and Wright found no evidence in the United States, and only limited evidence in Sweden and Australia, that women’s probability of being located in a higher versus a lower hierarchical level declined relative to men’s at higher levels. Taken together, these findings suggest that the glass ceiling may be a myth. Women’s scarcity in top organizational ranks may simply represent the cumulative effect of a constant-or even decreasing-disadvantage at successive hierarchical levels.
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先给出一个观点（the increasing-disadvantage model），然后作者给出了一堆对这个观点不利的证据表明这个观点其实是错的。
但是注意，选项说的是“inconsistencies in a set of findings”，这个选项真正表达的是“一些发现自身自相矛盾”！而文章的逻辑是想把那些发现作为一个“整体”，跟刚开始的那个观点矛盾（而不是说那些发现自己自相矛盾）。
