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1、考研英语阅读理解典型范文含译文翻译版In a modern world where time is money, how have our reading habits been influenced? Are we reading more quickly or do we prefer to read short passages? The answer perhaps lies in the kind of text youre reading.When were reading online, we read quickly to search what we want. Does t

2、his mean that as readers we now have far less patience than we used to? Not necessarily. Much of this activity is actually skimming or scanning to check whether something is useful or interesting and whether we want to read on. Well slowdown and take a bit longer to properly read the text if the hea

3、dline catches our eyes.For those writing for an online environment, this means finding more useful ways of catching the readers eyes. For example, putting the key information at the very beginning makes it more likely that the time-poor website visitors will find what they want.But what about when w

4、ere reading literature , are the rules still the same? The average reader works their way through a piece of an article at no more than about 250-300 words per据BBC新闻报道，另一个原因是，如今许多年轻人认为杀死动物作 为食物是错误的。对许多人来说，纯素食主义仅仅意味着不吃肉、奶酪 或鸡蛋。事实上，无动物已经应用于时尚和制造业。例如，皮革曾 经被用来制作鞋子和衣服。每年，从牛、马到蛇，超过10亿动物被杀 死，用它们的皮制成产品。现在，许

5、多品牌都在寻找其他材料。例如，运动品牌彪马(Puma)就用菠萝叶制作了鞋子。据说,美国汽 车制造商特斯拉(Tesla)将从座椅上去除动物皮革。今年早些时候，美国 歌手Lady Gaga创立了素食化妆品品牌Haus Laboratorieso在该品 牌的Instagram账户上,它写道无残忍和素食，因为我们爱动物和 你。 所以，如果你对保护动物和拯救环境感兴趣，你可能会想尝试素食主义。素食主义不仅对我们的健康有好处，而且对环境也有好处。minute, which is generally a page of text. If you try to read through a novel mor

6、e quickly, then you start to lose a lot of what makes literature such a pleasure. When we read for pleasure, we are much less focused on picking out useful information or key words. Instead, the language itself is as important as the information mentioned. The longer you spend reading a passage, the

7、 more vivid a picture you create in your mind.Sometimes an escape from the fast-moving Internet Age is just what we need, so maybe its time to slow down and lose yourself in a good book.在一个时间就是金钱的现代世界，我们的阅读习惯是如何受到影响 的?我们是读得更快还是更喜欢读短文?答案也许取决于你所阅读的文 本类型。当我们在线阅读时，我们快速阅读来搜索我们想要的。这是否意味 着，作为读者，我们现在的耐心远不如过

8、去呢?不一定。这种阅读大部 分实际上是略读或扫描，以选择一些东西是否有用或有趣，以及我们是 否想继续阅读。如果标题吸引了我们的眼球，我们就会放慢速度，花更 长的时间来彻底地阅读文本。对于那些在线上写作的人来说，这意味着要找到更有用的方法来吸 引读者的眼球。例如，把关键信息放在最开始，使时间贫乏的网站访问 者更有可能找到他们想要的东西。但是当我们阅读文学作品时，规则还是一样的吗? 一般读者阅读一篇 文章的速度不超过250-300字每分钟,通常相当于一页文本。如果你 试图更快地读完一本小说，那么你就会失去很多让文学如此愉悦的东西。 当我们为了娱乐而阅读时，我们很少专注于挑选有用的信息或关键词。 相

9、反，语言本身和所提到的信息一样重要。你花在阅读一篇文章上的时 间越长，你在脑海中形成的画面就越生动。有时候，逃离快速移动的互联网时代正是我们所需要的，所以也许 是时候慢下来，把自己迷失在一本好书中了。Do all teenagers get pocket money?Most teenagers receive pocket money every week. But not everyone gets the same amount of money. Have you asked your friends how much they get? You might be surprised.

10、 And if youre a girl youll be amazed to learn that boys often get more than girls of the same age!* So what happens in different countries?Teenagers up to the age of about 15 in the UK have about 5 a week in pocket money. But in Italy, France and Spain, the same age group gets about 9, which is a bi

11、t more. In the USZ pocket money is called /zan allowance . Most teenagers get a weekly allowance of about $30, which is more than 20 or 25.* Do teens have to work for their pocket money?Quite a lot of teenagers do. They have to do things in the house, like washing-up and cleaning and then they get t

12、heir pocket money. If they dont do the jobs, they dont get the money. Some teenagers have part-time jobs too, which means they have more than their pocket money to spend each week.* What do teenagers spend their money on?You might be surprised at the answer. Teenagers in the UK spend more of their m

13、oney on food than on clothes. Is that true for you too? Teens do more shopping online than before and online clothes shopping is cheaper. So perhaps this is one reason they dont spend so much on clothes.+ Do parents tell teens what to spend pocket money on?Some parents do! They only let them buy som

14、e things. Other parents want their teens to save all their pocket money and spend it on something big in the future, or not spend it at all.中所有的青少年都有零花钱吗?大多数青少年每周都会收到零花钱。但并不是每个人都能得到同样 多的钱。你问过你的朋友他们赚了多少钱吗?你可能会感到惊讶。如果 你是一个女孩，你会惊讶地发现同龄男孩通常比女孩得到的更多！也那么在不同的国家会发生什么呢？在英国，15岁以下的青少年每周大约有5英镑的零花钱。但在意大 利、法国和西班牙

15、，相同年龄段的人的零花钱约为9欧元，略高一些。 在美国，零花钱被称为零用钱。大多数青少年每周的零花钱约为 30美元，超过20英镑或25欧元。中青少年必须为他们的零花钱工作吗？很多青少年都有。他们必须在家里做一些事情，比如洗碗和打扫， 然后他们可以得到零花钱。如果他们不干活，就拿不到钱。一些青少年 也有兼职工作，这意味着他们每周可以花费比他们零花钱还多的钱。*青少年把钱花在什么上？你可能会对答案感到惊讶。英国青少年花在食物上的钱比花在衣服 上的钱要多。你也是这样吗?青少年比以前更多地在网上购物，在网上 买衣服更便宜。所以这可能是他们不用花那么多钱在衣服上的一个原因。小父母会告诉孩子们把零花钱花在

16、什么地方吗?一些家长会这么做!他们只让孩子买一些特定的东西。还有一些父 母希望他们的孩子把所有的零花钱存起来，在将来花在一些大的事情上, 或者根本不花。Ellen MacArthur is a British sportswoman. On7 February 2005, she broke the world record for sailing alone around the world. She recorded her amazing journey through the worlds most dangerous seas with a video diary. And she

17、immediately became internationally famous.Ellen was born in England in 1976 and lived there with her parents, who were both teachers, and her two brothers. She began sailing with her aunt Thea when she was just four years old, and spent the rest of her time reading books about sailing.When she was e

18、ight, she started to save her school dinner money to buy her first boat. She was eleven when she had enough money to buy it. When she was seventeen, Ellen bought another boat and named it “Iduna” In 1995 she sailed it on her own around Great Britain.In 2009 she said that she was going to stop sailin

19、g, and a year later she gave away 500, 000 of her own money to create a charity called the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. The charity works through business and education to encourage young people to think differently about the future. She wants to help people to design different ways of reusing energy

20、 and to get more people using renewable energy.By 2050, Ellen says there will be more plastic than fish in the sea, and she wants her charity to do something about this. Ellen says that changing peoples attitudes to the way they use things and throw them away is the greatest challenge of her life ye

21、t.艾伦麦克阿瑟是英国女运动员。2005年2月7日，她打破了独自 环球航行的世界纪录。她用视频日记记录了她穿越世界上最危险海域的 惊人旅程。很快她就在国际上出名了。艾伦1976年出生在英国，和她的父母以及两个兄弟一起生活。她 的父母都是教师。她四岁的时候就开始和姨妈西娅一起航海，其余的时 间都用来阅读有关航海的书籍。八岁的时候，她开始省下学校的饭钱来买她的第一艘船。当她存下 足够的钱买船时已经十一岁了。17岁时，艾伦买了另一艘船，并把它 命名为伊杜纳。1995年，她独自驾驶着这艘船环游英国。2009年,她说她将停止航海，一年后，她捐出自己的50万英镑创 建了一个名为艾伦麦克阿瑟基金会的慈善机构

22、。该慈善机构通过商业和 教育来鼓励年轻人以不同的方式思考未来。她希望帮助人们设计不同的 能源再利用方式，让更多人使用可再生能源。艾伦说，到2050年，海里的塑料将比鱼还多，她希望她的慈善机 构对此做点什么。艾伦说改变人们使用和丢弃物品的态度是她一生中最 大的挑战。Sticking to a vegan diet might sound difficult, especially since many popular dishes have meat in them. Yet in recent years, veganism has become one of the fastest-grow

23、ing trends in the world.According to HuffPost, more than 3 million people in the United States are vegans. In the UKZ about 542,000 people have chosen veganism over the past ten years.What is driving this growth in veganism? One reason might be that people want to protect the environment. According

24、to a 2013 study by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, global meat manufacturing causes about 18 percent of the world* s greenhouse gas emissions. This is more than all the world s cars, trains and planes added together.According to BBC News, another reason is that many of today; s young peopl

25、e believe it s wrong to kill animals for food. For many people, veganism simply means eating no meat； cheese or eggs. In fact, going animal-free has applied to fashion and manufacturing. For example, leather is used to make shoes and clothing. Every year more than 1 billion animals, from cows to hor

26、ses to snakes, are killed to make products from their skins. Now, many brands are looking for other materials.The sports brand Puma, for example, has made shoes out of pineapple leaves. Tesla, the US car maker, is said to be removing animal-based leather from its seats. Earlier this year, US singer

27、Lady Gaga created the vegan makeup brand Haus Laboratories. On the brand s Instagram account, it says: Cruelty-free and vegan, because we love animals and youSo, if you7 re interested in protecting animals and saving the environment you might want to give veganism a try. Veganism is not only good for our health but also for the environment.坚持纯素饮食听起来很难，特别是许多受欢迎的菜肴都含有肉。然 而近年来，纯素食主义已经成为世界上增长最快的趋势之一。据赫芬顿邮报报道，美国有超过300万人是素食主义者。在英 国，过去的十年里，大约有54.2万人选择了纯素食主义。是什么推动了素食主义的增长? 一个原因可能是人们想要保护环境。 根据联合国粮食及农业组织(UN Food and Agriculture Organization) 2013年的一项研究,全球肉类生产造成了约18%的温室气体排放,这 比世界上所有汽车、火车和飞机的总排放量还要多。