考研英语（二）历年真题阅读要点之2012-Text 2（一）

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　　英语（二）阅读虽然比英语（一）简单，但是不要掉以轻心。历年考研英语真题是宝贵的复习资料。为了帮助大家更好地复习，文都教育考研英语老师为各位同学梳理一下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2012年考研英语真题阅读Text 2，这篇文章主要探讨了营销手段垄断儿童消费市场的情况。
　　Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls’ lives. It is not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girls’ identity to appearance. Then it presents that connection, even among two-year-olds, between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence. Looking around, I despaired at the singular lack of imagination about girls’ lives and interests.
　　pretty in pink“穿粉色好看”；be obsessed with“痴迷于”；pervasive“普遍的”；intrinsically“本质地，固有地”，相当于inherently；celebrate“歌颂”，也可以表示“庆祝”；firmly“稳固地”；fuse可以指“融入”；identity“身份”；appearance“外貌”；present“呈现”，present as“以...形式存在，表现为...”；innocent“天真的”；look around“环顾四周”；despair at“对...绝望”，despair在此充当动词，也可以充当名词，常见搭配be in despair“处于绝望之中”，形容词形式desperate，常见搭配be desperate for“极度渴望”；singular“异常的”，也可以表示“单一的”；lack of imagination“缺乏想象力”。
　　Girls’ attraction to pink may seem unavoidable ... but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it is not. Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them. What’s more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses.
　　girls’ attraction to pink“粉色对女孩的吸引力”；unavoidable“不可避免的”，相当于inevitable；somehow“以某种方式”；associate professor“副教授”；not at all“一点儿也不”；era“时代”；domestic washing machine“家用洗衣机”；as a practical matter“作为实际情况”，可以理解为“从实用性角度考虑”；boil“煮沸”；what’s more“此外”；think of...as...“把...看作...”；gender-neutral“中性的”。
　　以上就是文都教育考研英语老师为大家梳理的2012年考研英语真题阅读Text 2的要点。实践出真知。想要更好地把握考研英语阅读的命题思路和特点，各位同学应该以真题为主，仔细研究，找出其内在规律。另外，历年真题只做一遍是不够的，完成之后应该加以回顾。
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