考研人數逐年增加，競爭之激烈使得我們不得不加急復習的日程。眾所周知，閱讀理解占據了考研英語二100分試卷的一半分值，而考研英語閱讀文章大多來自英美國家的主流報刊雜志，所以如果能在日常就多多閱讀這些文章，對以后讀懂文章做對題目來說會大有裨益。

學習步驟如下：

1.不看漢語譯文自己看一遍短文做理解

2.看漢語譯文比對自己理解的意思與之出入

3.強化記憶重點單詞（以記憶其漢語意思為主）

文段一

Knowing the results of Epley's study, it makes sense that why people hate photographs of themselves viscerally—on one level, they don't even recognize the person in the picture as themselves. Facebook therefore, is a self-enhancer's paradise, where people can share only the most flattering photos, the cream of their wit, style, beauty, intellect and lifestyles. “It's not that people's profiles are dishonest”, says Catalina Toma of Wiscon—Madison university,” but they portray an idealized version of themselves.

短文翻譯  

了解了艾普利的研究結果，人們本能的討厭自己的照片這一點也就能夠想得通了——從某種層面上來說，他們甚至認為那些照片中的人不是自己，因而，Facebook 也就成了自我提高者的天堂，在那里他們可以分享最討人喜歡的照片，以及他們的機智、風格、美貌、智力和生活方式的精華面。這并不代表他們的檔案不真實，威斯康星麥迪遜大學的卡特琳娜·托馬說，“他們塑造了一個理想化的自己”。

重點單詞

make sense

(行為方式) 有道理，合乎情理; 可以理解; 講得通;

viscerally

adv.內臟的; 發自內心;

intellect [??nt?lekt]

n.(尤指高等的) 智力，思維邏輯領悟力; 智力高的人; 才智超群的人;

profile [?pr??fa?l]

n.面部的側影; 側面輪廓; 概述; 簡介; 傳略; 印象; 形象;

idealized [a??di??la?zd]

adj.理想化的

文段 II

Epley found no significant gender difference in responses. Nor was there any evidence that, those who self-enhance the must (that is, the participants who thought the most positively doctored picture were real) were doing so to make up for profound insecurities. In fact those who thought that the images higher up the attractiveness scale were real directly corresponded with those who showed other makers for having higher self-esteem. “I don't think the findings that we having have are any evidence of personal delusion”, says Epley. “It's a reflection simply of people generally thinking well of themselves’. If you are depressed, you won't be self-enhancing.

短文翻譯

艾普利發現在做出反應時，男女之間并沒有很大的性別差異。也沒有證據表明自我提高這一必要性(也就是說，這些受試者認為改得好的照片是真正的自己)是為了彌補不安全感。事實上，那些認為改良過有較大吸引力的照片是自己真正照片的人也正是那些自信心較高的人。艾普利說：“我認為我們目前的發現并不是個人幻覺的證據，它僅僅是一種自我認識良好的反應?！比绻阌X得很郁悶，就不會進行自我提高。

重點單詞

evidence [?ev?d?ns]

n.根據; 證明; 證據; (法庭上的) 證據，證詞，人證，物證;

profound [pr??fa?nd]

adj.巨大的; 深切的; 深遠的; 知識淵博的; 理解深刻的;

insecurity [??ns??kj??r?ti]

n.不牢靠；不安全；無保障;

correspond with

與……相一致

reflection [r??flek?n]

n.映像;映照出的影像; (聲、光、熱等的) 反射; 反映; 顯示; 表達;