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UNIT FIVE

TEXT ONE

Boosted by booming international financial markets, the City

of London has not had it so good since the end of the dotcom bonanza

in the late 1990s. Basking in double-digit growth rates, London's

law firms have both contributed to that success and benefited from

it. The earnings of top City lawyers can now exceed £2m a year.

Having opted to expand and go global ahead of most others,

Britain's leading law firms tend to be bigger than their American

rivals. Indeed, according to a survey of the world's top 50 law

firms, compiled by Legal Business, a British trade paper, five

of the world's top six law firms—in terms of turnover—are now

British (if DLA Piper, the result of an Anglo-American merger,

is included). But they have tended to lag behind in terms of their

profitability. That is now changing.

The profit margins of the City's five “magic circle”

firms—Clifford Chance, Slaughter and May, Allen & Overy,

Linklaters and Freshfields—have soared in recent years and are

now comparable with, if not higher than, those of New York's

“white shoe” elite. Slaughter and May, the only one of the five

not to have gone global, has the joint second-highest profit

margin among the top 50.

Not so long ago, a London surgeon could expect to earn as much

as a City lawyer. But even the recent big rises in hospital

consultants' earnings pall in comparison with those enjoyed by

London lawyers. At Slaughter and May, for example, average

profits

per equity partner (PEP) jumped by almost a third (in dollar terms)

last year to $2.75m—more than at any other of the top 50 law firms

bar two in New York where PEP averaged $2.8m and $3.0m respectively.

Some senior partners get a lot more of course.

Competition for the best lawyers is fierce and poaching

frequent. Hence the need to keep headline PEP figures up—even

at the cost of getting rid of equity partners, leaving a bigger

share of the bounty for the remaining ones. Freshfields is in the

process of shedding around 100 of its equity partners. Other

leading firms are also undertaking painful restructuring.

Newly qualified lawyers' salaries have also been shooting up

in the search for the best talent. Both Freshfields and Allen &

Overy now pay their first-year associates £65,000, rising to

around £90,000 after three years. (First-year associates at

America's top law firms get the equivalent of £80,000.)

But, as many other top-rank City employers have discovered,

big earnings do not necessarily guarantee big satisfaction.

According to a YouGov poll, published by the Lawyer earlier this

month, a quarter of Britain's lawyers (including a fifth of

law-firm partners) would like to leave the profession. The

disgruntled complained about cripplingly long hours, intense

competition and the impersonality of the biggest firms (some with

more than 3,000 lawyers). So why don't they quit? Because, say

three-quarters, of the pay.

1. Which one of the following is TURE of the status quo of London’s

economy?

[A] London is enjoying its best time of economic development since

1990s.

[B] The growth rate of London is doubled since the beginning of

the 1990s.

[C] The growth rate started to boost since the end of the dotcom

era.

[D] The current economy of London is mostly driven by its legal

instead of financial market.

2. The world’s top 50 law firms are graded according to _____

[A] their annual margin.

[B] their profitability.

[C] their sale volume.

[D] their quantity of business.

3.The phrase “white shoe” (Line 3, Paragraph 3) most probably

means____

[A] white collars.

[B] first-class law firms.

[C] financial agencies.

[D] international banks.

4. In order to be competitive, the law firms take the following

measures except_____.

[A] dismissing equity partners.

[B] carrying out restructuring.

[C] having their best lawyers turn more competitive.

[D] raising salaries for recruiting talents.

5. From the YouGov poll, it can be inferred that____

[A] this profession is far from satisfactory.

[B] most lawyers will leave the profession sooner or later.

[C] most lawyers are satisfied with the profession because of the

fat pay.

[D] high salary is always contradictory to big satisfaction.

文章剖析：

这篇文章介绍英国伦敦律师事务所的现状。第一段讲述伦敦因为经济增长迅速，律师业也受益匪浅；第二、三段讲述伦敦律师事务所在世界上的排名；第四段讲述伦敦事务所律师的工资待遇；第五、六段讲述律师事务所的竞争手段；第七段讲述对该行业的满意度。

词汇注释：

bonanza n. 富矿带, 带来好运之事, 幸运 bask v. 晒太阳(享受温暖), 感到温暖, 愉快或舒适

turnover n. 营业额 pall v.覆盖, 使平淡无味

bounty n. 奖金，补助金 disgruntled adj. 不高兴的，不满意的

cipplingly adv. 临界地，极限地

难句突破：

(1) Indeed, according to a survey of the world's top 50 law firms,

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1 Translation

Unit1 Text A

Translation (para 20)

那时，我就像一个跳伞员正准备第一次跳伞， 舱门打开了，要跳的距离高不见底，谁知道这一跳是令人兴奋陶醉，还是粉身碎骨。 天真无知曾经掩盖了恐惧，突然间要面对现实，天真消失了。当然，此时此刻，再回头已经不可能。

一想到那是自己的主张，就感到有些荒诞，觉得自己仿佛是地球上唯一的人。于是，闭上双眼，深深地吸了口气，纵身跳了下去。

Unit3 Text A

Translation (para 1)

仅仅两年多以前，总统们和诺贝尔奖得主们纷纷登台为现代生物学领域里最重要的事件喝彩。由于世界各国同心协力，人类基因组的31亿个碱基已经提前排序成功。比尔.克林顿总统称之为“人类绘制出的最完美的图谱”。然而，这一事件余热未消，人们可能会惊讶地听说一场更大的生物学革命，它将使基因组学研究所取得的成就黯然失色，生物学研究将转向更大的物质。蛋白质组学（即识别蛋白质并了解蛋白质在人体细胞内的作用）开始取代基因研究在生物医学的前沿性地位。2003年很可能会成为生物医学中的蛋白质组年。

Translation (para 8)

2003年将仅仅是蛋白质组研究的开始。终有一天，我们能够绘制出一个完整的百万个蛋白质功能图谱。然而，正如血浆蛋白质组项目所展现的那样，即使是在蛋白质分类的初始阶段，我们也将受益匪浅。而且，如果竞争极其激烈的人类基因组研究所取得的出人意料的技术飞跃能为后来的研究提供依据，蛋白质组的分类图谱等研究会比我们预想的更快一些完成。

Cloning studies are challenging many orthodox views in genetics. A common idea is

that human behavior and even our complex society are somehow “determined” by our

考研英语阅读理解外刊原文经济学人

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Diageo last week took a majority stake in Seedlip, a non-alcoholic spirit sold as an

alternative to gin — a move seen by analysts as the drinks giant’s attempt to grab more

of the growing teetotal market. The young are more abstemious than their elders, and

manufacturers and marketers need to keep up.

帝亚吉欧(Diageo)不久前收购了Seedlip的多数股权，这是一种被作为金酒替代品出售的无酒精型烈酒——市场分析师们将此举解读为酒业巨头试图在日益扩张的无酒精饮料市场中分一杯羹。年轻一代相对于他们的长辈在饮酒方面更加节制，酒类生产商和营销机构必须跟上这种趋势。

For those of us who don’t drink or, in my case, only occasionally, a reduction in

others’ drinking, along with a fall in the antisocial consequences, is a welcome

development. At a wedding in Italy this summer, I marvelled as a group of Italian and

French guests partied under a hot afternoon sun and late into the night, without

anyone staggering or slurring in the way they would inevitably have done in the UK.

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Part Two

Being a man has always been dangerous. There are about 105 males born for every 100

females, but this ratio drops to near balance at the age of maturity, and among

70-year-olds there are twice as many women as men. But the great universal of male

mortality is being changed. Now, by babies survive almost as well as girls do. 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. Fifty years ago, the chance of a baby （particularly a

boy baby）surviving depended on its weight. A kilogram too light or too heavy meant

almost certain death. Today it makes almost no difference. Since much of the variation

is due to genes one more agent of evolution has gone.

2002年考研英语真题阅读理解答案解析

2002年考研英语真题阅读理解答案解析

Unit 9（2002） Part 4 重点词汇：

suicide（v.n.自杀）即sui+cide，sui词根=self，cide词根“切”=cut，于是“拿刀切自己”→自杀。Every suicide is a solution to a problem.每件自杀都是对一个问题的解决。suicide — the only perfect crime that remains unpunished 自杀——唯一不受惩罚的完美罪行。那么严重。与

70年代相比，现在多数国家的原油价格占汽油价格的份额要小很多。在欧洲，税金在汽油

零售价的比例高达4/5，因此，即使原油价格发生很大的波动，汽油价格所受的影响也不会

像过去那么显著。 发达国家对石油的依赖性也不如从前，因此对油价的波动也就不会那么敏感。能源储备、

燃料替代以及能源密集型重工业的重要性的降低，都减少了石油消耗量。软件、咨询及移动

通讯消耗的石油，比钢铁、汽车行业少得多。发达国家国民生产总值中每一个美元所消耗的

石油量比1973年少了近一半。国际经合组织在最近一期的《经济展望》中估计，如果油价

持续一年维持在22美元左右，与1998年的13美元一桶相比，这也只会使发达国家的石油进口在支出上增加GDP的0.25％～0.5％。这还不到1974年或1980年收入减少部分的1/4。

另一方面，进口石油的新兴国家由于转向了重工业，消耗能量更大，因此可能会受到石油危

机的强烈影响。

另外一个不应因油价上升而失眠的原因是，与20世纪70年代不同，这次油价上升不是

发生在普遍的物价暴涨及全球需求过旺背景之下。世界上很多地区才刚刚走出经济衰落。《经济学家》的商品价格指数与一年前相比总的来说也没有什么变化。1973年的商品价格跃升

了70％，而1979年也上升了近30％。 2. constitutional （构成的；体质的；宪法的）即con+stitut（e）+ion+al，con-前缀“一起”，