考研英语历年真题阅读要点之2005-Text 1（二）
历年真题是考研复习最重要的参考。各位同学的复习进度如何？如果进度缓慢甚至还没开始，可要抓紧时间啦！为了帮助大家更有针对性地复习，文都教育考研英语老师继续为大家梳理考研英语历年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2005年考研英语真题阅读Text 1，这篇文章主要探讨了对不公平的愤恨也是猴子的天性。Such characteristics make them perfect candidates... exchange tokens for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for slices of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate but adjoining chambers, so that each could observe what the other was getting in return for its rock, their behaviour became markedly different.
such characteristics指的就是上文描述的猴子的特征；candidate“候选者”；exchange...for...“用...交换...”；token“代币”；normally“通常”；rock“石头”，也可以表示“摇滚乐”；cucumber“黄瓜”；place“安置”；separate“单独的，分开的”；adjoining“邻接的，毗连的”；observe“观察”；in return for“作为回报”；markedly“明显地”。
... grapes are luxury goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was reluctant to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber... the other either tossed ... was enough to induce resentment ...
luxury“奢侈的”；be preferable to“比...更好”；in exchange for“作为...的交换”；be reluctant to do“勉强做某事”；hand over“交出”；toss“扔，抛”；be enough to do“足以”；induce“引起”；resentment“愤恨”。
The researchers suggest ... are guided by ... In the wild, they are a co-operative, group-living species. Such co-operation is likely to be stable ... cheated. Feelings of righteous indignation, it seems, are not the preserve of people alone... abundantly clear ... However, whether such a sense of fairness evolved independently in capuchins and humans, or whether it stems from the common ancestor that the species had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.
suggest“认为”；guide“引导”；in the wild“在野外”；group-living“群居的”；species“物种”；be likely to do“可能做某事”；stable“稳定的”；cheat“欺骗”；righteous“公平的”；indignation“愤慨”；righteous indignation可以表示“因为不公平而引起的愤慨”；preserve“特权”；abundantly clear“非常清楚”；sense of fairness“公平意识”；evolve“进化”；stem from“起源于”；common ancestor“共同的祖先”；重点关注尾段转折处。
以上就是文都教育考研英语老师为大家梳理的2005年考研英语真题阅读Text 1后三段的要点。“有志者事竟成，破釜沉舟，百二秦关终属楚；苦心人天不负，卧薪尝胆，三千越甲终吞吴。”各位同学不仅要有志向，更要有行动。用行动实现自己的理想吧！让理想之花在行动中绽放!
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