第一篇 从题源文章到考研真题的改编演示 1
第二章 题源文章阅读 8
第一部分：社会人生类 8
Passage One Steve Jobs 8
Passage Two Is a Government Entitled to Say Who is Fit to Run a Media Company? 13
Passage Three The Key to the NRA's Success 19
Passage Four Have Money,Will Travel—A Billion Pairs of Itchy Feet 25
Passage Five Women and Jobs—What Women Do Economic Growth Has Surprisingly Little Effect on the Wage Gap 30
Passage Six Thanks,Mum—Governments Find Reason to Regulate the Names of Children 35
Passage Seven Make or Break?—Social Networking Tames Cheats 41
Passage Eight God's New Waiting Rooms—Why the Old are Moving Inland 46
第二部分：经济管理类 51
Passage One Starbucks v.Kraft:A Double Shot of Discord 51
Passage Two Chinese Jewelers Beijing Bling—The World's Largest Jeweler Goes Public 56
Passage Three The Blitz Spirit—Britain's Banks Face a Battalion of Threats,Not All of Them Foreign 61
Passage Four Chinese Acquisitions:China Buys Up the World 66
Passage Five Crazy Aunt on the Loose—For Central Bankers in the Rich World,Unconventional Is the New Conventional 72
Passage Six Women in Business—Still Lonely at the Top 80
Passage Seven Land of the Wasted Talent—Japanese Firms Face a Demographic Catastrophe 86
Passage Eight The Hollow Men—The Deindustrialisation of Japan may be Neither as Complete Nor as Damaging as Feared 92
第三部分：教育科技类 98
Passage One The Laws of the City 98
Passage Two Italy's Brain Drain:No Italian Jobs 105
Passage Three Transporter of Delight—Happiness is in Your DNA 110
Passage Four Silence is Golden—People have a Strange and Worrying Tendency to Admit to Things They Have Not,in Fact,Done 116
Passage Five Please be Seated—A Faster Way of Boarding Planes Could Save Time and Money 122
Passage Six Forever Young—A Way to Counteract Part of the Process of Growing Old 129
Passage Seven All Power Tends to Corrupt 137
Passage Eight Nanotechnology——A Fab Result a Novel Way of Making Computer Memories 143
第四部分：文化艺术类 149
Passage One Injury Timeouts in Tennis:Just Give Me a Minute 149
Passage Two Beaehcombing:Sea Fever 156
Passage Three Everything Old is New Again 161
Passage Four Once in a Lifetime—What Three Royal Jubilees Reveal about Britain 167
Passage Five No Rush—In Praise of Procrastination 174
Passage Six J.K.Rowling and Pottermore—The Hogwarts Express 180
Passage Seven Tribal Japan—Japan's Cherished Loyalty System is Part of the Problem 186
Passage Eight The Dangers of Demonology—Hatred of Bankers is One of the World's Oldest and Most Dangerous Prejudices 192
第五部分：自然健康类 198
Passage One A World of Plenty—Of All the Countries Now Looking for Shale Gas,China Has the Most Potential 198
Passage Two Medical Implants:A Sweet Idea 204
Passage Three Spinal Injury:Running Repairs 212
Passage Four Worth All the Sweat—Just Why Exercise is so Good for People is,at Last,being Understood 218
Passage Five Go Gentle into that Good Night—A Prayer for the Dying 224
Passage Six Subtle Poison—Evidence is Growing that Commonly Used Pesticides,even When Employed Carefully,are Bad for Bees 229
Passage Seven Alternatiue Medicine—Think Yourself Better 235
Passage Eight No Hiding Place—The Long-sought Goal of a Cure for AIDS is Inching Closer 242
附录 同源真题回溯 249