考研英语阅读unit-1

Unit 1

By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.

P art A

Directions：Read the following texts. Answer the questions blow each text by choosing [A],[B],[C] or [D].

Text 1

Catneton Walker learned the hard way that sharing information online can have unintended conse-quences. In 2005, the sophomore at Fisher College in Boston organized a student petition dedicated to getting a campus police guard fired and posted it on the popular college social network Facebook. com. Walker wrote that the guard “loves to antagonize students.., and needs to be elimina ted.” It was a poor choice of words. Another student informed school officials, who logged on and interpreted the comments as threatening. Though Walker claimed he was trying only to expose the guard?s demeanor, he was expelled. He?s now enrolled at another college and admits he made a serious mistake. “I was a naive 21-year-old,” he says.

Creating a page on a social-networking site is now a cherished form of self-expression at universities around the world. Students use ad-supported services like Facebook, MySpace, TagWorld and Bebo to make friends, plan their social lives and project their personalities. The most popular site among college students is Facebook, with more than 8 million members. A student?s personal Facebook page is usually a revealing, dynamic chronicle of campus life—one clearly not meant for the eyes of parents, teachers or anyone else older than 25.

But adults are taking notice. Sites like Facebook are accessible to nearly anyone willing to spend the time to gain access: teachers, school administrators, even potential employers and the police. Such online services can create the illusion of privacy where none actually exists. Facebook, in particular, was designed to emphasize privacy and intimacy. Only other users at your school (with the same college e-mail domain name), and those in networks you join, can see your home page. But determined off-campus visitors can persuade a student or alumnus to help them access the student?s page.

What happens when the identity you reveal to friends suddenly overwhelms the facade you present to grown-ups? The results can be awkward—or worse. Photos from drunken parties, recollections of sexual escapades, or threats—all these indiscretions, posted online, have gotten students suspended or expelled, or harmed job prospects. In a couple of decades, a presidential candidate may be called on to answer for a college misadventure that he or she impulsively detailed in a blog entry.

Not all students want to temper their behavior. They point out that the Internet lets them

express themselves and find like-minded souls. Still, adults aren?t likely to stop prying any time soon. That means students who use Facebook and MySpace have a new burden. The Web may seem ephemeral, but what you casually post one night might just last a digital eternity. ‘While social networking represents a powerful tool for today’s students, they’re advised to be prudent. Even if they have no plans to run for president someday.

1. Cameron Walker was dismissed because he

[A] was caught posting threatening information online.

[B] fighted with the campus police guard fiercely.

[C] violated the rules when he created his own personal page.

[D] he logged onto the school?s official website without permission.

2. What is the major problem with Facebook?

[A] The information in it is shared too widely.

[B] Teachers are allowed no access to it.

[C] Its claimed privacy is only an illusion.

[D] It annoys too many teachers and parents.

3. Which of the following contents are you more likely to find at Facebook?

[A] Virtuous conducts. [B] Pictures of drunken students.

[C] Flattering language. [D] Lecture notes.

4. Why do Students cherish the Internet?

[A] They can practise their communicative skills.

[B] They can communicate effectively with teachers.

[C] They can reveal their feelings freely.

[D] They compete for leadership.

5. Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the text?

[A] Creating personal web page is gaining popularity on campus.

[B] Careless online postings can mean really big trouble to students.

[C] Colleges take tough measures against invasion on personal privacy.

[D] Undesirable online content should be made illegal and eliminated.

Text 2

Up to now, the main impact of technological change has been on long-distance calls. In the United States, where four nationwide fiber networks have been built in a decade, long-distance revenue per minute has halved during that period. Now other technologies are cutting the cost of the “local loop” — the connection between the nearest exchange and the subscriber?s home. The connection is usually made with a twisted pair of copper wires, a technology unchanged for almost 120 years. As a rule of thumb, local distribution accounts for 80% of a net-work?s costs. Peter Huber, a telecoms specialist based in Washington, DC, reckons that it costs around $1,200～$ 2,000 to connect a new customer with copper.

Two less expensive and more flexible alternatives to copper have now become available. One is to run telephone services over the same system as cable television. A breakthrough in laser design in the late 1980?s made it possible to send analogue television pictures along optical fibers. Since then cable systems, like telephone systems, have increasingly acquired backbones of optical

fiber. Adding telephony to an existing cable system usually costs much less than extending the copper-wire network.

The trouble is that a cable-television system, like a telephone network, involves high fixed costs and passes homes that do not want it, as well as homes that do; So building one from scratch (as in Britain) is expensive. These problems are avoided by the other technological breakthrough：the use of wireless transmission. Its extraordinary flexibility and low cost will allow the development of a new kind of network or networks —competing directly with fixed wires. “Wireless is the answer to the local monopoly,” says Robert Pepper, head of the office of plans and policy at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States.

“If local telecoms were to rebuild from scratch today, they would do so mostly with radio, at a cost of about $ 800 per subscriber,” says Peter Huber, Michael Kellogg and John Thorne in” The Geodesic Net work II,” a 1993 review of competition in the industry i n the United States. Mobile telephones will increasingly compete head-on with fixed systems. But the most important innovation is likely to be a digital wireless linked to a small fixed radio antenna in the home, which can make extraordinarily efficient use of the radio spectrum; unlike a mobile phone, the antenna is always tuned precisely to the correct base station.

Such systems of wireless local access are now being developed by several companies including Hughes in the United States and Ionica in Britain, but are not yet in commercial use in OECD countries. Nevertheless, calculations by analysts, a British consultancy, bear out the enthusiasm of Mr. Huber and his colleagues for fixed wireless access as potentially the least expensive way to make the final link to the home.

6. According to Para. 2, which of the following is true?

[A] Fiber networks have been dramatically reduced.

[B] Local calls are more expensive than long distance calls.

[C] Fiber networks have brought about a reduction in costs for long-distance calls.

[D] It is not so costly to connect a new customer with copper.

7. One advantage of the wireless transmission over fixed wires is that it

[A] enables subscribers to receive clearer digital signals.

[B] allows one company to monopolize local transmission.

[C] permits more competitors to set up new phone businesses.

[D] makes digital transmission possible.

8. The two technological breakthroughs in telecommunication mentioned are

[A] copper wire network & cable television system.

[B] cable-television system & wireless transmission.

[C] wireless transmission & copper wire network.

[D] fixed wires & radio network.

9. It can be inferred from the passage that

[A] wireless telecommunication holds great prospect for the future.

[B] copper wire network will not be replaced by other types of networks.

[C] both cable television systems & radio networks will be the goal people try to reach.

[D] fixed wireless access is similar to mobile phones.

10. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

[A] Impact of New Technology on Telecommunications.

[B] Great Changes in Telecommunications.

[C] Copper Wire Network vs Cable Television System.

[D] Reduction in Cost of Long-distance Calls.

Text 3

For most of us, the work is the central, dominating factor of life. We spend more than half our conscious hours at work, traveling to and from work. What we do there largely determines our standard of living and to a considerable extent the status we are accorded by our fellow citizens as well. It is sometimes said that because leisure has become more important the indignities and injustices of work can be pushed into a corner, that because most work is pretty intolerable, the people who do it should compensate for its boredom, frustrations and humiliations by concentrating their hopes on the other parts of their lives. I reject that as a counsel of despair. For the foreseeable future the material and psychological rewards which work can provide, and the conditions in which work is done, will continue to play a vital part in determining the satisfaction that life can offer. Yet only a small minority can control the pace at which they work or the conditions in which their work is done; only for a small minority does work offer scope for creativity, imagination, or initiative.

Inequality at work and in work is still one of the cruelest and most glaring forms of inequality in our society. We cannot hope to solve the more obvious problems of industrial life, many of which arise directly or indirectly from the frustrations created by inequality at work, unless we tackle it head-on.Still less can we hope to create a decent and humane society.

The most glaring inequality is that between managers and the rest. For most managers, work is an opportunity and a challenge. Their jobs engage their interest and allow them to develop their abilities. They are constantly learning; they are able to exercise responsibility; they have a considerable degree of control over their own and others? working lives. Most important of all, they have opportunity to initiate. By contrast, for most manual workers, and for a growing number of white-collar worker, work is a boring, dull, even painful experience. They spend all their working lives in conditions which would be regarded as intolerable — for themselves — by those who take the decisions which let such conditions continue. The majority has little control over their work; it provides them with no opportunity for personal development. Often production is so designed that workers are simply part of the technology. In offices, many jobs are so routine that workers justifiably feel themselves to be mere cogs in the bureaucratic machine. As a direct consequence of their work experience, many workers feel alienated from their work and their firm, whether it is in public or in private ownership.

11. It can be inferred from paragraph 1 that people judge others by

[A] the type of work they do.

[B] the condition in which they work.

[C] the time they spend at work.

[D] the standard of living they have

12. According to the author, work is now

[A] more important than it will be in the future.

[B] less important than it will be in the future

[C] important in deciding the satisfaction that life provides with.

[D] offering less satisfaction than life used to provide with.

13. What is needed to solve our industrial problems?

[A] A decent and humane society.

[B] Equality in taking the initiative.

[C] A more equal distribution of responsibility.

[D] A more tolerable working condition.

14. What advantages do managers have over other workers?

[A] They won?t lose their jobs.

[B] They get time off to attend courses.

[C] They can work at whatever interests them.

[D] They can make their own decisions.

15. Why do working conditions generally remain bad?

[A] Because managers don?t regard them as intolerable.

[B] Because managers cannot decide what to do about them.

[C] Because managers see no need to change them.

[D] Because managers don?t want to take the decisions

Text 4

Forget all the talk about corporate culture. It’s time to analyze your company’s personality.

Plenty of business gurus have argued for years that companies aren’t just boxes and bubbles on org-charts. Instead, they’ve argued, companies are more like biological organisms — living things that learn, evolve, and eventually die. Are you ready to take this biological worldview to the next level? According to marketing consultant Sanfdy Fekete, companies can best be understood when thought of as people —as unique creatures with their own value, their own personalities, and sometimes, if her clients really get into the spirit, their own names.

“Most people assume that a company’s personality matches its CEO’s personality,”says Fekete, 43, founder of Fekete Company, a marketing-communications firm based in Columbus, Ohio.“But that’s not true. An organization has its own ways of being.”

Fekete’s job is to help her clients understand their company’s personality —its strengths and its weaknesses. Her main tool is a 74-question diagnostic called, appropriately, “Companies Are People, Too.”So far, people in 63 organizations ranging from museums to construction firms to medical practices have put pen to paper to scrutinize their companies’ personalities.

It may sound like psychobabble, but the idea behind the tool is fairly simple: An organization, like a person, has preferred ways of focusing energy, gathering information, making decision, and structuring work. Once people inside an organization understand those preferences, argues Fekete, they can do a better job of articulating their company’s identity and values, and they can figure out better ways to work and to communicate. Some of her clients even elect “keepers of the personality”—volunteers who make sure that their organization is clear about the attributes that it prizes.

“Change comes from awareness,”Fekete says. “Once you figure out who you are, you can begin to differentiate yourself from your competitors.”

Dixon Schwabl Advertising Inc., a fast-growing agency based in upstate New York, has actually undergone a personality change as a result of using the tool. After taking the test for the first time, the agency created a character, named Samm, to embody the company’s strengths and

weaknesses. But a year later, after the agency worked on its weaknesses, Samm gave way to Jazzy. “Samm was too deadline-focused”, muses Lauren Dixon, 45, founder and president of Dixon Schwabl.“We’re still driven to meet our deadlines, but not at the risk of compromising the creative. We need a different character to personify who we had become.”

Indeed, Dixon claims that Jazzy has not only helped her company better understand its values; the personality has also contributed to the firm’s phenomenal growth —from billings of $ 18 million in 1997 to $ 49 million in 2000.“In any situation,” she says, “We ask ourselves, …What would Jazzy do??”

16. The analogy comparing a company to a biological organism implies that

[A] companies can have strengths and weaknesses too.

[B] companies are living, changing entities.

[C] companies are made up of living individuals.

[D] companies have lifespan just like humans.

17. Once a company?s personality is understood, what can it do?

[A] begin to make changes to its personality.

[B] have a basis by which to make important hiring decisions.

[C] find ways to better its work and communication.

[D] create a character to market this personality to the public.

18. Sarnm and Jazzy are

[A] elites who can improve Dixon Schwabl?s personality.

[B] employees who help Dixon Schwabl better understand its value.

[C] qualities which empochy Dixon Schwabl’s

[D] codes that have contributed to Dixon Schwabl’s growth.

19. The example of Dixon Schwabl is cited to illustrate that

[A] small agencies like Dixon Schwab l can have personalities as well.

[B] awareness of a company’s personality can help it make improvements.

[C] a company with a deadline-focused personality is unlikely to last long.

[D] it is important to pick the right name for a company’s personality.

20. According to the text, what?s true about a company’s personality？

[A] It matches its CEO’s personality.

[B] It is a composite of its worker’s personalities.

[C] It relates to how it likes to make decisions and structure work.

[D] It can only be determined by taking the appropriate diagnostic test.

Part B

Directions: You are going to read a text about reading books. For Questions 21-25, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blanks. There are

two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the blanks.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness. 21. ___________________________. Books often excite thought in great writers, even upon entirely different subjects. We often find in books what we thought and felt, could we have expressed ourselves. Indeed, we get acquainted with ourselves in books. We

discover one feature in Emerson, another lineament in Shakespeare, an expression in Homer, a glimpse of ourselves in Dante, and so on until we spell out our whole individuality. 22. _________________________________________.

We form many of our opinions from our favorite books. The author whom we prefer is our most potent teacher; we look at the world through his eyes. If we habitually read books that are elevating in tone, pure in style, sound in reasoning, and keen in insight, our minds develop the same characteristics. 23. _________________________________.

The best books are those which stir us up most and make us the most determined to do something and be something ourselves. The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere. As we should associate with people who can inspire us to nobler deeds, so we should only read those books which have an uplifting power, and which stir us to make the most of ourselves and our opportunities.

24. _____________________________________________.

Furnish your house with books rather than unnecessary furniture, bric-a-brac, or even pictures if you cannot afford all. One of the most incongruous sights in the world is an elegant house with costly furniture, paintings of the masters, imported tapestries, statuary, costly carpets, extravagant frescoes, and yet with scarcely a standard work in the library.

Wear threadbare clothes and patched shoes if necessary, but do not pinch or economize on books. 25. _______________________________________.

Whatever you read, read with enthusiasm, with energy, read with the whole mind, if you would increase your mental stature. Learn to absorb the mental and the moral life of a book, and assimilate it into your life. He is the best reader who consumes the most knowledge and converts it into character. Mechanical readers remember words, the husks of things, but digest nothing. They cram their brains but starve their minds. If you are getting the most out of a book, you will feel a capacity for doing things which you never felt before.

[A] Libraries are no longer a luxury, but a necessity. A home without books and periodicals and

newspapers is like a house without Windows. Children learn to read by being in the midst of books; they unconsciously absorb knowledge by handling them. No family can now afford to be without good reading.

[B] Perhaps no other thing has such power to lift the poor out of his poverty, the wretched out of

his misery, to make the burden-bearer forget his burden, the sick his suffering, the sorrower his grief, the downtrodden his degradation, as books.

[C] If you cannot give your children an academic education you can place within their reach a few

good books which will lift them above their surroundings, into respectability and honour. A college education, or its equivalent, and more is possible to the poorest boy or girl who has access to the necessary books.

[D] If, on the contrary, we read weak or vicious books, our minds contract the faults and vices of

the books. We cannot escape the influence of what we read any more than we can escape the influence of the air that we breathe.

[E] A good book often serves as a match to light the dormant powder within us. There is explosive

material enough in most of us if we can only reach it. A good book or a good friend often serves to wake up our latent possibilities.

[F] We may be poor, socially ostracized, shut out from all personal association with the great and

the good, and yet be in the best society in the world, in books. We may live in palaces,

converse with princes, be familiar with royalty, and associate with the greatest and noblest of all time.

[G] True, we get many pleasing reflections of ourselves from friends, many mirrored deformities

from our enemies, and a characteristic here and there from the world; but in a calm and unbiased way we find the most of ourselves, our strength, our weakness, our breadth, our limitations, our opinions, our tastes, our harmonies and discords, our poetic and prosaic qualities, in books.

Part C

Directions:Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese.

We all know that the normal human daily cycle of activity is of some 7-8 hours “sleep alternating with some 16-17 hours” wakefulness and that, broadly speaking, the sleep normally coincides with the hours of darkness. Our present concern is with how easily and to what extent this cycle can be modified.

The question is no mere academic one. 26)The ease, for example, with which people can change from working in the day to working at night is the question of growing importance in industry where automation calls for round-the-clock working of machines. It normally takes from five days to one week for a person to adapt to a reversed routine of sleep and wakefulness, sleeping during the day and working at night. Unfortunately, it is often the case in industry that shifts are changed every week; a person may work from 12 midnight to 8 a.m. one week, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. the next, and 4 p.m. to 12 midnight the third and so on. 27)This means that no sooner has he got used to one routine than he has to change another, so that much of his time is spent neither working nor sleeping very efficiently.

The only real solution appears to be to hand over the night shift to a number of permanent night workers. An interesting study of the domestic life and health of night-shift workers was carried out by Brown in 1957. 28)She found a high incidence of disturbed sleep and other disorders among those alternating day and night shifts, but no abnormal occurrence of these phenomena among those on permanent night work.

29)This latter system then appears to be the best long-term policy, but meanwhile something may be done to relieve the strains of alternate day and night work by selecting those people who can adapt most quickly to the changes of routine. One way of knowing when a person has adapted is by measuring his body temperature. 30)People engaged in normal daytime work will have a high temperature during the hours of wakefulness and a low one at night; when they change to night work the pattern will only gradually go back to match the new routine and the speed with which it does so parallels, broadly speaking, the adaptation of the body as a whole, particularly in terms of performance. Therefore, by taking body temperature at intervals of two hours throughout the period of wakefulness it can be seen how quickly a person can adapt to a reversed routine, and this could be used as a basis for selection. So far, however, such a form of selection does not seem to have been applied in practice.

做题点拨与全文翻译

Part A

Text 1

语境词汇

1.sophomore n.大学二年级生

2.petition n.请愿,；情愿书v.请求，恳求

3.antagonize vt.敌对；对抗

4.log on 登录

5.demeanor n.行为；风度

6.chronicle n.编年史

7.intimacy n.隐私；亲密

8.facade n.外表；正面

9.escapade n.异常出轨的行为

10.indiscretion n.不慎重；轻率

11.ephemeral a.短暂的；短命的

难句突破

1. [In 2005], the sophomore (at Fisher College in Boston) organized a student petition (dedicated to getting a campus police guard fired) and posted it (on the popular college social network Facebook. com.)

【分析】简单句。句子的主干为the sophomore organized…and post…。dedicated to…fired为过去分词短语作定语。

【译文】2005年，在波士顿Fisher学院上二年级的他发起了一场学生请愿活动，目的是想让学校将一名校园警卫开除，他把请愿书贴在了学校最流行的社交网络https://www.sodocs.net/doc/9916090729.html,上。

2. A student’s personal Facebook page is usually a revealing, dynamic chronicle of campus life—{one clearly not meant for the eyes of parents, teachers or anyone else older than 25.}

【分析】简单句。句子的主干为A student?s personal Facebook page is usually a chronicle…。one clearly not…为主语的同位语。

【译文】在Facebook上创建的个人网页通常是学生们一览无余和充满活力的校园生活的真实写照—这些内容显然不是让家长、老师和其他25岁以上的人看的。

本文是一篇观点论证型文章，论证了在网上分享信息可能产生意想不到的后果的观点。第一段举Walker的例子，说明无意间在网上发一个过于随意的帖子会产生什么样的后果，第二段提到了学生对Facebook等网站的喜爱，第三、四、五段提到了在Facebook等所谓保护隐私的网站上随意发表的东西对学生的现在和未来可能会产生的负作用。

Text 2

语境词汇

1. fiber n. 纤维；质地；纤维物质，纤维质料

2. subscriber n. 签署者，订户，捐献者

3. twist v. 扭转；旋转，绞；扭弯；捻，搓；扭弯，缠绕

4. reckon v. 认为，测量；觉得，猜想；判断；估计

5. flexible adj. 易曲的，柔软的，灵活的

6. alternative n. 选择，二选一；选择的自由；供选择的东西

7. telephony n. 电话机制造法，通话法

8. from scratch从零开始，从头做起

9. extraordinary adj. 非常的；非凡的；特别的

10. antenna n. 触须，触角，天线

难句突破

1.[In the United States], （where four nationwide fiber networks have been built in a decade）

long-distance revenue (per minute) has halved [during that period.]

【分析】复合句。主句为long-distance revenue …has halved；where引导的定语从句修饰地点状语United States。

【译文】：在美国，十年间建立了四个国家有线网络，每分钟的长途收费在此期间被减少一半。

2.The trouble is that a cable-television system, like a telephone network, involves high fixed

costs and passes homes（that do not want it）, as well as homes（that do）;

【分析】复合句。that引导的表语从句主干结构为a cable-television system…involves…and passes，其中passes的两个并列宾语homes又分别由两个定语从句修饰，后一个定语从句that do后省略了want it。

【译文】：麻烦的是，有线电视，与电话网络一样，需要很高的安装费，它要经过那些需要它的用户家庭，同时还有那些不需要它的家庭。

本文是一篇观点论证型的文章。在文章的开头，作者提出“科技变化的主要影响还是在长途电话方面”这一观点，接下来又列举了“在有线电视系统中运行电话服务”和“无线传输的使用”这两项科技突破来证明自己的观点。第四、五段，通过别人的言论及对新科技的热情，展示了新科技的优势和前景。

Text 3

语境词汇

1.accord vt.授予，赠与vi.(+with)相符合，相和谐

2.indignity n.有损尊严的事，侮辱

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/9916090729.html,pensate vt.补偿，弥补，抵消；酬报

4.humiliation n.屈辱

5.initiative n.主动性，首创精神；倡议；主动权a.创始的

6. head-on a.正面的

7.humane a.人道的，仁慈的

8.cog n.机器中的小部件（如齿轮等）

9. alienate v.离间，使疏远：

11. a counsel of despair自暴自弃的态度

难句突破

1. It is [sometimes] said that [because leisure has become more important], the indignities and injustices of work can be pushed into a corner, that [because most work is pretty intolerable], the people (who do it) should compensate for its boredom, frustrations and humiliations [by concentrating their hopes on the other parts of their lives].

【分析】复合句。本句的结构为it is said that...句型，it 此处为形式主语，真正的主语为后面两个并列的that 从句；在第一个that 从句中，because 引导了一个原因状语从句，主句为被动句；在第二个that 分句中，同样由because 引导原因状语从句，后面的who 引导定语从句修饰主句的主语the people，by..是介词短语作状语。

【译文】有时候人们会认为，因为休闲越来越重要，所以工作中有伤自尊的事情和所有不公平的事情可以暂时放到一边去，不用太计较；因为大部分的工作都是让人难以忍受的，所以做这些工作的人完全可以将他们的希望寄托在生活中的其他方面，以此弥补工作中所承受的单调无聊、挫折失望以及所受的屈辱。

2. They spend all their working lives [in conditions (which would be regarded as intolerable —for themselves — by those (who take the decisions (which let such conditions continue))].

【分析】复合句。in conditions 作状语；which 引导定语从句，修饰conditions；who引导的定语从句修饰代词those, 在这个定语从句中，宾语decisions由which 引导的定语从句来修饰。

【译文】连那些做出决定让这种工作环境继续下去的人都认为这种工作环境的确让人难以忍受，但是员工们几乎所有的时间都在这样的环境中工作着。

本文是一篇“观点论证型”论述文。作者论述了工作对人们生活的重要性以及工作中的不平等现象。第一段阐明了作者的观点，即工作是人们生活中最重要的事情；第二、三段详细论述了工作中所产生的不平等及其所带来的后果。

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Text 4

语境词汇

1.guru n.领袖

2. scrutinize vt.细察，细阅

3.psychobabble n.心理呓语

4.upstate n.北部地区，州的边远地区

5.embody vt.体现；包含；使具体化

6.deadline n.最终期限

7.muse v.沉思，冥想；若有所思的凝望

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/9916090729.html,promise v.放弃（原则、理想等)；妥协；危及

9.personify v.象征，体现

难句突破

1.[According to marketing consultant Sandy Fekete], companies can best be understood [when thought of as people —as unique creatures with their own value, their own personalities, and sometimes, if her clients really get into the spirit, their own names].

【分析】复合句。when 引导状语从句，thought前省略主语people和be动词are；破折号后面的内容是对as people的补充说明；with后三个并列名词短语作with的宾语，修饰unique creatures；if …是插入成分。

【译文】市场营销顾问桑迪·费科特认为，了解公司的最好方式是把公司当作人来看待——作为独特的人，它有自己的价值、自己的性格，(如果费科特的客户真的进入角色的话)有时甚至还有自己的名字。

2. [Once people inside an organization understand those preferences], argues Fekete, they can do

a better jo

b (of articulating their company’s identity and values), and they can figure out better ways (to work and to communicate).

【分析】复合句。本句的主干结构为...they can do a better job..., and they can figure out better ways...；once引导条件状语从句，argues Fekete 视作插入语。

【译文】费科特认为，一旦组织内部的人员了解到这些喜好，他们就能更好地阐明公司的特性和价值观，就能找到更好的工作方法和交流方式。

本文是一篇“观点论证型”论述文。第一段作者提出观点，认为到了分析公司特性的时候了；第二、三段引用市场营销顾问费科特的观点，认为了解公司的最好方法是把公司看作是人；第四、五、六段介绍了费科特的公司特性诊断法；第七、八段举了狄克逊·施瓦博广告代理公司的例子证明该诊断法的效果。

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2. incongruous a.不协调的，不和谐的

3. pinch vt.吝啬；夹痛；逮捕

4. assimilate vt.＆vi.吸收，消化；同化

5. husk n.茧衣，（比喻）表面的东西

6. cram vt.塞入，填满；死记硬背

7. deformity n.残缺；畸形

8. prosaic a.平淡的，乏味的

难句突破

1. [As we should associate with people who can inspire us to nobler deeds], so we should only read those books (which have an uplifting power, and which stir us to make the most of ourselves and our opportunities).

【分析】复合句。as引导方式状语从句；该从句又包含一个who引导的定语从句，修饰people。so引导的结果句中有两个which引导的定语从句同时修饰books。

【翻译】正如应该与鼓舞我们从事更崇高事业的人交往一样，应该只读那些有鼓舞力量、促使我们充分利用自己和机会的书籍。

2. [If you cannot give your children an academic education] you can place within their reach a few good books (which will lift them above their surroundings, into respectability and honor).

【分析】复合句。if引导条件状语从句。主句中包含一个which引导的定语从句，修饰books。above their surroundings做插入语成份，起补充说明作用。

【翻译】要是不能让儿女受到正规的学校教育，你可以把一些好书置于他们身旁，那些书会使他们跨越环境的藩篱，达到享有尊敬和荣誉的境界。

Part C

语境词汇

1.alternate with 交替；轮流出现

2.coincide vi.一致，符合

3.reversed a.颠倒的

4.incidence n.发生频率：出现的范围、程度或频率

5.strain n.过度的疲劳，紧张；张力

6.at intervals 不时；相隔一定距离

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