2007年12月四六级阅读理解部分冲刺方略
文章作者 100test 发表时间 2008:01:23 09:18:19
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现在离12月22日的四六级考试越来越近了，同学们的备考也到了冲刺的时候了。什么叫冲刺呢？顾名思义，“冲刺”就是临上战场前的整装待发，要有一种“志在必得”的把握和心态。对于我们四六级考试来说，到了冲刺阶段，最重要的并不是再做多少题，而是规范备考思路，要冷静、冷静、再冷静，仔细分析过去做过的、而且做错了的题目，找出差距，迎头赶上。
而对于冲刺阶段的备考要领，我从两个角度来谈：一个是题型，一个是备考材料选择。
首先从题型的角度来说，就是一个取舍的问题，到了最后，一定要有“抓大放小”的思路，用毛主席的话来说就是：“集中优势兵力，歼灭敌人的有生力量”。而对于我们考试来说，传统阅读部分和写作部分就是“敌人的有生力量”，所有我们要花大力气，一举拿下。而且这两部分是最后阶段最容易提高分数的。下面我会拿六级阅读真题来分析如何进行操作。
其次，对于备考材料的选择，还是那句老话：真题至上。尤其是近3年的真题，要仔细研究，总结出规律，提高实战能力。对于新出现的题型，如长对话、快速阅读、短文简答和翻译题，可以利用少量的时间进行模拟训练，以检验复习效果。
下面，我就节选2007年6月的六级考试阅读理解的Passage One 的前三段来说明如何更有效的研究真题的阅读理解。
You hear the refrain all the time: the U.S. economy looks good statistically, but it doesn’t feel good. Why doesn’t ever-greater wealth promote ever-greater happiness? It is a question that dates at least to the appearance in 1958 of The Affluent (富裕的) Society by John Kenneth Galbraith, who died recently at 97.
The Affluent Society is a modern classic because it helped define a new moment in the human condition. For most of history, “hunger, sickness, and cold” threatened nearly everyone, Galbraith wrote. “Poverty was found everywhere in that world. Obviously it is not of ours.” After World War II, the dread of another Great Depression gave way to an economic boom. In the 1930s unemployment had averaged 18.2 percent. in the 1950s it was 4.5 percent.
To Galbraith, materialism had gone mad and would breed discontent. Through advertising, companies conditioned consumers to buy things they didn’t really want or need. Because so much spending was artificial, it would be unfulfilling. Meanwhile, government spending that would make everyone better off was being cut down because people instinctively—and wrongly—labeled government only as “a necessary evil.”
52. What question does John Kenneth Galbraith raise in his book The Affluent Society?
A) Why statistics don’t tell the truth about the economy.
B) Why affluence doesn’t guarantee happiness.
C) How happiness can be promoted today.
D) What lies behind an economic boom.