考研英語歷年真題閱讀要點之2015-Text 4（一）

 　各位同學，就考研英語真題而言，最后三套建議用來進行考前模擬。小編繼續為大家梳理歷年考研英語真題閱讀文章中涉及的要點，包括詞匯、短語、長難句以及簡單的閱讀方法。接下來看一下2015年考研英語真題閱讀Text 4，這篇文章主要探討了社會篩選機制引起的道德缺失問題。

　　... spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions.” Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism” ... But “it’s us, human beings, we the people who create the society we want, not profit ”.

　　speak of“談到，論及”;unsettling“使人不安的”;dearth“缺乏”;integrity“誠實，廉正”;institution“機構”;collapse“瓦解”;collective“集體的，共同的”;acceptance“接納，贊同”;sorting mechanism“篩選機制”;重點關注But轉折后，首段轉折往往與文章中心相關。

　　Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous foals for capitalism and freedom.” This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International, shield thought, making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.

　　drive one’s point home“闡明自己的觀點”;increasingly相當于more and more“越來越”;apparent“明顯的”，相當于obvious，evident;absence“缺乏”;purpose“目標”;moral“道德的”;capitalism“資本主義”;wound“使受傷”;shield“遮蔽”;it充當形式賓語，真正的賓語是that引導的從句;lose one’s way“迷失方向”;widespread“普遍的，廣泛的”;illegal“非法的”;telephone hacking“電話竊聽”。

　　As the hacking trial concludes -- finding guilty one ex-editor of the News of the World ... for conspiring to hack phones, and finding his predecessor ... innocent of the same charge -- the wider issue of dearth of integrity still stands. Journalists ... up to ... This is hacking on an industrial scale, as was acknowledged ... the man hired ... Others await trial. This long story still unfolds.

　　trial“試驗”;guilty“有罪的，內疚的”，be guilty of“犯...罪，對...感到內疚”;ex-editor“前任編輯”;conspire“共謀”;predecessor“前任”;be innocent of“無罪的”;charge“控告”;stand在此可以表示“存在”;journalist“新聞工作者”;up to“多達”;scale“規模”;acknowledge“承認”;hire“雇傭”;await“等待”;unfold“展開，顯露”。