考研英语

Passage ThreeWhen school officials in Kalkaska,Michigan,closed classes last week,the media flocked to the story,portraying the town's 2,305 students as victims of stingy (吝啬的) taxpayers.There is...

Passage FourEarly in the age of affluence (富裕) that followed World Wer Ⅱ,an American retailing analyst named Victor Lebow proclaimed,"Our enormously productive economy...demands that we mak...

Passage TwoGerman Chancellor (首相)Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his military and diplomatic talent.but his legacy(遣产)includes many of today's social insurance programs.During the mid...

Passage OneBill Gates,the billionaire Microsoft chairman without a single earned university degree,is by his success raising new doubts about the worth of the business world's favorite academic title;...

Passage Four Researchers who are unfamiliar with the cultural and ethnic groups they are studying must take extra precautions to shed any biases they bring with them from their own culture. For exampl...

Passage Three War may be a natural expression of biological instincts and drives toward aggression in the human species. Natural impulses of anger, hostility, and territoriality (守卫地盘的天...

Passage Two No woman can be too rich or too thin. This saying often attributed to the late Duchess (公爵夫人) of Windsor embodies much of the odd spirit of our times. Being thin is deemed as such ...

Passage One When global warming finally came, it stuck with a vengeance (异乎寻常地). In some regions, temperatures rose several degrees in less than a century. Sea levels shot up nearly 400 feet...

Passage Four Not too many decades ago it seemed "obvious" both to the general public and to sociologists that modern society has changed people's natural relations, loosened their responsibi...

Passage Three About the time that schools and others quite reasonably became interested in seeing to it that all children, whatever their background, were fairly treated, intelligence testing became u...