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1、在考研阅读中，不论是阅读文章还是解答题目，标点符号都可以起到画龙点睛的妙用。下面张莹老师就带着大家见证一下由它们所产生的奇迹。一：逗号两逗号中为插入语时，看暂时跳读1. For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had invented and which sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty.（2000，Text 1）半导体制造业是美国发明的，而且是新的电脑时代的核心产业
2、，一度被认为会成为下一个受害者。2 .Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competition. （2000，Text 1）面对国外的竞争，美国一些大型产业出现了萎缩或者倒闭，比如消费电子业。3. This means that, for the first time, there will be an excess of boys in those crucial years when they are searc
3、hing for a mate. （2000，Text 2）（做男人总是有危险。男女出生比例大约为 105:100，但到成年时，这个比例就差不多会降到持平状态；而在 70 岁老年人中，女性人数是男性人数的两倍。但是男性死亡率高这一普遍现象正在被改变。现在，男婴存活率几乎和女婴一样。 ）这意味着到了找对象的关键几年，男性人数将首次超过女性。二： 冒号进一步解释说明前句中的事物或现象1. We live a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances (drugs) is pervasive: an aspirin to
4、quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going in the morning, a cigarette for the nerves. （1996，Text 4）60. The word pervasive (Line 1, Paragraph 2) might mean _.A widespreadB overwhelmingC piercingD fashionable2. There is another way to commit evolutionary suicide: stay alive, but
5、have fewer children. （2000 ，Text 2）进行进化式自杀还有一种办法：一直活着、少生孩子。3. I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her much-publicized resignation from the editorship of She after a build-up of stress, that abandoning the doctrine of juggling your life, and making the alternative move into downshifting b
6、rings with it far greater rewards than financial success and social status. Nothing could persuade me to return to the kind of life Kelsey used to advocate and I once enjoyed: 12-hour working days, pressured deadlines, the fearful strain of office politics and the limitations of being a parent on qu
7、ality time. (2001, Text 5)69. Juggling ones life probably means living a life characterized by _.A non-materialistic lifestyleB a bit of everythingC extreme stressD anti-consumerism三：分号可表示结构并列或语意并列，有时可利用分号推测句子意思或作者态度1.This is no flash in the pan; over the past couple of years, inflation has been con
8、sistently lower than expected in Britain and America. （1997，Text 5）这不是昙花一现，在过去几年里，英国和美国的通货膨胀率始终低于预测水平。69. The sentence This is no flash in the pan (Line 5, Paragraph 3) means that _.A the low inflation rate will last for some timeB the inflation rate will soon riseC the inflation will disappear quic
9、klyD there is no inflation at present2. For us, this means that evolution is over; the biological Utopia has arrived. Strangely, it has involved little physical change. （2000 ，Text 2）对于我们来说，这意味着进化已经结束，生物学上的乌托邦时代已经来临。3. 2004 Text 1 Instead, the best strategy is to use the agent as a kind of tip servi
10、ce to keep abreast of jobs in a particular database; when you get E-mail, consider it a reminder to check the database again.The expression tip service (Line 3-4, Paragraph 3) most probably means_.A advisory B compensation C interaction D reminder四： 破折号两破折号中为插入语时，看暂时跳读1.At the same time, the America
11、n Law Institute - a group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight - issued new guidelines for tort（侵权） law stating that companies need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard（轰炸） them with a lengthy list of possible ones. （1999 ，Text 1）与此同时，美国法律协会-一群
12、说话举足轻重的法官、律师和学者 -颁布了新的侵权行为法准则，规定公司不必提醒消费者显而易见的危险，也不必为他们列出一长串可能遇到的危险。2. But in the past 100, 000 years-even the past 100 years-our lives have been transformed but our bodies have not. （2000，Text 2）可是过去 10 万年-甚至在过去 100 年里，我们的生很活发生了变化，但我们的身体却没有改变。3.Those things that do not show up in the test scores-pe
13、rsonality, ability, courage or humanity-are completely ignored, says Toshiki Kaifu, chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Partys education committee. （2000，Text 4）那些考试成绩无法反映的东西-个性、能力、勇气或人性 -完全被忽略了，执政的自由民主党教育委员会主席 Toshiki Kaifu 说。 （由此产生的挫折感导致了孩子们的中途退学和难以管教。 ）五： 引号1. 可表示讽刺：Scientific creationism,
14、which is being pushed by some for equal time in the classrooms whenever the scientific accounts of evolution are given, is based on religion, not science.（1996，Text 5）Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large comfortable classes who had retired on their incomes, and who had no r
15、elation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders meeting to dictate their orders to the management. (1996, Text 3)2. 可用于引用某人观点：I struck gold, says Redmon. （2004 ，Text 1）我发现了金矿，Redmon 说。3. 表示专有名词I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will a
16、fter her much-publicized resignation from the editorship of She after a build-up of stress, that abandoning the doctrine of juggling your life, and making the alternative move into downshifting brings with it far greater rewards than financial success and social status. （2001，Text 5）我发现，放弃那种为生活打拼的信条，转向减压减速的生活，将会带来高于经济收入和社会地位的回报；Lind
