新编研究生英语系列教程研究生英语阅读教程（提高级/第三版） Lesson 1Spillonomics: Underestimating Risk 1 Lesson 2Humbled by Nature, Humble by Culture 9 Lesson 3How We Broke the Murdoch Scandal14 Unit Two Reading Biographies and Personal RecollectionsLesson 4 BillClinton21 Lesson 5Steve Jobs39 Lesson 6A Beautiful Mind42 Unit Three Reading Essays Lesson 7A Christmas Sermon on Peace57 Lesson 8Left for Dead64 Lesson 9Spell of the Rising Moon68 Unit Four Reading Scientific and Technical Articles Lesson 10OurPicture of the Universe74 Lesson 11Mind over Machine87 Lesson 122 Inches Between Life, Death95 Unit Five Reading Short Stories and Novels Lesson 13Cat in the Rain101 Lesson 14The Stolen Party106 Lesson 15A Summers Reading109 课文全文参考译文 113 Unit One Reading News ReportsLesson 1Spillonomics: Underestimating Risk KEYS TO EXERCISES . Reading Comprehension A. 1. B (Paragraph 1: Years before the Deepwater Horizon rig blew, BP was developing a reputation as an oil company that took safety risks to save money.) 2. C (Paragraph 1: None other than Joe Barton, a Republican congressman from Texas and a global-warming skeptic none other than: used to emphasize the surprising identity of a person or thing 正是，恰是) 3. D (Paragraph 4: For all the criticism BP executives may deserve, they are far from the only people to struggle with such low-probability, high-cost events. Nearly everyone does.) 4. B (Paragraph 4: When an event is difficult to imagine, we tend to underestimate its likelihood. This is the proverbial black swan.) 5. C (Paragraph 6: After the 9/11 attacks, Americans canceled plane trips and took to the road. There were no terrorist attacks in this country in 2002, yet the additional driving apparently led to an increase in traffic fatalities.) 6. B (Paragraph 7: When the stakes are high enough, it falls to government to help its citizens avoid these entirely human errors. The market, left to its own devices, often cannot do so.) 7. D (Paragraph 8: Federal law helped them underestimate the costs.) 8. A (Paragraph 10: The big financial risk is no longer a housing bubble. Instead, it may be the huge deficits that the growth of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will cause in coming yearsand the possibility that lenders will eventually become nervous about extending credit to Washington.) 9. A (Paragraph 12: Nothing like that has ever happened before. Even imagining it is difficult. It is much easier to hope that the odds of such an outcome are vanishingly small. In fact, its only natural to have this hope. But that doesnt make it wise.) 10. D (The whole text.) B. Reasons Behind Wrong Actions Consequences Suggested Solutions Deepwater Horizon Obsession with profits Cost cutting BP should be fully aware of Safety could not be the potential risks and spend guaranteed more money to make their Human weakness Underestimating the risks facilities safer. Congress and the Obama administration should take A 1990 Congress law put a Federal law helped BP sensible steps, like lifting Government policy cap on spillers liability for executives underestimate the liability cap and freeing cleanup cost at $75 million. the costs of damages.