20xx年考研英语强化班阅读理解教材(编辑修改稿)

20xx年考研英语强化班阅读理解教材(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

procedures. [B] inadequate treatment of pain. [C] systematic drug abuse. [D] insufficient hospital care. 新东方在线 [] 网络课堂电子教材系列 5 59. Which of the following best defines the word aggressive (line 4, paragraph 7)? [A] Bold. [B] Harmful. 中国最大的管理资料下载中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版权归原作者所有 ) 第 5 页 共 56 页 [C] Careless. [D] Desperate. 60. Gee Annas would probably agree that doctors should be punished if they [A] manage their patients inpetently. [B] give patients more medicine than needed. [C] reduce drug dosages for their patients. [D] prolong the needless suffering of the patients. 第三课时 Passage 2 Being a man has always been dangerous. There are about 105 males born for every 100 females, but this ratio drops to near balance at the age of maturity, and among 70yearolds there are twice as many women as men. But the great universal of male mortality is being changed. Now, boy babies survive almost as well as girls do. This means that, for the first time, there will be an excess of boys in those crucial years when they are searching for a mate. More important, another chance for natural selection has been removed. Fifty years ago, the chance of a baby (particularly a boy baby) surviving depended on its weight. A kilogram too light or too heavy meant almost certain death. Today it makes almost no difference. Since much of the variation is due to genes, one more agent of evolution has gone. There is another way to mit evolutionary suicide: stay alive, but have fewer children. Few people are as fertile as in the past. Except in some religious munities, very few women have 15 children. Nowadays the number of births, like the age of death, has bee average. Most of us have roughly the same number of offspring. Again, differences between people and the opportunity for natural selection to take advantage of it have diminished. India shows what is happening. The country offers wealth for a few in the great cities and poverty for the remaining tribal peoples. The grand mediocrity of today — everyone being the same in survival and number of offspring — means that natural selection has lost 81% of its power in upermiddleclass India pared to the tribes. For us, this means that evolution is over。 the biological Utopia has arrived. Strangely, it has involved little physical change. No other species fills so many places in nature. But in the past 100,000 year — even the past 100 years — our lives have been transformed but our bodies have not. We did not evolve, because machines and society did it for us. Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of evolution: they look at an anic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his prehension. No doubt we will remember a 20th century way of life beyond prehension for its ugliness. But however amazed our descendants may be at how far from Utopia we were, they will look just like us. 5. What used to be the danger in being a man according to the first paragraph? [A] A lack of mates. 新东方在线 [] 网络课堂电子教材系列 6 [B] A fierce petition. [C] A lower survival rate. [D] A defective gene. 6. What does the example of India illustrate? [A] Wealthy people tend to have fewer children than poor people. [B] Natural selection hardly works among the rich and the poor. 中国最大的管理资料下载中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版权归原作者所有 ) 第 6 页 共 56 页 [C] The middle class population is 80% smaller than that of the tribes. [D] India is one of the countries with a very high birth rate. 7. The author argues that our bodies have stopped evolving because ________. [A] life has been improved by technological advance [B] the number of female babies has been declining [C] our species has reached the highest stage of evolution [D] the difference between wealth and poverty is disappearing 8. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? [A] Sex Ratio Changes in Human Evolution [B] Ways of Continuing Man39。 s Evolution [C] the Evolutionary Future of Nature [D] Human Evolution Going Nowhere 考研文章的难点 1. 单词量不大，但是句型结构复杂 2. 作者的态度导出具有隐蔽性 第四课时 3. 选项的设计具有迷惑性 微观阅读技巧之一：标点的运用 Unit 1 Passage 1 The American economic system is anized around a basically privateenterprise, marketoriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen. striving to make profits, produce these goods and services in petition with other businessmen。 and the profit motive, operating under petitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their ines, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it. An important factor in a marketoriented economy is the mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall in response to 新东方在线 [] 网络课堂电子教材系列 7 relative demands of consumers and supplies offered by seller producers. If the product is in short supply relative to the demand, the price will be bid up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market. If, on the other hand, producing more of a modity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by sellerproducers. which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. Thus, price is the regulating mechanism in the American economic system. The important factor。