标题: 2011年考研英语阅读解析 [打印本页] 作者: dorm99 时间: 2010-12-9 06:55 标题: 2011年考研英语阅读解析 例题一
And this process need not be left to the unconscious. Cartwright believes one can exercise conscious control over recurring bad dreams. As soon as you awaken, identify what is upsetting about the dream. Visualize how you would like it to end instead; the next time it occurs, try to wake up just enough to control its course. With much practice people can learn to, literally, do it in their sleep.
34. Cartwright seems to suggest that ________.
A）waking up in time is essential to the ridding of bad dreams
B）visualizing bad dreams helps bring them under control
C）dreams should be left to their natural progression
D）dreaming may not entirely belong to the unconscious
上边列举的这段文字还是有一定难度的，我们来认真分析一下。
翻译参考：
这一过程可以用意识来加以控制。Cartwright认为，人们可以用意识来控制噩梦的重演。一旦你醒来，立刻回忆梦中苦恼的来源。然想象如何来结束这一噩梦。下一次发生时，努力醒悟过来，以控制噩梦的自然发展。如此这番多练习几次后，人们便可以在睡梦中完成这一过程。
我们再来看这里的答案：
A waking up in time is essential to the ridding of bad dreams
及时清醒过来对消除噩梦是必须的。
明显这是不正确的。错就错在essential这里，看原文最后一句话，"With much practice people can learn to, literally, do it in their sleep"多番练习后，人们是可以在睡梦中完成的。
B visualizing bad dreams helps bring them under control
想象噩梦有助于人们控制它们。
这句话就有些无厘头了，原文中是要想象如何来结束噩梦，"Visualize how you would like it to end instead"，因此这个选项也不正确。
C dreams should be left to their natural progression
梦应该让其自然发展。
很明显，这个选项也是错误的。上文中一直谈的是如何消除噩梦。
D dreaming may not entirely belong to the unconscious
梦并非完全受无意识的控制。
这句话是正确的，正好也与上文中的第一句相符合，"this process need not be left to the unconscious"。
因此此题的正确答案应该选D。
例题二
But some observers are skeptical, “There is a kind of false precision being hawked by people claiming they are doing ancestry testing,” says Troy Duster, a New York University sociologist. He notes that each individual has many ancestors-numbering in the hundreds just a few centuries back. Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome inherited through men in a father’s line or mitochondrial DNA, which a passed down only from mothers. This DNA can reveal genetic information about only one or two ancestors, even though, for example, just three generations back people also have six other great-grandparents or, four generations back, 14 other great-great-grandparents.
28. Skeptical observers believe that ancestry testing fails to _____.
A）trace distant ancestors
B）rebuild reliable bloodlines
C）fully use genetic information
D）achieve the claimed accuracy
但是一些观察家仍然持怀疑态度。一位纽约大学的社会学家特洛伊说，“一些研究血统的人兜售的测试有一定的不准确性。”他指出，每一个人，追溯到几个世纪以前，都有上百个祖先。然而，血统检测往往只考虑单一家系，要么是从父亲继承过来的Y染色体，要么是从母亲遗传过来线粒体DNA。这种DNA能表现出一或两代祖先的遗传信息，但是，例如，三代人，可能会有六位曾祖父母；四代人，14位高祖父母。
我们来看题：
持怀疑论的观察家认为血统测试未能_______.
A 追溯年代久远的祖先
B 重建可靠的血缘关系
C 充分利用遗传信息
D 达到所声称的精确度
这道题是非常有难度的！迷惑性比较大！
这道题需要抓住题干，believes，纽约大学社会学家所说的内容就是观察家们的观点，D选项正好与原句相符，因此正确答案是D。
这道题很具有代表性！