2015考研英语阅读理解精读P23—医学

2015考研英语阅读理解精读P17—医学Passage 17William Shakespeare described old age as "second childishness"-- sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste. In the case of taste he may, musically speaking, have been even more perceptive than he realized. A paper in Neurology by Giovanni Frisoni and his colleagues at the National Centre for Research and Care of Alzheimer's Disease in Brescia, Italy, shows that one form of senile dementia can affect musical desires in ways that suggest a regression, if not to infancy, then at least to a patient's teens.Frontotemporal dementia is caused, as its name suggests, by damage to the front and sides of the brain. These regions are concerned with speech, and with such "higher" functions as abstract thinking and judgment. Frontotemporal damage therefore produces different symptoms from the loss of memory associated with Alzheimer's disease, a more familiar dementia that affects the hippocampus and amygdala in the middle of the brain. Frontotemporal dementia is also rarer than Alzheimer's. In the past five years the centre in Brescia has treated some 1,500 Alzheimer's patients; it has seen only 46 with frontotemporal dementia.Two of those patients interested Dr Frisoni. One was a 68-year-old lawyer, the other a 73-year-old housewife. Both had undamaged memories, but displayed the sorts of defect associated with frontotemporal dementia-a diagnosis that was confirmed by brain scanning. About two years after he was first diagnosed the lawyer, once a classical music lover whoreferred to pop music as "mere noise", started listening to the Italian pop band "883". As his command of language and his emotional attachments to friends and family deteriorated, hecontinued to listen to the band at full volume for many hours a day. The housewife had not even had the lawyer's love of classical music, having never enjoyed music of any sort in the past. But about a year after her diagnosis she became very interested in the songs that her 11-year-old granddaughter was listening to.This kind of change in musical taste was not seen in any of the Alzheimer's patients, and thus appears to be specific to those with frontotemporal dementia. And other studies have remarked on how frontotemporal-dementia patients sometimes gain new talents. Five sufferers who developed artistic abilities are known. And in another lapse of musical taste, one woman with the disease suddenly started composing and singing country and western songs.Dr Frisoni speculates that the illness is causing people to develop a new attitude towards novel experiences. Previous studies of novelty-seeking behavior suggest that it is managed by the brain's right frontal lobe. A predominance of the right over the left frontal lobe, caused by damage to the latter, might thus lead to a quest for new experience. Alternatively, the damage may have affected some specific neural circuit that is needed to appreciate certain kinds of music. Whetherthat is a gain or a loss is a different matter. As Dr Frisoni puts it in his article, de gustibus non disputandum est. Or, in plainer words, there is no accounting for taste.11. For Shakespeare, old age as “second childishness”for they have the sameA favorite.B memory.C experience.D sense.12. Which one is not a symptom of Frototemporal dementia?A the loss of memory.B the loss of judgment.C the loss of abstract thinking .D the loss of speech.13. From the two patients mentioned in the passage, it can be concluded thatA their command of language has deteriorated.B their emotional attachments to friends and family are being lost.C the Frontotemporal dementia can bring new gifts.D Frontotemporal dementia can cause patients to change their musical tastes.14.The “novel”in the last paragraph meansA historical.B special.C story-like.D strange.15. From the passage, it can be inferred thatA the damage of the left frontal lobe may affect some specific neural circuit.B the lawyer patient has the left frontal lobe damaged.C the damage of the left frontal lobe decreased the appreciation certain kinds of music.D every patient has the same taste.答案：DADDB题目分析11. 答案为D，属推理判断题，文章第一句“莎士比亚把老年人比作人生第二个幼年期”，紧接着后面“sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste”是补充说明的，sans 不知道是什么意思，但可以推断老人和婴儿在牙齿、眼睛、味觉方面的特点就是在这些方面都不敏感，(sans是法语，意思是“没有”)那么答案中 A 爱好 B 记忆C 经历 D 感觉，根据原文应该是D，因牙齿、眼睛、味觉都和感官有关。

2015考研英语阅读理解精读P24—医学Passage 24There are certain people who behave in a quite peculiar fashion during the work of analysis. When one speaks hopefully to them or expresses satisfaction with the progress of the treatment, they show signs of discontent and their condition invariably becomes worse. One begins by regarding this as defiance and as an attempt to prove their superiority to the physician, but later one comes to take a deeper and juster view. One becomes convinced, not only that such people cannot endure any praise or appreciation, but that they react inversely to the progress of the treatment. Every partial solution that ought to result, and in other people does result, in an improvement or a temporary suspension of symptoms produces in them for the time being an intensification of their illness; they get worse during the treatment instead of getting better. They exhibit what is known as a “negative therapeutic reaction”.There is no doubt that there is something in these people that sets itself against their recovery, and its approach is dreaded as though it were a danger. We are accustomed to say that the need for illness has got the upper hand in them over the desire for recovery. If we analyse this resistance in the usual way —then, even after fixation to the various forms of gain from illness, the greater part of it is still left over; and this reveals itself as the most powerful of all obstacles to recovery, more powerful than the familiar ones of narcissistic(admiring one’s own self too much) inaccessibility, a negative attitude towards the physician and clinging to the gain from illness.In the end we come to see that we are dealing with what may be called a “moral”factor, a sense of guilt, which is finding satisfaction in the illness and refuses to give up the punishment of suffering. We shall be right in regarding this disencouraging explanation as final. But as far as the patient is concerned this sense of guilt is dumb; it does not tell him he is guilty, he feels ill. This sense of guilt expresses itself only as a resistance to recovery which it is extremely difficult to overcome. It is also particularly difficult to convince the patient that this motive lies behind his continuing to be ill; he holds fast to the more obvious explanation that treatment by analysis is not the right remedy for his case.1. According to the author, some unusual patients would[A] openly resist the treatment of the physician.[B] intentionally hold the physician in contempt.[C] respond against the physician’s expectation.[D] disregard the appreciation by the physician.2. For the patients the author describes,[A] a hopeful treatment often leads to a reverse result.[B] a local treatment improves temporarily their symptoms.[C] a partial solution betters rather than worsens their illness.[D] a right solution cures them partially of their illness.3. The author’s study of this syndrome leads him to think that[A] patients must be convinced of the treatment by analysis.[B] patients’sense of guilt may hinder them from getting well.[C] patients need to know the final explanations of their illness.[D] patients should give up the punishment of suffering from their illness.4. It can be inferred from the text that[A] certain people behave in a particularly fashionable way.[B] the need for illness has overcome the desire for recovery.[C] the patients who are content with their illness are guilty.[D] the syndrome of inverse reaction to therapy is curious.5. The root cause of the resistance to recovery lies in the fact that the patients[A] are apt to refuse the recognization of the physician’s authority.[B] can hardly put up with being praised or appreciated by their doctors.[C] cling to the unconscious belief in their deserved penalty by sickness.[D] suffer from a chronic mental disease that offers them a feeling of guilt.词汇注释defiance 蔑视therapeutic 治疗的dreaded 令人担心的narcissistic 自我陶醉的inaccessibility 不易接近的难句讲解1. Every partial solution that ought to result, and in other people does result, in an improvement or a temporary suspension of symptoms produces in them for the time being an intensification of their illness; they get worse during the treatment instead of getting better.[简析] 本句话的主干是“Every partial solution produces in them an intensification, they get worse…”。

2015考研英语二阅读在2015年的考研英语二考试中，阅读理解部分的难度适中，但仍然需要考生具备扎实的语言基础和良好的逻辑思维能力。

文章选材广泛，覆盖了社会、文化、科技等多个领域，旨在考察考生对不同文体和话题的理解能力。

首先，阅读理解A部分的文章涉及了社会现象，如教育、环境和科技发展等。

这些文章通常包含大量的专业术语和复杂的句子结构，要求考生不仅要有较强的词汇量，还要能够快速捕捉文章的主旨大意和细节信息。

在解答这类题目时，考生需要注意文章中的转折词、比较级和最高级等语言标志，这些往往能够帮助考生把握文章的逻辑关系和作者的观点态度。

其次，阅读理解B部分则更侧重于考察考生的推理判断能力。

这部分的文章往往包含一些隐含的信息和作者的暗示，考生需要通过上下文的线索来推断文章的深层含义。

在解答这类题目时，考生应避免仅凭字面意思理解，而应结合文章的整体内容和语境来做出合理的推断。

此外，阅读理解C部分的文章则更注重考察考生的词汇量和语法知识。

这部分的文章通常包含一些生僻词汇和复杂的句型，考生需要通过上下文的语境来猜测词义和理解句意。

在解答这类题目时，考生可以利用构词法、同义词替换等技巧来辅助理解。

最后，阅读理解D部分的文章则更侧重于考察考生的综合理解能力。

这部分的文章往往涉及多个主题和复杂的逻辑关系，考生需要在理解文章的基础上，对文章的结构、作者的观点和文章的写作目的有一个全面的把握。

在解答这类题目时，考生应注重文章的整体结构和段落之间的联系，以及作者的写作意图和文章的深层含义。

总的来说，2015年考研英语二的阅读理解部分要求考生具备较强的语言综合运用能力，包括词汇、语法、逻辑推理和综合理解等方面。

考生在备考过程中，应注重提高这些能力，并通过大量的阅读练习来熟悉不同文体和话题的文章，以提高自己的应试能力。

2015考研英语阅读理解精读P20—医学2015考研英语阅读理解精读P20—医学Passage 20I am a neuroscientist.I make a living by studying how the brain works.Although neuroscience has taken huge strides forward in the past decade，it is a long way from being able to address the problems dealt with by psychotherapy.3) Neuroscience cannot yet explain how we feel，and it is a long way from being able to prescribe what a miserable person must do to feel better.So，as a neuroscientist，I feel I should have a conclusion about the alternative approach.The first question I must answer is：“What do psychotherapies have to offer?”First，let us deal with the scientific angle.The best way to start is by assessing a claim that has cropped up several times over the year.It was first made of psychoanalysis，but it has been extended to other psychotherapies.It is the claim that psychoanalysis is the successor to religion，that it gives a scientific，rather than a superstitious，answer to the question of how best to lead a happy，fulfilled life.1 would say this claim is at best half right.Psychoanalysis may indeed answer the question of how best to lead a happy life，but it has a lot more in common with religion than it has with science.In fact，psychoanalysis is not the successor to religion，it is just another religion.This assessment is based on the way religions and sciences deal with fundamental truths.In religions，truths are laid down by God and revealed to the prophets who，in their turn，pass them on to the faithful.They are sacred mysteries that cannot bequestioned.In science，on the other hand，truths are nothing if not questionable.The laws of science are deduced from the results of experiments and can be used to predict new experimental results.If new results go against the prediction，they show the law to be false.A new experimental result，or a new theory for deriving predictions from the results，can change the accepted truths.If a scientific statement cannot，in principle，be proved wrong then it tells us nothing.Psychoanalysis suffers from just this problem.4)It is a maxim that our psychological problems are rooted in past conflicts，and that the repressed memories of these conflicts emerge from the unconscious in coded forms that can be interpreted by the analyst.But the codes are so obscure and so flexible that they defy rational explanation.There is no way the maxims could be disproved.They may not be sacred，but they are definitely mysteries.Many other therapies are based on untestable theories.Of course，that doesn’t necessarily prevent them from working.There is no doubt thousands of people feel that psychoanalysis has helped them to lead fuller and happier lives.But the number of satisfied customers is no guide to scientific validity;if it were，religion would come out way ahead.1. The author considers his role as a neuroscientist____.[A]irrelevant to that of a psychoanalyst[B]different from that of a psychoanalyst[C]of the same importance as that of a psychotherapeutist[D]purely imaginary and impractical2. According to the author，psychoanalysis is another religion in that____.[A]it does nothing towards revealing fundamental truth[B]its conclusions are seldom capable of being tested[C]it has too many prophets and blind believers[D]it takes over many doctrines from religious beliefs3. By saying that“Psychoanalysis suffers from just this problem”(Para.5)the author means that____.[A]psychoanalysis deals with problems or conflicts inside the unconscious[B]the assertions in psychoanalysis cannot be disproved[C]psychoanalysis attaches no importance to doing experiments[D]psychoanalysts can not explain psychological problems to patients4. Which of the following is a science according to the author?[A]Neuroscience.[B]Psychoanalysis.[C]Psychotherapy.[D]None of the above.5. The main purpose of the passage is____.[A]to refute the practical value of psychoanalysis[B]to propose neuroscience as an alternative to psychoanalysis[C]to compare the theories of psychoanalysis with religious doctrines[D]to explain why psychoanalysis is not a science答案：1. [B] 在第一段作者指出，自己是一个神经科学家，随后说明了这门科学目前存在的局限性。