考研英语历年真题阅读要点之1996-Text 4（二）

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　　“得真题者得天下”，真题的价值是任何模拟题都无法企及的。接触真题应该从基础阶段开始。文都英语老师为大家解读考研英语历年真题阅读理解中涉及的要点，包括词汇、短语和长难句。接下来看一下1996年考研英语真题阅读Text 4，这篇文章主要探讨了促成美国早期主要发明的因素。
　　Given this optimistic approach to technological innovation, the American worker took readily to that special kind of nonverbal thinking required in mechanical technology. As Eugene Ferguson has pointed out, “A technologist thinks about objects that cannot be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions: they are dealt with in his mind by a visual, nonverbal process... The designer and the inventor... are able to assemble and manipulate in their minds devices that as yet do not exist.”
　　given介词“考虑到”，in view/ consideration of, with a view to也可以表示“考虑到”；approach“方法”，往往与介词to搭配；take to“开始从事”，take up也表示“开始从事”；required过去分词充当后置定语，名词requirement“要求，必要条件”，meet requirements“满足要求”；point out“指出”；be reduced to“简化为”；unambiguous“清晰的”，反义词ambiguous“模棱两可的”，涉及作者态度时，选项可能出现这个词，往往是错误选项；they指的是objects；manipulate“操纵”；as yet“至今仍”。
　　This nonverbal “spatial” thinking can be just as creative as painting and writing... considering them as an exhibition of his thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea.
　　首句即本段中心，“这种非言语的空间思维就像绘画和写作一样具有创造性”；exhibition“显示”，也可以表示“展览，展览会”，exposition也表示“展览会，博览会”，World Exposition“世博会”；transmit“传达”，名词transmission。
　　When all these shaping forces -- schools, open attitudes, the premium system, a genius for spatial thinking -- interacted with one another on the rich U.S. mainland, they produced that American characteristic, emulation. Today that word implies mere imitation. But in earlier times it meant a friendly but competitive striving for fame and excellence.
　　interact with“与...相互作用”；两个破折号之间为补充说明成分，可以直接略过，当然题干涉及另当别论；characteristic“特征，特性”，be characteristic of“为...所特有，具有...的特性”，动词characterize，be characterized by也表示“具有...的特性”；emulation“效法，竞争”；imitation“模仿”；striving名词“努力”，strive to do“努力做某事”。
　　以上就是文都教育考研英语老师为大家梳理的1996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。大家平时一定注重学习与思考相结合。不要急于参考答案解析，一定要有独立思考的过程，善于发现和解决问题，从而培养和提升个人能力。
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