,考研英语阅读理解,2000 passage2,1、微观阅读技巧-标点符号的运用 2、例证题解题方法,2000 passage2,55. What used to be the danger in being a man according to the first paragraph? 56. What does the example of India illustrate? 57. The author argues that our bodies have stopped evolving because_. 58. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?,Being a man has always been dangerous. There are about 105 males born for every 100 females, but this ratio drops to near balance at the age of maturity, and among 70-year-olds there are twice as many women as men. But the great universal of male mortality is being changed. Now, boy babies survive almost as well as girls do.,55. What used to be the danger in being a man according to the first paragraph? A A lack of mates. B A fierce competition. C A lower survival rate. D A defective gene.,This means that, for the first time, there will be an excess of boys in those crucial years when they are searching for a mate. More important, another chance for natural selection has been removed. Fifty years ago, the chance of a baby (particularly a boy baby) surviving depended on its weight. A kilogram too light or too heavy meant almost certain death. Today it makes almost no difference. Since much of the variation is due to genes, one more agent of evolution has gone.,2段 There is another way to commit evolutionary suicide : stay alive, but have fewer children. Few people are as fertile as in the past. Except in some religious communities, very few women has 15 children. Nowadays the number of births, like the age of death, has become average. Most of us have roughly the same number of offspring.,专题讲解之 标点符号的运用,逗号： 两个逗号之间，或一个逗号之后为补充说明的成分，非主干,逗号： 两个逗号之间，或一个逗号之后为补充说明的成分，是非主干,00-1 2段 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.,96-5 1段 Scientific creationism , which is being pushed by some for equal time in the classrooms whenever the scientific accounts of evolution are given , is based on religion, not science.,冒号： 冒号前后，一般是从抽象到具体，冒号后面的内容解释前面的内容。,冒号： 冒号前后，一般是从抽象到具体，冒号后面的内容解释前面的内容。,97-3 60. The word pervasive (line 1, paragraph 2) might mean _. A widespread B overwhelming C piercing D fashionable,We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances (drugs) is pervasive : an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going in the morning, a cigarette for the nerves.,冒号： 冒号前后，一般是从抽象到具体，冒号后面的内容解释前面的内容。,07-4 30. 36. The statement “It never rains but it pours” is used to introduce A the fierce business competition. B the feeble boss-board relations. C the threat from news reports. D the severity of data leakage,It never rains but it pours. Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles, and improved their feeble corporation governance, a new problem threatens to earn them especially in America the sort of nasty headlines that inevitably lead to heads rolling in the executive suite : data insecurity.,分号：分号前后为并列关系。,分号：分号前后为并列关系。,03-4 2段 Death is normal ; we are genetically programmed to disintegrate and perish, even under ideal conditions.,00-2 2段 For us, this means that evolution is over; the biological Utopia has arrived.,分号：分号前后为并列关系。,69. The sentence This is no flash in the pan (line 4, paragraph 3) means that _. A the low inflation rate will last for some time B the inflation rate will soon rise C the inflation will disappear quickly D there is no inflation at present,97-5 3段 This is no flash in the pan ; over the past couple of years, inflation has been consistently lower than expected in Britain and America.,引号： 1）引用 2） 反语或语意转移,引号： 1）引用 2） 反语或语义转移,96-5 1段 Scientific creationism, which is being pushed by some for equal time in the classrooms whenever the scientific accounts of evolution are given, is based on religion, not science.,67. Creationism in the passage refers to _. A evolution in its true sense as to the origin of the universe B a notion of the creation of religion C the scientific explanation of the earth formation D the deceptive theory about the origin of the universe,97-1 53. When Lloyd Nickson dies, he will _. A face his death with calm characteristic of euthanasia B experience the suffering of a lung cancer patient C have an intense fear of terrible suffering D undergo a cooling off period of seven days,The patient must be diagnosed as terminally ill by two doctors. After a “cooling off” period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd Nickson, a 54-year-old Darwin .,08-4 For one thing, the South could not afford to part with its slaves. Owning slaves was “like having a large bank account,” says Wiencek, author of An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America. The southern states would not have signed the Constitution without protections