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考研英语二|阅读理解-英语词汇积累计划Day170

来源: 上海MPAcc 时间: 2022-06-22

备战2023入学MBA/MEM/MPAcc考研英语-词汇积累计划

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

Having said all of the above, it's important to add that we shouldn't try too hard to be happy. Scientists tell us this can backfire and actually have a negative impact on our wellbeing. As the Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu is reported to have said: "Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness."And in that, once more, we need to look to the example of our children, to whom happiness is not a goal but a natural by product of the way they live.

短文翻译

说完以上这些,还要补充的很重要的一点就是,我们不应过分追求快乐。科学家告诉我们,这样做可能会事与愿违,对我们的健康产生负面影响。正如中国哲学家庄子所说:“吾以无为诚乐矣 。”想要达到这种境界,我们还是要向孩子们学习,对于他们而言,幸福不是目标,而是他们生活方式的天然副产品。

重点单词

impact [ˈɪmpækt]

n.巨大影响; 强大作用;

wellbeing [ˌwɛlˈbiːɪŋ]

n.健康; 安乐

philosopher [fəˈlɒsəfə(r)]

n.哲学家; 深思的人; 善于思考的人;

absence [ˈæbsəns]

n.缺席; 不在; 不存在

strive [straɪv]

v.努力,奋斗,争取

文段 II

Supermarkets contain a lot of stuff.The average supermarket, according to the Food Marketing Institute, carries some 44,00 different items, and many carry tens of thousands more. The sheer volume of available choice is enough to send shoppers into a state of information overload. According to brain-scan experiments, the demands of so much decision-making quickly become too much for us. After about 40 minutes of shopping, most people stop struggling to be rationally selective, and instead begin shopping emotionally—which is the point at which we accumulate the 50 percent of stuff in our cart that we never intended buying.

短文翻译

超市旨在吸引顾客在自己店内停留尽量长的时间。原因很简单:顾客在店里停留的时间越长,看到的商品就会越多;而看到的商品越多,你就会买的越多。超市有大量商品。根据食品营销研究院所说,普通超市大概有 44000 种不同的商品;很多超市更是会比普通超市多上万种商品。众多选择足以让顾客面临各种信息,不堪重负。根据脑部扫描实验,需要做这么多的决定很快就会使我们难以承受。大约购物 40 分钟以后,大部分顾客就无法试图做出理性的选择,而会冲动购物——此时,在购物车里,我们已经装了一半根本没想买的东西。

重点单词

stuff [stʌf]

n. 东西,物品,玩意儿

Institute [ˈɪnstɪtjuːt]

n.(教育、专业等) 机构

available [əˈveɪləbl]

adj.可获得的; 可购得的; 可找到的; 有空的;

overload [ˌəʊvəˈləʊd]

v.使超载; 使负荷过重;

rationally ['ræʃ(ə)n(ə)li]

adv.理性地

accumulate [əˈkjuːmjəleɪt]

v.积累