考研英语已经到了冲刺阶段,通过对易错题的分析,可以更好的达到提高应试能力的目的。外语在线学习平台北外网课为同学们选择了几套历年真题进行易错题分析,希望对同学们有所帮助。
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 has 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, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.
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21.In the opening paragraph, the author introduces his topic by ________________________.
[A] posing a contrast
[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(B)
[D] no animals other than monkeys can develop such emotions
正确答案:21:C 22:B
分析:
在首段出两道题目的情况并不是很多。不过05年在首段出了两道,对该段的重视性可见一斑。
21. 本题属于写作手法题。文中写道:Such behaviour is regarded as “all too human,”… …suggests that it is all too monkey, as well. 说明人与猴子之间找到了共同点,as well,表示“也”的意思。暂时不管all too human 与 all too monkey的具体内涵,我们就可以猜出,这二者是由共性的,因而也就是在对比中找到了相同点,所以是comparison,答案为C。 而contrast 强调的是在比较过后,存在差异,也就是强调不同的地方,A错误。B 意思为证明一种假设,显然首段并没有开始证明,只是通过对比说明了一种现象而已,B 错误。D意思为解释一种现象,也不对,首段的任务不过是陈述一种现象,解释的任务必定为后面的部分。英语专八经常出这种题,但是这类题目考研英语的重视程度并不高,只需要了解一些显而易见的写作手法即可。比如本题主要是考察考生对contrast和comparison 的掌握。
22. 本题属于推断题。Imply:to suggest that sth is true or that you feel or think sth, without saying so directly(暗示,暗指);to make it seem likely that sth is true or exists(说明,表明)【读一遍英文释义,深化理解】。其实这句话就是在问it is all to monkey的深一层、更加直白的意思。在该段中,作者指出两种相似之处,it is all too human 指的是:
Yet pleasure at your own can vanish if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he has a reputation for slacking, you might even be outraged. 如果得知懒散的同事加薪比自己多的话,自己甚至可能会义愤填膺。那么讲到it is all to monkey 的话,应该就是猴子遇到处事不公的情况也会义愤填膺(outrage,v 义愤填膺,outraged,adj 义愤填膺的,还有一个adj 是outrageous)。用原文的话就是animals would be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance(不满,不平). 那么回过头来看选项。A: slack rivals 不对,前面陈述的还都正确,但是slack rivals 是举得人类中的一种情况,太具体(具体了一种情况则否定了很多其他情况),也是对文章的断章取义。 B 对不公平的怨恨也是猴子的本性。Resent,v. 怨恨 ,可看做是对grievance(不满,不平) 的同义替换,而 resenting unfairness 则是对outraged的同义替换,这种义愤填膺其实就是对于不公正的不满,不平。而nature天性、本性之意,是对it is all too monkey 精神之把握。完美同义替换简练说出正确的含义,B为最佳选项。而C,像人类一样,猴子往往会互相嫉妒。Jealous 嫉妒的,不对,不是嫉妒,而是outrageous 义愤填膺的感觉。Jealous 是无中生有,C错误。D猴子之外其它动物不会有这种情感,则更是无中生有了,而且所说内容与文章主旨毫不相干,错误。本题难点可能在于考生能否正确理解outrageous、 grievance、 resenting unfairness、 jealous 的意思,从而分析出正确选项。
总结:text1的前两题稍微难,正确理解**段,拿下前两题,后面三题基本也会拿下,较为简单。