2013职称英语综合B阅读理解解析
阅读理解（2013版只新增了C级的两篇阅读文章）
综合B复习范围：第1-33篇，第17-33篇为带星号文章，属综合B重点复习篇章，其中2012新增未考文章为重点的重点，也就是第17、18、19、20、21、22篇，第26篇，第30篇第一篇Telling Tales about People讲述关于人们的故事（2012教材新增文章）
第二篇Outside-the-classroom Learning Makes a Big Difference 课外学习带来很大不同第三篇Milosevic's Death 米洛舍维奇之死
（2013教材新增更改为）第三篇：Shark Attack!
第四篇Feast on Turkey and Good Wishes at Thanksgiving 火鸡盛宴和感恩节的祝福
第五篇Sino-Japan Animosity Lessens 中日敌意减少
（2013教材新增更改为）第五篇：The Travels of IBn Battuta
第六篇TV Shows and Long Bus Trips 看电视与长途汽车旅行
第七篇Modern Sun Worshippers 现代日光浴者
第八篇The Changing Middle Class变化中的中产阶级(2012年4月真题）（2012教材新增文章）
第九篇Single-parent Kids Do Best 单亲幼儿最出色
第十篇A Letter from Alan艾伦的来信（2012教材新增文章）
第十一篇The Development of Ballet芭蕾舞的发展（2012教材新增文章）
第十二篇Smuggling走私
第十三篇The Barbie Dolls芭比娃娃
第十四篇Sleep睡眠
第十五篇 Orbital Space Plane轨道航天飞机
第十六篇：The Sahara 撒哈拉沙漠（2012教材新增文章）
第十七篇：Eiffel Is an Eyeful引人注目的埃菲尔铁塔（2012教材新增文章）
第十八篇：Goal of American Education（2011年教材中为C级文章）美国教育的目标（2012教材新增文章）
第十九篇：The Family家庭（2012教材新增文章）
第二十篇：Tales of the Terrible Past讲述可怕的过去（2012教材新增文章）
第二十一篇：Spacing in Animals动物的空间距离（2012教材新增文章）
第二十二篇：Some Things We Know about Language我们知道的关于语言的一些事情（2012教材新增文章）
第二十三篇：The Only Way Is Up只好向上
第二十四篇：Clone Farm克隆农场
第二十五篇：Income收入
第二十六篇：Seeing the World Centuries Ago看许久以前的世界（2012教材新增文章）第二十七篇：Importance of Services服务业的重要性
第二十八篇：The National Park Service国家公园的服务机构
第二十九篇：Find Yourself Packing It On? Blame Friends发现自己变胖了？这得责怪朋友们
第三十篇："Lucky" Lord Lucan - Alive or Dead“幸运的”鲁肯伯爵一是死是活（2012教材新增文章）
第三十一篇Pool Watch泳池监护
第三十二篇The Cherokee Nation柴罗基部落
第三十三篇：Oseola McCarty老妇人（2012年4月真题）（2012教材新增文章）
第一篇Telling Tales about People
One of the most common types of nonfiction, and one that many people enjoy reading, is stories about people's lives. These stories fall into three general categories: autobiography, memoir, and biography.
An autobiography is the story of a person's life written by himself or herself. Often it begins with the person's earliest recollections and ends in the present. Autobiography writers may not be entirely objective in the way they present themselves. However, they offer the reader a good look at the way they are and what makes them that way. People as diverse as Benjarmin Franklin and Helen Keller have written autobiographies. 1Other writers, such as James Joyce，have written thinly fictionalized accounts of their lives. These are not autobiographies，but they are very close to it.
Memoirs, strictly speaking, are autobiographical accounts that focus as much on the events of the times as on the life of the author. 2Memoir writers typically use these events as backdrops for their lives. They describe them in detail and discuss their importance. Recently，though，the term memoir seems to be becoming interchangeab1e with autobiography. A memoir nowadays may or may not deal with the outside world.
Biographies are factual accounts of someone else's life. In many senses，these may be the hardest of the three types to write. Autobiography writers know the events they write about because they lived them. But biography writers have to gather information from as many different sources as possible. Then they have to decide which facts to include. Their goal is to present a balanced picture of a person，not one that is overly positive or too critical. A fair well-presented biography may take years to research and write.
词汇：
backdrop /'b?k,dr?p/ n. 背景interchangeable /int? 't?end??bl/ adj. 可转换的
注释：
1. People as diverse as Benjamin Franklin and Helen Keller have written autobiographies. 就像本杰明?富兰克林和海伦?凯勒一样，各种各样的人们已经写了自传。
2. Memoirs，strictly speaking，are autobiographical accounts that focus as much on the events of the times as on the life of the author. 严格意义上来讲，回忆录是既注重作者本身的生活经历，也注重其所处的时代所发生的事件的自传性的描述。
练习：
1. This passage is mostly about _______.
A. the characteristics of autobiographies，memoirs，and biographies
B. famous autobiographies
C. why biography can be difficult to write
D. differences between autobiographies and memoirs
2. Helen Keller wrote________.
A. a memoir
B. an autobiography
C. a work of fiction
D. a biography
3. Autobiography writers are not always objective because they________.
A. feel they have to make up details to make their books sell
B. constantly compete with biography writers
C. want to present themselves in a good light
D. have trouble remembering the good times
4. The writer introduces each category in the passage by________.
A. defining it
B. giving an example
C. explaining why it is hard to write
D. telling when people first began writing it
5. Diverse means________.
A. able to swim in deep water
B. similar or alike
C. varied or different
D. enjoying poetry
答案与题解：
1. A 本题问的是：这篇文章主要是关于？文章第一句说到最普遍的非小说类文学作品类型之一就是一些来描述人们生活的故事，这些故事大致分为三类：自传回忆录和传记。然后通篇对这三种类型进行了介绍，因此A是正确答案。
2. B 本题问的是：海伦·凯勒谢了什么？第二段第5句话写到：就像本明杰·富兰克林和海伦·凯勒一样，各种各样的人们已经写了自传。因此B是正确答案。
3. C本题问的是：自传作者通常不太客观，因为他们？第二段提到：他们给读者提供了一个途径来了解自己比较好的行事风格……，因此答案是C，他们想展示自己好的一面。
4. A本题问的是：本文的作者通过何种方式介绍每种类型的非小说文学作品？答案是A，通过给每个类型进行定义。
5. C本题问的是：diverse 的意思是？其汉语意思为“多种多样的”，因此C正确。*第十九篇The Family
The structure of a family takes different forms around the world and even in the same society. The family's form changes as it adapts to changing social and economic influences. Until recently, the most common form in North America was the nuclear family，consisting of a married couple with their minor children. The nuclear family is an independent unit. It must be prepared to fend for itself. Individual family members strongly depend on one another. There is little help from outside the family in emergencies. Elderly relatives of a nuclear family are cared for only if it is possible for the family to do so. In North America，the elderly often do not live with the family ; they live in retirement communities and nursing homes.
There are many parallels between the nuclear family in industrial societies，such as North America，and of families in societies such as that of the Inuits，who live in harsh environments. The nuclear family structure is well adapted to a life of mobility. In harsh conditions，mobility allows the family to hunt for food. For North Americans，the hunt for jobs and improved social status also requires mobility.
The nuclear family was not always the North American standard. In a more agrarian time，the small nuclear family was usually part of a larger extended family. This might have included grandparents，mother and father，brothers and sisters，uncles，aunts，and cousins. In North America today，there is a dramatic rise in the number of single-parent households. Twice as many
households in the United States are headed by divorced，separated，or never-married individuals as are comprised of nuclear families. The structure of the family，not just in North America, but throughout the world，continues to change as it adapts to changing conditions.
词汇:
nuclear /'nju:kh/ adj. 原子核的，中心的harsh /ha:?/ n. 严酷的
emergency /I'm?:d??nsI/ n. 紧急状况agranan / ?'gre?rl?n/ adj. 土地的，耕地的
注释:
1. lt must be prepared to fend for itself. 它必须能够照料自己。
2. In North America，the elderly often do not live with the family; they live in retirement communities and nursing homes. 在北美洲，老人很少和家人一起生活;他们一般住在退休社区和养老机构。
3. In harsh conditions，mobility allows the family to hunt for food. :在恶劣的条件下，流动性能让一个家庭吃饱饭。
练习:
1. Another good title for this passage would be_____.
A) What Makes a Family?
B) The Life of the Inuits.
C) Living with Hardship.
D) The Failure of theNuclear Family.
2. A nuclear family is defined as_____.
A) a married couple with their minor children
B) a single father with，minor children
C) parents，grandparents，and children
D) parents，children，and aunts and uncles
3. The information in this passage would most likely be found in_____.
A) an anthropology textbook
B) a biology textbook
C) a mathematics textbook
D) a geography textbook
4. The information in the first paragraph is presented mainly through _____.
A) listing statistics
B) telling a story
C) pointing out similarities
D) pointing out differences
5. The word mobility means_____.
A) money
B) readiness to move
C) organization
D) skill
答案与题解:
1. A 本题问的是:这篇文章的题目还可以是什么? A 的意思是是什么构成了一个家。B 的意思是因纽特人的生活。C 的意思是生活得很艰难。D 的意思是核心家庭的失败之处。根据文意，本文主要介绍了与家庭相关的信息。B 不是主要内容。C 未提到。D 未提到。因此A 是正确的答案。
2. A 本题问的是:核心家庭的定义是什么?根据第一段的第三句话:Until recently，the most common form in North America was the nuclear family，consisting of a married couple with their minor children. 可知A 是正确的答案。
3. A 本题问的是:这篇文章最有可能出自哪里? A 的意思是人类学课本。B 的意思是生物课本。C的意思是数学课本。D 的意思是地理课本。本文主要介绍了家庭，因此最有可能是
人类学课本。所以A 是正确的答案。
4. C 本题问的是:第一段的信息主要以何种方式陈述的?根据第一段的陈述方式，并没有列出数据或者讲故事，而是通过描述共性而阐述出核心家庭的概念。因此 C 是正确的答案。
5. B 本题问的是:mobility 的词意。Mobility 是mobile 的名词形式。根据文中第二段，核心家庭能够生存下去最重要的是能够有流动性，而钱、组织或是技能都不是能够使一个家庭吃饱饭的必要条件。因此 B 是正确的答案。
*第二十篇Tales of the Terrible Past
It is not the job of fiction writers to analyze and interpret history. Yet by writing about the past in a vivid and compelling manner，storytellers can bring earlier eras to life and force readers to consider them seriously. Among those taking on the task of recounting history are some black writers who attempt to examine slavery from different points of view.
Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison deals specifically with the legacy of slavery in her book Beloved. The main character in this novel，a former slave called Sethe，lives in Ohio in the years following the Civil War，but she cannot free herself from her horrific memories. Through a series of flashbacks and bitter reminiscences，the reader learns how and why Sethe escaped from the plantation she had lived on; the fate of her husband，who also tried to escape; and finally，what happened to the child called Beloved. Morrison's scenes of torture and murder are vivid and strongly convey the desperation of the slaves and the cruelty of their owners.
Charles Johnson's Middle Passage approaches slavery from a different，yet no less violent，vantage point. His main character，Rutherfprd Calhoun，is a ne'er-do-well free black American who stows away on a slave ship bound for Africa to collect its "cargo". Put to work after he is discovered，Calhoun witnesses firsthand the appalling conditions in which the captured Africans are transported. When they finally rebel and take over the ship，he finds himself in the middle -- and is forced to come to terms with who he is and what his values are.
Neither Beloved nor Middle Passage is an easy read，but both exemplify African American writers' attempts to bring significant historical situations alive for a modem audience.
词汇:
interpret /in't?:prit/ v. 解释，翻译desperation /desp?'rei??n/ n. 绝望的境地
recount /ri'kaunt / v. 叙述capture /'k?pt?? / v. 俘获
slavery /'sleiv?ri / n. 奴隶制度
注释:
1. Yet by writing about the past in a vivid and compelling manner，storytellers can bring earlier eras to life and force readers to consider them seriously. 然而通过用一种生动有趣的方式来描
写过去，小说家可以将早期时代重现，并引起读者的重视。
2. His main character. Rutherford Calhoun. is a ne'er-do-well free black American who stows away on a slave ship bound for Africa to collect its "cargo" .他的主人公叫做Rutherford Calhoun，是一个游手好闲，身份自由的美国黑人。他偷偷登上了一艘开往非洲贩卖奴隶的船只。
练习:
1. This passage is mostly about__________.
A) the causes of slavery in America
B) black writers in the late 20th century
C) why Morrison and Johnson wrote the books they did
D) two novels that deal with slavery
2. Beloved is set__________.
A) on a slave ship
B) on a plantation before the Civil War
C) in Ohio after the Civil War
D) in an African town
3. The writer seems to feel that__________.
A) eveyone should read Morrison's and Johnson's novels
B) the books are worthwhile but challenging
C) black writers should ignore racial issues
D) we wi ll repeat the past if we don’t learn about it
4. The writer emphasizes that the two books are similar in their__________.
A) use of flashbacks
B) treatment of women
C) criticism of whites
D) portrayal of violence
5. The word appalling means__________.
A) terrible
B) surprising
C) guilty
D) unrealistic
答案与题解:
1. D 本题问的是:这篇文章主要讲什么? A的意思是美国奴隶制的原因。B的意思是20世纪的黑人作家。C的意思是莫里森和约翰逊写书的原因。D的意思是关于奴隶制的两本小说。本文主要介绍了莫里森和约翰逊各自关于奴隶制的小说的主要内容，因此D是正确的答案。
2. C 本题问的是:“宠儿”的设置背景是什么?根据第二段的第二句话:a fornier slave called Sethe，lives in Ohio in the years following the Civil War可知其背景是在内战之后的俄亥俄州。因此C是正确的答案。
3. B 本题问的是:作者的感觉是什么?A的意思是每个人都应该读莫里森和约翰逊的小说。B 的意思是这些作品非常值得写但又很有挑战性。C的意思是黑人作家应当忽略种族问题。D
的意思是如果我们没有学习过去，那么这些过去会重现。A，C，D原文没有体现，因此B 是正确的答案。
4.D 本题问的是:作者强调两部作品的共同之处是什么?根据第三段的第一句话:yet no less violent可知两部作品都有对暴力的描写。因此D是正确的答案。
5. A 本题问的是:appalling的意思是什么?根据第三段对运送非洲人去美国的描述可知，此状况必然是不好的，糟糕的。A的意思是糟糕的。B的意思是令人惊讶的。C的意思是有罪的。D的意思是不现实的。因此根据文意，A是正确的答案。
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