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Section I Use of English
Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank an……
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He emerged, all of a sudden, in 1957: the most explosive new poetic talent of the English post-war era. Poe……
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根据笔者对考研英语阅读理解文章以及题目多年进行的潜心研究,总结出了以下13个重点考点和四大命题原则。考生应该熟记这些重点考点,并在平时的练习中训练自己对这些考点的敏感程度,做到使自己的神经能够一找到这些考点就会条件反射般地兴奋起来,从而增强对重点的记忆和理解。下面首先将一一介绍阅读理解文章的敏感考点。
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考研英语阅读理解一共由A、B、C三个部分组成,本书主要涉及A部分,即单项选择题。根据考试大纲的要求,考生应能综合运用英语语言知识和阅读既能来理解选自各类书籍和报刊的不同类型的英文书面文字材料,能以每分钟60个词的速度阅读各种题材和题材的文字材料(生词量不超过所读材料总词汇量的3%),还应读懂与本人学习或工作有关的文献、技术说明和产品介绍等。
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To paraphrase 18th-century statesman Edmund Burke, “all that is needed for the triumph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing.” One such cause now seeks to end biomedical research because of the theory that animals have rights ruling out their use in research. ……
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain. This description is both refined and, as far as it goes, accurate. He is mainly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the free and unembarrassed action of those about him. ……
The use of the motor is becoming more and more widespread in the twentieth century; as an increasing number of countries develop both technically and economically, so a larger proportion of the world's population is able to buy and use a car. Possessing a car gives a much greater degree of mobility, enabling the driver to move around freely. ……
If ambition is to be well regarded, the rewards of ambition——wealth, distinction, control over one's destiny——must be deemed worthy of the sacrifices made on ambition's behalf. If the tradition of ambition is to have vitality, it must be widely shared: and it especially must be highly regarded by people who are themselves admired, the educated not least among them. In an odd way, however, it is the educated who have claimed to have given up on ambition as an ideal. What is odd is that they have perhaps most benefited from ambition——if not always their own than that of their parents and grandparents. ……
Some people believe that international sport creates goodwill between the nations. Others say that the opposite is true: that international contests encourage false national pride and lead to misunderstanding and hatred. There is probably some truth in both arguments, but in recent years the Olympic games have done little to support the view that sports encourages international brotherhood. Not only, was there the tragic incident involving the murder of athletes, but the games were also ruined by lesser incidents caused principally by minor national contests.
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The British queue up and the Americans wait in line, except for New Yorkers, who wait on line. No one seems to know the reason for this local idiom. It is something to ponder while waiting in/on line.……