考研英语历年真题阅读要点之2006-Text 4（二）

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　　时间是有限的，复习应该有针对性，避免无用功。如何把握脉络，有效复习？当然就是参考历年真题。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2006年考研英语真题阅读Text 4，这篇文章主要探讨了艺术家关注点的转变。
　　People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery. They worked until exhausted... In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger and that they would someday be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too.
　　era“时代，年代”；be surrounded by“为...所围绕”；reminder“提醒”，动词形式remind；exhausted“筋疲力尽的”；in the West“在西方（国家）”；literacy“读写能力”；medium的复数形式为media；church“教堂”；worshipper“礼拜者”；be in danger“处于危险中”；worm“蠕虫”；given“考虑到”；bummer“失望，挫折”。
　　Today the messages the average Westerner is surrounded with are not religious but commercial, and forever happy... news anchors ... Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes... agenda -- to lure us to open our wallets -- they make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable... before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks.
　　average“普通的”；religious“宗教的”；commercial“商业的”；news anchor表示“新闻节目主持人”；feature“特写”；beaming“愉快的，耀眼的”；celebrity“名人”；perfect“完美的”，以m或p开头的形容词，变否定加im，因此perfect的反义词就是imperfect，moral“道德的”反义词就是immoral；agenda结合语境，可以表示“动机，目的”；lure“诱惑，引诱”；unreliable“不可靠的”；find out“查明，发现”；heart attack“心脏病发作”。
　　... happiness is more than pleasure without pain ... carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need art to tell us, as religion once did, Memento mori: ... that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It’s a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air.
　　more than + n.表示“不仅仅，不只是”；potential“可能性”，也可以充当形容词，表示“潜在的，可能的”；disappointment“失望”；promise“承诺”；Memento mori“死的警告，死的象征”；deny“否认”；live with“承认，接受”；bitter“痛苦的，苦涩的”；clove“丁香”；a breath of fresh air可以表示“使人耳目一新”。
　　以上就是文都教育考研英语老师为大家梳理的2006年考研英语真题阅读Text 4后三段的要点。“学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆”。死记硬背，生搬硬套，终究无法从根本上解决问题。因此，各位同学在复习过程中，一定注重学习与思考相结合，同时把理论应用于实践，举一反三，触类旁通，争取最大限度提升个人能力。
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