2022年考研人数逐年增加,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)
初阶文段
Genes appear to matter more than upbringing in the jobs market, too. In a big study of Korean children adopted in America, those raised by the richest families grew up to earn no more than those adopted by the poorest families.
Utopianism in politics gets a bad press. The case against the grand-scale, state-directed kind is well known and overwhelming. Utopia, the perfect society, is unattainable, for there is no such thing.
短文翻译
在就业市场,基因也比培育重要。一项关于被美国人收养的韩国孩子的重大研究显示,富裕家庭抚养的孩子不比贫穷家庭抚养的赚得多。
乌托邦主义在政治上不是个好词,现在的主流观点是反对大规模、政府主导的事物。乌托邦这个完美的社会,则是可望不可及的海市蜃楼。
重点单词
upbringing [ˈʌpbrɪŋɪŋ]
n.抚育; 养育;
grand-scale [ɡrænd skeɪl]
adj.大规模地;盛大的;
state-directed
adj.由国家指导的
overwhelming [ˌəʊvəˈwelmɪŋ]
adj.巨大的,压倒性的
unattainable [ˌʌnəˈteɪnəbl]
adj.无法得到的,难以达到的
文段 II
You might expect that as countries get richer, women would become better educated and jobs requiring brute strength would become less important. Rich countries also have larger public sectors, where the wage gap is smaller. Yet overall, the gap is no smaller in rich countries such as Britain and the Netherlands than in poor ones such as the Philippines.
More striking, there is little sign that women are moving into traditionally male occupations. Men utterly dominate such beefy industries as transport and mining. A hefty 11% of men work in construction; only 1% of women do. Philippines.
短文翻译
人们或许认为随着国家的日益富裕,女性的受教育程度将不断提高,需要强壮体力的工作将不如以前重要。此外,在富裕国家,男女员工收入差距较小的公共部门规模要更大一些。然而,整体来看,英国和荷兰等富裕国家的收入差距和菲律宾等贫穷国家的收入差距一样大。
更惊人的是,几乎没有迹象表明女性正在参与到传统的男性职业中去。男性完全占据了运输业和采矿业等体力要求较高的行业:多达11%的男性在建造业中工作,而仅有1%的女性从事该职业。
重点单词
public sector
公营部门; 公共部门
striking [ˈstraɪkɪŋ]
adj.引人注目的; 异乎寻常的;
occupation [ˌɒkjuˈpeɪʃn]
n.工作; 职业;
dominate [ˈdɒmɪneɪt]
v.支配; 控制;
construction [kənˈstrʌkʃn]
n.建筑; 建造;