2015海文英语基础-阅读讲义-墨东博.pdfVIP

2012年海文考研英语讲座讲稿 精英版 得阅读者得英语，得英语者得天下！ 所以：单纯地学习词汇对于考研这类应试考试是没有意义的,学的再多不能 转换成分数等于零.把每一个单词跟阅读结合起来实现分数最大化才是未来必胜 的把握,这也是应试考试的精髓! 1 TOPIC 04-P2: Over the past century,all kinds of unfairness and discrimination have been condemned or made illegal. But oneinsidiousformcontinuestothrive:alphabetism.This,forthoseas yet unaware ofsuch adisadvantage,refersto discriminationagainstthosewhosesurnames beginwith a letterinthelowerhalfofthealphabet. It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phone directories. Less well known is the advantage that AdamAbbott has in life over Zoëuml Zysman. English names are fairly evenly spread between the halves of the alphabet. Yet a suspiciouslylargenumberoftoppeoplehavesurnamesbeginningwith lettersbetweenAandK. ThustheAmericanpresidentand vice-presidenthave surnamesstartingwith B and Crespectively; and 26 of GeorgeBush’s predecessors(includinghisfather)hadsurnamesinthefirsthalfofthealphabetagainstjust16inthe second half. Even more striking, six of the seven heads of government of the G7 rich countries are alphabetically advantaged (Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chrétien and Koizumi). The world’s three top central bankers (Greenspan, Duisenberg and Hayami) are all close to the top of the alphabet, even if one of them really uses Japanesecharacters.Asaretheworld’s fiverichestmen(Gates,Buffett,Allen,EllisonandAlbrecht). Can this merely be coincidence? One theory, dreamt up in all the spare time enjoyed by the alphabetically disadvantaged, is that the rot sets in early. At the start of the first year in infant school, teachers seat pupils alphabeticallyfromthefront,to make iteasier to remember theirname