第一章 轻松搞定考研英语阅读.docVIP

轻松搞定考研英语阅读 　　考研英语基础阶段的主要任务是攻克词汇和语法长难句。但是背单词是各位考生最为头疼的事情。与此同时，长难句由于缺乏语境也很难理解。面对此种情况，万学海文为各位学子推荐一种轻松记忆单词和长难句的好方法。在这个阶段，各位学子可以认真研读1994-2004年的真题，从真题中汲取营养，攻克词汇和语法长难句。7月份之前，如果各位考生能够将10年52篇文章做到精读，相信大家的词汇和语法长难句一定会有大的突破，并且为强化阶段的学习奠定坚实的基础。 　　基础阶段精读复习方法及步骤： 　　1快速浏览选项，把握文章主题 　　2精读各段落，攻克词汇和语法长难句 　　3作答题目，理解文章含义 　　4翻译全文，再次巩固复习词汇和语法长难句 　　下面我们为各位学子精细分析1994年Text1 　　The American economic system is organized around a basically private-enterprise, market- oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen, striving to make profits, produce these goods and services in competition with other businessmen; and the profit motive, operating under competitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits andthe desire of individuals to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it. 　　An important factor in a market-oriented economy is the mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall in response to relative demands of consumers and supplies offered by seller-producers. If the product is in short supply relative to the demand, the price will be bid up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. Thus, price is the regulating mechanism in the American economic system. 　　The important factor in a private enterprise economy is that individuals are all