被考研英语“虐心”,对于所有考研学子来说都再平常不过的了。今天带领大家再次去见证一下被考研英语阅读虐心的种种瞬间。不知道还奋斗在基础阶段复习的2017考研学子看后是否被再次“虐”心。废话不多讲,接下来先看虐心第一发:
A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys,people are actually more stressed at home than at work.Researchers measured people’s cortisol, which is a stress marker,while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.(2015)
这个段落选取自2015年考研英语二真题阅读,这段话就是阅读题目定位的句子。接下来,请各位考生先看题目:
According to Paragraph 1, most previous surveys found that home .
[A]offered greater relaxation than the workplace
[B]was an ideal place for stress measurement
[C]generated more stress than the workplace
[D]was an unrealistic place for relaxation
在看过题干后,许多考生就直奔主题,开始浏览第一段。题干中的定位信息非常明确,但是考生在选择选项时,就很容易陷入出题人的误区,被答案“雷”的外焦里嫩。当年就有许多考生没有将题目仔细阅读分析完就直接选择了选项,最终造成2分白白失去。
通过题干提供的定位信息,我们定位到第一段,然而再通过题干中的“most previous surveys found that...”,我们就把目光定位到“A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys”,信息定位没有问题,接下来就是分析四个选项。在这个事实细节题中,考生很容易就将目光锁定在“people are actually more stressed at home than at work.”上,然而并非如此。主要问题就出现在固定搭配“contrary to”上,这是“与..相反”的意思,同样类似的搭配还有“by contrast”、“in contrast”及“in contrast to”。所以,出题人在这里考查考生关于除了同义替换外,还有词汇的意思。这道题目的正确答案是A (offered greater relaxation than the workplace),原因就在于“与大多数的调查结果相反的...”,因此,与“more stressed at home than at work”相反的就是“home offered greater relaxation than the workplace”;C选项的命中率最高,因为是“more stressed at home than at work”的同义替换;B选项则是无关选项,,在这一段落中并未提到;而D选项在文中并未体现对比。
通过一道简单的阅读事实细节题,就是想提示考生:在完成英语阅读题目时,有的时候一个小小的细节就会让这两分溜走。同时,在后面的文章中,会继续给考生提供关于考研英语各个模块的复习建议和提示,希望对各位考生有所裨益。
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