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历年考研英语真题出处汇总

历年考研英语真题出处汇总
3. 2012年12月17日的《Big Think》(《大思想》)
Can We Win the Race Against the Machines?(《我们能赢得与机器的比赛吗?》)
4. 2013年6月12日的《卫报》(The guardian)
原文标题:综合开支审查可能会扭转房市危机(Comprehensivespending review could turn the housing crisis around)
4- 2010年7月9日《新闻周刊》(News Week)
新题型:
一本书《Professionalizing the professor:the difficultiesof an American doctoralstudent University education in America》
翻译:
3- 2002年7月15日的《新闻周刊》(News Week)
4- 2001年1月的《美国学校董事会杂志》(ASBJ)
2003年考研
阅读:
1- 1999年1月25日的《时代周刊》(Times)
2- 1998年11月20日的《科学》(Science)
3-不详
4- 2001年8月27日的《新闻周刊》(News Week)
2- 2011年4月24日的
3-一本书《EverydayPractice of Science: Where Intuitionand Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic》
4- 2011年3月17日的《经济学人》(The Economist)
新题型:
历年考研英语真题出处汇总
1.《经济学人》13次
2.《时代周刊》5次

考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读100篇Text14

考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读100篇Text14

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。

英语一历年文章来源整理版

英语一历年文章来源整理版
Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a tide of emigration -one of the great folk wanderings of history-swept from Europe to America. 46)This movement,impelled(命题人改写为driven) bypowerful and diverse(命题人删除了这两个词)motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.
2015年
一、完型
二、阅读
Part A
Text 1
选自2014年6月4日《卫报》上一篇名为Is the writing on the wall for all European royals?(所有欧洲皇室注定要失败吗?)的文章。主要讨论了西班牙胡安·卡洛斯国王退位这一事件对欧洲诸多皇室的影响,尤其是对英国皇室的影响。
TEXT4选自华尔街日报2013年6月27日
原文出处
http:///news/articles/SB10001424127887324637504578566333483406550
这是一篇人文学科的评论。作者对美国艺术与科学院所做的增强美国国民人文素质的报告进行了内容介绍,主要是对其进行了批评,认为这份报告没有坚持美国“传统的,保守的价值”可以看出作者在思想上是属于保守的右翼,认为目前大学里面主导的是“进步的”的理论,对美国传统的保守理念,比如自由市场经济,自我奋斗精神的鼓吹不够。选择一篇这样的文章,多少有点令人惊讶。毕竟这篇文章作者的观点政治性太强。文章很难,想看透文章,需要对美国的文化,政治有相当深入的了解,特别要了解这点,即在西方语境下,“左”“右”保守与“进步”的含义与在汉语语境下有所不同。文章难了,题目想做对自然也不容易。

考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读

考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读

考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读100篇NO.4 Aircraft emissions: The dirty skyAircraft emissions: The dirty skyAll big ideas start life on the fringes of debate. Very often it takes a shocking event to move them into the mainstream. Until last year interest in climate change was espoused mainly by scientists and green lobbyists-and the few politicians they had badgered into paying attention. But since Hurricane Katrina, something seems to have changed, particularly in America.There are plenty of anecdotal signs of change: Britain's pro business Tories have turned green; Al Gore is back in fashion in America. Companies are beginning to take action and encouraging governments to do the same. Europe already has an emissions trading system (ETS) for its five dirtiest industries. In America, although the Bush administration still resists federal legislation, more and more states do not.So far the political about global warming have centred on two polluters, smoggy factories and dirty cars. Next month the European Parliament will vote on whether to extend its emissions trading systemto airlines. If it decides in favor, the whole industry will feel the impact, for it will affect not just European airlines but all those that fly into and out of the EU. Talk about this prospect soured the International Air Transport Association's annual meeting this week in Paris. But whatever happens in the EU, the airlines look set to face vociferous demands that they should pay for their emissions.订阅收藏《09考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读100篇》系列文章In some ways, the airlines are an odd target for greens. They produce only around 3% of the world's man made carbon emissions. Surface transport, by contrast, produces 22%. Europe's merchant ships spew out around a third more carbon than aircraft do, and nobody is going after them. And unlike cars-potent symbols of individualism-airlines arepublic transport, jamming in as many people as they can into each plane.What's more, many air travelers cannot easily switch. Cardrivers can hop on the train or the bus, but transatlantic travelerscan't row from London to New York. Nor can aircraft fuel be swapped for a green alternative. Car drivers can buy electro petrol hybrids but aircraft are, for now, stuck with kerosene, because its energy density makes it the only practical fuel to carry around in the air.Yet in other ways, airlines are a fine target. They pay no tax on fuel for international flights, and therefore escape the "polluter pays" principle even more niftily than other forms of transport. Their emissions are especially damaging, too-partly because the nitrogen oxides from jet engine exhausts help create ozone, a potent greenhouse gas, and partly because the pretty trails that aircraft leave behind them help make the clouds that can intensify the greenhouse effect.Slowly, businessmen and politicians are coming to agree with scientists. If this generation does not tackle climate change, its descendants will not think much of it. That means raising costs for all sources of pollution. Even those deceptively cheap weekend breaks cannot be exempt.。

英语一大作文历年汇总

英语一大作文历年汇总

英语一大作文历年汇总Introduction:The English major has long been a popular choice for students who are passionate about literature, linguistics,and the intricacies of the English language. Over the years, the essays written by English majors have reflected not only the evolution of academic discourse but also the changing cultural and societal landscapes. This compilation aims to provide a detailed overview of the various themes and styles that have characterized English major essays, from theclassics to contemporary works.Section 1: The Classical EraIn the early days of English studies, essays oftenfocused on the analysis of literary works from the classical period. Students delved into the works of Shakespeare, Milton, and Chaucer, exploring themes such as love, power, and the human condition. The language used in these essays was formal and closely adhered to the grammatical rules of the time. The structure was typically expository, with a clear introduction, body, and conclusion.Section 2: The Romantic PeriodAs the Romantic period emerged, so did a shift in the themes explored in English major essays. Emphasis was placedon emotion, nature, and individualism. Essays began to take on a more personal tone, with students often reflecting on how the works of Romantic poets like Wordsworth and Keats resonated with their own lives. The structure of these essays remained formal, but the language became more expressive and descriptive.Section 3: The Modernist MovementThe Modernist movement brought about a significant change in the style and content of English major essays. Writerslike T.S. Eliot and James Joyce challenged traditional narrative structures and language use, and this was reflected in academic writing as well. Essays from this period often featured complex sentence structures, experimental language, and a focus on the inner workings of the mind. The structure of essays became more fluid, mirroring the fragmented nature of Modernist literature.Section 4: Postmodernism and BeyondPostmodernism further expanded the scope of English major essays, with a focus on deconstruction, intertextuality, and the questioning of grand narratives. Essays from this era often incorporated multiple perspectives and were not afraid to challenge the authority of the author or the text. The language used was diverse, often including postcolonial, feminist, and queer theories. The structure of these essays was often non-linear, with a collage-like arrangement of ideas and arguments.Section 5: The Impact of TechnologyWith the advent of the digital age, English major essays have seen an influx of new themes and methodologies. The rise of the internet and social media has led to discussions on digital literacy, online communities, and the impact of technology on language and communication. Essays now often incorporate multimedia elements, such as hyperlinks, images, and videos, and they frequently engage with digital humanities and new media studies.Conclusion:The evolution of English major essays is a testament to the dynamic nature of the discipline. From the formal analyses of classical literature to the experimental structures of Modernist and Postmodernist works, and the incorporation of digital technologies in contemporary essays, the genre has continuously adapted to reflect the changing world. This compilation serves as a snapshot of the rich history and diverse landscape of English major essays, offering a glimpse into the minds of scholars past and present.Bibliography:[Insert a list of relevant academic sources, literary works, and critical essays that have been referenced or that provide further reading on the subject.]Note: This document is a general overview and does notdelve into specific examples or detailed analyses of individual essays. For a more in-depth study, it is recommended to explore academic databases, university archives, and literary journals that specialize in English studies.。

考研英语的几个出处

考研英语的几个出处

关于考研英语阅读---出处在我们整理查找历年真题阅读理解文章来源时,惊讶的发现历年考研英语阅读理解文章的来源选择是有规律的。

考研文章绝大多数来自英美国家的报刊杂志,以面向大众的大众社科类和科普类刊物为主。

倘若我们找到了这个规律,那么我们的广大考生在平时复习时,在选择阅读的材料上就有了目的性,相对来说,我们广大的考生也会事半功倍的。

我们通过分析近10年的文章来源,从而将文章来源规律整理出如下:1、经济类文章主要来源:The Economist (经济学家),Business Week (商业周刊),WallStreetJournal(华尔街杂志);2、科学技术类文章主要来源:Nature (自然),Discovery (探索),Science (科学),NationalGeographic(国家地理),Scientific American (科学美国人),New Scientists(新科学家);3、社会生活以及文化类文章主要来源:Newsweek (新闻周刊),Times (时代周刊),U.S News and WorldReport(美国新闻与世界报道),The Washington Post (华盛顿邮报),USA Today (今日美国),TheTimes(泰晤士报),The Guardian (卫报),和(美国新闻在线);4、其它来源:Independent (独立日报),International Herald Tribune (国际先驱论坛),Telegraph(英国电信日报);经过上面的整理,我们不难发现倘若我们准备的时间充分,我们完全有可能在考研前、在平时复习的过程中就把当年考试的文章事先阅读过,那样自然就能取得一个很好的成绩了。

但是,我们广大的考生在复习的过程中无论花费多少时间几乎是不可能把上面说到的所有杂志都阅读完毕的,而且每年选择来考查考生的文章并不一定是本年度发表的文章。

考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读100篇

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。

历年考研英语真题阅读出处

历年考研英语真题阅读出处

一、20XX知识运用试题来源这次知识运用试题选材来自考研英语必考杂志《经济学人》,原文标题是:A Question of Judgment;原文链接:;选项里的大多数单词都能认识,但不一定能选对,这属于考研英语出题的一大特色—熟词生义。

文章难度适中,选项看似容易,但选择起来总感觉模糊不清,很难做判断。

命题专家在出题的时候也进行了一定程度的改写和删除。

A NEVER-ENDING flow of information is the lot of most professionals. Whether it comes in the form of lawyers' cases, doctors' patients or even journalists' stories, this information naturally gets broken up into pieces that can be tackled one at a time during the course of a given day. In theory, a decision made when handling one of these pieces should not have much, if any, impact on similar but unrelated subsequent decisions. Yet Uri Simonsohn of the University of Pennsylvania and Francesca Gino at Harvard report in Psychological Science that this is not how things work out in practice.Dr Simonsohn and Dr Gino knew from studies done in other laboratories that people are, on the whole, poor at considering background information when making individual decisions. At first glance this might seem like a strength that 1. grants the ability to make judgments which are unbiased by 2. external factors. 〔But in a world of quotas and limits—in other words, the world in which most professional people operate—the two researchers suspected that it was actually a weakness.在考试中命题老师删掉了 They speculated that an inability to consider the big 3. picture was leading decision-makers to be biased by the daily samples of information they were working with. 4. For example, they theorized that a judge 5. fearful of appearing too soft 7. on crime might be more likely to send someone to prison 8. if he had already sentenced five or six other defendants only to probation on that day. To 8. test this idea, they turned their attention to the university-admissions process. <Admissions officers interview hundreds of applicants every year, at a rate of 4% a day, and can offer entry to about 40% of them在试卷中删掉了>. In theory, the 9. success of an applicant should not depend on the few others 10. chosen randomly for interview during the same day, but Dr Simonsohn and Dr Gino suspected the truth was 11. otherwise.They studied the results of 9,323 MBA interviews 12. conducted by 31 admissions officers. The interviewers had 13. rated applicants on a scale of one to five. This scale 14. took numerous factors into consideration, including communication skills, personal drive, team-working ability and personal accomplishments. The scores from this rating were 15 then used in conjunction with an applicant's score on the Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT, a standardized exam which is 16. marked out of 800 points, to make a decision on whether to accept him or her.Dr Simonsohn and Dr Gino discovered that their hunch was right. If the score of the previous candidate in a daily series of interviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one 17. before that, then the score for the next applicant would 18. drop by an average of 0.075 points. This might sound small, but to 19. undo the effects of such a decrease a candidate would need 30 more GMAT points than would otherwise have been 20. necessary.<最后一段命题老师没有选用>As for why people behave this way, Dr Simonsohnproposes that after accepting a number of strong candidates, interviewers might form the illogical expectation that a weaker candidate "is due". Alternatively, he suggests that interviewers may be engaging in mental accounting that simplifies the task of maintaining a given long-term acceptance rate, by trying to apply this rate to each daily group of candidates. Regardless of the reason, if this sort of thinking proves to have a similar effect on the judgments of those in other fields, such as law and medicine, it could be responsible for far worse things than the rejection of qualified business-school candidates.二、20XX考研英语阅读理解Part A 文章命题来源Text 1第一篇文章出自 2012年6月21日Business-week 上的一篇文章,文章有一定难度。

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(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(一)真题阅读来源及答案解析

考研英语(一)真题阅读来源及答案解析
社会热点话题,拓展视野,丰富自己的文化背景知识,这样才能取得事半功
倍的效果!ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ
背景知识链接:
基础物理学奖是由俄罗斯亿万富翁尤里·米尔纳于7月捐资设立的国际物
理学奖,由基础物理学奖基金会负责评选,每位获奖者的奖金数额为300万
美元。该奖项授予世界各国在物理学领域对人类作出重大贡献的物理学家,
希望能够推动物理学向前发展。
Text 3真题来源:
考研英语(一)第三篇阅读的主题内容涉及“基础物理学奖”,文都教育为大
家整理了“基础物理学奖”的相关背景知识,有了对这一背景信息的了解,这
篇文章便可轻松看懂,做题更是十拿九稳!与相比,考研阅读文章同样注重时
效性,Text3便是反应了3月份的一次实时事件:基础物理学基金会于3月
20日晚在瑞士日内瓦揭晓了基础物理学奖!所以考研的同学们一定要多多关注
基础物理学奖与诺贝尔奖区别:
基础物理学奖的奖金大约是诺贝尔奖的2.5倍。基础物理学奖与诺贝尔
奖的本质不同。后者只有当一项成果已经经历了彻底的测试和验证才会被认
定为是突破性的进展,有时往往与最初的发表相隔几十的光景。与此相反,
基础物理学奖则以那些理论上的进步为目标,可授予理论尚未被数据支持的
物理学家。
围度基础物理学大奖。
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33 D: the demonstration of research foundings
34 A: their endurance has done justice to them
35 A: acceptable despite the criticism

考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读100篇(7)

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。

考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读100篇

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。

考研英语题源阅读材料150篇

考研英语题源阅读材料150篇

(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。

近十年考研英语的阅读理解出处

近十年考研英语的阅读理解出处

在我们整理查找历年真题阅读理解文章来源时,惊讶的发现历年考研英语阅读理解文章的来源选择是有规律的。

考研文章绝大多数来自英美国家的报刊杂志,以面向大众的大众社科类和科普类刊物为主。

倘若我们找到了这个规律,那么我们的广大考生在平时复习时,在选择阅读的材料上就有了目的性,相对来说,我们广大的考生也会事半功倍的。

我们通过分析近10年的文章来源,从而将文章来源规律整理出如下:1、经济类文章主要来源:The Economist (经济学家),Business Week (商业周刊),WallStreetJournal(华尔街杂志);2、科学技术类文章主要来源:Nature (自然),Discovery (探索),Science (科学),NationalGeographic(国家地理),Scientific American (科学美国人),New Scientists(新科学家);3、社会生活以及文化类文章主要来源:Newsweek (新闻周刊),Times (时代周刊),U.S News and WorldReport(美国新闻与世界报道),The Washington Post (华盛顿邮报),USA Today (今日美国),TheTimes (泰晤士报),The Guardian (卫报),和(美国新闻在线);4、其它来源:Independent (独立日报),International Herald Tribune(国际先驱论坛),Telegraph (英国电信日报);经过上面的整理,我们不难发现倘若我们准备的时间充分,我们完全有可能在考研前、在平时复习的过程中就把当年考试的文章事先阅读过,那样自然就能取得一个很好的成绩了。

但是,我们广大的考生在复习的过程中无论花费多少时间几乎是不可能把上面说到的所有杂志都阅读完毕的,而且每年选择来考查考生的文章并不一定是本年度发表的文章。

这就为我们复习的工作增加了很大的难度。

2024考研英语一历年文章选自

2024考研英语一历年文章选自

2024考研英语一历年文章选自
根据2024年考研英语一的历年文章选自情况,以下是可能出现的一些文章类型和题目:
1. 科技类文章:
- 人工智能对社会的影响
- 电子商务的发展与挑战
- 网络安全与个人隐私保护
- 空间探索与太空科技
2. 社会类文章:
- 城市发展与环境保护
- 青少年的教育与成长
- 人口老龄化的挑战与应对
- 社交媒体与人际关系
3. 环境类文章:
- 气候变化与全球环境问题
- 可再生能源的利用与发展
- 垃圾处理与资源循环利用
- 生物多样性的保护与可持续发展
4. 文化类文章:
- 文化多样性与全球化
- 传统与现代的冲突与融合
- 艺术与科技的结合
- 女性在社会中的地位与影响
5. 历史类文章:
- 历史事件对现代社会的影响
- 文化遗产的保护与传承
- 科技进步对历史研究的影响
- 国际关系中的历史问题与争议
请注意,以上仅为参考,具体的考题以考试时的实际情况为准。

提前阅读多种题目类型的文章,并加强词汇积累和阅读理解能力的培养,可以帮助提高应对考试的能力。

原来2019高考英语的原文素材都来自这些外刊

原来2019高考英语的原文素材都来自这些外刊

原来19高考英语的原文素材都来自这些外刊2019年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试(全国卷I)英语阅读理解 A篇真题:题源出处加拿大安大略省政府官网。

原文:Need a job this summer?The Ontario government — and its partners — offers many programs to help students find summer jobs. You need to apply for most programs. In some cases, the government can connect you to people who can help you with your job search.The deadlines and what you need to apply depend on the program. Click on the link for each program for more detailed information.Not a student?Go to Ready.Set.Work. to learn about government job funds, programs and online tools available to help people under 30 build skills, find a job or start businesses all year round.Get help finding a jobYouth Job Connection SummerIf you’re a high school student aged 15 to 18, who faces challenges such as poverty, homelessness, a disability or mental health issue, you can get a summer job with:paid traininghelp returning to school when the job endsFind out about part-time afterschool job opportunities, too.Start your own businessSummer CompanySummer Company provides students with hands on business training, mentoring and awards of up to $3,000 to start and run their own summer businesses.Who is eligible: Students: 15-29 years old, returning to school in the fall.Work with the Ontario governmentStewardship Youth Ranger ProgramIf you were born in 1998, you could apply to be a Stewardship Youth Ranger and work on local natural resource management projects for 8 weeks this summer.Who is eligible: Students born in 1998 (16 or 17 at time of hire, but not turning 18 before December 31, 2015)NOTE: Each team also requires a team lead, who may be any age and may or may not be a student. Summer Employment OpportunitiesThrough the Summer Employment Opportunities program, students are hired each year in a variety of summer positions across the Ontario Public Service, its related agencies and community groups. Who is eligible: Students aged 15 or older(Some positions require students to be 15 to 24 or up to 29 for persons with a disability due to program funding.)阅读理解 B篇真题:题源出处来自美国NPR的一则新闻报道。

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2014年
完型:
出自Forbes的"Explanation: How Brain Training Can Make You Significantly Smarter"
TEXT1选自2013年6月29日的英国卫报。
原文出处
http:///commentisfree/2013/jun/29/new-brutalism-at-westminster
Text 1
第一篇文章出自 2012年6月21日Business-week 上的一篇文章,文章有一定难度。从整个文章脉络来看,文章的第一段用事例引入,第二段讲到文章的主题“快时尚”,并指出它破坏了时尚周期,动摇了时尚产业。第三四段指出“快时尚”这种变革的弊端,比如:给自然资源造成压力、使用大量有害的化学物质、浪费现象。最后两段提到针对“快时尚”的不良影响,可以采取的解决办法。
Part B 排序题
2013年
一.2013年知识运用试题来源
这次知识运用试题选材来自考研英语必考杂志《经济学人》,原文标题是:A Question of Judgment;
来自2012年6月16日 经济学人 science and technology 中的最后一篇文章,共6段。
二.2013年考研英语阅读理解Part A 文章命题来源
2015年
一、完型
二、阅读
Part A
Text 1
选自2014年6月4日《卫报》上一篇名为Is the writing on the wall for all European royals?(所有欧洲皇室注定要失败吗?)的文章。主要讨论了西班牙胡安·卡洛斯国王退位这一事件对欧洲诸多皇室的影响,尤其是对英国皇室的影响。
TEXT2选自2013年2月2日economis
原文出处Leaders 中的第五篇(最后一篇)
http:///news/leaders/21571141-cheaper-legal-education-and-more-liberal-rules-would-benefit-americas-lawyersand-their
47)The United States is the product of two principal forces-the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified thesedistinctly European cultural(命题人删除了这三个词)traits.Of necessity, colonial America was a projection of Europe. Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen, Swedes, and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions to the new world. 48)But,inevitably,(命题人删掉了这个词) the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes.These changes were gradual and at first scarcely visible. But the result was a new social pattern which, although it resembled European society in many ways, had a character that was distinctly American.
Text4
原文节选自2014年6月29日The Guardian上的As the hacking trial proves, we lack moral purpose in public life (by Will Hutton)
Murdoch(默多克)传媒帝国下属的newsoftheworld(《世界新闻报》)的telephonehacking(电话窃听)丑闻.
政治评论文章,有明确的作者观点,作者批评英国财政大臣GeorgeOsborne修改的失业救济政策,认为修改后的失业救济政策起不到对失业者的福利救济作用。考研英语很少选用涉及英美国家政治的内容,但是这篇文章是很明确的政治评论,从文章选材上来讲,也是一个新鲜的思路。文章难度中等偏难,主要是背景知识比较难,题目难度中等
49)The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorations of North America.In the meantime, thriving Spanish colonies had been established in Mexico, the West Indies, and South America. These travelers to North America came in small, unmercifully overcrowded craft. During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on meager rations. Many of the ships were lost in storms, many passengers died of disease, and infants rarely survived the journey. Sometimes tempests blew the vessels far off their course, and often calm brought interminable delay.
Part B(新题型)
段落句子填空题
来自马丁所著的《阅读的方法》的第一单元。
Part C
文章来源于An Outline of American History,《美国历史纲要》,是一本历史学方面的专著。考研翻译曾经在1999年考过历史学方面的话题,当初考的是历史学科建立方面的争论,关于历史研究方法论的。今年的考题与1999年那篇历史学文章的试题相比,简单太多。但是与2014年考研翻译试题相比,难度倒是上升了不小。
To the anxious travelers the sight of the American shore brought almost inexpressible relief. Said one chronicler, "The air at twelve leagues' distance smelt as sweet as a new-blown garden."The colonists' first glimpse of the new land was a vista of dense woods. 50) The virgin forest with itsprofusion(命题人把这个词改为richness) and variety of trees was averitable(命题人把这个词改为real) treasure-house which extendedover 1,300 miles from Maine in the north to Georgia(命题人把这个部分改为:from Maine all the way down to Georgia) in the south. Here was abundant fuel and lumber. Here was the raw material of houses and furniture, ships and potash, dyes and naval stores.
Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a tide of emigration -one of the great folk wanderings of history-swept from Europe to America. 46)This movement,impelled(命题人改写为driven) bypowerful and diverse(命题人删除了这两个词)motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.
原文出处
http:///news/young-upstarts-1.13172
自然科学文章。作者先描述了目前在自然科学界出现了很多新的奖项,这些奖都是由一些新兴互联网企业设立的,奖金很高,但是声望与老牌的诺贝尔奖相比还相差很远,科学家对这些奖的评价也是很有很多批评。但是作者对这些奖项是比较宽容的。文章第二段相当难,其他段落中等难度,题目难度中毒偏难。
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