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)
We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War Ⅱ as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G .I .Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.
But when it came to their house, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more. During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.
短文翻譯
我們往往認為二戰后的數十載是繁榮和發展的時期,數百萬士兵重返故土,根據《退伍軍人權利法案》上大學,在婚姻登記處排隊辦理結婚手續。
但談到住房問題時,人們當時普遍的觀點是少便是多。在經濟大蕭條和二戰期間,美國人民學會了過簡單的生活,他們這種自我約束及戰后對未來生活的信心使得小巧實用的房子變得非常流行。
核心單詞一覽
真題練習
*一定要做題哦
31. The postwar American housing style largely reflected the Americans’_____.
[A] prosperity and growth
[B] efficiency and practicality
[C] restraint and confidence
[D] pride and faithfulness
題目解析
31.【解析】根據題干定位到文章第二段尾句“... that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence..., made small, efficient housing positively stylish”,本句話中的謂語動詞 made,表示前因后果的邏輯,即“節制”與“自信”帶來了“戰后住房風格”的“盛行”,反過來也可以理解為“戰后美國的住房風格”反映了美國人的“節制”與“自信”,所以 C 項正確。A選項的干擾源自文章首段,但是 prosperity和growth是人們對二戰后這個時間段的印象,與美國的戰后住宅風格并無關系,因此A項不對;B選項的干擾源自第二段尾句“made small, efficient housing positively stylish”,這兩個詞是說明美國二戰后的住房風格,并非是美國人的情況,因此不對;D項文中并未提及,屬于無中生有。