2018英语阅读基础课逐句精讲.pdfVIP

选自：北京宫东风英语教学团队编写的《2018 年考研英语真题考点与常见错误透析》（高等教育出版社） 2018 年考研英语基础课（词汇、语法难句与阅读基础） 课堂精讲与复习备考的真题语料 （1 ） 2007 Text 1 【第1 段】 [1-1] If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006’s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the later months. [1-2] If you then examined the European national youth teams that feed the World Cup and professional ranks, you would find this strange phenomenon to be even more pronounced. 【第2 段】 [2-1] What might account for this strange phenomenon? [2-2]Here are a few guesses: a) certain astrological signs confer superior soccer skills; b) winter-born babies tend to have higher oxygen capacity, which increases soccer stamina; c) soccer-mad parents are more likely to conceive children in springtime, at the annual peak of soccer mania; d) none of the above. 【第3 段】 [3-1]Anders Ericsson, a 58-year-old psychology professor at Florida State University, says he believes strongly in “none of the above.” [3-2]Ericsson grew up in Sweden, and studied nuclear engineering until he realized he would have more opportunity to conduct his own research if he switched to psychology. [3-3]His first experiment, nearly 30 years ago, involved memory: training a person to hear and then repeat a random series of numbers. [3-4] “With the first subject, after about 20 hours of training, his digit span had risen from 7 to 20,” Ericsson recalls. [3-5] “He kept improving, and after about 200 hours of training he had risen to over 80 numbers.” 【第4 段】 [4-1]This success, coupled with later research showing that memory itself is not genetically determined, led Ericsson to conclude that the act