2017英语阅读文章来源及浅析.docxVIP

2017考研英语二阅读文章源文今年的四篇阅读难度相对往年有所下降，题目容易定位，选项的设置比较直接，无需过多思考，同义替换词汇也不算难。今天就带大家来看下今年的4篇文章出自哪些英文报刊杂志？出题者对其做了怎样的改编？四篇文章分别选自The Guardian（卫报）, Scientific American （科学美国人）, Huffington Post （赫芬顿邮报），The Christian Science Monitor（ 基督教科学箴言报）。文章的日期分别为2015年7月5日，2016年6月25日，2016年7月1日，2016年6月28日，一般都是近一两年的文章，大多为当年6月或7月份的文章，因此今后在复习的过程中大家也可以多阅读当年中旬各杂志中相对贴近生活的文章，为阅读考试奠定扎实的基础。Text 1 Parkrun原文本身也仅有558字，删减了一小部分，两处词汇改动后成为阅读理解的Text 1.Parkrun很流行，网上搜索会发现很多国家都为此建有专门的网站。让我想起近几年各大城市举行的马拉松比赛，有个朋友只要能报上名都会参加，每次都跑完全程，拿到了纪念奖牌，也是一件蛮有意义的事情，至少他的坚持和毅力真得让人佩服。Every Saturday morning, at 9am, more than 50,000 runners set off to run 5km around their local park. The?Parkrun?phenomenon began with a dozen friends and has inspired 400 events in the UK and more abroad. Events are free, staffed by thousands of volunteers. Runners range from four years old to grandparents; their times range from?Andrew Baddeley’s?world record 13 minutes 48 seconds?up to an hour.Parkrun is succeeding where London’s Olympic “legacy” is failing.?Ten years agoon Monday, it was announced that the Games of the XXX Olympiad would be in London. Tony Blair told the International Olympic Committee that London had the power to motivate “millions more young people in Britain and across the world”. Planning documents pledged that the great legacy of the Games would be to lever(level) a nation of sport lovers away from their couches. The population would be fitter, healthier and produce more winners. It has not happened. The number of adults doing weekly sport did rise, by nearly 2 million in the runup to 2012 – but the general population was growing faster. Worse, the numbers are now falling at an accelerating rate. The opposition claims primary school pupils doing at least two hours of sport a week have nearly halved. Obesity has risen among adults and children. Official postmortems continue as to why London 2012 failed to “inspire a generation”. The success of Parkrun offers answers.Parkrun is not a race but a time trial: your only competitor