计划说明
考研人数逐年增加，竞争之激烈使得我们不得不加急复习的日程。众所周知，阅读理解占据了考研英语二100分试卷的一半分值，而考研英语阅读文章大多来自英美国家的主流报刊杂志，所以如果能在日常就多多阅读这些文章，对以后读懂文章做对题目来说会大有裨益。但是对大多数备考的同学来说，刚开始投入复习，就去读考试文章难度的新闻报刊，也是不现实、并且不符合循序渐进的学习规律的，所以我们会在每次推送中，给大家给出两篇短文，一篇是初阶水平（大致在初高中水平）；一篇是高阶水平（四六级到考研水平）；同学们可以根据自己当前的情况，选择其中一篇进行学习。
学习步骤如下：
1.不看汉语译文自己看一遍短文做理解
2.看汉语译文比对自己理解的意思与之出入
3.强化记忆重点单词（以记忆其汉语意思为主）
翻译文段
Brazil’s space agency, INPE, reported that 3,069 square kilometres (1,185 square miles) of the Amazon was cut or burned down from January to June, an increase of 25% from the same period last year. After the announcement, the head of the department responsible for monitoring deforestation was moved to another job. Last year the government sacked inpe’s chief after the agency reported an increase in deforestation.
短文翻译
巴西航天局INPE报告称，从1月到6月，亚马逊雨林有3069平方公里(1185平方英里)遭砍伐或烧毁，比去年同期增长了25%。公告发布后，负责监控森林砍伐的部门负责人被调职。去年，在INPE报告了森林砍伐面积增加后，政府解雇了该机构的负责人。
重点单词
department [dɪˈpɑːtmənt]
n.部，局
responsible [rɪˈspɒnsəbl]
adj.有责任的
agency [ˈeɪdʒənsi]
n.代理机构
deforestation [ˌdiːˌfɒrɪˈsteɪʃn]
n.毁林
文段
Doug Ducey, the Republican governor of Arizona, began reopening his state in early May, when there were around 400 new cases being detected a day. He began backtracking two months later, after caseloads had swollen tenfold, to around 4,000 a day, and 90% of the intensive-care beds in the state were occupied. Mr Ducey, like many Republican governors, had also barred cities in his state from imposing their own mask-wearing requirements, only reversing himself on June 17th.
短文翻译
亚利桑那州共和党州长道格·杜西5月初开始重新开放该州，当时每天查出大约400起新增病例。两个月后，他改变了声明，当时的病例数量增加了10倍，达到每天4000个左右，而且该州90%的重症监护床位都被占用了。和许多共和党州长一样，杜西先生也禁止他所在州的城市实施强制佩戴口罩要求，直到6月17日他才改变了主意。
重点单词
backtrack [ˈbæktræk]
v.原路返回
swell [swel]
v.肿胀，使突出
intensive-care
重症监护
requirement [rɪˈkwaɪəmənt]]
n.所需的东西，必备的条件
reverse [rɪˈvɜːs]
v.彻底转变
