新東方:2006考研英語7選5新題型真題解析

特別推薦：2006年1月14日考研英語答案(完全版)        2006年1月14日考研英語試題（完全版）

作者：新東方英語名師 周雷

閱讀理解這部分出7選5既在意料之外，也在意料之中，意料之外的是另外兩種題型失去了被千萬考生檢驗的機會，而意料之中的是畢竟去年已經(jīng)考過一次了，今年再出題，命題人員對這種題目的把握會更大一些。

所慶幸的是，今年這篇七選五的難度要比去年的小一些，其中的43題基本就是送分的，只要看lure一詞重復(fù)了，就可以做出來，不管是否認識該單詞。但是由于命題專家在出題時對原文進行了刪節(jié)，有的地方為了降低難度也進行了單詞和句型的簡化，這樣造成了文章整體性有一定的減弱。表現(xiàn)在題目上，44和45題難度比較大。

題目選自Newsweek Nov. 25, 2002 一篇名為Electronic Morphine(電子嗎啡)的文章，文章作者是一名專欄作家George F. Will。文章寫作的方式是典型的西方報刊體——先舉一個例子，再從例子中說明一個普遍的社會現(xiàn)象，最后引出自己的評論。這種文章的特點是作者舉的例子一般都比較好看懂，但是在后面闡釋作者觀點的時候就有一定的難度了。

41. C。 要根據(jù)時間順序和David Williams對賭博越來越著迷，輸?shù)缅X越來越多這個角度來分析，第二段整個講他賭博上癮，不能自拔的過程，而且越輸越多。

42. A。 此段講賭場知道他上癮后對他采取的補救措施，但是他要起訴賭場，就舉出了賭場并沒有確實實施措施的例子：比如依舊向他進行商業(yè)推廣而且也沒有限制他進入。此題較難

43. B。簡單，只要看lure一詞的重現(xiàn)關(guān)系即可

44. F。此題比較難，只能從此空格的后面的邏輯關(guān)系來推測。后面講到過去的character flaws or moral failings我們今天依據(jù)科學(xué)都視為physical disabilities，這個意思和選項中的medicalizing more and more behavioral problems 意思是一致的。

45. D。此題還是應(yīng)該從后文中找答案，即看此空和后面一段的關(guān)系，后面地一句就說到美國44個州有彩票，29個州有賭場，這說明賭博在美國很普及，而D答案中最后一句說在美國最重要和積極的賭博推廣者是政府，正好可以和后文相接。

附上Newsweek上的原文。加下劃線的地方是正確答案的地方，藍的文字是被命題專家刪節(jié)的重要的段落。

Electronic Morphine

Gambling has been a common feature of American life forever, but for a long time it was broadly considered a sin. Now it is social policy.

By: George F. Will

On the North bank of the Ohio River sits Evansville, Indiana, home of David Williams, 52, and of a riverboat casino. During several years of gambling in that casino, Williams, a state auditor earning $35,000 a year, lost approximately $175,000. He had never gambled before the casino sent him a coupon for $20 worth of gambling.

He visited the casino, lost the $20 and left. On his second visit, he lost $800. The casino issued to him, as a good customer, a Fun Card, which when use din the casino earns points for meals and drinks, and enables the casino to track the user s gambling activities. For Williams, those activities became what he calls electric morphine.

By the time he had lost $5,000 he said to himself that if he could get back to even, he would quit. One night he won $5,500, but he did not quit. In 1997 he lost $21,000 to one slot machine in two days. In March 1997 he lost $72,186. He sometimes played tow slot machines at a time, all night, until the boat docked at 5 a.m., then went back aboard when the casino opened at 9 a.m. Now he is suing the casino, charging that it should have refused his patronage because it knew he was addicted. It did know he had a problem.

In March 1998 a friend of Williams got him involuntarily confined to a treatment center for addictions, and wrote to inform the casino of Williams gambling problem. The casino included a photo of Williams among those of banned gamblers, and wrote to him a cease admissions letter. Noting the medical/psychological nature of problem gambling behavior, the letter said that before being readmitted to the casino he would have to present medical/psychological information demonstrating that patronizing the casino would pose no threat to his safety or well-being.

Although no such evidence was presented, the casino s marketing department continued to pepper him with mailings. And he entered the casino and used his Fun Card without being detected.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the casino has 24 signs warning: Enjoy the fun & and always bet with your head, not over it. Every entrance ticket lists a toll-free number for counseling from the Indiana Department of Mental Health. Nevertheless, Williams suit charges that the casino, knowing he was helplessly addicted to gambling, intentionally worked to lure him to engage in conduct against his will. Well.

It is unclear what luring was required, given his compulsive behavior. And in what sense was his will operative?

The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) says pathological gambling involves persistent, recurring and uncontrollable pursuit less of money that of the euphoric state of taking risks in quest of a windfall. Pathological gamblers often exhibit distorted thinking (denial, superstition, overconfidence). They lie to friends and family to conceal their behavior, resort to theft or fraud to finance it, and succumb to chasing ever more risky and high-stakes gambling in attempts to recoup losses.

It is worrisome that society is medicalizing more and more behavioral problems, often defining as addictions what earlier, sterner generations explained as weakness of will. Prodded by science, or what purports to be science, society is reclassifying what once were considered character flaws or moral failings as personality disorders akin to physical disabilities.

However, at least several million Americans do have a disposition, a mental disorder, a compulsive disease that seems to make them as unable to gamble responsibly as an alcoholic is unable to drink responsibly. This is a small portion of the nation's population but a large pool of misery for themselves and loved ones.

Gambling has been a common feature of American life forever, but for a long time is was broadly considered a sin, or a social disease. Not it is social policy: the most important and aggressive promoter of gambling in America is government.

Forty-four states have lotteries, 29 have casinos, and most of these states are to varying degrees dependent on you might say addicted to revenues from wagering. And since the first Internet gambling site was created in 1995, competition for gamblers dollars has become intense. The October 28 issue of NEWSWEEK reported that 2 million gamblers patronize 1,800 virtual casinos every week. With $3.5 billion being lost on Internet wagers this year, gambling has passed pornography as the Web s most lucrative business.

The anonymous, lonely, undistracted nature of online gambling is especially conducive to compulsive behavior. But even is government knew how to move against Internet gambling, what would be its rationale for doing so? Government curbs on private-sector gambling enterprises look like attempts to cripple the competition to prevent others from poaching on the population of gamblers that government has done so much to enlarge.

David Williams suit should trouble this gambling nation. But don’t bet on it.

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