4. 考研出题人的可爱之处

我们来分享几个考研阅读理解中比较有趣的几道题目：

2004年第49题：

What does the author mean by “most people are literally having a ZZZ”?

A: They are getting impatient.

B: They are noisily dozing off.

C: They are feeling humiliated.

D: They are busy with word puzzles.

原文：The humiliation continues. At university graduation ceremonies, the ABCs proudly get their awards first; by the time they reach the Zysmans most people are literally having a ZZZ. Shortlists for job interviews, election ballot papers, lists of conference speakers and attendees; all tend to be drawn up alphabetically, and their recipients hose interest as they plough through them.

这道题出得非常有水准，不难看出考研出题的老教授们也是漫画迷，漫画当中ZZZ表示呼呼大睡的场面出现在了考研阅读题目当中，也有同学错选为A项，认为大家有些不耐烦，而原文中却丝毫没有表达出“不耐烦”的含义，所以正确答案为B。当然不认识doze off短语的同学也有可能错选。

再来看2000年第52题：

The loss of U.S. 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A. TV industry had withdrawn to its domestic market.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. Machine-tool industry had collapsed after suicidal action.

D. Auto industry had lost part of its domestic market.

原文：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 mid 1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness. Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competition. By 1987 there was only one American television maker left, Zenith. (Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South Korea’s LG Electronics in July.) foreign-made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market. America’s machine-tool industry was on the ropes. For a while, it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had invented and which sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty.

从原文的划线句中我们找到了问题C项的出处，原文句中有个短语on the ropes，有的同学可能会想，在绳子上，是不是在引申地表达上吊自杀呢，选项C则不失时机地给出了suicidal的候选答案，如果真的能够用这种方法解释英文短语的话，中英互译要笑话百出了。On the rope这个短语最初源自拳击比赛，选手为了不倒在地上标志失败，则会靠在场地的围栏上，这时的拳手必定是奄奄一息的状态，所以On the rope这个短语的意思为“濒临失败”。

以上几点问题正是影响同学们阅读并理解西方原版文章的关键因素，希望同学们首先解决“读懂”的问题，在读懂的基础上，进行题干分析及选项分析，保证在考试中获得真正意义上的高分。

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