考研英语历年真题阅读要点之2015-Text 4（一）

 　各位同学，就考研英语真题而言，最后三套建议用来进行考前模拟。小编继续为大家梳理历年考研英语真题阅读文章中涉及的要点，包括词汇、短语、长难句以及简单的阅读方法。接下来看一下2015年考研英语真题阅读Text 4，这篇文章主要探讨了社会筛选机制引起的道德缺失问题。

　　... spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions.” Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism” ... But “it’s us, human beings, we the people who create the society we want, not profit ”.

　　speak of“谈到，论及”;unsettling“使人不安的”;dearth“缺乏”;integrity“诚实，廉正”;institution“机构”;collapse“瓦解”;collective“集体的，共同的”;acceptance“接纳，赞同”;sorting mechanism“筛选机制”;重点关注But转折后，首段转折往往与文章中心相关。

　　Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous foals for capitalism and freedom.” This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International, shield thought, making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.

　　drive one’s point home“阐明自己的观点”;increasingly相当于more and more“越来越”;apparent“明显的”，相当于obvious，evident;absence“缺乏”;purpose“目标”;moral“道德的”;capitalism“资本主义”;wound“使受伤”;shield“遮蔽”;it充当形式宾语，真正的宾语是that引导的从句;lose one’s way“迷失方向”;widespread“普遍的，广泛的”;illegal“非法的”;telephone hacking“电话窃听”。

　　As the hacking trial concludes -- finding guilty one ex-editor of the News of the World ... for conspiring to hack phones, and finding his predecessor ... innocent of the same charge -- the wider issue of dearth of integrity still stands. Journalists ... up to ... This is hacking on an industrial scale, as was acknowledged ... the man hired ... Others await trial. This long story still unfolds.

　　trial“试验”;guilty“有罪的，内疚的”，be guilty of“犯...罪，对...感到内疚”;ex-editor“前任编辑”;conspire“共谋”;predecessor“前任”;be innocent of“无罪的”;charge“控告”;stand在此可以表示“存在”;journalist“新闻工作者”;up to“多达”;scale“规模”;acknowledge“承认”;hire“雇佣”;await“等待”;unfold“展开，显露”。