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1. Inching towards integration 朝着一体化缓慢爬行【导读】：欧洲领导人做出了救市的承诺，但也仅限承诺。

欧元区走在成功或失败的分岔路口，未来如何还是个未知数。

The Euro Crisis 欧债危机The latest European summit made more progress than usual—but still not enough最新欧洲峰会取得了比平常更多成果——但仍是不够。

Jul 7th 2012 | from the print editionW AS Europe’s 19th crisis summit, held in Brussels on June 28th and 29th, a game-changer? Judging by the euphoria in financial markets and among many commentators, the answer seems to be yes. Yields on Italian and Spanish bonds fell sharply as investo rs decided that Europe’s political leaders had committed themselves to the creation of a banking union and to allowing troubled countries easier access to euro-zone rescue funds. The prime ministers of Italy and Spain, Mario Monti and Mariano Rajoy, and the French president, François Hollande, were widely hailed for scoring a victory over Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel. She, in turn, was excoriated by many at home for giving in to blackmail.As so often, the summit had been billed as a make-or-brea k affair, in which Europe’s political leaders had to lay out their vision for economic and political integration to save their single currency. Is the euphoria about to fizzle, as in the past?The summit gave reasons for guarded optimism. Europe’s poli ticians have said they will create a Europe-wide bank supervisor (involving the European Central Bank) before the end of the year. This is only a pledge, but if the history of European policymaking is a guide, the euro zone will quarrel over the details of a banking supervisor only to agree to one eventually. Second, by accepting that bail-out funds can go straight to banks, Mrs Merkel has made a big shift from her insistence that help could go only to governments, with tough conditions attached. The underlying German logic that shared financial liability must imply shared oversight remains the same. But by countenancing jointly financed bank recapitalisation, Mrs Merkel has accepted a broader notion of risk-sharing. This is still a long way from the partial debt mutualisation that the euro zone needs, but it marks a step forward from Germany’s exclusive obsession with fiscal austerity.However, there are caveats. Europe’s politicians did not commit themselves to a banking union. There was no agreement to euro-wide deposit insurance or to a common bank-resolution scheme. And although the summit agreed that euro-zone rescue funds could be injected directly into banks, this depends on the single supervisor being in place first.The supposed loosening of the strings attached to help for peripheral economies was also limited. The much-ballyhooed agreement that rescue funds could buy embattled countries’ bonds without onerous extra conditions was just a political promise to do something already allowed. The only concrete new commitments were that the promised aid of up to €100 billion ($125 billion) for Spain to recapitalise its banks would no longer be senior to other debt, and that Ireland could expect the burden of its bank bail-outs to be eased.A set of limited and contingent promises is much better than nothing, but it hardly adds up to a sturdy new foundation for the euro’s future. A lot could still go wrong. In a system that requires unanimity, grumbling from Finland and the Netherlands is a reminder that even if the limited deal at the summit holds, further steps will be hard. Legal challenges have already been laid before Germany’s constitutional court. Mrs Merkel’s coalition partners and even some in her own party are threatening to be obstructive. And existing problems have not gone away: most obviously, hard decisions still have to be made about whether to give more help to Greece, which barely featured in the summit’s discussions.The summer-holiday-saving summit?暑假救援行动峰会？It is therefore a brave soul who would call this summit a turning-point for the euro. Given that agreeing on a banking authority will take several months, think how remote are the more fundamental constitutional changes needed to back a banking union and Eurobonds. The outlook for the European and world economy is darkening. Recession will undermine normal politics and create conditions for markets to take fright (see article). The euro zone got through this summit, but it is going to have to prove its resolve over and over again.参考译文：第19届欧洲危机峰会于6月28、29在布鲁塞尔举办，这将成为拯救欧元区危机的一次大逆转吗？从金融市场以及时事评论员的乐观情绪来看，这个答案似乎是肯定的。

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Don’t shoot the messenger They poison the mind and corrupt the morals of the young, who waste their time sitting on sofas immersed in dangerous fantasy worlds. That, at least, was the charge levelled against novels during the 18th century by critics worried about the impact of a new medium on young people. Today the idea that novels can harm people sounds daft. And that is surely how history will judge modern criticism of video games, which are accused of turning young people into violent criminals. This week European justice ministers met to discuss how best to restrict the sale of violent games to children. Some countries, such as Germany, believe the answer is to ban some games altogether. That is going too far. Criticism of games is merely the latest example of a tendency to demonise new and unfamiliar forms of entertainment. In 1816 waltzing was condemned as a "fatal contagion" that encouraged promiscuity; in 1910 films were denounced as "an evil pure and simple, destructive of social interchange"; in the 1950s rock ’n’ roll music was said to turn young people into "devil worshippers" and comic books were accused of turning children into drug addicts and criminals. In each case the pattern is the same: young people adopt a new form of entertainment, older people are spooked by its unfamiliarity and condemn it, but eventually the young grow up and the new medium becomes accepted-at which point another example appears and the cycle begins again. The opposition to video games is founded on the mistaken belief that most gamers are children. In fact, two thirds of gamers are over 18 and the average gamer is around 30. But the assumption that gamers are mostly children leads to a double standard. Violent films are permitted and the notion that some films are unsuitable for children is generally understood. Yet different rules are applied to games. Aren’t games different because they are interactive? It is true that video games can make people feel excited or aggressive, but so do many sports. There is no evidence that video gaming causes long term aggression. Games ought to be age rated, just as films are, and retailers should not sell adult rated games to children any more than they should sell them adult rated films. Ratings schemes are already in place, and in some countries restrictions on the sale of adult rated games to minors have the force of law. Oddly enough, Hillary Clinton, one of the politicians who has led the criticism of the gaming industry in America, has recently come round to this view. Last month she emphasised the need for parents to pay more attention to game ratings and called on the industry, retailers and parents to work together. But this week some European politicians seemed to be moving in the other direction: the Netherlands may follow Germany, for example, in banning some games outright. Not all adults wish to play violent games, just as not all of them enjoy violent movies. But they should be free to do so if they wish. Immerse v.①使沉浸在；②使浸没 accuse v.（of）控告，谴责［真题例句］ Historians, especially those so blinded by their research interests that they have been accused of "tunnel method ," frequently fall victim to the "technicist fallacy."［1999年翻译］［例句精译］历史学家常常沦为"技术谬误"的牺牲品，尤其是那些因研究兴趣⽽失去判断⼒、被指控为"井蛙之见"的⼈。

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目录Unit One---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 PartA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1Text 1儿童教育和沟通结合-----------------------------------------------------------------1Text 2克隆人和动物--------------------------------------------------------------------------6Text 3太阳系内速度限制--------------------------------------------------------------------11Text 4互联网和电脑等新型通讯技术的应用--------------------------------------------15 Part B盗窃--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------20Part C撒谎--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------25翻译技巧补充：英译汉概述（一）------------------------------------------------------29Unit Two----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------32 Part A---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------32Text 1加拿大社会的劣质服务---------------------------------------------------------------32 Text 2未来汽车---------------------------------------------------------------------------------36Text 3广告业是美国经济的晴雨表---------------------------------------------------------41 Text 4英国学业间断期------------------------------------------------------------------------46Part B生命进化历史---------------------------------------------------------------------------51Part C情感商机---------------------------------------------------------------------------------56翻译技巧补充：英译汉概述（二）------------------------------------------------------60Unit Three--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------63 Part A---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------63Text 1美、加之间贸易摩擦------------------------------------------------------------------63 Text 2现代人对维多利亚时代英国人的看法---------------------------------------------68 Text 3探讨时尚---------------------------------------------------------------------------------72Text 4基因检测法用于侦破案件------------------------------------------------------------76 Part B立法机构在制定法律过程中的作用------------------------------------------------81 Part C美国黑人文学---------------------------------------------------------------------------86翻译技巧补充：词义的选择----------------------------------------------------------------89Unit Four------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------91 Part A-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------91Text 1五大湖环境状况--------------------------------------------------------------------------91 Text 2欧洲铁路-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------95 Text 3教师资格认证体系-----------------------------------------------------------------------99 Text 4美国食品药品管理局面临的困难-----------------------------------------------------105 Part B网上商务-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------110 Part C物种灭绝-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------116翻译技巧补充：词义的抽象与具体---------------------------------------------------------119 Unit Five--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------121 Part A-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------121 Text 1鸡蛋中培养流感疫苗-----------------------------------------------------------------------121 Text 2国际数学评估反映美国教育问题--------------------------------------------------------126 Text 3美国经济不景气----------------------------------------------------------------------------131 Text 4全国防止虐待儿童协会-------------------------------------------------------------------137 Part B经济学角度解决垃圾收集问题----------------------------------------------------------142 Part C个人发明和大企业组织的研究----------------------------------------------------------147 翻译技巧补充：词性的转换---------------------------------------------------------------------151Part A--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------153Text 1童工、教育和贫困--------------------------------------------------------------------------153 Text 2加州能源管制--------------------------------------------------------------------------------158 Text 3美国社会保障的私有化--------------------------------------------------------------------163 Text 4现代美容手术的普及-----------------------------------------------------------------------167 Part B演讲--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------172 Part C幻听--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------177翻译技巧补充：词汇的增译和减译------------------------------------------------------------180 Unit Seven-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------183 Part A----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------183 Text 1全球经济滞胀----------------------------------------------------------------------------------183 Text 2印度妇女受到性别歧视----------------------------------------------------------------------189 Text 3梦成现实----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------193 Text 4新的教育体制观念----------------------------------------------------------------------------198 Part B优秀的领导者----------------------------------------------------------------------------------202 Part C英国人是政治动物----------------------------------------------------------------------------208 翻译技巧补充：重复译----------------------------------------------------------------------------211 Unit Eight----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------213 Part A----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------213 Text 1外表的美与内在的美--------------------------------------------------------------------------213 Text 2生态环境与恐怖主义--------------------------------------------------------------------------218 Text 3网络信息安全性--------------------------------------------------------------------------------223 Text 4北美印第安音乐--------------------------------------------------------------------------------228 Part BB为青春期的变化做准备---------------------------------------------------------------------232 Part C地球日--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------237翻译技巧补充：正义反译和反义正译-----------------------------------------------------------240 Unit Nine------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------242 Part A-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------242 Text 1美国解除飞机上使用手机的禁令-----------------------------------------------------------242 Text 2环境预防原则-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------247 Text 3索尼公司的管理--------------------------------------------------------------------------------253 Text 4音乐与政治--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------258 Part B人类艺术与动物类似行为的区别----------------------------------------------------------263 Part C社会保障----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------270翻译技巧补充：分译与合译-----------------------------------------------------------------------273 Unit Ten-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------276 Part A----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------276 Text 1戏剧包含的要素-------------------------------------------------------------------------------276 Text 2节省更多时间来工作的观念----------------------------------------------------------------280 Text 3巴西足球运动事业现状----------------------------------------------------------------------286 Text 4游戏领域女性工作人员很少----------------------------------------------------------------292 Part B面试----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------297 Part C甘地的和平主义-------------------------------------------------------------------------------303翻译技巧补充：倒置法-----------------------------------------------------------------------------306 Unit Eleven--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------308Text 1企业绿色外衣现象---------------------------------------------------------------------------308 Text 2音乐物质文化---------------------------------------------------------------------------------313 Text 3肥胖问题---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------317 Text 4美国在联合国欠费问题---------------------------------------------------------------------323 Part B个人着装--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------327 Part C年轻的作家模仿莎士比亚----------------------------------------------------------------333翻译技巧补充：插入法---------------------------------------------------------------------------336 Unit Twelve-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------338 Part A---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------338 Text 1新闻如何吸引读者--------------------------------------------------------------------------338 Text 2星际网络--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------343 Text 3荷兰艺术家及其作品-----------------------------------------------------------------------347 Text 4艾滋病最新治疗思路-----------------------------------------------------------------------352 Part B成为成功的老板-----------------------------------------------------------------------------357 Part C经济学史--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------363翻译技巧补充：重组法----------------------------------------------------------------------------365全书答案汇总------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------368 张剑曾鸣编著《英语阅读理解150篇》Part ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text 1No t long after the telephone was invented, I assume, a call was placed. The caller was a parent saying, “your child is bullying my child, and I want it stopped!” The bully's parent replied, “you must have the wrong number. My child is a little angel.”A trillion phone calls later, the conversation is the same. When children are teased or tyrannized, the parental impulse is to grab the phone and rant. But these days, as studies in the U.S. show bullying on the rise and parental supervision on the decline, researchers who study bullying say that calling moms and dads is more futile than ever. Such calls often lead to playground recriminations and don't really teach our kids any lessons about how to navigate the world and resolve conflicts.When you call parents, you want them to “extract the cruelty”from their bullying children, says Laura Kavesh, a child psychologist in Evanston, Illinois. “But many parents are blown away by the idea of their child being cruel. They won t believe it.”In a recent police department survey in Oak Harbor, Washington, 89% of local high school students said they had engaged in bullying behavior. Yet only 18% of parents thought their children would act as bullies.In a new U.S.PTA survey, 5% of parents support contacting other parents to deal with bullying. But many educators warn that those conversations can be misinterpreted, causing tempers to flare. Instead, they say, parents should get objective outsiders, like principals, to mediate.Meanwhile, if you get a call from a parent who is angry about your child's bullying, listen without getting defensive. That's what Laura McHugh of Castro Valley, California, did when a caller told her that her then 13-year-old son had spit in another boy's food.Her son had confessed, but the victim's mom “wanted to make sure my son hadn't given her son a nasty disease,” says McHugh, who apologized and promised to get her son tested for AIDS and other diseases. She knew the chance of contracting any disease this way was remote, but her promise calmed the mother and showed McHugh's son that his bad behaviour was being taken seriously. McHugh, founder of Parents Coach Kids, a group that teaches parenting skills, sent the mom the test results. All were negative.Remember: once you make a call, you might not like what you hear. If you have an itchy dialing finger, resist temptation. Put it in your pocket. ［419 words］1.The word “bullying” probably means______.［A］frightening and hurting ［B］teasing［C］behaving like a tyrant ［D］laughing at2. Calling to a bully's parent.______.［A］has long existed but changed its content ［B］is often done with careful thinking［C］often leads to blaming and misunderstanding ［D］is used to warn the child not to do it again3. According to the surveys in the U.S., _______.［A］bullying among adults is also rising［B］parents are not supervising their children well［C］parents seldom believe bullies［D］most parents resort to calling to deal with bullying4. When bullying occurs, parents should_______.［A］help the bulling child get rid of cruelty ［B］resort to the mediator［C］avoid getting too protective ［D］resist the temptation of callingura McHugh promised to get the bullied boy tested for diseases because________.［A］her son confessed to being wrong ［B］she was afraid to annoy the boy's parent［C］he was likely to be affected by these diseases［D］she wanted to teach her own son a lessonblow away *①to completely surprise sb., to affect intensely; overwhelm使大为惊讶；强烈影响，征服例：That concert blew me away.音乐会震撼了我。

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目录Part A 多项选择部分大纲解读制胜妙法《时代周刊》Passage 1 美国家长需要更多了解备灾计划Passage 2 美国公民申请人数的下降Passage 3 美国非法移民人数下降Passage 4 银幕的吸烟场面问题Passage 5 哲学讨论的热潮Passage 6 移动wi—fi服务Passage 7 艺术品失窃问题Passage 8 Bit Torrent程序引发的问题Passage 9 刘易斯-汉密尔顿Passage 10 校园枪击事件Passage 11 石油生产和石油价格Passage 12 性格形成与兄弟姐妹的关系Passage 13 大众筹资的概念及其运作Passage 14 飞机快速减压问题Passage 15 社区健康工作者的作用和发展《时代周刊》Passage 1 地震预报方面的新进展Passage 2 超级超新星SN 20069y的爆发Passage 3 长期控制血糖的重要性Passage 4 肺结核病再度蔓延Passage 5 植物合成阿司匹林的发现《经济学家》Passage 1 优秀领导需要具有“智能实力” Passage 2 08年诺贝尔生理医学奖的“失”与“得”Passage 3 犯罪嫌疑人的引渡问题Passage 4 弹性工作制Passage 5 卡路里摄取量与长寿的关系Passage 6 美国汽车租赁业的发展Passage 7 老年人力资源的开发Passage 8 冥王星“降级”Passage 9 刘易斯汉密尔顿Passage 10 可口可乐和百事可乐的竞争Passage 11 网络广告业的崛起Passage 12 自动智能车的开发Passage 13 枭鹦鹉的性别分配理论Passage 14 人类多样化语言消逝之古今Passage 15 人体器官移植供求失衡及灰色交易《经济学家》Passage 1 投资银行破产的影响Passage 2 地震发生与石笋形成的关系Passage 3 肺结核病问题Passage 4 电敏感与电磁辐射的关系Passage 5 华尔街的“白衣骑士”《新闻周刊》Passage 1 人脑记忆功能的运作Passage 2 大学生心理健康问题的处理Passage 3 西式生活方式与癌症发生率的关系Passage 4 有关人脸的研究Passage 5 国际教育产业的发展Passage 6 酒店业经营策略的调整Passage 7 网络时代金融危机的新特点Passage 8 无线网络技术的发展Passage 9 n0—fri11s经营模式Passage 10 艾滋病的老年化问题Passage 11 美国大学招生制度的变化Passage 12 适量饮酒或有益健康Passage 13 西式快餐的重度食客Passage 14 Goog1e股票发行权问题Passage 15 “物质的”神经科学《新闻周刊》Passage 1 危机中的房屋销售Passage 2 婴儿瘁死综合症Passage 3 人类社会的民主化进程Passage 4 电子纸技术Passage 5 院外心脏骤停病例救治之新举措《科学》Passage 1 各国开始向海外寻求农田Passage 2 科学家受到蒙蔽Passage 3 哈佛大学科研相关问题Passage 4 温室效应对大西洋的影响Passage 5 女性科学家的地位和待遇问题Passage 6 科研经费滥用问题Passage 7 全球变暖与曲棍球杆Passage 8 印度原始部落文化Passage 9 器官再生和伤员救治Passage 10 从自然灾害中学习Passage 11 有害物质对工人的危害问题Passage 12 运动员的高科技装备Passage 13 深海钻探遭遇资金困境Passage 14 木乃伊与民族文化-Passage 15生物燃料和高能源植物的研究《科学》Passage 1 肿瘤研究的美好前景Passage 2 沼气的新来源Passage 3 果蝇的长时记忆和抗麻醉记忆Passage 4 水星探测新发现Passage 5 大脑基因图谱研究《美国新闻》Passage 1 大学排名对高等教育的影响Passage 2 美国“失落的十年”的真假Passage 3 伦敦交通恐怖袭击Passage 4 美国绿色能源政策Passage 5 户外拓展坦克训练营Passage 6 美国工会与大公司的关系Passage 7 青少年犯罪与家庭构成Passage 8 预定期限基金Passage 9 房屋交易与房屋经纪Passage 10 人工影响天气Passage 11 大学宿舍生活Passage 12 科技发展与电子废弃物处理Passage 13 次贷金融危机与政府决策Passage 14 提前遗赠财产Passage 15 预防癌症的最新研究《美国新闻》Passage 1 日本政府限制国民腰围Passage 2 石油价格与汽车消费Passage 3 援救汽车工业“三巨头”Passage 4 华尔街逆市投资Passage 5 星系的黑色物质Part B 选择搭配部分大纲解读制胜妙法《时代周刊》Passage 1 全球气候变化引起的资源保护问题Passage 2 网络言论的声誉侵害问题Passage 3 置人式广告模式Passage 4 美国中学排名制度Passage 5 海洋“死区”《经济学家》Passage 1 Wua1a免费在线存储技术和服务Passage 2 健康产业的新发展Passage 3 “良知食品”的问题Passage 4 美国救市与反拍卖标购Passage 5 世界粮食问题《新闻周刊》Passage 1 素食主义者、火鸡与感恩节Passage 2 就医时咨询第二种意见Passage 3 运动锻炼与精神健康Passage 4“监控中”的欧英世界Passage 5 兴奋剂与体育比赛《科学》Passage 1 社会失序与破窗理论Passage 2 类胚胎细胞与人类疾病的治疗Passage 3 本科毕业后短期工作与就读研究生Passage 4 气候科学的可靠性Passage 5 制造复杂的石器与现代人类《美国新闻》Passage 1 现代科技的自动提醒与真人提醒Passage 2 靶向EGFR药物的研究Passage 3 科学家的宗教信仰问题Passage 4 成年子女与父母的经济资助Passage 5 居者有其屋与美国梦想Part C 选择搭配部分大纲解读制胜妙法《时代周刊》Passage 1 俄罗斯前总统普京Passage 2 经济衰退与圣诞节购物Passage 3 能源危机与图尔西坦提Passage 4 学校网络信息安全Passage 5 贝卢斯科尼与布什《经济学家》Passage 1 意大利的教育改革Passage 2 马斯洛需求层次理论及其经济应用Passage 3 艾滋病的“鸡尾酒”式治疗法Passage 4 激进的启蒙运动Passage 5 经济危机引发的公众道歉问题《新闻周刊》Passage 1 麦克科马克及忧郁症摆脱Passage 2 新科技改变人类的大脑Passage 3 无线跟踪技术的运用Passage 4 麦当劳的扩张Passage 5 金融风暴与房屋投资《科学》Passage 1 科学研究工作与政治的关系Passage 2 07年的科学突破和科学崩溃Passage 3 地球生命诞生的新观点Passage 4 加拿大留住高端人才的战略Passage 5 领导力与企业的关系《美国新闻》Passage 1 布什与切尼Passage 2 高学历的妇女与其婚姻情况Passage 3 “心理健康平权”法案Passage 4 大学生的学费与毕业后的收入Passage 5 海关入境电子产品的检查问题。

考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读100篇

Senate inquiry in loan case is studying stock transferAn Education Department official and financial aid directors at three universities received stock in a student loan company from the company's current president in what may have been a violation of securities law, Senate aides looking into the transactions say.In various documents that have been turned over to staff members working for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the president of the company described the transfers as gifts. But at least one recipient of the shares has said he paid for the stock.Because the executive, Fabrizio Balestri of Student Loan Xpress, had acquired the shares in a private placement of stock that restricts how it can be transferred, the gifts-or sale-may have run afoul of federal securities laws, said Mr. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who heads the Senate education committee. Yesterday he called on federal regulators to investigate the transactions.The senator's staff has been investigating relations between loan companies and universities. The disclosures last week that the financial aid administrators owned the stock have prompted concerns that they had an incentive to steer students to the loan company. The government official helped oversee lenders in the federal student loan program.The documents describing the transfers of stock as gifts were signed by Mr. Balestri and his wife. They contradict what one financial aid director said in an interview last week. That official, Lawrence Burt of the University of Texas at Austin, said he had paid $1,000 for 1,500 shares. Mr. Burt could not be reached for comment last night.Mr. Balestri transferred stock not only to Mr. Burt but also to David Charlow, financial aid director for Columbia's undergraduate college and its engineering school; Catherine Thomas, director of financial aid at the University of Southern California; and Matteo Fontana, general manager in a unit of the Office of Federal Student Aid at the Department of Education. In recent days, all four have been put on leave by their employers.Senate aides said that for each $10,000 in the private placement, investors had received 10,000 shares and 5,000 warrants, or options to purchase additional stock before a certain date, in Education Lending Group, which was then the parent of Student Loan Xpress. Mr. Balestri obtained $80,000 worth of stock and kept none of it, according to the documents. In a personal list called "memorandums of gift", he wrote that he gave away 80,000 shares to 16 people on Dec. 31, 2001. That was one day before he began work at the company as its president.The 2001 private placement raised $3.7 million for Education Lending and was authorized by that company's chief executive, Robert deRose. At the time, the stock was trading between $1 and $2 a share. It is not clear who purchased the rest of the shares or whether anyone else at the company had knowledge of Mr. Balestri's transfers.考研词汇：violation[ˌvaiəˌleiʃən]n.违反, 违背, 妨碍, 侵害, [体]违例afoul[ə'faul]a.冲撞的，纠缠的ad.冲突着, 碰撞着securities law证券法steer[ˌstiə]v.驾驶，掌舵[真题例句] Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as "steering the economy to a soft landing" or "a touch on the brakes", makes it sound like a precise science.[1997年阅读5][例句精译] 很多用来描述货币政策的词，如"引导经济软着陆"、"经济刹车"，使货币政策听起来像是一门精确的科学。

考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读100篇(I)

考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读100篇 Text 1Declining populations：Incredible shrinking countriesDuring the second half of the 20th century, the global population explosion was the big demographic bogey. Robert McNamara, president of the World Bank in the 1970s, compared the threat of unmanageable population pressures with the danger of nuclear war. Now that worry has evaporated, and this century is spooking itself with the opposite fear: the onset of demographic decline.The shrinkage of Russia and eastern Europe is familiar, though not perhaps the scale of it: Russia's population is expected to fall by 22% between 2005 and 2050, Ukraine's by a staggering 43%. Now the phenomenon is creeping into the rich world: Japan has started to shrink and others, such as Italy and Germany, will soon follow. Even China's population will be declining by the early 2030s, according to the UN, which projects that by 2050 populations will be lower than they are today in 50 countries.Demographic decline worries people because it is believed to go hand in hand with economic decline. At the extremes it may well be the result of economic factors: pessimism may depress the birth rate and push up rates of suicide and alcoholism. But, in the main, demographic decline is the consequence of the low fertility that generally goes with growing prosperity. In Japan, for instance, birth rates fell below the replacement rate of 2.1 children per woman in the mid1970s and have been particularly low in the past 15 years.But if demographic decline is not generally a consequence of economic decline, surely it must be a cause? In a crude sense, yes. As populations shrink, GDP growth will slow. Some economies may even start to shrink, too. The result will be a loss of economic influence.Governments hate the idea of a shrinking population because the absolute size of GDP matters for great power status. The bigger the economy, the bigger the military, the greater the geopolitical clout: annual GDP estimates were first introduced in America in the 1940s as part of its war effort. Companies worry, too: they do not like the idea of their domestic markets shrinking. People should not mind, though. What matters for economic welfare is GDP per person.The crucial question is therefore what the effect of demographic decline is on the growth of GDP per person. The bad news is that this looks likely to slow because working age populations will decline more rapidly than overall populations. Yet this need not happen. Productivity growth may keep up growth in GDP per person: as labour becomes scarcer, and pressure to introduce new technologies to boost workers' efficiency increases, so the productivity of labour may rise faster. Anyway, retirement ages can be lifted to increase the supply of labour even when the population is declining.People love to worry-maybe it's a symptom of ageing populations-but the gloom surrounding population declines misses the main point. The new demographics that are causing populations to age and to shrink are something to celebrate. Humanity was once caught in the trap of high fertility and high mortality. Now it has escaped into the freedom of low fertility and low mortality. Women's control over the number of children they have is an unqualified good-as is the average person's enjoyment, in rich countries, of ten more years of life than they had in 1960. Politicians may fear the decline of their nations' economic prowess, but people should celebrate the new demographics as heralding a golden age.Pressuren.①压（力）；②强制，压迫，压强；v.强制，迫使［真题例句］ They can hope that, if one province includes a drug on its list, the pressure (n.①) will cause others to include it on theirs.［2005年新题型］［例句精译］他们可能会认为如果一个省把一种药包括在一个药品名录单上，就会迫使其他省把这种药也包括在药品名录单上。

考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读100篇（二）

A matter of life and deathNO.22A matter of life and deathCONCEPTION and cancer, which mark the beginning and, often, the end of life, share some molecular details. Cancer cells copy their contents and divide rapidly; so do newly fertilized eggs. This requires genetic reprogramming. Curiously, as a result of the reprogramming, both contain appreciable amounts of an enzyme called reverse transcriptase that biologists more usually associate with certain viral infections, including HIV. Reverse transcriptase makes part of the cell’s protein publishing line work backwards, recreating DNA, a molecule in which organisms typically store genetic information, from its less stable and correspondingly less favoured cousin, RNA. Why it does so in cancer and in embryos, though, is something of a mystery.Corrado Spadafora, of Italy’s National Institute of Health, in Rome, studies this little known puzzle. There are thousands of reverse transcriptase genes in the genomes of all mammals. What that job is exactly, Dr Spadafora is not sure, but data he presented at the annual meeting of the British Andrology Society, in Leeds, suggest some answers.Dr Spadafora showed recently that reverse transcriptase is required for mouse embryos to develop. He did this by removing it in two ways. First, he exposed embryos created in Petri dishes to a common AIDS drug called nevirapine, which works by gumming the enzyme up. This halted development whenever it was added to embryos up to the stage when they were only four cells big. Adding the drug later, when the four cells had divided into eight, had no effect. Second, he checked the drug was not bad for the embryos in some other, unknown, way by specifically turning off reverse transcriptase producing genes. The result was the same: the embryos did not die, and again, during the sensitive period, they seemed to get stuck in a juvenile stage.There are hints that reverse transcriptase is needed for a lot of early embryonic functions associated with getting cells ready to specialize into different types of tissue. Seven of the ten genes Dr Spadafora tested were active in healthy embryos, but were shut down in the nevirapine arrested ones.Since cancer cells also contain a lot of reverse transcriptase, Dr Spadafora wondered whether stopping the enzyme working might stop them dividing as well. He transplanted four kinds of human cancer into four groups of mice and treated some of each group with nevirapine or a similar drug. In all cases the earlier he gave the drug, the slower the tumours grew, and they always grew more slowly than tumours in mice which got neither drug. As in the embryo experiments, he then silenced the cancer cell genes that produced reverse transcriptase, and likewise found the tumours grew more slowly.Moreover, both the drugs and the gene silencing technique flattened some types of cancer cells, which suggests that both methods of getting rid of reverse transcriptase’s effects caused similar molecular changes inside the cells.That common anti HIV drugs slow cancer growth in AIDS patients has been known for some time. Doctors, however, have attributed the fact to the healthier immune systems the drugs promote. Dr Spadafora’s results suggest a more precise mechanism.molecular［mEu5lekjulE］a.分⼦的，由分⼦组成的［真题例句］ But NBAC members are planning to word the recommendation narrowly to avoid new restrictions on research that involves the cloning of human DNA or cells routine in molecular biology.［1999年阅读4］［例句精译］但是，NBAC成员们正计划在建议的措辞上更为严谨，以避免给克隆⼈体DNA或细胞等研究带来更多地限制——（这属于）分⼦⽣物研究中的常规课题。

考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读100篇（7）

COAL has several advantages as a fuel. It is abundant. It is widely distributed: countries that are short of other fossil fuels, such as Germany and South Africa, have mountains of it. As a result, it is cheap. Even though the price has risen in the past few years, it is still less expensive to run a power plant on coal than on almost anything else.But coal is also dirty. It releases lots of soot and various noxious chemicals as it burns, and so has fallen out of favour in many Western countries. Worse, coal fired plants produce roughly twice as much carbon dioxide per unit of electricity generated than those that run on natural gas.The obvious solution is to make coal fired generation cleaner. And that’s what utilities in Western countries have been doing for years, to comply with ever stiffer air pollution standards.Reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, however, is another matter. In Britain, as in most rich countries, the average efficiency of coal fired power stations is about 35%. But Mitsui Babcock, an engineering firm, says its most recent designs can achieve efficiencies as high as 46%. It reckons that switching from an old design to a new one can cut fuel consumption and emissions by 23%.Many methods can reduce the various emissions produced by coal fired power stations, so that they are at least no worse than gas fired stations. But technologies also exist to make coal cleaner still, by filtering out carbon dioxide from the flue gas and storing it somehow. This is theoretically possible, but expensive. Moreover, unlike modifications that improve efficiency, there are no savings to be had by adding carbon capture technology to a power plant. As a result, no such plants have been built.How does carbon capture work? Most utilities are eyeing one of three basic designs. The simplest, and easiest to bolt on to existing plants, treats carbon dioxide like any other pollutant, and extracts it from the flue gas. Many firms already use this “amine scrubbing” approach to remove carbon dioxide from natural gas, for example. But it is not so practical for large scale uses, since the amines are expensive, as is heating them to release the captured carbon dioxide.“Oxy fuel” plants sidestep the difficulties of separating oxygen and nitrogen in the flue gas by burning coal in pure oxygen rather than air. The resulting flue gas is almost pure carbon dioxide. But the energy used to separate oxygen from air before burning is almost as great as that needed to filter out nitrogen afterwards, leading to a similar loss of efficiency.The third approach, called “integrated gasification combined cycle” (IGCC), also requires oxygen, but for use in a chemical reaction rather than for burning. When heated in oxygen, coal reacts to form carbon dioxide and hydrogen. An amine solution then absorbs the carbon dioxide, while the hydrogen is burnt in a modified furnace. The amine scrubbing is cheaper than usual, since the reaction generates carbon dioxide in a more concentrated form. Engineers are also experimenting with membranes that would allow hydrogen to pass, but not carbon dioxide.There are four IGCC demonstration plants operating in America and Europe, although none currently captures carbon dioxide permanently; instead, it is simply released into the atmosphere. AEP’s planned new plants will follow a similar design.George Bush is a believer, at any rate. In 2003 he unveiled a subsidised scheme to build a zero emissions IGCC plant called “FutureGen” by 2013. The European Union, for its part, is giving money to utilities dabbling in oxy fuel, among other schemes. Handouts from the taxpayer are needed, power firms argue, since the technology in question is still young. But it is hard to believe that it will ever grow up unless subsidies give way to stronger measures, such as long term caps or taxes on carbon dioxide emissions. The technology to eliminate such emissions from coal fired plants exists, but it will not be adopted without regulatory incentives from governments.distribute［dis5tribju(:)t］v.①分发，分配；②分布；③配（电）；④（over）散布［真题例句］ For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was distributing (①) a brochure that encouraged readers not to use anything that comes from or is tested in animals—no meat, no fur, no medicines.［2003年阅读2］［例句精译］例如，在近期的⼀次集市上，⼀位⽼奶奶站在动物权利宣传点前散发⼩册⼦，规劝⼈们不要使⽤动物制品和动物实验制品——⾁类，⽑⽪，药物。

新编考研英语阅读理解150篇

《新编考研英语阅读理解150篇》Unit Two Part A Text 2You slip the key into the ignition and crank the engine to life. But before you put the car into gear, you tap a key on the keyboard mounted by the steering wheel, and your newest e-mail flashes up on the windscreen.把钥匙插在点火装置上，开动引擎。

在给汽车挂挡之前，敲击嵌在方向盘上的键盘，你的最新邮件将在挡风玻璃上闪现。

This seductive satyr is what you get when you cross a car and a computer. Dubbed the “ network vehicle ” , or net-mobile, it may soon come to a driveway near you (probably the one belonging to your rich neighbour). In a net-mobile, a motorist could tap into a regional road system but also to map out a route around rush-hour traffic snags. Drivers and passengers will be able to send and receive e - mail, track the latest sports scores or stock quotes, surf the Web, and even play video games. Or so, at least, say a number of computer-industry firms such as Microsoft, Sun, IBM and Netscape.当你把一辆汽车和一台电脑混合到一起的时候，就得到了这种引人注目的汽车和电脑的交合体。

考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读100篇

Thermoelectrics：Ev ery little helpsHERE is a thought: approximately 60% of the energy converted in power generation is wasted. The price of energy is high, both in terms of the actual cost to the consumer and the consequences of the climate change that generating power from fossil fuels causes. If even a small proportion of this wasted heat could be converted to useful power, it would be a good thing.At this week’s meeting of the American Physical Society, in Baltimore, Mercouri Kanatzidis of Michigan St ate University proposed such a scheme. He advocates attaching thermoelectric devices that convert heat into electricity to chimney stacks and vehicle exhausts, to squeeze more useful energy from power generation.The technology to do so has existed for years. If one end of an electrical conductor is heated while the other is kept cool, a small voltage is created between the two. Placing two dissimilar metals, or other electrically conductive materials, in contact with each othe r and then heating them also generates a voltage. Such devices, called thermocouples, are nowadays usually made using semiconductors. They are widely used as thermometers. But if they could be made cheaper, or more efficient, or both, they could also be employed to generate power.Dr Kanatzidis is developing new thermoelectric materials designed to be capable of converting up to 20% of the heat that would otherwise be wasted into useful electricity. The challenge lies in finding a substance that conducts electricity well and hea t badly. These two properties define what physicists call the “figure of merit” of a thermoelectric substance, which describes the power a devic e made of that substance could generate. Dr Kanatzidis’s group aims to make materials with higher figures of merit than those attainable with today’s semiconductors.Since the electrical properties of solids depend on their crystal structures, his group is experimenting with new atomic lattices. In particular, they are working on a group of chemicals called chalcogenides. These are compounds of oxygen, sulphur, selenium and tellurium that are thought to be particularly suitable for thermoelectric applications because their structure allows electric currents to flow while blocking thermal currents. They thus have a high figur e of merit. Dr Kanatzidis’s group is developing new ways of making these compounds crystallise correctly.But even existing devices could become economically useful as fuel prices rise, Dr Kanatzidis argues. In America, transport a ccounts for a quarter of the energy used. Fitting small thermoelectric devices to the exhaust pipes of vehicles could squeeze another 10% from the fue l—a saving that would be especially relev ant in hybrid petrol/electric devices where the b attery is recharged in part by recyclin g energy that would otherwise be dissipated by energy-draining activities such as braking. Similarly, attaching thermoelectric devices to the flues of power plants could generate more useful power.And thermoelectric devices could be used in other areas. They could work alongside solar cells and solar heating systems. They could also be used in geothermal and nuclear power plants. Dr Kanatzidis argues that wherever heat is generated as part of power generat ion, thermoelectric devices could help extract more useful energy. Waste not, want not.考研词汇：converted [kən'və:tid] a.更换信仰的, 修改的advocate [ˈædvəkit] n.提倡者，鼓吹者；v.提倡，鼓吹［真题例句］One of the first advocates (n.) for a national list was a researcher at Laval University. ［2005年新题型］［例句精译］Laval大学一位研究人员是首先提出创立全国性代理机构的倡导者之一。

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2013新编考研英语阅读理解150篇（基础训练）勘误2012.8月3版1次印刷P30 核心词汇Tattoo v.禁忌→给…纹身;在…身上刺花纹，在此处有比喻意，给……加上……的名声Unit18 text1保持互联网的开放性P363试题精解第1小题：1.下列哪项与维基解密为同一立场？A.维基解密的服务提供商B.网络黑客C.黑客网站的袭击者D.镜像网站本题答案为[B][D]首先向大家真诚道歉，由于编辑老师对文中信息判断失误，导致这道题的[D]选项被错判为错误选项。

实际上，这道题[B] [D]选项都是正确的。

【信息锁定】文章首段主要介绍网络冲突，首先维基泄密发布了政府文档，导致服务商拒绝向其提供服务，然后维基的同情者（黑客）帮其反击服务商，最后同情者的网站又受到攻击并出现镜像网站。

具体来说，他们之间的关系是这样的：①政府←②维基←①服务商←②维基同情者（黑客）←①黑客网站攻击者←②镜像网站。

箭头表示攻击方向，①表示政府一派，②表示维基派。

由此可见，维基泄密的同情者（即黑客）与镜像网站都和维基解密保持了同一立场。

[B] [D]选项均正确。

【解题技巧】[A]选项的误区在于“既然他们是维基泄密的服务商，那么应该与其立场相同”。

但是，文中内容恰恰相反，服务商由于不满维基的行为，所以拒绝向其提供服务，站在了维基的对立面。

[C]选项的误区均在于没能理清各主体之间的关系。

由图标可见，[C]袭击了维基的同情者（黑客），属于维基的反对派。

下列背景信息或许会对大家理解全文有所帮助：2010年维基解密公开发布了美国政府的机密文件，包括伊拉克和阿富汗战争的相关视频和文件，以及美国大使馆与美国国务院之间互相发送的敏感电报等。

随后，维基解密频繁地遭遇拒绝服务攻击，导致为维基解密提供DNS服务的美国域名服务商以基础设施遭到威胁为由而终止向其提供服务。

维基解密在网站上称：“维基解密目前正面临着沉重的打击。

为了让从互联网上完全抹去维基解密变为不可能的事情，我们希望拥有基于Unix的服务器和多余的虚拟主机资源的网站响应号召”。

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考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读100篇(一)A fuzzy pictureNO.1NO.11A fuzzy picture“THIS is a really exciting time—a new era is starting,” says Peter Bazalgette, the chief creative officer of Endemol, the television company behind “Big Brother” and other popular shows. He is referring to the upsurge of interest in mobile television, a nascent industry at the intersection of telecoms and media which offers new opportunities to device makers, content producers and mobile network operators.Already, many mobile operators offer a selection of television channels or individual shows, which are “streamed” across their third generation (3G) networks. In South Korea, television is also sent to mobile phones via satellite and terrestrial broadcast networks, which is far more efficient than sending video across mobile networks. In Europe, the Italian arm of 3, a mobile operator, recently acquired Canale 7, a television channel, with a view to launching mobile TV broadcasts in Italy in the second half of 2006.Meanwhile, Apple Computer, which launched a video capable version of its iPod portable music player in October, is striking deals with television networks to expand the range of shows that can be purchased for viewing on the device, including “Lost”, “Desperate Housewives” and “Law & Order”.Despite all this activity, however, the prospects for mobile TV are unclear. For a start, nobody really knows if consumers will pay for it, though surveys suggest they like the idea. Informa, a consultancy, says there will be 125m mobile TV users by 2010. But many other mobile technologies inspired high hopes and then failed to live up to expectations. And even if people do want TV on the move, there is further uncertainty in two areas: technology and business models.At the moment, mobile TV is mostly streamed over 3G networks. But sending an individual data stream to each viewer is inefficient and will be unsustainable in the long run if mobile TV takes off. So the general consensus is that 3G streaming is a prelude to the construction of dedicated mobile TV broadcast networks, which transmit digital TV signals on entirely different frequencies to those used for voice and data. There are three main standards: DVB H, favoured in Europe; DMB, which has been adopted in South Korea and Japan; and MediaFLO, which is being rolled out in America. Watching TV using any of these technologies requires a TV capable handset, of course.In contrast, watching downloaded TV programmes on an iPod or other portable video player is already possible today. And unlike a programme streamed over 3G or broadcast via a dedicated mobile TV network, shows stored on an iPod can be watched on an underground train or in regions with patchy network coverage. That suggests that some shows (such as drama) better suitthe download model, while others (such as live news, sports or reality shows) are better suited to real time transmission. The two approaches will probably co exist.Just as there are several competing mobile TV technologi e s, there are also many possible business models. Mobile operators might choose to build their own mobile TV broadcast networks; or they could form a consortium and build a shared network; or existing broadcasters could build such networks.The big question is whether the broadcasters and mobile operators can agree how to divide the spoils, assuming there are any. Broadcasters own the content, but mobile operators generally control the handsets, and they do not always see eye to eye. In South Korea, a consortium of broadcasters launched a free to air DMB network last month, but the country’s mobile operators were reluctant to provide their users with handsets able to receive the broadcasts, since they were unwilling to undermine the prospects for their own subscription based mobile TV services.Then there is the question of who will fund the production of mobile TV content: broadcasters, operators or advertisers? Again, the answer is probably “all of the above”.launch［lC:ntF］v.①发射；②使（船）下水；③发动，开展；n.发射，下水［真题例句］The debate was launched (v.③) by the Government, which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBC—including ordinary listeners and viewers—to say what was good or bad about the Corporation, and even whether they thought it was worth keeping.［1996年阅读2］［例句精译］这场争论是英国政府发起的，它邀请每一位对BBC有看法的人——包括普通的听众和观众——对公司好坏进行评论，甚至可以评论他们是否认为公司值得办下去。

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（1）：重建美国梦机器Rebuilding the American dream machine重建美国梦机器FOR America's colleges, January is a month of reckoning. Most applications for the next academic year beginning in the autumn have to be made by the end of December, so a university's popularity is put to an objective standard :how many people want to attend. One of the more unlikely offices to have been flooded with mail is that of the City University of New York (CUNY), a public college that lacks, among other things, a famous sports team, bucolic campuses and raucous parties (it doesn't even have dorms), and, until recently, academic credibility.对美国的大学而言，一月是一个清算的月份。

大多数要进入将于秋季开学的下一学年学习的申请必须在12月底前完成，因此一所大学的声望就有了客观依据 :申请人的多少。

纽约城市大学，一所公立学院，与其他学校相比，它没有一支声名显赫的运动队，没有田园诗一般的校园，也没有喧嚣嘈杂的派对——甚至连宿舍都没有，而且，直到最近也没取得学术上的可信度，可就是这所大学的办公室塞满了学生们寄来的申请函，这简直有些令人难以置信。

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文章概要：提前掌握文章标题：The paradox of the ghetto文章来源：《经济学人》近来，杜克大学的一项研究证明，生活在富人区的穷孩子们更容易惹麻烦。

由此，它指出，贫富混住的社区理念并不像人们所设想的那样会对贫穷孩子的生存发展产生有利影响。

事实上，帮助贫困孩子，改善其受教育状况只能依靠增加对贫民区学校的金钱和师资投入。

本文难度适中，句型多变，证据充分，说理透彻，有利于培养读者的辩证思维能力。

原文阅读：读懂文意I①Britain has prized the ideal of economically mixed neighbourhoods since the19th century.②Poverty and disadvantage are intensified when poor people cluster,runs the argument;conversely,the rich are unfairly helped when they are surrounded by other rich people.③Social mixing ought to help the poor.④It sounds self-evident—and colours planning regulations that ensure much social and affordable housing is dotted among more expensive private homes.⑤Yet“there is absolutely no serious evidence to support this,”says Paul Cheshire,a professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics(LSE).II①And there is new evidence to suggest it is wrong.②Researchers at Duke University in America followed over1,600children from age five to age12in England and Wales.③They found that poor boys living in largely well-to-do neighbourhoods were the most likely to engage in anti-social behaviour,from lying and swearing to such petty misdemeanours as fighting,shoplifting and vandalism,according to a commonly used measure of problem behaviour.④Misbehaviour starts very young and intensifies as they grow older.⑤Poor boys in the poorest neighbourhoods were the least likely to run into trouble.⑥For rich kids,the opposite is true:those living in poor areas are more likely to misbehave.III①The researchers suggest several reasons for this.②Poorer areas are often heavily policed,deterring would-be miscreants;it may be that people in wealthy places are less likely to spot misbehaviour,too.③Living alongside the rich may also make the poor more keenly aware of their own deprivation,suggests Tim Newburn,a criminologist who is also at the LSE.④That,in turn,increases the feelings of alienation that are associated with anti-social conduct and criminal behaviour.IV①All this does not in itself prove that economically mixed neighbourhoods are a bad thing.②They may be good in other ways—making politicians more moderate,for example.③But the research does suggest that the benefits of such districts are far from straightforward.④Patterns of social segregation reflect broader social inequality,argues Mr Cheshire,who has written a book about urban economics and policy.⑤Where mixed neighbourhoods flourish,house prices rise,overwhelmingly benefiting the rich.⑥Spending more money on schools in deprived areas and dispatching the best teachers there would do more to help poor children.⑦Assuming that a life among wealthy neighbours will improve their lot is too complacent.重点词汇：着重掌握1.intensify[ɪn'tensɪfaɪ]vt.使加强，使强化2.cluster['klʌstə]vt.使聚集3.affordable housing经济适用房4.dot[dɒt]vt.在……打点5.swear[sweə]vt.诅咒，咒骂6.*misdemeanor[ˌmɪsdɪ'mi:nə]n.不法行为；（相对于重罪的）轻罪，小罪7.*shoplifting['ʃɒplɪftɪŋ]n.入店行窃8.*vandalism['vændəlɪzəm]（尤指对公共财产的）故意破坏，捣毁9.*misbehavior[ˌmɪsbɪ'heɪvjə]n.<美>不礼貌，品行不端；违反军规10.*deter[dɪˈtə:]vt.阻止，制止；使不敢；使踌躇11.*miscreant[ˈmɪskriənt]n.恶棍，歹徒12.deprivation[deprɪ'veɪʃ(ə)n]n.贫困，匮乏；剥夺13.*criminologist[ˌkrɪmɪ'nɒlədʒɪst]n.犯罪学家；犯罪学者，刑事学家14.alienation[eɪlɪə'neɪʃ(ə)n]n.异化；疏远15.segregation[,segrɪ'geɪʃ(ə)n]n.隔离，分离.16.*dispatch[dɪˈspætʃ]vt.派遣，调度17.*complacent[kəmˈplesənt]adj.自满的；自鸣得意的原文翻译：强化语感自19世纪以来，英国人就非常重视贫富混住社区理念。

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《新编考研英语阅读理解150篇》Unite 1 Text 4If William Shakespeare were working today on Broadway or in London's West End, he would be spending a lot of time with lawyers. The poet adapted Romeo and J uliet from Arthur Brooke's poem The Tragicall Historye o f Romeus and Juiet , which Brooke, in his turn, had based on a French translation by Pierre Boaistuau of various Italian stories.The history of creative works, whether Romeo and J uliet or the Beastie Boys' "Pass the Mic," is a chronicle of "borrowing" from others. Intellectual-property lawyers might us.e a harsher word But the framers of the Constitution always intended to provide owners of creative works with only limited monop olies, ensuring that the public gets the right to fashion new works from olcLOver the years, however, Congress, sometimes at the request of media companies, has erected im mense barriers to derivative works by extending repeatedly both the length and the scope of copyright protection A copyright holder no longer has to register a new work Any blog, poet's sonnet or even achild's drawing now receives copyright automatically. Permission is needed for republishing or excerpting, with limited exemptions for fair use. Copyright in its current form fails to strike a balance between the extremes of allowing total control over every work-"all rights reserved"-and an uncontrolled sys-tem in which pirates steal madly without compensation to owners. Overly strong property rights can threaten the Internet as a medium capable of fostering dynamic interchange of ideas.In 2001 Stanford University legal scholar Lawrence Lessig set about righting this imbalance by be coming the leading force behind Creative Commons, a nonprofit group that fumishes a much needed mid dle ground that lets owners give up some but not all of their rights. An author still retains a copyright,but only some rights are reserved by choosing among the dozen or so free licenses, denoted by the Creative Commons's mark, that are available for downloading off the Web. One license permits others to use a work as long as attribution is given Another gives the right to sample as long as the entire work is notusecL The BBC plans to license archival material to the British public without a fee as long as it is not used for commercial purposes. Creative Commons has started a Science Commons effort that will even explore the open licensing of technology contained in some patents.The Internet, as a universal publisher of sorts, needs to be more than an outlet for commercial interests. New communities of artists, scientists and nonprofits want some way to share and rework one another's intellectual output without the enormous legal burdens that come with increasingly harsh rightsmanagement. The entertainment industry has been largely silent on this issue-its idea of innovation having been the launching of lawsuits against 10-year-olds to punish music pirating. In this enwronment, the introduction of Creative Commons's middle path of "some rights reserved" is surely a welcome arrival.[480 words]16. 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Yet studies suggest that peppy affirmations designed to lift the user's mood through repetition and visualizing future success often achieve the opposite of their intended effect.Fortunately, both ancient philosophy and contemporary psychology point to an alternative: a counterintuitive approach that might be termed 'the negative path to happiness.' This approach helps to explain some puzzles, such as the fact that citizens of more economically insecure countries often report greater happiness than citizens of wealthier ones. Or that many successful businesspeople reject the idea of setting firm goals.One pioneer of the 'negative path' was the New York psychotherapist Albert Ellis, who died in 2007. He rediscovered a key insight of the Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome: that sometimes the best way to address an uncertain future is to focus not on the best-case scenario but on the worst.Seneca the Stoic was a radical on this matter. If you feared losing your wealth, he once advised, 'set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with coarse and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: 'Is this the condition that I feared?' 'To overcome a fear of embarrassment, Ellis told me, he advised his clients to travel on the New York subway, speaking the names of stations out loud as they passed. I'm an easily embarrassed person, so in the interest of journalistic research, I took his advice, on the Central Line of the London Underground. It was agonizing. But my overblown fears were cut down to size: I wasn't verbally harangued or physically attacked. A few people looked at me strangely.Just thinking in sober detail about worst-case scenarios -- a technique the Stoics called 'the premeditation of evils' -- can help to sap the future of its anxiety-producing power. The psychologist Julie Norem estimates that about one-third of Americans instinctively use this strategy, which she terms 'defensive pessimism.' Positive thinking, by contrast, is the effort to convince yourself that things will turn out fine, which can reinforce the belief that it would be absolutely terrible if they didn't.In American corporations, perhaps the most widely accepted doctrine of the 'cult of positivity' is the importance of setting big, audacious goals for an organization, while employees are encouraged (or compelled) to set goals that are 'SMART' -- 'Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timely.' (It is thought that the term was first used in a 1981 article by George T. Doran.)But the pro-goal consensus is starting to crumble. For one thing, rigid goals may encourage employees to cut ethical corners. In a study conducted by the management scholar Lisa and her colleagues, participants had to make words from a set of random letters, as in Scrabble. The experiment let them report their progress anonymously --and those given a specific target to reach lied far more frequently than those instructed merely to 'do your best.'Goals may even lead to underachievement. Many New York taxi drivers, one team of economists concluded, make less money in rainy weather than they could because they finish work as soon as they reach their mental target for what constitute a good day's earnings.Focusing on one goal at the expense of all other factors also can distort a corporate mission or an individual life, says Christopher Kayes, an associate professor of management at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Prof. Kayes, who has studied the 'overpursuit' of goals, recalls a conversation with one executive who 'told me his goal had been to become a millionaire by the age of 40 and he'd done it. [But] he was also divorced, and had health problems, and his kids didn't talk to him anymore.' Behind our fixation on goals, Prof. Kayes's work suggests, is a deep unease with feelings of uncertainty.Research by Saras Sarasvathy, an associate professor of business administration at the University of Virginia, suggests that learning to accommodate feelings of uncertainty is not just the key to a more balanced life but often leads to prosperity as well. For one project, she interviewed 45 successful entrepreneurs, all of whom had taken at least one business public. Almost none embraced the idea of writing comprehensive business plans or conducting extensive market research.They practiced instead what Prof. Sarasvathy calls 'effectuation.' Rather than choosing a goal and then making a plan to achieve it, they took stock of the means and materials at their disposal, then imagined the possible ends. Effectuation also includes what she calls the 'affordable loss principle.' Instead of focusing on the possibility of spectacular rewards from a venture, ask how great the loss would be if it failed. If the potential loss seems tolerable, take the next step.The ultimate value of the 'negative path' may not be its role in facilitating upbeat emotions or even success. It is simply realism. The future really is uncertain, after all, and things really do go wrong as well as right. We are too often motivated by a craving to put an end to the inevitable surprises in our lives.This is especially true of the biggest 'negative' of all. Might we benefit from contemplating mortality more regularly than we do? As Steve Jobs famously declared, 'Remembering that you are going to die is the best way that I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.'1.By talking about the troubles of the holiday season, the author intends to____a.exemplify the psychological dilemmmas in daily life.b.illusatrate the profound influence of Peale’s work.c.Introduce the prevailing thinking mode of Americansd.Show the necessity of advocatiing positive thinking2.To which of the following proverbs would Albert Ellis agree?a.we cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.b.He that hopes no good fears no ill.c.The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimist lends encouragemenet.d.Self-trust is the first secret to success.3.The experiences of 45 entrepreneurs are mentioned mainly to demonstrate______a.the change in the management philosophy of American corporationsb.the necessity of setting big goals for an organizationc.the role of negative thinking in people’s success.d.the importance of “the affordable loss principle” in business.4.According to Paragraph , it is essential for managers to ______.a.establish challenging targetsb.conduct inclusive market analysisc.calculate potential revenues and rewardsd.consider possible risks and costs5.Paragraph implies that the biggest value of negative thinking is helping people_a.avoid being overwhelmed by low moodsb.get a clear picture of the way aheadc.succeed in eliminating the inevitable in life.d.accept the uncertainty of life.e.。