考研英语,阅读为重,而阅读之难,是大家普遍感受到的。为什么大多数同学都做不完考研英语的试卷?因为这些阅读的文章都不是我们平时所能见到的文章。其难度、观点的展开方式、用词和表达等等,都具有十分特别的特征。纵观最近几年的考研英语真题,不难发现以下一个事实:历年考研英语阅读理解文章的来源选择是非常有规律的,每年的考研文章绝大多数来自英美国家的报刊杂志。
根据这个规律,那么广大考生在平时复习考研英语的时候,在选择阅读的材料上就有了很强的目的性,这样对我们广大考生来说也会起到事半功倍的效果。国外常见的报刊杂志按照类型进行归类总结:
1经济类文章主要来源:The Economist (经济学家),Business Week (商业周刊),Wall Street Journal(华尔街杂志);
2科学技术类文章主要来源:Nature (自然),Discovery (探索),Science (科学),National Geographic (国家地理),Scientific American (科学美国人),New Scientists (新科学家);
3社会生活以及文化类文章主要来源:Newsweek (新闻周刊),Time (时代周刊),U.S. News and World Report (美国新闻与世界报道),The Washington Post (华盛顿邮报),USA Today (今日美国),The Times (泰晤士报),The Guardian (卫报),The World Report (世界报道),New York Post(纽约邮报);
4其他来源:Independent (独立日报), International Herald Tribune (国际先驱论坛), Telegraph (英国电信日报)。
在此,我们再次对历年考研英语阅读文章来源进行总结,发现规律:
1以5年内的国外报刊杂志文章为主:在绝大多数情况下,历年考研真题的文章来源一般控制在过去的5年之内,即倘若要参加2012年考研的话,2012年的文章一般来自于2006年到2010年之间的报刊杂志上,当然历史上也有少部分文章不受年份的限制。这时我们阅读的范围就小了很多。
2文章字数在450-600左右:我们在整理以上统计数据过程中,很容易发现历年考研英语真题文章字数一般在350-500字之间,段落上一般控制在3到6个段落。由于考研命题组一般会对国外文章进行修改,所以说,符合以下条件的国外报刊杂志是我们选择的目标:文章字数在450-650字,段落在3-7个,年份在近5年之内。这样一来我们就把复习的范围大大减小了。
3以这四本国外报刊杂志为主:通过分析2006-2010年这5年的考研阅读来源文章,我们发现,80%以上文章来自于The Economist (经济学家)、Newsweek (新闻周刊),Time (时代周刊)以及U.S News and World Report (美国新闻与世界报道)四本杂志。
因此,我们可以再次将复习范围缩小,根据不完全统计,2009年The Economist (经济学家)全年60多期杂志里,符合考研阅读理解命题文章要求的平均每期不超过3篇,像其他的三本杂志也是如此的情况,符合考研阅读要求的也不是很多。所以,只要我们精心地把此处提及的符合考查要求的文章挑选出来进行精读,那就是最好的考研阅读材料。
于是,用大量的时间为同学们做这样一件有意义的事情,必然能够为正苦恼于英语复习的同学带来很多好处。在此深深感谢为此书作出巨大贡献的好友程涵晗同志的鼎力相助!
本书分为上下篇:考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读实战模拟篇和考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读能力拓展篇。上篇为实战模拟篇,包括40篇考研英语来源报刊阅读。作为精读材料,每篇文章除配有全文精译和考研核心词汇的学习外,还配备了考研英语标准化阅读理解题。根据《2011年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语考试大纲》,要求考生约在110分钟内完成5篇阅读理解文章含25道阅读理解题。本篇根据大纲要求,模拟考研英语真题模式,科学研究考研英语标准化阅读理解题,共分为8个单元,每单元5篇文章,每篇文章配有标准化阅读理解题。在附录部分配备了每道题目的答案及解析。建议考生在考试大纲规定的时间内完成每单元的题目,旨在提高您的考研英语应试能力,消除所有盲点。下篇为能力拓展篇,包括60篇考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读。作为泛读材料,旨在进一步迅速提高考生的英语阅读水平,建议每篇文章至少泛读3次以上。其力既至,其功必成!
目录
上篇:考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读实战模拟篇
Unit 1
1And manmade life
2As pennypinchers hover, business trips rebound
3Born digital
4Does light make you fat?
5Don’t shoot the messenger
Unit 2
6Are men the new minority?
7Free parking comes at a price
8Colleges see 16% increase in study of sign language
9Basket cases
10Worth a go
Unit 3
11Shopping for a smartphone, with a focus on features
12Textbooks’digital future
13Do male students need affirmative action
14Don’t shoot the messenger
15Genes as mirrors of life experiences
Unit 4
16From hoarding to hiring
17Human communication:Gesture Politics
18The marmite effect
19Fashion victim
20Greedy guts?
Unit 5
21When a visa becomes a headache
22A vitamin a day may do more harm than good
23How to live with climate change
24Microsoft’s slick new vista
25Stop pandering on education
Unit 6
26All the world’s a stage
27Finalists are in demand
28Male jab to reduce cervical cancer
29So what’s it all worth?
30Stress and the City
Unit 7
31Your reputation precedes
32Study shows cost of birth defects
33You’ve been framed
34Healthcare reform is in the air, but...
35Hiring companies should show the love
Unit 8
36How to keep your team talking
37IBM shrinks its Lenovo stake
38Incar technology sharply accelerates
39Internet TV is finally a reality show
40Meeting all the world’s tech needs
下篇:考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读能力拓展篇
Unit 9
41The apples come together
42The flavor of memories
43The mystery of consciousness
44Time travel in the brain
45Venture capital’s growing aspirations
Unit 10
46Who made your Tshirt
47Air pollution raises risk of heart disease in women
48First mover
49For startups, the ultimate goal becoming a verb
50From walkman to hollow men
Unit 11
51Highly charged motoring
52How siestas help memory
53Nobel’s greatest prize
54In praise of technoausterity
55Is there life after debt?
Unit 12
56It’s a smart world
57Junk bond
58Lawyers and your money
59Learning the right lessons
60Loose clicks sink ships
Unit 13
61Mpowered
62Poverty is more likely cause of mistrust than race, says study
63Search and employ
64The joyless or the jobless
65Winning ways
Unit 14
66The skills from zapping’em
67Vaccines:A new health food
68The world’s most valuable stuff
69U.N. Weighs how to answer a knock on Earth’s Door
70U.S. school graduation rate is rising
Unit 15
71Why GM is good for us
72Organ transplants:Your part or mine?
73Affluence Happiness(and how to measure it)
74Brain cancer:Happy families,hidden dangers
75Economics focus:Rate of decline
Unit 16
76SWIFTER, HIGHER, STRONGER
77A Passover sermon, a play, and a century of the Melting pot
78Athens: Then & Now
79A robot in the kitchen
80Pass the bacteria, please!
Unit 17
81Online booksellers face higher costs for shipping abroad
82Up close and edible:Green tea
83English as language of global education
84Global warming
85Guilty plea in deadly Tennessee school shooting
Unit 18
86Higher rates! Bigger fees!
87What do babies know?
88Limited resources
89Microsoft brings instant chat to TV screen, through games
90Moment of truth
Unit 19
91The world since September 11th
92Federal reserve:Difference of opinion
93When the cure is not worth the cost
94Poor nations to bear brunt as world warms
95The falling dollar
Unit 20
96Democrats and global warming
97Senate inquiry in loan case is studying stock transfer
98Can milk make you happy?Can fish make you smart?
99From Genes to GMOs
100Seychelles: A president in paradise
附录
实战模拟篇答案及解析
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