考研英语历年真题阅读要点之2008-Text 3（一）
“古之立大事者，不惟有超世之才，亦必有坚忍不拔之志。”各位同学，你们的考研复习进度如何？需要坚持不懈哦。文都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2008年考研英语真题阅读Text 3，这篇文章主要探讨了美国人乃至全人类基本上已经达到了基因决定的身高。... listed at over seven feet. If he had played last season ... The bodies playing major professional sports have changed dramatically over the years, and managers have been more than willing to adjust team uniforms to fit the growing numbers of bigger, longer frames.
list“记入名单内”；feet“英尺”；if引导虚拟条件句，与过去事实相反；professional“职业的”；dramatically“显著地”；over the years“多年以来”；more than“非常，很”；be willing to do“乐意做某事”；team uniform“队服”；adjust to“调整以适应”。
The trend in sports, though, may be obscuring an unrecognized reality: Americans have generally stopped growing... inches ... -- especially those born to families who have lived in the U.S. for many generations -- apparently reached their limit in the early 1960s. And they aren’t likely to get any taller. “... at this genetic, environmental level, we’ve pretty much gone as far as we can go,” says anthropologist ... In the case of NBA players, their increase in height appears to result from the increasingly common practice of recruiting players ...
trend“趋势”；obscure“掩盖”；unrecognized“不为人知的”；generally“通产，普遍地”；inch“英寸”；especially“尤其”；apparently“显然地”；limit“”；in the early 1960s“在20世纪60年代早期”，如果翻译中涉及这样的表达，千万别搞错；be likely to do“可能做某事”；genetic“基因的，遗传的”；pretty much“几乎”；anthropologist“人类学家”；in the case of“至于”；height“身高”；result from“由于”；increasingly common practice“日益普遍的做法”；recruit“招募”。
Growth, ..., demands calories and nutrients – notably, protein -- to feed expanding tissues... under-nutrition and childhood infections got in the way ... children and adolescents have, on average, ... the secular trend in height...
calory“卡路里”；nutrient“营养”；notably“尤其”；protein“蛋白质”；feed“供给”；tissue“组织”；under-nutrition“营养不良”；infection“传染病”；get in the way“妨碍，阻碍”；
adolescent“青少年”；on average“平均”；secular“长期的”。
以上就是文都英语老师为大家梳理的2008年考研英语真题阅读Text 3前三段的要点。“百川东到海，何时复西归？少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。”各位同学，好好把握学习和探索的黄金时期，不断丰富自己，提升能力吧！“长风破浪会有时，直挂云帆济沧海。”
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