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。

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）

In my own research, complaints from women about their husbands most often focused not on tangible inequities such as having given up the chance for a career to accompany a husband to his, or doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like cleaning, cooking and social arrangements. Instead, they focused on communication: “He doesn’t listen to me.” “He doesn’t talk to me .” I found, as Hacker observed years before, that most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremost, conversational partners, but few husbands share this expectation of their wives.

In short, the image that best represents the current crisis is the stereotypical cartoon scene of a man sitting at the breakfast table with a newspaper held up in front of his face, while a woman glares at the back of it, wanting to talk.

短文翻譯

在我自己的研究中,女性對其丈夫的抱怨大多不是針對切實的不平等,比如放棄了工作的機會去陪伴自己的丈夫,或者承擔了更多的日常家務,比如打掃衛生、做飯和安排社交活動。相反,她們更注重溝通:“他不聽我說話。”“他不和我說話。”我發現,正如哈克幾年前觀察到的那樣,大多數妻子希望自己的丈夫首先成為她們的交談伴侶,但很少有丈夫對妻子抱有同樣的期望。

簡言之,最能形象表現當前危機的是一幅典型的漫畫場景:一名男子坐在餐桌前吃早餐,面前舉著一張報紙,而他的妻子則怒視著報紙背面,想要與他說話。

核心單詞一覽

真題練習

*一定要做題哦

29. Which of the following can best summarize the main idea of this text?

[A] The moral decaying deserves more research by sociologists.

[B] Marriage break-up stems from sex inequalities.

[C] Husband and wife have different expectations from their marriage.

[D] Conversational patterns between man and wife are different.

題目解析

29.【解析】文章的關鍵詞是 conversation 或者是 communication，根據關鍵詞復現法，可得正確答案為D項。作者并未在 moral(道德)層面來探討這個話題，故A 項錯誤。文章第三段提到 most women she interviewed … as reason for their divorces，即大多數女性都將缺少交流歸結為離婚的理由，而B項說是因為性別不平等，與原文內容不相符。第四段的最后一句話：that most wives want …share this expectation of their wives，雖體現了男性和女性有著不同的期待，但是這種期待主要還是體現conversation 方面。C 項并未體現文章的主題詞，故不選。