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    阅读理解。
    Now comes word from the University of California, Berkeley, a new study has confirmed that the
    richer you are the less compassionate you are
    In a study just published in the journal Emotion, psychologist Jennifer Stellar sought to determine the
    empathic (感情移入的) capacities of a group of 300 college students, who had been hand-selected for
    maximum economic diversity. As a rule, college students have just one income level: poor. Stellar thus
    chose her subjects based on the income of the people who respond to the requests and write the checks:
    the parents.
    In the first of three experiments, she had 148 of her subjects fill out reports how often they experience
    emotions such as joy, love, compassion and horror. She also had them agree or disagree with statements
    like "I often notice people who need help." When the numbers on these lists were processed, Stellar
    found no meaningful personality differences among the students that could be attributable to income
    except one:across the board, the lower the subjects' family income, the higher their score on compassion.
    The second study involved 64 subjects who watched two videos - an emotionally neutral instructional
    video on construction techniques, and a far more charged one that involved real families coping with a
    cancer-stricken child. Again, the subjects filled out emotional lists and again they scored similarly. But the
    lower-income volunteers continued to come out higher on the compassion-and-empathy scale.
    During this study, Stellar also used heartbeat monitors to determine their physical reactions to the two
    videos. There was, not surprisingly, no difference in heart rate when the instructional video was playing,
    but when the cancer stories began, the heartbeats of the lower-income volunteers slowed noticeably-a
    counterintuitive (违反直觉的) sign of caring. An immediate threat to ourselves or another causes heart
    rate to jump, the better to snap into action to respond to the danger. An emotional crisis can have the
    opposite physical effect on observers - helping them settle down to provide the quieter attention that
    simply listening and comforting requires.
    In the final part of the study, 106 of the participants were paired off and told to interview each other
    as if they were applying for a position as lab manager. So that the subjects would have real skin in the
    game, the ones who performed best in the interviews - as judged by Stellar- would win a cash prize. All
    of the subjects reported feeling the same levels of stress or anxiety when they were being interviewed,
    but only the lower-income subjects were reliably able to detect the same feelings in their partner when the
    roles were reversed.
    So does this mean the rich really can't feel the poor? A low score on the compassion scale doesn't
    mean a lack of capacity for the feeling, Stellar argues. It may just mean a lack of experience
    observing-and tending to - the hardship others. Perhaps that helps explain why so many wealthy college
    kids find their way into the Peace Corps and other volunteer groups.
    1. According to the text, which of the following statement is true?
    A. All the subjects went through all the 3 experiments.
    B. Stellar carefully chose 300 college students according their personal income level.
    C. The rich really lacks the ability to feel pity for the poor.
    D. All the 3 experiments proved the same result.
    2. In Stella's opinion, the lower-income volunteers' heart rate lowers when ______.
    A. When they are having their first lesson in a new school.
    B. They are talking to someone they admire so much.
    C. They are trapped in a building suddenly on fire.
    D. They find someone is injured in an accident on the road.
    3. We can infer from the third experiment that ________.
    A. Lab manager is a position with low income.
    B. The lower-income subjects win the cash prize.
    C. The interviewers are stressed and anxious when interviewing others.
    D. Both the interviewers and interviewees know the feelings in each other.
    4. The underlined "across the board" probably means ________.
    A. applying to all
    B. on the opposite
    C. from one side to the other
    D. for instance
    5. What can be the best title of the text?
    A. Without money? That's not a big deal
    B. Hate money? Then try to be low-income
    C. Got money? Then you might lack sympathy
    D. Too much money? Come to experience hardships
    本题信息:2012年浙江省模拟题英语阅读理解难度极难 来源:姜雪
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科教类阅读的概念:

科教类阅读主要考查考生对书面语篇的整体领悟能力和接受及处理具体信息的能力。试题的取材,密切联系当前我国和世界经济、科技等方面的变化,有关数据的来源真实可信。


科教类文章阅读技巧:

一、材料特点:

这类文章的总体特点是:科技词汇多,句子结构复杂,理论性强,逻辑严谨。具体说来它有以下几个特点: 
1、文章中词汇的意义比较单一、稳定、简明,不带感情色彩,具有单一性和准确性的特点。这类文章通常不会出现文学英语中采用的排比、比喻、夸张等修辞手法,一词多义的现象也不多见。 
2、句子结构较复杂,语法分析较困难。为了描述一个客观事物,严密地表达自己的思想,作者经常会使用集多种语法现象于一体的长句。 
3、常使用被动语态,尤其是一些惯用被动句式。

二、命题特点:

科普类阅读的主要命题形式有事实细节题、词义猜测题、推理判断题以及主旨概括题等,其中推理判断题居多。

三、应对策略:

1、要想做好科普英语阅读理解题,同学们就要注意平时多读科普知识类文章,学习科普知识,积累常见的科普词汇,从根本上提高科普英语的阅读能力。
2、要熟悉科普类文章的结构特点。科普类文章一般由标题(Head line),导语(Introduction),背景(Back ground),主体(Main body)和结尾(End)五部分构成。标题是文章中心思想高度而又精辟的概括,但根据历年的高考情况来看,这类阅读理解材料一般不给标题,而要同学们选择标题。导语一般位于整篇文章的首段。背景交待一个事实的起因。主体则对导语概括的事实进行详细叙述,这一部分命题往往最多,因此,阅读时,同学们要把这部分作为重点。结尾往往也是中心思想的概括,并与导语相呼应,命题者常在此要设计一道推理判断题。  
3、在进行推理判断时,同学们一定要以阅读材料所提供的科学事实为依据,同时所得出的结论还应符合基本的科普常识。


科普类阅读应试策略:

命题趋势
阅读理解题主要考查考生对书面语篇的整体领悟能力和接受及处理具体信息的能力。试题的取材,密切联系当前我国和世界经济、科技等方面的变化,有关数据的来源真实可信。因此科普知识类文章是每年的必考题。分析历年的科普类文章我们不难发现以下特点:
1、文章逻辑性强,条理清楚,语法结构简单,用语通俗。
2、文章内容注重科技领域的新发现。内容新颖,从而使文章显得陌生,内容抽象复杂。
3、命题方面注意对具体细节的准确理解和以之为依据的推理判断。
4、以人们的日常行为或饮食健康入手,探讨利弊,诠释过程,阐述概念。
应试对策
许多考生在考试时感到困惑的是:为什么一些没有超越中学语法和词汇范围的篇章,读起来却不能正确理解,或者要花费很多时间才能读懂呢?这种现象的产生与阅读方法有很大的关系。例如,有的考生在考试时一见到文章就立刻开始读,结果读了半天,还不知道短文讲的是什么,试题要求了些什么,结果浪费了大量的时间,而阅读效果并不好。那么,怎样读效果才好呢?任何一种阅读方法或技巧的使用,都是由篇章特点和试题本身的要求决定的,应根据不同的体裁和试题要求采取不同的策略。
1、浏览。浏览的主要目的就是确定文章的体裁。如果文章属于人物传记、记叙文、故事、科普小品和有关社会文化、文史知识的文章,一般来说,应该先看看文章的试题考查内容,对题目类型做到心中有数,针对不同问题,在通读时有粗有细地去阅读,这样不仅能把握篇章的基本结构和逻辑线索,也能做好有关具体事实信息考查的试题。
2、挖掘寓意,掌握中心思想,推出结论。任何文章,作者在行文时都有一定的写作目的和主要话题。在通读篇章时应该吃透作者的写作意图,抓住文章的主题句,充分发挥自己的想象力和概括力,作出对中心思想的归纳和结论的推断。
3、把握篇章结构,利用上下文进行推测。高考中的阅读理解篇章往往是一个较完整的短文,其结构、思想,前后上下连贯统一。考试时应充分利用这一特点推测一些生词、短语在句中的含义,切莫盲目孤立猜测。
4、综观全篇,前后呼应。这是阅读理解的最后一步,在做完阅读理解题后,要立足于文章整体,再迅速读一遍短文,短文中的问题和答案的设置前后都是相关联的,有着一定的连续性,体现着文章的基本脉络。