2017同等学历英语阅读1_研究生入学考试_高等教育_教育专区.pptVIP

* * 大纲要求简介 阅读理解部分在全卷中所占比重最大，为25%，而且也是整个试卷语言难度最大的部分。大纲对阅读理解部分的评价目标是“能综合运用英语语言知识和阅读技能，读懂一般性题材的文章、广告等应用性文本和博客及跟帖等互动形式的材料。要求能抓住大意，读懂细节，能理解上下文的逻辑关系，并能领会和分辨作者或话语参与各方的主要意图和态度及其异同等。” 本部分共设25题，每题1分，考试时间为45分钟。本部分包括A、B两节，A节为段落阅读， B节的阅读形式可以是博客与跟帖或相关短文阅读、短文快读，广告浏览等。 * 2015年真题 Passage One Sometimes a race is not enough. Sometimes a runner just wants to go further. That’s what happened to Dennis Martin and Brooke Curran. Martin, 68, a retired detective from New York City,took up running after his first wife died. Curran, 46, a philanthropist(慈善家）from Alexandria, started running to get out of the house and collect her thoughts. Both she and Martin got good at running but felt the desire to do more. “The more I trained,the better I got,” Curran said,” but I would cross the finish line with no sense of accomplishment.” * Eventually , they worked up to running marathons(马拉松）（and longer races) in other countries, on other countries. Now both have achieved a notable -and increasingly less rate - milestone;running the 26.2-mile race on all seven continents. They are part of a phenomenon that has grown out of the running culture in the past two decades, at the intersection of athleticism and leisure: “runcations,” which combine distance running with travel to exotic places . There trips ,as expensive as they are physically challenging ,are a growing and competitive market in the travel industry. * “In the beginning,running was enough ,”said Steen Albrechtsen, a press manager. “The classic marathon was the ultimate goal, then came the super marathons , like London and New York. But when 90,000 people a year can take that challenge, it is no longer exciting and adventurous . Hence, the search for new adventures began.” “No one could ever have imagined that running would become the lifestyle activity that it is today,” said Thom Gilligan, founder and president of Boston-based Marathon Tours and Travel. Gilligan, who has been in business since 1979, is partly responsible for the seven-co