第一篇 从题源文章到考研真题的改编演示 1
第二篇 题源文章阅读 7
第一部分 社会人生类 7
Passage One Born Poor?Bad Luck,You Have Won Last Prize in the Lottery of Life 7
Passage Two Convincing Evidence:Our Wills Aren't As Free As We(or I)Would Like to Think 16
Passage Three Lessons to Be Learned from the First Social Media Olympics 22
Passage Four Still Living with Your Parents at 30? Get a Life 28
Passage Five Supreme Court Healthcare Ruling:Giant Leap for Obama 33
Passage Six Decline of the Phone Call:Ofcom Shows Growing Trend for Text Communication 39
Passage Seven Apologies Fail to Live Up to Our Expectations 46
Passage Eight Now Everyone Is Connected,Is This the Death of Conversation? 52
第二部分 经济管理类 58
Passage One For U.S.Brands,There's No Middle in China's Middle Class 58
Passage Two How the Poor Are Made to Pay for Their Poverty 64
Passage Three A Marketer's Homage to the Soda Can 71
Passage Four The Economic Fallout from Bombing Iran 78
Passage Five This Sentimentality over Old People Is Hitting Our Young 86
Passage Six The Tourists Who Could Save Greece Are the Rich of China and India,Not Europe 92
Passage Seven Black Wednesday,20 Years on:Five Worst Economic Disasters of the 20th Century 100
Passage Eight Economists Expect UK to Lose AAA Credit Rating 107
第三部分 教育科技类 114
Passage One The Game of Life 114
Passage Two Are Eyewitnesses in the Zimmerman Trial Reliable? 120
Passage Three Know-it-all Toll Roads 127
Passage Four The Matter That's Not Not Not There 132
Passage Five Young People Are Rubbish... 139
Passage Six Freedom and Anonymity:Keeping the Internet Open 146
Passage Seven The DNA Transistor 152
Passage Eight No One Likes A City That's Too Smart 157
第四部分 文化艺术类 164
Passage One It's the 21st Century—Why Are We Working So Much? 164
Passage Two Diana Athill:the London I Remember 171
Passage Three No Wonder the Working Man Despises the Elites 178
Passage Four Superheroes Movies Like Avengers Assemble Should Not Be Scorned 186
Passage Five Can You Make Any Kind of Living as An Artist? 192
Passage Six Scream If You Want to Bid Higher:the High Cost of Art 198
Passage Seven The Battle of the Book Reviews 205
Passage Eight Why the Titanic Always Sinks 212
第五部分 自然健康类 217
Passage One The Garden of Our Neglect:How Humans Shape the Evolution of Other Species 217
Passage Two Observations:Sleep Might Help Dieters Shed More Fat 223
Passage Three Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste 228
Passage Four The Advantages of Being Helpless 234
Passage Five Japan's Giant Shock Rattles Ideas about Earthquake Behavior 239
Passage Six Can You Be Both Obese and Healthy? 245
Passage Seven Pain Relief"Cuts Heart Attack Victims'Survival Chances" 251
Passage Eight Putting A Price on the Rivers and Rain Diminishes Us All 257
Passage Nine Gulf's Dolphins Pay Heavy Price for Deepwater Oil Spill 264
附录 同源真题回溯 270