社会类
Passage One Troubled Waters
Passage Two Thirsting for Knowledge
Passage Three Family Values
Passage Four Growing Up Green
Passage Five Hungry for Change
Passage Six Family Values and Food Sustainability.
Passage Seven What a Little Fertilizer Can Do
Passage Eight Wirecutters: State-Run Wi-fi
Passage Nine British Airways: No to Surfers
Passage Ten Fighting for the Right to Dry
文教类
Passage One Built for Speed
Passage Two The Natural
Passage Three Making Waves in Tuscany
Passage Four Fout Public Boarding Schools Teach Us
Passage Five Moon View
Passage Six Baseball in Belgium?
Passage Seven Head Start
Passage Eight In Slava's Shadow
Passage Nine Mystery Man
Passage Ten Into the Light
经济类
Passage One The Digital Camera Fights for Survival
Passage Two The Golden Years Rule
Passage Three Altitude Sickness
Passage Four Retail Stars of the Recession
Passage Five Word On the Street
Passage Six Volume Control
Passage Seven Reasons to Be Cheerful
Passage Eight Rock Bottom
Passage Nine Postcard: Ceske Budejovice
Passage Ten Rolling in Dough
科技类
Passage One Is Snuppy the Puppy for Real?
Passage Two Can Triple Play Pay?
Passage Three The New Wireless Tangle
Passage Four Does High Tech Require High Fiber?
Passage Five A Cheaper Chip
Passage Six The Slow-Motion Mission
Passage Seven Mapping Renewable Energy, Rooftop by Rooftop
Passage Eight Dino Conspiracy Theory
Passage Nine Great and Small
Passage Ten Wheel Genius
健康类
Passage One Do Calcium Pills Work?
Passage Two Not So Complementary
Passage Three Down for the Count
Passage Four Hollywood's Smoke Alarm
Passage Five The Disease Is the Remedy
Passage Six An End, and a Beginning, for the Media
Passage Seven Was Timothy Leary Right?
Passage Eight Rethinking Organics
Passage Nine Does Day Care Help At-Risk Kids?
Passage Ten Assessing a Failed AIDS Vaccine
序言
2008年4月出版的《考研英语阅读题源》系列是我们下了大力气编写而成的,其间的痛苦只有我们自己才能体会--在众多原版报刊杂志中确定对考生*有帮助的几本是一个浩大的工程,而想要在周刊,甚至是日报中筛选与考研阅读趋势*接近的文章就更加艰难。毫不夸张地说,*终确定的300篇文章(每本分册50篇)是从上千篇文章中“海选”出来的,每每敲定一篇文章,那种成就感就好比文章是自己写出的一般。文章确定了,就要翻译,原版出版物文章的翻译绝非易事,不能说我们的翻译尽善尽美,但可以保证的是,*终的翻译是我们花费了大量心血译成的。
因此,在得知《考研英语阅读题源》系列面世之后,受到广大考研考生,甚至是大众英语学习爱好者的热烈追捧之时,我们感到异常欣慰。
“题源”并不是一个全新的概念,通过对考研英语真题阅读文章的分析就可以看出,大部分文章都是由近几年知名原版英文报刊杂志中发表的文章改编而来的。这一点通过下表就可以看出:近年考研英语阅读真题文章主要来源分析。
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