【正文】 第二課時 Unit 7－ Passage 1 A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it may bee a driving force. When the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War, it had a market eight times larger than any petitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the world39。 中國最大的管 理 資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 大量免費資源共享 ) 第 1 頁 共 20 頁 新東方在線 20xx年考研英語強化班閱讀理解電子版教材 第一課時 概述 考研英語閱讀： 1. 重要性 2. 閱讀思路的轉(zhuǎn)變 3. 考研文章的體裁和來源 4. 考研閱讀大綱要求 第二課時 Unit 7－ Passage 1 A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it may bee a driving force. When the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War, it had a market eight times larger than any petitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the world39。s best, its workers the most skilled. America and Americans were prosperous beyond the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies the war had destroyed. It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predominance proved painful. By the mid1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial petitiveness. Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign petition. By 1987 there was only one American television maker left, Zenith. (Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South Korea39。s Kennedy School of Government. It makes me proud to be an American just to see how our businesses are improving their productivity, says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a think tank in Washington, DC. And William Sahlman of the Harvard Business School believes that people will look back on this period as a golden age of business management in the United States. 1. The . achieved its predominance after World War II because ________. [A] it had made painstaking efforts towards this goal [B] its domestic market was eight times larger than before [C] the war had destroyed the economies of most potential petitors [D] the unparalleled size of its workforce had given an impetus to its economy 2. The loss of . predominance in the world economy in the 1980s is manifested in the fact that the American ________. [A] TV industry had withdrawn to its domestic market [B] semiconductor industry had been taken over by foreign enterprises [C] machinetool industry had collapsed after suicidal actions [D] auto industry had lost part of its domestic market 3. What can be inferred from the passage? [A] It is human nature to shift between selfdoubt and blind pride. [B] Intense petition may contribute to economic progress. [C] The revival of the economy depends on international cooperation. [D] A long history of success may pave the way for further development. 4. The author seems to believe the revival of the . economy in the 1990s can be attributed to the ________. [A] turning of the business cycle [B] restructuring of industry [C] improved business management [D] success in education 答案： C D B A 考研英語閱讀解題思路：時間安排 1 : 1，解題步驟四步走 If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared 中國最大的管 理 資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 大量免費資源共享 ) 第 3 頁 共 20 頁 experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disanized methods of their secretaries。s a doctor. If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are mon to all of you and it39。s the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a lighthearted remark. Look for the humor. It often es from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote If at first you don39。s like surgery, he says, We don39。s suicide as long as you don39。 death. [B] Modern medicine has assisted terminally ill patients in painless recovery. [C] The Court ruled that highdosage painrelieving medication can be prescribed. [D] A doctor39。s Evolution [C] the Evolutionary Future of Nature [D] Human Evolution Going Nowhere 考研文章的難點 1. 單詞量不大，但是句型結(jié)構(gòu)復(fù)雜 2. 作者的態(tài)度導(dǎo)出具有隱蔽性 第四課時 3. 選項的設(shè)計具有迷惑性 微觀閱讀技巧之一：標點的運用 Unit 1 Passage 1 中國最大的管 理 資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 大量免費資源共享 ) 第 7 頁 共 20 頁 The American economic system is anized around a basically privateenterprise, marketoriented 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 petition with other businessmen。s book is intended to ________. (A) remend the views of the evolutionists (B) expose the true features of creationists (C) curse bitterly at his opponents (D) launch a surprise attack on creationists 19. From the passag