考研英语高效阅读--2016真题
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P1 France, which prides itself as the global innovator of fashion, has decided its fashion industry has lost an absolute right to define physical beauty for women. Its lawmakers gave preliminary approval last week to a law that would make it a crime to employ ultra-thin models on runways. The parliament also agreed to ban websites that “incite excessive thinness” by promoting extreme dieting.
重点词汇：
Pride..as.. 以作为...为荣
fashion industry 时尚业
physical beauty 形体美
gave preliminary approval…………
ultra-thin models 超瘦模特
excessive thinness 过度瘦身
extreme dieting……………………..
21. According to the first paragraph, what would happen in France?
A. Physical beauty would be redefined.
B. New runways would be constructed.
C. Websites about dieting would thrive.
D. The fashion industry would decline.
题干关键词：
原文关键词
文章定位
考点标志
what would happen in France
France…has decided…
P1L1
否定词lost
答案A
文章定位
原文关键词
选项关键词
解题方法
P1L1
Lost an absolute right to define
Redefined
同义表达
解析：推断题。根据题干first paragraph定位第一段，其中第一句France ,which prides itself as the global innovator of fashion, has decided its fashion industry has lost an absolute right to define physical beauty for woman以作为全球时尚创新者为荣的法国承认已经失去定义女性形体美的绝对权利，说明法国以前制定的形体美的标准己不再适用，现在需要做出改变，故A选项为正确答案。
P2 Such measures have a couple of uplifting motives. They suggest beauty should not be defined by looks that end up impinging on health. That a start. And the ban on ultra-thin models seems to go beyond protecting models from starving themselves to death as some have done. It tells the fashion industry that it must take responsibility for the signal it sends women,especially teenage girls, about the social tape-measure they must use to determine their individual worth.
重点词汇：
uplifting motives 令人振奋的动机
End up 结束，死亡
impinging on 影响，冲击
Go beyond 超出；胜过
tape-measure [n.] 卷尺
determine [vt.] 决定，确定
22. The phrase "impinging on”(Line 2,Para 2) is closest in meaning to
A. heightening the value of.
B. indicating the state of.
C. losing faith in.
D. doing harm to.
题干关键词：
原文关键词
文章定位
考点标志
Impinging on
Such measures
P2L1
词义题
答案 D
考点
文章定位
原文关键词
选项关键词
解题方法
词义题
P2L1-2
Such measures,
Excessive thinness
harm
同义表达
解析：词义题。根据题干关键词"impinging on"(line2, para2)定位到第二段的第二句"They suggest beauty should not be defined by looks that end up with impinging on health他们认为美女不应该以....健康的外表来界定。该句承接本段第一句"Such measures have a couple of uplifting motive.其中，Such measures 指代的正是第一段中阐述的"雇佣过瘦(excessive thinness)的模特会犯罪的法律规定"，且excessive一词表明了情感色彩是贬义的。因此，推断出 impinging on对 health是"有害的、不利的"，故选[D] doing harm to
P3 The bans, if fully enforced, would suggest to women (and many men) that they should not let others be arbiters of their beauty. And perhaps faintly, they hint that people should look to
intangible qualities like character and intellect rather than dieting their way to size zero or
wasp-waist physiques.
重点词汇：
Arbiter [n.]仲裁者；裁决人
Faintly [adv.]微弱地；模糊地
Intangible [adj.]adj. 无形的，触摸不到的
wasp-waist t physiques 蜂腰体形
