humana(「吴扶剑每日英语」你有太多“理想”，但你有太少行动)

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For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to useanything that comes from or is tested in animals—no meat, no fur, no medicines. Asked if she opposed immunizations, she wanted to know if vaccines come fromanimal research. When assured that they do, she replied, “Then I would have tosay yes.” Asked what will happen when epidemics return, she said, “Don’t worry,scientists will find some way of using computers.” Such well-meaning people just don’t understand.

The example of the grandmotherly woman is used to show the public’s __________.

[A]discontent with animal research

[B]ignorance about medical science

[C]indifference to epidemics

[D]anxiety about animal rights

[正确答案]B

[解题思路]根据题干中的The example of the grandmotherly woman定位至第二段，第二段的内容都是在叙述老太太的例子。本段最后一句对上面的例子进行了总结：“这些善良的人简直是不明白情况（just don’tunderstand）”，因此选项[B]正确。

[干扰排除]选项[A]和选项[D]都是例子当中的内容，只是就事论事，无法说明例子说论述的观点，因此排除。选项[C]是对文意的曲解，因为文中老太太对于传染病的回答是为了说明她对医学的无知，不能说明她不关心传染病。

[核心词汇] discontent不满 ignorance 不知道 epidemic流行病 anxiety焦虑

Indifference漠不关心

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What they found, in attempting to model thought, is that the human brain’s roughly one hundred billion nerve cells are much more talented—and human perception far more complicated—than previously imagined. They have built robots that can recognize the error of a machine panel by a fraction of a millimeter in a controlled factory environment. But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing on the monkey at the side of a winding forest road or the single suspicious face in a big crowd. The most advanced computer systems on Earth can’t approach that kind of ability, and neuroscientists still don’t know quite how we do it.

The author uses the example of a monkey to argue that robots are __________.

[A] expected to copy human brain in internal structure

[B] able to perceive abnormalities immediately

[C] far less able than human brain in focusing on relevantinformation

[D] best used in a controlled environment

【考研阅读同义改写词】

每天一组同义词

(不是说只有同义词才可以改写)

关于“克服”的一组词汇，考研阅读中考过的有：conquer, overcome, overthrow,defeat

关于“犯罪”的一组词汇，考研阅读中考过的有：crime, sin, guilt, offence, violation

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