考研英语历年真题阅读要点之2004-Text 4（二）

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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Text 4，这篇文章主要探讨了如今的美国人不重视知识追求。
　　“Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege,” ... our democratic and populist urges have driven us to reject anything that smells of elitism. Practicality, common sense, and native intelligence have been considered more noble qualities than anything you could learn from a book.
　　resent“厌恶，愤恨”；privilege“特权”；populist“民粹主义的，平民主义的”；urge“强烈欲望，迫切要求”；drive sb. to do“驱使某人做某事”；smell of“带着...的意味”；elitism“精英主义”；practicality“实用性”；common sense“常识”；native intelligence“天生的智力”；noble quality“高尚的品质”。
　　... schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children: “We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.” ... exemplified American anti-intellectualism. Its hero avoids being civilized ... so he can preserve his innate goodness.
　　schooling“学校教育”；rigorous“严格的”；put restraints on“对...加以限制”；unnatural“不自然的，不近人情的”；shut up“关闭，妥藏起来”；recitation room“教室，课堂”；a bellyful of“满腹”；exemplify“例证，举例证明”；avoid“避免”；civilize“使文明，使开化”；preserve“保存，维持”；innate“固有的，与生俱来的”；goodness“善良”。
　　Intellect, ..., is different from native intelligence, a quality we reluctantly admire. Intellect is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of the mind. Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, ... while intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes and imagines.
　　be different from“与...不同”；native“与生俱来的”；reluctantly“不情愿地，勉强地”；admire“钦佩，赞美”；critical“批判性的”；contemplative“沉思的，冥想的”；seek to do“试图做某事”；grasp“领会”；manipulate“操纵”；examine“审查”；ponder“沉思”；wonder“怀疑”；theorize“建立理论”。
　　School remains a place where intellect is mistrusted... in the grips of people who “joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness ...”
　　mistrust“不信任，怀疑”；in the grips of“受...的控制”；militantly“激进地”；proclaim“声明，表明”；hostility“敌意”；eagerness“渴望”。
　　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 4后四段的要点。“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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