2007考研英语第一时间-全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语辅导用书：阅读理解卷

    本书由国内该领域权威作者合作编写，揭示考研英语测试的基本规律，帮助和指导有志考研的考生获得成功。本书对考研英语的英语阅读作了详细介绍和分析，祝考生在2007年的全国硕士研究生入学考试的英语考试中获得成功。希望本书能够在您备考的过程中为您提供帮助和指导。

    张剑,北京外国语大学英语学院教授、博士生导师、英语学院副院长。1984年毕业于南京大学外语系，1993年获英国格拉斯哥大学博士学位。1999年～2003年参与全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题的命题工作，并曾参与大学英语专业四、八级考试、北京市高等教育自学考试和全国高考口试等工作。

本书为外语教学与研究出版社出版的“考研英语第一时间”的“阅读理解卷”，旨在为考生提供选材新颖、内容丰富、针对性强、符合命题趋势的考前阅读强化训练材料。

第一部分 考试大纲要求及试题特点分析
一、大纲要求
二、考试形式和内容
三、文章选材特点及来源
四、文章语言特点及难度
五、阅读理解测试题型、重点及难点
六、对比大学英语四、六级
七、阅读理解题的变化及发展趋势
八、2006年阅读理解分析与对2007年阅读理解的预测
第二部分 阅读必备的基本功
一、词汇
二、句子和语法
三、篇章
第三部分 题型特点分析与解题技巧
一、主旨、要义题
二、事实、细节题
三、推理、引申题
四、观点、态度题
五、词义、句意题
六、选择搭配题
第四部分 考研阅读强化训练100篇
Part A
Part B ()1)
Part B(2)
Part B(3)
Part B(4)
第五部分 考研阅读强化训练100篇参考译文及试题详解
Part A
Part B(1)
Part B(2)
Part B(3)
Part B(4)

"It is impossible that old prejudices and hostilities should longer exist, while such an instrument has been created for the exchange of thought between all the nations of the earth,” acclaimed Victorian enthusiasts the arrival in 1858 of the first transatlantic telegraph cable. People say that sort of thing about new technologies, even today. Biotechnology is said to be the cure for world hunger. The sequencing of the human genome will supposedly eradicate cancer and other diseases. The wildest optimism, though, has greeted the Internet. A whole industry of cyber gurus has enthralled audiences （and made a fine living） with exuberant claims that the Internet will prevent wars, reduce pollution, and combat various forms of inequality. However, although the Internet is still young enough to inspire idealism, it has also been around long enough to test whether the prophets can be right.
Grandest of all the claims are those made by some of the experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about the Internet's potential as a force for peace. One guru, Nicholas Negroponte, has declared that, thanks to the Internet, the children of the future "are not going to know what nationalisms". His colleague, Michael Erotizes, has written that digital communications will bring "computer-aided peace" which "may help stave off future flare-ups of ethnic hatred and national break-ups". The idea is that improved communications will reduce misunderstandings and avert conflict.
This is not new, any more than were the claims for the peace-making possibilities of other new technologies. In the early years of the 20th century, aero planes were expected to end wars, by promoting international communication and （less credibly） by making armies obsolete, since they would be vulnerable to attack from the air. After the First World War had dispelled such notions, it was the turn of radio. "Nation shall speak peace unto nation," ran the fine motto of Britain's BBC World Servic
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