2017考研备考英语备考：那些关于“小孩子”的事.docVIP

2017考研备考英语备考：那些关于“小孩子”的事 　关爱孩子是全世界通用的标准，英语语言国家也不例外，关注考研备考英语，就要了解相应文化了，命题人也会从这些共通的文化出发，进行考研备考英语的命题，整理历年相关真题和与孩子有关的相关词汇，助力英语复习。 　　一、考研备考真题对对碰 　　老师始终在倡导考生要认真研究真题，然而这个研究不光是每个单词、每句话，考生们还要对考研备考英语的高频题材进行细致研究，将其归类汇总成一种类型的真题，再综合将单词、长难句细致学习。“孩子”的题材长盛不衰，值得考生注意。在考研备考英语一07年、11年，考研备考英语二12年阅读理解中均有文章出现。 　　(2011年Text4)提倡理性的育儿幸福观 　　作者在第一段介绍了詹妮弗做妈妈的报道，之后通过其他杂志的相关报道指出了社会对生育的鼓励。接着作者表达了自己的看法：杂志类似的报道给没有孩子的父母带来了压力。最后作者指出媒体影响下的社会育儿观，实际上加剧了人们对育儿体验的不满。 　　It‘s no surprise 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 completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience.①Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, 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-tense 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 intense gratification and delight.” 　　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. 　　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 seem quite fair, then, to compare 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 message②that