考研英语历年真题阅读要点之2011-Text 4（一）
“吾尝终日不食，终夜不寝，以思，无益，不如学也。”思考固然重要，但是必须与学习相结合。没有开始复习或者进度缓慢的同学，赶紧行动起来吧！文都考研英语老师继续为大家梳理历年考研英语真题阅读文章中涉及的要点，包括词汇、短语、长难句以及简单的阅读方法。接下来看一下2011年考研英语真题阅读Text 4，这篇文章主要探讨了社会对养育子女快乐的过度渲染。It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, ... is arousing much chatter -- nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience.
insightful“富有洞察力的，有深刻见解的”；provocative“有煽动性的”；magazine cover story“杂志封面故事”；arouse“引起”；chatter“热议”；suggestion“意见”；child rearing“育儿”；anything less than“绝非”；fulfilling“令人满意的”；life-enriching“丰富生活的”。
Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.”
rather than后为否定的内容；miserable“悲惨的，痛苦的”；redefine“重新定义”；instead of后也是否定的内容；think of...as...“视为，看作”，相当于consider...as...；measure“衡量”；moment-to-moment“时时刻刻的，即时即地的”；past-tense condition“过去式的状态”；day-to-day“日常的，逐日的”；raise“养育”；crushing“使人难以承受的”，soul-crushingly可以理解为“摧毁灵魂般地”；very“正是”，起强调作用；dampen“使...沮丧”；mood“心情”；source“源泉”；intense“强烈的”；gratification“满意，喜悦”。
The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptive -- and newly single-mom ..., as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.
showing和holding均为现在分词充当后置定语；attractive“吸引人的，有魅力的”；cute“可爱的”；hardly“几乎不”；Madonna-and-child“圣母与圣子”；image“形象”；newsstand“报摊”；adoptive“收养的”；as well as相当于and；pregnant“怀孕的”；practically“事实上”；feature“特写”；celebrity“名人”；mom-to-be“准妈妈”。
以上就是文都考研英语老师为大家梳理的2011年考研英语真题阅读Text 4前两段的要点。阅读是一个相对综合的题型。阅读能力的提升，其实可以促进其他各个题型解题能力的提升。因此，各位同学一定合理支配时间，以阅读为主，全面提升个人英语水平，进而突破考研英语。
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