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時(shí)間進(jìn)入6月份，2025考研將進(jìn)入強(qiáng)化復(fù)習(xí)階段，還沒(méi)有開(kāi)始復(fù)習(xí)的考生要收收心，抓緊時(shí)間復(fù)習(xí)了。隨著第一階段的基礎(chǔ)復(fù)習(xí)接近尾聲，同學(xué)們要逐漸加強(qiáng)提升考研英語(yǔ)閱讀理解能力，下面為大家整理考研英語(yǔ)閱讀題源，希望大家能把握這一分值較大的題型。
Lest We Forget or Lest We Remember?
People remember emotionally charged events more easily than they recall the quotidian. A sexual encounter trumps doing the grocery shopping. A mugging trumps a journey to work. Witnessing a massacre trumps pretty well anything you can imagine.
That is hardly surprising. Rare events that might have an impact on an individuals survival or reproduction should have a special fast lane into the memory bank-and they do. It is called the a2b-adrenoceptor, and it is found in the amygdala, a part of the brain involved in processing strong emotions such as fear. The role of the α2b-adrenoceptor is to promote memory formation-but only if it is stimulated by adrenaline. Since emotionally charged events are often accompanied by adrenaline secretion, the α2b-adrenoceptor acts as a gatekeeper that decides what will be remembered and what discarded.
However, the gene that encodes this receptor comes in two varieties. That led Dominique de Quervain, of the University of Zurich, to wonder if people with one variant would have better emotional memories than those with the other. The short answer, just published in Nature Neuroscience, is that they do. Moreover, since the frequencies of the two variants are different in different groups of people, whole populations may have different mixtures of emotional memory.
The reason Dr de Quervain suspected the variants might work differently is that the rarer one looks like the commoner one when the latter has a memory-enhancing drug called yohimbine attached to it. His prediction, therefore, was that better emotional memory would be associated with the rarer version.
And that did, indeed, turn out to be the case in his first experiment. This involved showing students photographs of positive scenes such as families playing together, negative scenes such as car accidents, and neutral ones, such as people on the phone. Those students with at least one gene for the rarer version of the protein (everyone has two such genes, one from his father and one from his mother) were twice as good at remembering details of emotionally charged scenes than were those with only the common version. When phone- callers were the subject; there was no difference in the quality of recall.
That is an interesting result, but some of Dr de Quervains colleagues at the University of Konstanz, in Germany, were able to take it further in a second experiment. In fact, they took it all the way along a dusty road in Uganda, to the Nakivale refugee camp. This camp is home to hundreds of refugees of the Rwandan civil war of 1994.
In this second experiment the researchers were not asking about photographs. With the help of specially trained interviewers, they recorded how often people in the camp suffered flashbacks and nightmares about their wartime experiences. They then compared those results with the α2b-adrenoceptor genes in their volunteers. As predicted, those with the rare version had significantly more flashbacks than those with only the common one.
Besides bolstering Dr de Quervains original hypothesis, this result is interesting because only 12% of the refugees had the rarer gene. In Switzerland, by contrast, 30% of the population has the rare variety-and the Swiss are not normally regarded as an emotional people.
Whether that result has wider implications remains to be seen. Human genetics has a notorious history of jumping to extravagant conclusions from scant data, but that does not mean conclusions should be ducked if the data are good. In this case, the statistics suggest Rwanda may have been lucky: the long-term mental-health effects of the war may not be as widespread as they have been in people with a different genetic mix. On the other hand, are those who easily forget the horrors of history condemned to repeat them?
考研英語(yǔ)必讀外刊
《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》（The Economist）：這是一本在全球范圍內(nèi)極具影響力的雜志，內(nèi)容廣泛覆蓋政治、經(jīng)濟(jì)、文化等眾多領(lǐng)域。其文章語(yǔ)言凝練，觀點(diǎn)清晰且獨(dú)到，詞匯豐富多樣，句型結(jié)構(gòu)復(fù)雜多變，與考研英語(yǔ)的難度和風(fēng)格高度契合。盡管初讀時(shí)頗具挑戰(zhàn)，但通過(guò)精讀與泛讀相結(jié)合的方式，能有效擴(kuò)充詞匯量，顯著提升閱讀理解能力。例如在一篇關(guān)于人工智能發(fā)展的文章中，運(yùn)用了大量相關(guān)專業(yè)詞匯以及復(fù)雜句式來(lái)闡述其對(duì)社會(huì)經(jīng)濟(jì)各方面的影響，有助于考生熟悉此類題材在考研英語(yǔ)中的呈現(xiàn)方式。
《中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)》（China Daily）：作為中國(guó)的國(guó)家英文日?qǐng)?bào)，它的文章緊密圍繞中國(guó)時(shí)事，語(yǔ)言地道純正，生詞量處于適中水平，十分適合考研學(xué)生日常閱讀積累。尤其是雙語(yǔ)新聞板塊，在閱讀英文原文的同時(shí)，對(duì)照中文譯文能更好地理解文章內(nèi)容，進(jìn)一步加深對(duì)詞匯和句子的記憶。像報(bào)道中國(guó)科技創(chuàng)新成果的文章，不僅能讓考生學(xué)習(xí)到相關(guān)主題的英文表達(dá)，還能了解國(guó)內(nèi)科技發(fā)展動(dòng)態(tài)，積累時(shí)事素材。
《衛(wèi)報(bào)》（The Guardian）：英國(guó)知名報(bào)紙，涵蓋國(guó)際新聞、文化、科技等豐富領(lǐng)域。其文章語(yǔ)言風(fēng)格豐富多樣，從嚴(yán)肅的新聞報(bào)道到輕松的文化評(píng)論，應(yīng)有盡有。通過(guò)閱讀《衛(wèi)報(bào)》，考生能夠拓寬視野，接觸到不同風(fēng)格的英語(yǔ)寫(xiě)作，提升閱讀的適應(yīng)能力，更好地應(yīng)對(duì)考研英語(yǔ)閱讀中風(fēng)格各異的文章。例如在文化板塊中，對(duì)某部文學(xué)作品或藝術(shù)展覽的評(píng)論文章，語(yǔ)言優(yōu)美且富有深度，有助于提升考生對(duì)文學(xué)藝術(shù)類題材文章的理解能力。
《紐約客》（The New Yorker）：以深度報(bào)道和文化評(píng)論著稱，內(nèi)容豐富詳實(shí)，語(yǔ)言優(yōu)美且富有感染力。閱讀《紐約客》的文章，考生不僅可以提高閱讀理解能力，還能在寫(xiě)作方面獲得啟發(fā)，學(xué)習(xí)到如何運(yùn)用生動(dòng)形象的語(yǔ)言表達(dá)觀點(diǎn)。比如在一些人物專訪或社會(huì)現(xiàn)象剖析的文章中，作者運(yùn)用細(xì)膩的筆觸和獨(dú)特的視角進(jìn)行描述，其中的句式和表達(dá)方式值得考生借鑒并應(yīng)用到自己的寫(xiě)作中。
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TED：這是一個(gè)以演講為主的綜合性平臺(tái)，內(nèi)容廣泛涉及科學(xué)、文化、藝術(shù)等諸多領(lǐng)域。考生通過(guò)觀看 TED 演講，不僅能夠鍛煉聽(tīng)力和口語(yǔ)能力，還能學(xué)習(xí)到大量地道、鮮活的英語(yǔ)表達(dá)。演講者來(lái)自世界各地，他們的語(yǔ)言風(fēng)格和表達(dá)方式各具特色，能讓考生接觸到多樣化的英語(yǔ)。例如在一些關(guān)于科技創(chuàng)新、社會(huì)變革的演講中，會(huì)出現(xiàn)許多行業(yè)前沿詞匯和新穎的表達(dá)方式，有助于考生積累與時(shí)俱進(jìn)的英語(yǔ)素材，提升語(yǔ)言的實(shí)際運(yùn)用能力。
英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津：中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)旗下的雙語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)網(wǎng)站，提供豐富的新聞?lì)愑⒄Z(yǔ)文章以及專業(yè)的學(xué)習(xí)專欄。在這里，考生可以閱讀到最新的時(shí)事新聞，并通過(guò)雙語(yǔ)對(duì)照的形式加深對(duì)文章的理解。同時(shí)，學(xué)習(xí)專欄中的語(yǔ)法講解、詞匯辨析等內(nèi)容，能夠幫助考生系統(tǒng)地鞏固英語(yǔ)知識(shí)，提升閱讀能力。比如在解讀國(guó)際政治經(jīng)濟(jì)新聞的文章中，會(huì)涉及到許多相關(guān)專業(yè)詞匯和復(fù)雜句式，通過(guò)學(xué)習(xí)網(wǎng)站的詳細(xì)解析和講解，考生能夠更好地理解和掌握。
句酷：作為一個(gè)雙語(yǔ)例句搜索引擎，句酷的獨(dú)特之處在于，當(dāng)考生輸入單詞或短語(yǔ)時(shí)，它能提供大量地道的例句，并對(duì)詞性進(jìn)行詳細(xì)分析。這對(duì)于考生在寫(xiě)作練習(xí)中準(zhǔn)確運(yùn)用詞匯，以及在閱讀中理解詞匯在不同語(yǔ)境中的含義都具有極大的幫助。例如，當(dāng)考生遇到一個(gè)生詞時(shí)，通過(guò)句酷查詢其在不同例句中的用法和搭配，能夠更加深入地理解該詞的含義和使用場(chǎng)景，從而在閱讀中遇到類似語(yǔ)境時(shí)能夠迅速理解。
備考書(shū)籍與雜志
《新東方考研英語(yǔ)閱讀理解精讀 100 篇》：這本書(shū)的文章在題材、難度和出題風(fēng)格上與考研真題相似度極高，非常適合考生進(jìn)行專項(xiàng)訓(xùn)練。每篇文章都配有詳細(xì)的解析，包括文章結(jié)構(gòu)分析、詞匯注釋、長(zhǎng)難句解讀以及題目解答思路等。通過(guò)對(duì)這些文章的精讀練習(xí)，考生能夠熟悉考研英語(yǔ)閱讀的命題規(guī)律，掌握解題技巧，提高閱讀理解能力。例如在對(duì)一篇科技類文章的解析中，詳細(xì)說(shuō)明了如何通過(guò)分析文章結(jié)構(gòu)快速把握主旨，以及如何根據(jù)題干關(guān)鍵詞定位原文信息，準(zhǔn)確解答題目。
《英語(yǔ)文摘》：文章均選自《時(shí)代》《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》等國(guó)際知名外刊，內(nèi)容豐富廣泛，涵蓋政治、經(jīng)濟(jì)、文化、科技等多個(gè)領(lǐng)域。書(shū)中對(duì)文章中的詞匯進(jìn)行了詳細(xì)注釋，并提供了全文翻譯，方便考生閱讀學(xué)習(xí)。同時(shí)，對(duì)文章的背景知識(shí)和語(yǔ)言難點(diǎn)也進(jìn)行了深入解讀，有助于考生拓寬知識(shí)面，提升閱讀能力。比如在一篇關(guān)于全球經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展趨勢(shì)的文章中，不僅對(duì)專業(yè)經(jīng)濟(jì)詞匯進(jìn)行了解釋，還對(duì)相關(guān)的經(jīng)濟(jì)現(xiàn)象和政策進(jìn)行了背景介紹，使考生能夠更好地理解文章內(nèi)容，同時(shí)積累相關(guān)領(lǐng)域的專業(yè)詞匯和表達(dá)。
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