2022年考研人數逐年增加,競爭之激烈使得我們不得不加急復習的日程。眾所周知,閱讀理解占據了考研英語二100分試卷的一半分值,而考研英語閱讀文章大多來自英美國家的主流報刊雜志,所以如果能在日常就多多閱讀這些文章,對以后讀懂文章做對題目來說會大有裨益。但是對大多數備考的同學來說,剛開始投入復習,就去讀考試文章難度的新聞報刊,也是不現實、并且不符合循序漸進的學習規律的,所以我們會在每次推送中,給大家給出兩篇短文,一篇是初階水平(大致在初高中水平);一篇是高階水平(四六級到考研水平);同學們可以根據自己當前的情況,選擇其中一篇進行學習。
學習步驟如下:
1.不看漢語譯文自己看一遍短文做理解
2.看漢語譯文比對自己理解的意思與之出入
3.強化記憶重點單詞(以記憶其漢語意思為主)
初階文段
Admission has nothing to do with being an athlete, or a child of an alumnus, or having an influential sponsor, or being a member of a particularly aggrieved ethnic group—criteria that are increasingly important at America's elite colleges.
Most of the students who apply to the honours programme come from relatively poor families, many of them immigrant ones. All that CUNY demands is that these students be diligent and clever.
短文翻譯
批準與否跟學生是不是一名運動員,或者是不是校友子弟,或者有沒有頗具影響力的后臺,或者是不是某個愛打抱不平的民族社團成員,都毫無干系——而這些在美國的知名學府中已經日益成為重要標準。
申請加入榮譽計劃的學生大多數來自相對貧困的家庭,其中許多人都是移民。城市大學唯一需要的就是這些學生必須勤奮并且聰穎。
重點單詞
alumnus [??l?mn?s]
n.校友
influential [??nflu?en?l]
adj.有很大影響的; 有支配力的;
sponsor [?sp?ns?(r)]
n.贊助商,贊助者;
aggrieved [??ɡri?vd]
adj.憤憤不平的; 感到受委屈的; 受害的; 受委屈的;
criteria [kra?'t??ri?]
n.標準,準則
elite [e??li?t]
n.精英
immigrant [??m?ɡr?nt]
n.(外來) 移民; 外僑;
demand [d??mɑ?nd]
n.需求,需要
diligent [?d?l?d??nt]
adj.孜孜不倦的,刻苦的
文段 II
Last year, the average standardised test score of this group was in the top 7% in the country. Among the rest of CUNY's students averages are lower, but they are now just breaking into the top third (compared with the bottom third in 1997).
That, critics decided, could not be squared with City's mission to “serve all the citizens of New York”. At first the standards were tweaked, but this was not enough, and in 1969 massive student protests shut down City's campus for two weeks. Faced with upheaval, City scrapped its admissions standards altogether. By 1970, almost any student who graduated from New York's high schools could attend.
短文翻譯
去年,城市大學學生的標準化考試平均分位居全美最高分的7%之列。城市大學其他學生平均分較低,但是他們即將沖進前三名(相比1997年的倒數前三名)。
持批評意見的人士斷定,這不符合城市大學“服務于全紐約市民”的宗旨。起初,入學標準作了調整,但仍不夠。1969年,學生大規模的抗議讓城市大學停課兩周。面對突如其來的變化,城市大學徹底廢除了所有入學標準。到1970年,幾乎所有紐約高等中學畢業的學生都可以進入城市大學學習。
重點單詞
standardised
adj.標準化的
critic [?kr?t?k]
n.批評家,評論家
square [skwe?(r)]
v.使成正方形; 使成四方形; 使契合
tweak [twi?k]
n.扭; 擰; 扯; (對機器、系統等的) 輕微調整;
massive [?m?s?v]
adj.巨大的
upheaval [?p?hi?vl]
n.劇變,激變