考研英语阅读理解精读训练题目及答案解析 UNIT 12
研究生英语阅读教程(基础级)第三版 课后习题答案 Lesson 12
1. The whole nation grieved for the death of the their president John Kennedy.A. was distressed（悲痛）B. was distributed（分散，分布）C. was defeated（击败，战胜）D. was diminished（使减少，减小）译文：全国哀悼他们的总统约翰·肯尼迪的逝世。
2. The central government collided with city parliament over its industrial plans.A. countered（）B. conflicted（冲突，矛盾）C. corresponded（符合，一致）D. contested（争辩，质疑）译文：中央政府在工业计划上与市议会发生冲突。
3. A subtle influence emanates from the teacher upon his students.A. originates（发源，发生）B. suffers（经历，遭受）C. vanishes（小时）D. transmits（传输，发射）译文：老师对学生有一种潜移默化的影响。
4. At the press conference, the crazy teenagers fully displayed their infatuation for theirfavorite movie stars.A. delusion（迷惑；欺骗；错觉）B. passion（激情，热情；酷爱）C. miracle（奇迹；惊人的事）D. inflation（膨胀；夸张；自命不凡）译文：在新闻发布会上，这些疯狂的青少年充分展示了他们对喜爱的电影明星的迷恋。
5. Temples, mosques, churches and synagogues are all sacred buildings.A. spiritual（精神的；心灵的）B. earthly（尘世的；地球的）C. holy（神圣的）D. secular（世俗的）译文：寺庙、清真寺、教堂和犹太教堂都是神圣的建筑。
考研英语真题阅读理解试题及名师解析（十二）
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses。
Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses' convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. “Who is that?” the new arrival asked St. Peter. “Oh, that's God,” came the reply, “but sometimes he thinks he's a doctor。
研究生英语精读教程[上册]Unit 12
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The most immediately and measurably dangerous scofflawry, however, also happens to be the most visible. The culprit* is the American driver, whose lawless activities today add up to a colossal* public nuisance.
1. roulette n. a game of chance in which a small ball is spun round a moving wheel and falls into a hole marked with a number轮盘赌
[ 5 ] Red-light running has always ranked as a minor wrong, and so it may be in individual instances. When the violation becomes habitual, widespread and incessant*, however, a great deal more than a traffic management problem is involved.
《研究生英语精读教程》(第三版· 上)
Unit Twelve
[ 1 ] Law-and-order is the longest-running and probably the best-loved political issue in U.S. history. Yet it is painfully apparent that millions of Americans who would never think of themselves as lawbreakers, let alone criminals, are taking increasing liberties with the legal codes that are designed to protect and nourish their society.
研究生英语阅读教程课后翻译第12课
第十二课
1、对绝大多数美国人而言，苏格兰人的生活可称得上清贫，其收入大约仅为美国人的一半。
在圣安德鲁斯附近的法夫地区40%的家庭没有汽车，我们也从未遇见过哪个家庭拥有两辆汽车。
那个时候，在这个离冰岛南部不远的地方，中央暖气系统仍是一种奢侈品。
2、我们听到了人们对玛格丽特.撒切尔夫人的抱怨，但却从未听到有人抱怨工资太低或没有
能力购买想要的东西。
虽然钱比美国人挣得少一些，但对生活的满足、对人的热情、朋友相聚的愉悦却一点儿都不比美国人少。
3、如此看来，财富好比健康：虽然赤贫会导致悲惨，但有钱并不能保证幸福。
幸福，与其
说是得到我们想要的东西，不如说是想要我们拥有的东西。
4、今天25岁的年轻人会比75岁的祖父母更多地回想起生活中那段消沉、绝望的日子，尽
管祖父母曾在更长的岁月中经受过各种各样的痛苦，从腿部骨折到经济萧条所带来的极度痛苦。
5、从来没有哪个文化曾经经历过物质的舒适与精神的悲苦如此交织在一起的情景。
我们也
从来未感到像现在这样自由，然而我们的监狱却从未像现在这样人满为患，我们对快乐的理解也从来未像现在这样精深，然而我们却更有可能承受着破裂的人际关系所带来的痛苦。
研究生英语阅读教程基础级第二版lesson12课后习题答案
Practice of Reading Techniques Read the following paragraphs, broadening your eye span as much as possible while reading. 1. Since the second war, and particularly during the last few years, a rapidly growing amount of effort has been devoted to the use of high-power rockets to carry instruments up to great heights above the earth, to launch artificial satellites and deep space probes. 2. Without written language, we would be completely shut off from the great minds of the past, and it would be quite impossible for us to undertake such a study, since we would have no means of knowing anything about the language of the people who lived in this country five hundred or a thousand years ago, and still less should we be in a position to relate that language to the tongues spoken in other countries.
TPO12阅读详细分析及答案
TPO12阅读详细分析及答案WHICH HAND DID THEY USE1. assist in帮助，所以C的help with是正确答案。
原句说尽管piant通常是靠嘴来spray的，但dominant hand起到了什么作用，帮忙作用，所以C正确。
A的initiate和D的set up都有开始，建立之意，两者相似，且跟文章无关，都错；B的dominate 和文章相反，前面已经有一个dominant了2.以mouth和hand stencil做关键词定位至倒数第二和第三句，说dominant hand是帮忙的；最后一句又说136是左手22是右手，通过具体数字说明左手比较主要，所以B是答案；注意B和C 是一对相反答案，所以C错，A说不知道哪个主要也就错；D没说3. depict描述，所以C的pictured正确，picture作名词图片大家都知道，作动词与原来名词的意思相关，所以是描述。
原句说在为数不多的情况当中，figure被怎么样拿着东西，imagine 想象，而原文的意思是真的拿着东西，所以imagine不对；reveal揭露和identify都表示从无到有的意思，不对4.先将长句拆开，who后面的从句整个是对前面的人的修饰；主干部分就是engraving是从左边lit的。
A选项的因果关系原文没有，所以错；B将原句的主干换成了从句，同时将原文的从句换成了主干，改变了原文的结构，错；C正确，只是将原句的被动换成了主动；D完全改变了原文的结构，错5. EXCEPT题，排除法，A的engraving做关键词定位至第二段第二句，正确，不选；B对应第一段第三句，但这个不是right-handedness的原因，所以这个选项不对，选；C的prevalence 和left hand定位至第一段最后一句，正确，不选；D的定位至第二段最后一句，正确，不选6.以La做关键词定位至倒数第二句，noticeably stronger，答案B正确，A和C都有提到，但都不是La被认定为right-handedness的原因，所以不选，D没说7.以fractures and other cut marks做关键词定位至第一句，但第一句信息太少，往下看，说右撇子士兵伤在左侧，所以正确答案是C。
07考研英语历年阅读理解真题精析
考研英语历年阅读理解真题精析--2007年Text 1If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006’s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the late months. If you then examined the European national youth teams that feed the World Cup and professional ranks, you would find this strange phenomenon to be ever more pronounced.What might account for this strange phenomenon? Here are a few guesses: a）certain astrological signs confer superior soccer skills; b）winter born babies tend to have higher oxygen capacity, which increases soccer stamina; c）soccer-mad parents are more likely to conceive children in springtime, at the annual peak of soccer mania; d）none of the above.Anders Ericsson, a 58-year-old psychology professor at Florida State University, says he believes strongly in “none of the above.” Ericsson grew up in Sweden, and studied nuclear engineering until he realized he would have more opportunity to conduct his own research if he switched to psychology. His first experiment, nearly 30 years ago, involved memory: training a person to hear and then repeat a random series of numbers. “With the first subject, after ab out 20 hours of training, his digit span had risen from 7 to 20,” Ericsson recalls. “He kept improving, and after about 200 hours of training he had risen to over 80 numbers.”This success, coupled with later research showing that memory itself is not genetically determined, led Ericsson to conclude that the act of memorizing is more of a cognitive exercise than an intuitive one. In other words, whatever inborn differences two people may exhibit in their abilities to memorize, those differences are swamped by how well each person “encodes” the information. And the best way to learn how to encode information meaningfully, Ericsson determined, was a process known as deliberate practice. Deliberate practice entails more than simply repeating a task. Rather, it involves setting specific goals, obtaining immediate feedback and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome.Ericsson and his colleagues have thus taken to studying expert performers in a wide range of pursuits, including soccer. They gather all the data they can, not just performance statistics and biographical details but also the results of their own laboratory experiments with high achievers. Their work makes a rather startling assertion: the trait we commonly call talent is highly overrated. Or, put another way, expertperformers –whether in memory or surgery, ballet or computer programming – are nearly always made, not born.1. The birthday phenomenon found among soccer players is mentioned to[A] stress the importance of professional training.[B] spotlight the soccer superstars at the World Cup.[C] introduce the topic of what makes expert performance.[D] explain why some soccer teams play better than others.2. The word “mania” （Line 4, Paragraph 2）most probably means[A] fun. [B] craze. [C] hysteria. [D] excitement.3. According to Ericsson, good memory[A] depends on meaningful processing of information.[B] results from intuitive rather than cognitive exercises.[C] is determined by genetic rather than psychological factors.[D] requires immediate feedback and a high degree of concentration.4. Ericsson and his colleagues believe that[A] talent is a dominating factor for professional success.[B] biographical data provide the key to excellent performance.[C] the role of talent tends to be overlooked.[D] high achievers owe their success mostly to nurture.5. Which of the following proverbs is closest to the message the text tries to convey?[A] “Faith will move mountains.”[B] “One reaps what one sows.”[C] “Practice makes perfect.”[D] “Like father, like son.”Unit 14（2007）Part 1试题解析：1．【正确答案】【C】【解析】结构题，题干中的“is mentioned to”表明本题是结构题。
2009年考研英语真题阅读理解试题(附答案、解析、翻译)
A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it may become a driving force. When the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War, it had a market eight times larger than any competitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the world's best, its workers the most skilled. America and Americans were prosperous beyond the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies the war had destroyed.It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predominance proved painful. By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness. Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competition. By 1987 there was only one American television maker left, Zenith. (Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South Korea's LG Electronics in July。
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UNIT TWELVETEXT ONEThe idea that mobile phones bring economic benefits is now widely accepted. In places with bad roads, few trains and parlous land lines, they substitute for travel, allow price data to be distributed more quickly and easily, enable traders to reach wider markets and generally ease the business of doing business. Leonard Waverman of the London Business School has estimated that an extra ten mobile phones per 100 people in a typical developing country leads to an extra half a percentage point of growth in GDP per person. To realise the economic benefits of mobile phones, governments in such countries need to do away with state monopolies, issue new licences to allow rival operators to enter the market and slash taxes on handsets. With few exceptions (hallo, Ethiopia), they have done so, and mobile phones are now spreading fast, even in the poorest parts of the world.As mobile phones have spread, a new economic benefit is coming into view: using them for banking, and so improving access to financial services, not just telecoms networks. Pioneering m-banking projects in the Philippines, Kenya and South Africa show the way. These “branchless” schemes typically allow customers to deposit and withdraw cash through a mobile operator's airtime-resale agents, and send money to other people via text messages that can be exchanged for cash by visiting an agent. Workers can then be paid by phone; taxi-drivers and delivery-drivers can accept payments without carrying cash around; money can be easily sent to friends and family.A popular use is to deposit money before making a long journey and then withdraw it at the other end, which is safer than carrying lots of cash.There is no need to set up a national network of branches or cash machines.M-banking schemes can be combined with microfinance loans, extending access to credit and enabling users to establish a credit history. Some schemes issue customers with debit cards linked to their m-banking accounts. All this has the potential to give the “unbanked” masses access to financial services, and bring them into the formal economy.What can governments do to foster m-banking? As with the spread of mobile phones themselves, a lot depends on putting the right regulations in place. They need to be tight enough to protect users and discourage money laundering, but open enough to allow new services to emerge. The existing banking model is both over- andunder-protective, says Tim Lyman of the World Bank, because “it did not foresee the convergence of telecommun ications and financial services.”In many countries only licensed banks are allowed to collect deposits. Even if a mobile operator forms a partnership with a bank, its agents may have to comply with banking rules covering everything from the height of the counter to the installation of alarms. Financial institutions may have to provide detailed statements to the central bank every week, which is tricky for organisations with agents in remote areas. Some countries have rigid rules on the documents demanded of anybody opening an account, which excludes many.1. The following are advantages of economic services through mobile phones except that_____[A] price data can be distributed quicky and easily.[B] traders can extend their market.[C] doing business is more convenient.[D] the growth of GDP per person can be greatly promoted.2.Which one of the following statements is TURE of the m-banking schemes?[A] They can prevent safer services than the traditional banking.[B] They could provide the customers with credit services[C] They have been experimented in some developing countrie.[D] They could encourage people to use fiancial services3. The word “convergence” (Line 5, Paragraph 4) most probably means_____ [A] conversation.[B] combination.[C] similarity.[D] exchange.4.Towards m-banking, the governments’ attitudes can be said to be_____[A] supportive.[B] opposing.[C] indifferent.[D] unclear.5. The best title of this passage canbe_____[A] Economic Benefits Brought by Mobile Phone.[B] M-banking—Marriage of Mobile Phone and Banking.[C] Mobile Phone Used for Banking.[D] The Pioneering M-banking Schemes.文章剖析：这篇文章介绍了移动电话的新型银行业务。
第一段讲述移动电话带来的经济利益；第二、三段讲述利用移动电话的一种新的银行业务；第四、五段讲述目前的银行法令法规对这种移动银行新业务的限制。
词汇注释:parlous n. 危险的debit n. 借方convergence n. 汇聚，会合难句突破：（1）These “branchless” schemes typically allow customers to deposit and withdraw cash through a mobile operator's airtime-resale agents, and send money to other people via text messages that can be exchanged for cash by visiting an agent. [主体句式]These schemes allow customers to…, and send money to…[结构分析] 这是一个复合句，谓语是并列的两个动词结构，后面的结构中that 引导的定语从句用来修饰前面的text messages。