考研

　　各位同学，考研英语复习进度如何?阅读部分不可忽视哦。现在基础阶段，可以从早年考研英语真题入手，以精读的方式完成阅读部分。文都考研英语老师为2018考研学子梳理一下历年真题阅读文章中涉及的要点，包括词汇、短语、长难句以及简单的阅读方法。接下来看一下2000年考研英语真题阅读Text 2，这篇文章主要探讨了进化的结束。

　　Being a man has always been dangerous... but this ratio drops to near balance at the age of maturity, ... But the great universal of male mortality is being changed... This means that, for the first time, there will be an excess of boys in those crucial years when they are searching for a mate. More important, another chance for natural selection has been removed... Today it makes almost no difference. Since much of the variation is due to genes, one more agent of evolution has gone.

　　Being a man has always been dangerous.“作为男人总是危险的。”ratio“比例”;at the age of maturity“在成年期”;universal在这里充当名词“普遍性”;mortality“死亡率”;an excess of“过多的”;when引导定语从句，修饰限定years;more important“更为重要的是”;natural selection“自然选择”;make difference“关系重大”，make no difference“没有影响”;since引导原因状语从句;variation“变异”;be due to“由于”;agent可以引申为“因素”。

　　There is another way to commit evolutionary suicide: stay alive, but have fewer children. Few people are as fertile as in the past... Again, differences between people and the opportunity for natural selection to take advantage of it have diminished. India shows what is happening... The grand mediocrity of today...

　　another表明本段和上一段存在并列的逻辑关系;commit suicide“自杀”;fertile“能生育的”，也可以表示“富饶的，肥沃的”;average“平均的”;roughly“粗略地，大致”;take advantage of“利用”;diminish“减少，缩小”。India shows what is happening.承上启下，说明接下来以印度为例。grand mediocrity“显而易见的平均化”。

　　For us, this means that evolution is over; the biological Utopia has arrived...Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of evolution: they “look at an organic being as a savage looks...” But however amazed our descendants may be at how far from Utopia we were, they will look just like us.

　　分号前后语义并列，分号后内容看不懂也无所谓，总之说的就是“进化结束了”。be ignorant of“不知道，不了解”;an organic being“有机的生命”;savage“野蛮的”;looks“相貌”;结尾又一次点明文章主旨。

　　以上就是文都考研英语老师为大家梳理的2000年考研英语真题阅读Text 2的要点。“应知学问难，在乎点滴勤。”阅读能力的提升在于日常的积累，大家平时一定多加练习，总结方法和规律，应用于实践。行动起来吧!在实践中提升自己，为考研以及将来的生活做好准备。

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