考研英語沖刺30天之第3天：英語閱讀句子復(fù)習(xí)

第三天：抓住重點 閱讀為先---句子篇

在精讀考研閱讀真題時，最后要總結(jié)和摘抄原文中的佳言妙句，以備寫作之用，更要勤加朗誦，練就好的語感，以備閱讀之需。下面是2002年—2006年考研閱讀真題中的佳句，供廣大考生參考。做完一個單元的閱讀真題后，可以集中朗誦該單元的佳句。

2006年

Text 1

In spite of “endless talk of difference,” American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people.

Immigrants are quickly fitting into this common culture, which may not be altogether elevating but is hardly poisonous.

But somewhere in the 19th century onward, more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless, phony or, worst of all, boring, as we went from Wordsworth’s daffodils to Baudelaire’s flowers of evil.

The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment.

2005年

Text 2

Instead of a plan of action, they continue to press for more research a classic case of “paralysis by analysis.”

Text 4

Mr. McWhorter acknowledges that formal language is not strictly necessary, and proposes no radical education reforms—he is really grieving over the loss of something beautiful more than useful.

2004年

Text 4

Intellect, according to Hofstadter, is different from native intelligence, a quality we reluctantly admire. Intellect is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of the mind. Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, reorder, and adjust, while intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes and imagines.

2003年

Text 2

To paraphrase 18th-century statesman Edmund Burke, “all that is needed for the triumph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing.”

To those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these treatments, as well as new treatments and vaccines, animal research seems wasteful at best and cruel at worst.

If good people do nothing, there is a real possibility that an uninformed citizenry will extinguish the precious embers of medical progress.

Text 3

Railroads justify rate discrimination against captive shippers on the grounds that in the long run it reduces everyone’s cost.

Text 4

It is said that in England death is pressing, in Canada inevitable and in California optional.

As a nation, we may be overfunding the quest for unlikely cures while underfunding research on humbler therapies that could improve people’s lives.

2002年

Text 1

You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system.

Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner.

Text 2

Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty.

Text 3

So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time?

Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short term.

One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand.

Text 4

On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying.

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