考研英语历年真题阅读要点之2004-Text 2（一）

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　　得阅读者得考研英语，得真题者得整个考研。就考研英语真题试卷而言，阅读部分最重要；就考研复习而言，真题是最宝贵的资料。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2004年考研英语真题阅读Text 2，这篇文章主要探讨了字母顺序歧视问题。
　　Over the past century, all kinds of unfairness and discrimination have been condemned or made illegal. But one insidious form continues to thrive: alphabetism. This, for those as yet unaware of such a disadvantage, refers to discrimination against those whose surnames begin with a letter in the lower half of the alphabet.
　　unfairness“不公平”；discrimination“歧视”；unfairness和discimination由and连接，表明二者含义相近，认识其一即可；condemn“谴责，责备”，be condemned to可以表示“被判处”；illegal“违法的”，以r或l开头的形容词，变否定加ir或il；insidious“潜伏的，潜在的”；thrive“繁荣”；alphabetism“字母顺序歧视”；as yet“至今仍”；be unaware of“没有察觉到”；refer to“指的是”；discrimination against“对...的歧视”；surname“姓氏”；letter“字母”。
　　It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phone directories. Less well known is the advantage that Adam Abbott has in life over Zoë Zysman. English names are fairly evenly spread between the halves of the alphabet. Yet a suspiciously large number of top people have surnames beginning with letters between A and K.
　　It has long been known that...“人们一直知道...”；firm“公司”；have a big advantage over“相比...有巨大优势”；thumb through“浏览，翻查”；phone directory“电话簿”。Less well known is the advantage that...正常语序应该是the advantage that... is less well known。fairly“相当”；evenly“均匀地”；suspiciously“怀疑地”，作者态度题往往会出现suspicious这个词；a suspiciously large number of可以表示“数量之多令人心生怀疑”；top people“上层人物，人士”。
　　... respectively; ... predecessors ... Even more striking, ... Japanese characters...
　　respectively“分别地，各自地”；predecessor“前任，前辈”；striking“引人注目的”，在这里可以表示“令人震惊的”；character“字符”，这个词的常见含义是“性格，特征”。
　　以上就是文都教育考研英语老师为大家梳理的2004年考研英语真题阅读Text 2前三段的要点。“知己知彼，百战不殆。”想要攻克考研英语，首先应该对其有一定的了解。如何了解，当然就是从真题入手。与其在浩如烟海的资料中徘徊，不知所措，甚至打消积极性，不如直接关注真题。因此，各位同学，行动起来吧！
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