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）

Today, widespread social pressure to immediately go to college in conjunction with increasingly high expectations in a fast-moving world often causes students to completely overlook the possibility of taking a gap year. After all, if everyone you know is going to college in the fall, it seems silly to stay back a year, doesn’t it? And after going to school for 12 years, it doesn’t feel natural to spend a year doing something that isn’t academic.

短文翻譯

如今，即刻進入高校的廣泛的社會壓力以及對快速發展的世界越來越高的期望，常常令學生完全忽視度過一個空檔年的可能。畢竟，如果你認識的每一個人都在秋季入學，那留下待一年似乎很愚蠢，不是嗎？上了 12 年學之后，花一年時間做一些和學術無關的事情,感覺會很不自然。

核心單詞一覽

真題練習

*一定要做題哦

31.One of the reasons for high-school graduates not taking a gap year is that  _______.

[A] they think it academically misleading

[B] they have a lot of fun to expect in college

[C] it feels strange to do differently from others

[D] it seems worthless to take off-campus courses

題目解析

31.【解析】題目問的是高中畢業生不選擇間隔年原因之一是什么。根據題目中的high-school和gap year可定位到第一段第一句話。這句話后面一句的after all可以知道后面應該是解釋理由了，After all, if everyone you know is going to college in the fall, it seems silly to stay back a year, doesn't it?這句話是說如果大家秋天都上大學去了，你要是晚了一年看起來有點傻。這個句子等同于C選項中的feel strange to do differently from others，因此選C。

【A】他們認為這在學術上具有誤導性，無中生有。

【B】他們在大學里有很多樂趣，無中生有。

【D】校外課程似乎毫無價值，未提及，無中生有。