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1、考研英语历年阅读真题解析考研英语历年阅读真题解析 1994 2005 CONTENTS 2005 PASSAGE 1 1 2005 PASSAGE 2 2 2005 PASSAGE 3 5 2005 PASSAGE 4 7 2004 TEXT 1 11 2004 TEXT 2 12 2004 TEXT 3 14 2004 TEXT 4 16 2003 TEXT 1 19 2003 TEXT 2 22 2003 TEXT 3 25 2003 TEXT 4 28 2002 TEXT 1 31 2002 TEXT 2 34 2002 TEXT 3 37 2002 TEXT 4 39 2001 PAS
2、SAGE 1 42 2001 PASSAGE 2 45 2001 PASSAGE 3 47 2001 PASSAGE 4 50 2001 PASSAGE 5 53 2000 PASSAGE 1 56 2000 PASSAGE 2 58 2000 PASSAGE 3 61 2000 PASSAGE 4 64 2000 PASSAGE 5 66 1999 PASSAGE 1 69 1999 PASSAGE 2 72 1999 PASSAGE 3 74 1999 PASSAGE 4 77 1999 PASSAGE 5 80 1998 PASSAGE 1 83 1998 PASSAGE 2 86 19
3、98 PASSAGE 3 88 1998 PASSAGE 4 91 1998 PASSAGE 5 94 1997 PASSAGE 1 96 1997 PASSAGE 2 99 1997 PASSAGE 3 101 1997 PASSAGE 4 104 1997 PASSAGE 5 107 1996 PASSAGE 1 109 1996 PASSAGE 2 111 1996 PASSAGE 3 113 1996 PASSAGE 4 116 1996 PASSAGE 5 118 1995 PASSAGE 1 120 1995 PASSAGE 2 122 1995 PASSAGE 3 124 199
4、5 PASSAGE 4 127 1995 PASSAGE 5 129 1994 PASSAGE 1 131 1994 PASSAGE 2 133 1994 PASSAGE 3 135 1994 PASSAGE 4 137 1994 PASSAGE 5 138 考研英语历年阅读真题解析 1 2005 Passage 1 Everybody loves a fat pay rise Yet pleasure at your own can vanish if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one Indeed if he ha
5、s a reputation for slacking you might even be outraged Such behaviour is regarded as all too human with the underlying assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance But a study by Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlanta Georgia
6、which has just been published in Nature suggests that it all too monkey as well The researchers studied the behaviour of female brown capuchin monkeys They look cute They are good natured co operative creatures and they share their food tardily Above all like their female human counterparts they ten
7、d to pay much closer attention to the value of goods and services than males Such characteristics make them perfect candidates for Dr Brosnan s and Dr de waal s study The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens for food Normally the monkeys were happy enough to exchange
8、 pieces of rock for slices of cucumber However when two monkeys were placed in separate but adjoining chambers so that each could observe what the other was getting in return for its rock their behaviour became markedly different In the world of capuchins grapes are luxury goods and much preferable
9、to cucumbers So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token the second was reluctant to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all the other either tossed her own token at the researcher or out of th
10、e chamber or refused to accept the slice of cucumber Indeed the mere presence of a grape in the other chamber without an actual monkey to eat it was enough to reduce resentment in a female capuchin The researches suggest that capuchin monkeys like humans are guided by social emotions in the wild the
11、y are a co operative groupliving species Such co operation is likely to be stable only when each animal feels it is not being cheated Feelings of righteous indignation it seems are not the preserve of people alone Refusing a lesser reward completely makes these feelings abundantly clear to other mem
12、bers of the group However whether such a sense of fairness evolved independently in capuchins and humans or whether it stems form the common ancestor that the species had 35 million years ago is as yet an unanswered question 21 In the opening paragraph the author introduces his topic by A posing a c
13、ontrast B justifying an assumption C making a comparison D explaining a phenomenon 22 The statement it is all too monkey Last line paragraph l implies that A monkeys are also outraged by slack rivals B resenting unfairness is also monkeys nature C monkeys like humans tend to be jealous of each other
14、 D no animals other than monkeys can develop such emotions 23 Female capuchin monkeys were chosen for the research most probably because they are A more inclined to weigh what they get B attentive to researchers instructions C nice in both appearance and temperament D more generous than their male c
15、ompanions 24 Dr Brosnan and Dr de Waal have eventually found in their study that the monkeys A prefer grapes to cucumbers 考研英语历年阅读真题解析 2 B can be taught to exchange things C will not be co operative if feeling cheated D are unhappy when separated from others 25 What can we infer from the last paragr
16、aph A Monkeys can be trained to develop social emotions B Human indignation evolved from an uncertain source C Animals usually show their feelings openly as humans do D Cooperation among monkeys remains stable only in the wild 重点词汇 重点词汇 assumption 假定 承 担 呈现 是 assume 的名词形式 见 1997 年 Text 2 参 consumption 2002 年 Text 3 assumption the mother of screw up 臆断 把事情弄糟的根源 underlying assumption 潜在的假定 grievance n 委屈 冤情 不平 申诉 人 提出不满意见交付仲裁者 悲痛 伤心事 不幸 忧伤 因为有冤情 而满怀悲痛 向申 诉人 申诉 tardily adv 缓慢 形容词形式 拖拉的 谐音记忆 他地 工作是他
