原则之二：判断作者之态度，语气词汇不可少
既然GMAT阅读为议论文，那么每一篇文章都会至少提供一个到两个作者的观点，作者往往会通过语气词让读者明白和理解其观点。因此考生在阅读时，应重点注意那些作为判断作者态度的语气词汇，必要时可在纸张上记录下这些关键词汇。一般而言，作者的态度分为两种，一种是表正面的态度，一种是表负面的态度。
1、表正面：
Charlie‘s thorough research provides convincing scientific evidence for the existence of ……
For many years, Benjamin‘s seminal account of the participation of African-Americans in the American Revolution has remained the standard work in the field……
Roger Rosenblatt‘s book Black Fiction, in attempting to apply literary rather than sociopolitical criteria to its subject, successfully alters the approach taken by most previous studies……
2、表负面：
The manner in which evidence is presented to a jury may influence the jury either to overestimate or to underestimate the value of that evidence…..
Wherever the crime novels of P. D. James are discussed by critics, there is a tendency on the one hand to exaggerate her merits……
Because they emphasize those aspects that accord with their learned experiences and ignore those aspects that are dissonant with their view of the world……
They overestimated the importance of middle class and white-collar unemployment…….
往往作者在阐述某个观点时，采用先扬后抑或着说是欲擒故纵的手法，这时候作者就会使用一些让步词来实现其论述目的。这种让步词通常包括：do, may, might等等。考生需要注意的是在文章经常会使用改变语气词的手段来蒙蔽你的理解思路，一般而言，作者通常不会使用两种模棱两可，相互矛盾的观点。
