考研英语历年真题阅读要点之2006-Text 3（一）

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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 3，这篇文章主要探讨了海洋生物由于过度捕捞而遭到威胁的状况。
　　When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strange happened to the large animals. They suddenly became extinct. Smaller species survived. The large, slow-growing animals were easy game, and were quickly hunted to extinction. Now something similar could be happening in the oceans.
　　prehistoric“史前的”；they指的是large animals；extinct“灭绝的”，也可以表示“熄灭的”，extinct volcano“死火山”；species“物种”；survive“幸存，活下来”；slow-growing“生长缓慢的”；game“猎物”；be hunted to extinction“因为遭到捕猎而灭绝”；首段尾句表明接下来讲的是发生在海洋中的类似的变化。
　　That the seas are being overfished has been known for years. What researchers such as Ransom Myers and Boris Worm have shown is just how fast things are changing. They have looked at half a century of data from fisheries around the world. Their methods do not attempt to estimate the actual biomass ... of fish species in particular parts of the ocean, but rather changes in that biomass over time. According to their latest paper published in Nature, the biomass of large predators ... in a new fishery is reduced on average by 80% within 15 years of the start of exploitation. In some long-fished areas, it has halved again since then.
　　that引导主语从句，that the seas are being overfished充当主语。首句说的是“多年以来，人们一直知道，海洋正遭到过度捕捞。”接下来what researchers have shown充当主语，“研究人员所展示的是事物的变化速度之快。”look at可以表示“考虑，着眼于”；fishery“渔业，渔场”；attempt to do“尝试做某事”；estimate“估计”；biomass“生物量”；particular“特定的”；but rather可以表示“而是”，其后为肯定的内容，也就是说“他们的方法尝试估计随着时间的流逝生物量的变化”；according to“根据”；paper可以指“论文”；publish“发表”；predator“捕食者”；reduce“减少”；on average“平均”；exploitation“开采”；long-fished areas“长期捕捞的地区”；halve“减半”，也就是只剩下原来的10%。
　　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 3前两段的要点。“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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