【CASK EFFECT】0910G阅读全方位锻炼--速度【CET】 1-22

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规则：

每天我贴出五篇CET级别的阅读
大家来做，需要准备一个计时器

每篇文章只看一分钟，一分钟之后就一定要停下来，读到哪里算哪里，这篇就算过了
D# O
如果上一篇没有读完，那么就要提醒自己在下一篇中加速，同时调整自己阅读的节奏感，找到最舒服的方式
[注]
1、直接在电脑屏幕面前做，虽然GRE阅读是在纸上考，但是这个过程会遏制你做笔记，同时给你的阅读造成视觉障碍，也就是把难度训练和抗干扰训练同步结合，增加效率（初期会很累，但是既然大家想要成为高手，那么就别对自己太温柔）
2、这些文章不用拿来讨论，我给出习题但是不用大家去做，学有余力的可以去做，不过做的时候不要回视文章了，通过瞬间阅读和不回视做题锻炼你大脑的存储量

One silly question I simply cannot tolerate is "How do you feel?" Usually the question is asked of a man in action—a man walking along the street, or busily working at his desk. So what do you expect him to say? He'll probably say, "Fine, I 'm all right." But you have put a bug in his ear-maybe now he is not sure. If you are his good friend, you may have seen something on his face, or in his walk, that he overlooked that morning. It makes him worrying a little. He looks in a mirror to see if everything is all right, while you go merrily on your way asking someone else, "How do you feel?" Every question has its time and place. It's perfectly acceptable, for instance, to ask "How do you feel?" if you are visiting a close friend in the hospital. But if the fellow is walking on both legs, hurrying to take a train or sitting at his desk working, it's no time to ask him that silly question. When George Bernard Shaw, the famous British writer of plays was in his eighties, someone asked him, "How do you feel?" Shaw put him in his place. "When you reach my age," he said, "either you feel all right or you are dead."



1. According to the writer, greetings, such as "How do you feel?" .

A. show one's consideration for others

B. are a good way to make friends

C. are proper to ask a man in action

D. generally make one feel uneasy


2. The question "How do you feel?" seems to be correct and suitable when asked of .

A. a friend who is ill


B. a person who has lost a close friend

C. a stranger who looks somewhat worried

D. a man who is working at his desk


3. George Bernard Shaw's reply ins his .

A. silliness

B. cleverness


C. carelessness

D. politeness


4. "You have put a bug in his ear" means that you have .

A. made him laugh

B. shown concern for him

C. made fun of him

D. given him some kind of warning


5. This passage can be entitled .

A. A Silly Question

B. Don't Trouble a Busy Man

C. What Are Good Greetings

D. George Bernard Shaw's Reply

The biographer has to dance between two shaky positions with respect to the subject. Too close a relation, and the writer may lose objectivity. Not close enough, and the writer may lack the sympathy necessary to any effort to portray a mind, a soul—the quality of life. Who should write the biography of a family, for example? Because of their closeness to the subject, family members may have special information, but by the same token, they may not have the distance that would allow them to be fair. Similarly, a king's servant might not be the best one to write a biography of that king. But a foreigner might not have the knowledge and sympathy necessary to write the king's biography—not for a readership from within the kingdom, at any rate.

There is no ideal position for such a task. The biographer has to work with the position he or she has in the world, adjusting that position as necessary to deal with the subject. Every position has strengths and weaknesses: to thrive, a writer must try to become aware of these, evaluate them in terms of the subject, and select a position accordingly.

When their subjects are heroes or famous figures, biographies often reveal a democratic motive: they attempt to show that their subjects are only human, no better than anyone else. Other biographies are meant to change us, to invite us to become better than we are. The biographies of Jesus found in the Bible are in this class.
           
Biographers may claim that their account is the "authentic" one. In advancing this claim, they are helped if the biography is "authorized" by the subject; this presumably allows the biographer special access to private information. "Unauthorized" biographies also have their appeal, however, since they can suggest an independence of mind in the biographer. In book promotions, the "unauthorized" characterization usually suggests the prospect of juicy gossip that the subject had hoped to suppress. A subject might have several biographies, even several "authentic" ones. We sense intuitively that no one is in a position to tell "the" story of a life, perhaps not even the subject, and this has been history of biography.


1. According to the author, an ideal biographer would be one who .

A. knows the subject very well and yet maintains a proper distance from him


B. is close to the subject and knows the techniques of biography writing

C. is independent and knows the techniques of biography writing

D. possesses special private information and is sympathetic toward the subject


2. The author cites the biographies of Jesus in the Bible in order to show that .

A. the best biographies are meant to transform their readers

B. biographies are authentic accounts of their subjects' lives

C. the best biographies are those of heroes and famous figures

D. biographies can serve different purposes


3. Which of the following statements is true, according to the passage?

A. An authentic biography seldom appeals to its readers.

B. An authentic biography is one authorized by the subject.

C. No one can write a perfect biography.

D. Authorized biographies have a wider readership.



4. An unauthorized biography is likely to attract more readers because .

A. it portrays the subject both faithfully and vividly

B. it contains interesting information about the subject s private life

C. it reveals a lot of accurate details unknown to outsiders


D. it usually gives a sympathetic description of the subject's character


5. In this passage, the author focuses on .

A. the difficulty of a biographer in finding the proper perspective to do his job

B. the secret of a biographer to win more readers

C. the techniques required of a biographer to write a good biography

D. the characteristics of different kinds of biographies Questions

The way people hold to the belief that a fun filled, pain free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.

As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, self improvement. Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
            
Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night's sleep or a three day vacation. I don't know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.

Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.



1. According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because .

A. he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities

B. he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single

C. he finds more fun in dating than in marriage

D. he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement


2. Raising children, R's opinion, is .

A. a moral duty

B. a thankless job

C. a rewarding task

D. a source of inevitable pain


3. From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from

A. hatred

B. misunderstanding

C. prejudice

D. ignorance


4. To understand what true happiness is one must .

A. have as much run as possible during one's lifetime

B. make every effort to liberate oneself from pain

C. put up with pain under all circumstances

D. be able to distinguish happiness from fun


5. What is the author trying to tell us?

A. Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain.

B. One must know how to attain happiness.

C. It is important to make commitments.

D. It is pain that leads to happiness.

In the United States, the need to protect plant and animal species has become a highly controversial and sharply political issue since the passage of the Endangered Species Act in 1973. The act, designed to protect species' living areas, and policies that preserve land and forests compete with economic interests. In the 1990's, for example, the woodcutters in the Western United States were challenged legally in their attempt to cut trees for timber in the Cascade Mountains. The challenge was mounted to protect the endangered spotted owl, whose remaining population occupies these forests and requires the intact, ancient forest for survival. The problematic situation set the interests of environmentalists against those of corporations and of individuals who stood to lose jobs. After months of debate and legal battles, the fate of the woodcutters—and the owls—was still undecided in mid-1992.

Similar tensions exist between the developed and the developing nations. Many people in industrialized nations, for example, believe that developing nations in tropical regions should do more to protect their rain forests and other natural areas. But the developing countries may be impoverished, with populations growing so rapidly that using the land is a means to temporarily avoid worsening poverty and starvation.

Many of the changes to Earth that concern scientists have the potential to rob the planet of its biological richness. The destruction of Earth's ozone layer, for example, could contribute to the general process of impoverishment by allowing ultra-violet rays to harm plants and animals. And global warming could wipe out species unable to quickly adapt to changing climates.

Clearly, protecting will come only through coordinated international efforts to control human population, stabilize the composition of the atmosphere, and preserve intact Earth's complex web of life.


1. Why does the author say that the protection of endangered species is a highly controversial issue?

A. Because people can't agree as to what species to protect.

B. Because it is difficult to find an effective way to protect such

species.

C. Because it affects the interests of certain groups of people.

D. Because it is a major problem involving a series s.


2. According to the passage, the preservation of rain forests _____.

A. may hamper developing country in its fight against poverty

B. benefits developed countries rather than developing countries

C. should take priority over the control of human population

D. will help improve the living conditions in developing countries


3. According to the passage, cutting trees to grow more food _____.

A. will widen the gap between the developed and the developing countries

B. is but a short-term relief to the food problem

C. can hardly alleviate the shortage of food

D. proves to be an effective way out for impoverished nations


4. Among "humanity's current problems" (Line6, Para. 3 ), the chief


concern of the scientists is _____.

A. the impoverishment of developing countries

B. the explosion of the human population

C. the reduction of biological diversity

D. the effect of global wamfing



5. The author's purpose in writing this passage is _____.

A. to describe the difficulties in solving humanity's current problems

B. to present the different views on humanity's current problems

C. to analyze the contradiction between countries in dealing with humanity's current problems

D. to point out that humanity's current problems can only be solved through the cooperation of nations


When they advise your kids to "get an education" if you want to raise your income, they tell you only half the truth. What they really mean is to get just enough education to provide man power for your society, but not too much that you prove an embarrassment to your society.
            
Get a high school diploma, at least. Without that, you are occupationally dead, unless your name happens to be George Bernard Shaw or Thomas Alva Edison and you can successfully school. Get a college degree, if possible. With a B. A., you are on the launching pad. But now you have to start to put on the brakes.

If you go for a master's degree, make sure it is an M. B. A. , and only from a first-rate university. Beyond this, the famous law of diminishing returns begins to take effect. Do you know, for instance, that long-haul truck drivers earn more a year than full professors? Yes, the average 1977 salary for those truckers was $24, 000, while the full professors managed to average $23,930. A Ph. D. is the highest degree you can get, but except in a few specialized fields such as physics or chemistry, where the degree can quickly be turned to industrial or commercial purposes, you are facing a dim future. There is more Ph. D’s unemployed or underemployed in this country than in any other part of the world by far.

If you become a doctor of philosophy in English or history or anthropology or political science or languages or-worst of all-in philosophy, you run the risk of becoming overeducated for our national demands. Not for our needs, mind you, but for our demands. Thousands of Ph.D.s are selling shoes, driving cabs, waiting on tables and filling out fruitless applications month after month. And then maybe taking a job in some high school or backwater college that pays much less than the janitor earns. You can equate the level of income with the level of education only so far. Far enough, that is, to make you useful to the gross national product, but not so far that nobody can turn much of a profit on you.

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