历年英语一阅读真题考研
历年英语一阅读真题考研1
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It‘s no surpri that Jennifer Senior’s insightful， provocative magazine cover story， “I love My Children， I Hate My Life，” is arousing much chatter – nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a pletely fulfilling， life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or mirable， Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness： instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy， we should consider being happy as a past-ten condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard， Senior writes that “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of inten gratification and delight.”
学前教育史The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptive – and newly single – mom Sandra Bullock， as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom， or mom-to-be， smiling on the newsstands.江西省遂川中学
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In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation， is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing ? It doesn‘t em quite fair， then， to pare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the children. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids， but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world： obviously their miry must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.
Of cour， the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People prent is hugely unrealistic， especially when the parents are single moth
ers like Bullock. According to veral studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples， single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there， considering how much work it is to rai a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it， raising a kid on their “own” (read： with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.
It‘s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just becau Ree and Angelina make it look so glamorous： most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we e every week of stress-free， happiness-enhancing parenthood aren‘t in some small， subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience， in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.
36.Jennifer Senior suggests in her article that raising a child can bring素鸡烧肉
[A]temporary delight
[B]enjoyment in progress
关注进入公众号[C]happiness in retrospect
[D]lasting reward
37.We learn from Paragraph 2 that
[A]celebrity moms are a permanent source for gossip.
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[B]single mothers with babies derve greater attention.
[C]news about pregnant celebrities is entertaining.
[D]having children is highly valued by the public.
38.It is suggested in Paragraph 3 that childless folks
[A]are constantly expod to criticism.
[B]are largely ignored by the media.
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[C]fail to fulfill their social responsibilities.
[D]are less likely to be satisfied with their life.
39.According to Paragraph 4， the message conveyed by celebrity magazines is
吃什么对肝好[A]soothing.
[B]ambiguous.
[C]pensatory.
[D]misleading.
40.Which of the following can be inferred from the last paragraph?
[A]Having children contributes little to the glamour of celebrity moms.
[B]Celebrity moms have influenced our attitude towards child rearing.
[C]Having children intensifies our dissatisfaction with life.
[D]We sometimes neglect the happiness from child rearing.
历年英语一阅读真题考研2
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Two years ago. Rupert Murdoch's daughter, spoke at the "unttling dearth of integrity across so many of our collapd, she argued, becau of a collective acceptance that the mechanism"in society should be profit and the market we the people who create the society we want, not profit."
Driving her point home, she continued"It's increasingly abnce of purpo，of a moral language with in government, could bee one of the most dangerous goals for capitalism and freedom." This same abnce of moral purpo was wounding panies, such as International, she thought, making it more likely that it would fore had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.
As the hacking trial concludes-finding guilty one ex-editor of the News of the World,
Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones, and finding the predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge-the wide dearth of integrity still stands. Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people. This is hacking on an industrial scale, as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking. Others await trial. This long story still unfolds.
