第一周基础阶段
本周共有精心挑选的20篇文章,周一至周五每天4篇,周六为复习与小结。每篇文章后均设有重、难点词汇解析和长难句分析,为考生在本周学习中提供两点建议:
(1)积极扩大词汇量。词汇量是阅读理解的根本,没有一定的词汇量,阅读理解无从谈起。我们建议考生们在本周的基础阶段分析文章的同时,能够对大纲词汇按层次背诵一遍,进而在以后的学习复习中能充分利用阅读文章在语境中学习记忆词汇。我们在每篇文章之后的表格中总结的单词,便是需要考生理解和记忆的。
(2)加强长难句的理解。长难句是考生们阅读理解中的一大障碍。我们建议考生们从本周基础知识恢复阶段就开始有意识地培养自己理解长难句的能力。例如:
If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006s World Cup tournament,you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk:elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the later months
[结构简析]本句的基本句型为:虚拟条件句 主句 同位语从句;主句为you wouldfind aquirk;其前为一个由if引导的虚拟条件句,其后为一个同位语从句,对a noteworthy quirk进行说明;quirk意为“怪事,奇怪的事情”。
[参考译文]如果你能查看一下2006年世界杯比赛的每一个足球运动员的出生证的话,你就极可能发现一件值得注意的怪事:这些足球精英们可能出生在每年年初的几个月份而非年末的几个月份。
如果考生不能理解类似这样的长难句,将直接影响接下来的阅读和整篇文章的问题解答,所以真切希望考生们从现在开始认真重视长难句的分析,为接下来的学习打好基础。
虽然艰难,但我们与您一路同行,让我们开始第一周的学习吧,Lets practice!
周一
今天是我们攻克阅读理解的第一天,为大家准备了4篇文章,请考生们准备好,万里长征的第一步已经开始,加油吧!祝您成功!
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The tourist trade is boomingWith all this coming and going,youd expect greater understanding to develop between the nations of the worldNot a bit of it! Superb systems of communication by air,sea and land make it possible for us to visit each others countries at a moderate costWhat was once the“grand tour”,reserved for only the very rich,is now within everybodys graspThe package tour and chartered flights are not to be sneered atModern travelers enjoy a level of comfort which the lords and ladies on grand tours in the old days couldnt have dreamed ofBut whats the sense of this mass exchange of populations if the nations of the world remain basically ignorant of each other?
Many tourist organizations are directly responsible for this state of affairsThey deliberately set out to protect their clients from too much contact with the local populationThe modern tourist leads a cosseted,sheltered lifeHe lives at international hotels,