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2014 Text 1（英语⼆）⾦钱和幸福What would you do with $590 million?如果你有 5.9 亿美元，你会想做什么？This is now a question for Gloria MacKenzie, an 84-year-old widow who recently emerged from her small, tin-roofed house in Florida to collect the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history.葛罗瑞亚·⻢克肯泽尔正⾯对这个问题。
她是⼀位 84 岁在弗罗⾥达拥有⼀座⼩房⼦的寡妇，最近获得了有史以来最⼤的彩票头奖。
If she hopes her new-found fortune will yield lasting feelings of fulfillment, she could do worse than read "Happy Money" by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton.但如果她希望新得到的财富会让她产⽣持久的满⾜感，她可能需要读读伊丽莎⽩·唐恩和迈克尔·诺顿合著的《快乐理财》。
These two academics use an array of behavioral research to show that the most rewarding ways to spend money can be counterintuitive.这两位学者利⽤⼀系列的⾏为学研究表明，最让⼈受益的消费⽅式可能是反直觉的。
Fantasies of great wealth often involve visions of fancy cars and extravagant homes.财富给⼈的感觉经常会意味着豪⻋和峭壁旁的富宅。
2014年考研英语阅读真题Text 1In order to “change lives for the better”and reduce “dependency,”George Osbome,Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced the “upfront work search” scheme. Only if the jobless arrive at the job centre with a register for online job search, and start looking for work will they be eligible for benefit-and then they should report weekly rather than fortnightly. What could be more reasonable?为了“让生活变得更美好”以及减少“依赖”，英国财政大臣乔治•奥斯本引入了“求职预付金”计划。
只有当失业者带着简历到就业中心，注册在线求职并开始找工作，才有资格获得补助金——然后他们应该每周而非每两周报告一次。
有什么比这更合理呢？More apparent reasonableness followed. There will now be a seven-day wait for the jobseeker’s allowance. “Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on.”he claimed. “We’re doing these things because we know they help people say off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster”Help? Really? On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms”to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsides laziness. What motivated him, we were to understand, was his zeal for “fundamental fairness”-protecting the taxpayer, controlling spending and ensuring that only the most deserving claimants received their benefits.更加明显的合理性如下。
2014年考研英语一真题详解：翻译Directions：Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life. It might be poetic， philosophical， sensual， or mathematical， but in any case it must， in my view， have something to do with the soul ofthe human being. Hence it is metaphysical; but the means of expression is purely and exclusively physical： sound. I believe it is precisely this permanent coexistence of metaphysical message through physical means that is the strength of music. (46)It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words， all we can do is articulate our reactions to it， and not grasp music itself.Beethoven‘s importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary natureof his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure. Sometimes I feel in his late works a will to break all signs of continuity. The music is abrupt and seemingly disconnected， as in the last piano sonata. In musical expression， he did not feel restrained by the weight of convention. (47)By all accounts he was a freethinking person，and a courageous one， and I find courage an essential quality for the understanding， let alone the performance， of his works.This coura geous attitude in fact becomes a requirement for the performers of Beethoven‘s music. His compositions demand the performer to show courage， for example in the use of dynamics. (48)Beethoven’s habit of increasing the volume with an intense crescendo and th en abruptly following it with a sudden soft passage was only rarely used by composers before him.Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics， but concerned with questions of moral behavior and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society. (49)Especially significant was his viewof freedom， which， for him， was associated with the rights and responsibilities of the individual： he advocated freedom of thought and of personal expression.Beethoven‘s music tends to move from chaos to order as if order were an imperative of human existence. For him， order does not result from forgetting or ignoring the disorders that plague our existence; order is a necessary development， an improvement that may lead to the Greek ideal of spiritual elevation. It is not by chance that the Funeral March is not the last movement of the Eroica Symphony， but the second， so that suffering does not have the lastword. (50)One could interpret much of the work of Beethoven by saying that suffering is inevitable， but the courage to fight it renders life worth living.【参考答案】46. It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words， all we can do is articulate our reactions to it and not grasp music itself.这就是为什么当我们尝试用语言来描述音乐时，我们能清楚的表达对音乐的反应，但并没有领会音乐的精髓。
Sectio n I Use of Englis hDirect ions:Read the follow ing text. Choose the best word(s) for each number ed blankand mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)Thinne risn‟talways better. A number of studie s have __1___that normal-weight people are in fact at higher risk of some diseas es compar ed to thosewho are overwe ight.And thereare health condit ionsfor whichbeingoverwe ightis actual ly ___2___. For exampl e, heavie r womenare less likely to develo p calciu m defici encythan thin women. ___3___ amongthe elderl y, beingsomewh at overwe ightis oftenan ___4___ of good health.Of even greate r ___5___ is the fact that obesit y turnsout to be very diffic ult to define. It is oftendefine d ___6___ body mass index, or BMI. BMI ___7__ body mass divide d by the square of height. An adultwith a BMI of 18 to 25 is oftenconsid eredto be normal weight. Betwee n 25 and 30 is overwe ight.And over 30 is consid eredobese.Obesit y, ___8___,can be divide d into modera telyobese,severe ly obese,and very severe ly obese.Whilesuch numeri cal standa rds seem 9 , they are not. Obesit y is probab ly less a matter of weight than body fat. Some people with a high BMI are in fact extrem ely fit, 10 others with a low BMI may be in poor 11 .For exampl e, many colleg iateand profes siona l footba ll player s 12 as obese,though theirpercen tagebody fat is low. Conver sely, someon e with a smallframemay have high body fat but a 13 BMI.Todaywe have a(an) _14 _ to labelobesit y as a disgra ce.The overwe ightare someti mes_15_inthe mediawith theirfacescovere d. Stereo types_16_ with obesit y includ e lazine ss, lack of will power,and lowerprospe cts for succes s.Teache rs,employ ers,and health profes siona ls have been shownto harbor biases agains t the obese._17_ve ry youngchildr en tend to look down on theoverwe ight, and teasin g aboutbody buildhas long been a proble m in school s.Negati ve attitu des toward obesit y, _18_in health concer ns, have stimul ateda number of anti-obesit y _19_.My own hospit al system has banned sugary drinks from its facili ties.Many employ ers have instit utedweight loss and fitnes s initia tives. Michel le Obamalaunch ed a high-visibi litycampai gn _20_ childh ood obesit y, even claimi ng that it repres entsour greate st nation al securi ty threat.1. [A] denied[B] conduc ed [C] double d [D] ensure d、【答案】B conclu ded【解析】题干中，一系列的研究已经_____，事实上，正常体重的人的患病风险要高于超重的人。
Text 1为了“让生活更美好”，减少“家庭的扶养”，英国财政部大臣George Osborn，提出了“为找工作提前支付工资”的计划。
只要到计算机化的就业服务中心找工作的人有VC--网上找工作的注册书，并且开始找工作，那么他们有资格得到福利，然后他们应该每周做一次报告而不是每两周。
还有什么能比这个更合理？下面是更明显的合理性。
下来找工作者将会有七天对津贴的等待。
“最初的这些天应该用来找工作，而不是找注册地。
”他还宣称“我们做这些是因为我们这会帮助那些没有福利的人并且让那些已经有福利的人更快地得到工作。
”帮助？真的吗？第一次听到这时，这就是一个关注社会的官员——努力想让生活更美好，和一个对于新待业人员能很容易找到工作的宽松社会的“改革”，以及对懒惰的补贴。
我们后来知道给他动力的是他对“基础公平”的热情——保护纳税人，控制支出，以及保证那些最需要的要求者得到他们的福利。
失去工作是让人伤心的：你不可能心里唱着歌跳着去就业服务中心，有着从一般状态翻番自己收入的愿景，并对此感到高兴。
失业是金融的恐怖，心理的尴尬，你知道得到的支持是最小的并且是非常难得到的。
你现在是不被需要的；为你的生活提供目标和组织体系的工作环境已经把你排除在外了。
更糟糕的是，养活你自己和家人以及各种生活基本支出的经济来源断掉了。
对于最需要什么这个问题，那些新的失业者的答案总是两个字：工作。
但是在奥斯博岛，你的第一本能反应是被扶养——如果你能做到，那么是永久的扶养，被一个不得不放纵你的错误的国家支持。
这就像过去的20年——关于找工作更艰难的改革，并且没有福利管理体系。
现在英国的福利体系原则不再是确保人们可以躲避失业的风险并且能在这种灾难发生时收到无条件的补偿。
即使这个1996年产生的短语“待业者的津贴”是将失业者重新定义为“待业者”，意思是对已经通过为国家保险做贡献得到的福利不在有委托管理权。
确实，这些要求者得到了有期限的“津贴”，条件是积极地找工作；这是欧盟中最不慷慨的一个体系，一周71,70英镑，没有补贴没有保险。
2014Section III Translation01解析：①Most people would define optimism as endlessly happy, with a glass that’s perpetually half full.【解析】define... as... 把…定义为…【词汇】perpetually adv.永久地，持久地，无休止地perpetual adj.持久的，长久的endlessly adj. end（结尾）+less（缺少）+ly形容词后缀→缺少结尾的=无止境的；无穷无尽的【译文】大多数人认为乐观是无尽的欢乐，如同总是有半杯水的杯子。
But that’s exactly the kind of false cheerfulness that positive psychologists wouldn’t recommend.【词汇】cheerfulness n.高兴cheerful（快乐的，愉快的）+ness（名词后缀），构成cheerfulness（名词），高兴psychologist n.心理学家扩展词根psych-=mental.心理/精神的-ology 表示技术科学，-ist表示专家psyche n.精神，灵魂=soul n.灵魂psychology n.心理学；psychological a.心理学的Psychologist n.心理学家；psychoanalysis n.精神分析recommend v.推荐；建议recommend sb /sth to…向…推荐某人/某物recommend sb to do sth 推荐/建议某人做某事recommend sb for …（a position）推荐某人担任…（职位）recommend sth /doing sth 推荐某物/建议做某事；recommend that 后面接从句【译文】但那是一种绝不会为积极心理学家所称道的虚假的快乐。
2006年的一部电影《穿普拉达的女王》有段情节这样演绎：Meryl Streepb扮演的Miranda Priestly,，斥责她毫无吸引力的助手，因为她反映高端时尚并不能感染她，然后Priestly说明了助手毛衫的深蓝色是如何从时尚展览中慢慢伸展到百货商店再到平价店中，毫无疑问是这个可怜女孩挑选了这件衣服的地方。
时尚业管理严密的理念已经非常过时了，或与Elizabeth Cline对“快餐时尚”的这三年的控诉书《过度装扮》中所描述的狂热不一致。
在过去的十几年里，技术的发展使得像Zara，H&M，Uniqlo等的一些大众市场商标更快地对趋势做出反应，更精确的抢占市场需求。
更快地周转意味着更少的库存浪费，更频繁的发布，更高的利润。
这些商标煽动那些关心样式的消费者把衣服当做只洗一到两次的一次性物品，而且，他们不做广告，并每隔几周就全部更新店面的衣服。
Cline认为，这些品牌以极低的价格提供潮流商品的这种行为是在抢劫时尚圈，动摇了这个产业长久以来惯有的季节性。
这次变革的受害者不仅仅是设计者。
对于H&M来说，为其全球2300家分店提供一个5.95美元的编制迷你裙必须依赖海外的廉价劳动力，大量的耗尽自然资源的订单，大量的有害化学品。
《过度装扮》是时尚界对像Michael Pollan的The Omnivore’s Dilemma这样的消费者权益维护者的畅销书的回答。
“大量生产的衣物就像快餐，满足饥饿和需求，还是一次性的，浪费的，”Cline认为。
她还发现，美国人一年大概要买200亿件衣物-平均每人64件一年-不论他们是花费了多少钱，这种不节制导致极大的浪费。
在《过度装扮》的最后部分，Cline介绍的她理想的典范，一个布鲁克林的女人Sarah Kate Beaumont,从2008年开始自己制作自己所有的衣物，并且毫不逊色。
但是像Cline记录的那样，Beaumont花了十年时间完善她的手艺；这个例子不该被忽略。
2014英语一text2全文翻译原文：More than twenty years ago the psychologist Arthur Aron succeeded in making two strangers fall in love in his laboratory. Last summer, I applied his technique in my own life, which is how I found myself standing on a bridge at midnight, staring into a man’s eyes for exactly four minutes.Let me explain. Earlier in the evening, that man had said: “I suspect, given a few commonalities, you could fall inlove with anyone. If so, how do you choose someone?”He was a university acquaintance I occasionally ran intoat the climbing gym and had thought, wow, if I were to spenda day with this person, I bet by the end of it I’d alreadybe in love. But that was not what I said. Instead, I seizedon the phrase “given a few commonalities” and answered his question with this line: “Well, certainly, there are manypeople I think I could fall in love with, but I doubt I would be able to fall in love with someone I didn’t like.”“That’s it exactly,” he said.We may be far from Arthur Aron’s real experiment, but ashe wrote i n a paper in 1997, “the closeness produced in laboratory situations is about as close as strangers can get.” Closeness means intimacy, and intimacy is the product ofmutual self-disclosure — the revealing of personal information, the sharing of secrets. So what did our twoinitial strangers do? They completed a set of 36 questionsthat gradually grew more and more personal.My answer to the question about falling in love contained more partial truths and wishful thinking than practicaladvice. I’d been writ ing about social psychology for yearsand had developed an interview technique called “Fast Friends,” a set of thirty-six increasingly personalquestions devised to help perfect strangers become closerthan many friends. I needed to test this methodology and see if it could create real closeness between two people in a room.Four minutes of looking into someone’s eyes can be ahell of a long time. It was soft and warm and the most extraordinary thing happened next: the world moved in closer and we moved apart. I blinked again and this time he was definitely smiling, so I looked away. The study would be published without critique. I had found what I was looking for.One reason that exploring your own limitations can lend life a sense of pleasure lies in the subsequent discoverythat there are few of them. To go a day without successfully achieving something to which you have applied yourself is to have wasted one of your limited days on earth. How often does your opportunity to accomplish a piece of the world’s work come around? Once, you will try, and even put greater effortinto your work than you have yet attempted. But you will not succeed.翻译：二十多年前，心理学家Arthur Aron成功地让两个陌生人在他的实验室里相爱。
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TeGt1为了“让生活更美好”，减少“家庭的扶养”，英国财政部大臣GeorgeOsborn，提出了“为找工作提前支付工资”的计划。
只要到计算机化的就业服务中心找工作的人有VC--网上找工作的注册书，并且开始找工作，那么他们有资格得到福利，然后他们应该每周做一次报告而不是每两周。
还有什么能比这个更合理？下面是更明显的合理性。
下来找工作者将会有七天对津贴的等待。
“最初的这些天应该用来找工作，而不是找注册地。
”他还宣称“我们做这些是因为我们这会帮助那些没有福利的人并且让那些已经有福利的人更快地得到工作。
”帮助？真的吗？第一次听到这时，这就是一个关注社会的官员——努力想让生活更美好，和一个对于新待业人员能很容易找到工作的宽松社会的“改革”，以及对懒惰的补贴。
我们后来知道给他动力的是他对“基础公平”的热情——保护纳税人，控制支出，以及保证那些最需要的要求者得到他们的福利。
失去工作是让人伤心的：你不可能心里唱着歌跳着去就业服务中心，有着从一般状态翻番自己收入的愿景，并对此感到高兴。
失业是金融的恐怖，心理的尴尬，你知道得到的支持是最小的并且是非常难得到的。
你现在是不被需要的；为你的生活提供目标和组织体系的工作环境已经把你排除在外了。
更糟糕的是，养活你自己和家人以及各种生活基本支出的经济来源断掉了。
对于最需要什么这个问题，那些新的失业者的答案总是两个字：工作。
但是在奥斯博岛，你的第一本能反应是被扶养——如果你能做到，那么是永久的扶养，被一个不得不放纵你的错误的国家支持。
这就像过去的20年——关于找工作更艰难的改革，并且没有福利管理体系。
现在英国的福利体系原则不再是确保人们可以躲避失业的风险并且能在这种灾难发生时收到无条件的补偿。
即使这个1996年产生的短语“待业者的津贴”是将失业者重新定义为“待业者”，意思是对已经通过为国家保险做贡献得到的福利不在有委托管理权。
确实，这些要求者得到了有期限的“津贴”，条件是积极地找工作；这是欧盟中最不慷慨的一个体系，一周71,70英镑，没有补贴没有保险。
2014 Text 1Paragraph 11、In order to “change lives for the better”and reduce “dependency”George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced the “upfront work search”scheme. 为了“让生活更美好”，减少“家庭的扶养”，英国财政部大臣George Osborn，提出了“为找工作提前支付工资”的计划。
1.1 dependency英/dɪ'pend(ə)nsɪ/ 美/dɪ'pɛndənsi/n. 属国；从属；从属物1.2 chancellor英/'tʃɑːns(ə)lə/ 美/'tʃænsəlɚ/n. 总理（德、奥等的）；（英）大臣；校长（美国某些大学的）；（英）大法官；（美）首席法官1.3 exchequer英/ɪks'tʃekə; eks-/ 美/ɪks'tʃɛkɚ/n. 财源；国库；财政部2、Only if the jobless arrive at the job center with a CV（Curriculum Vitae）, register for online job search, and start looking for work will they be eligible for benefit and then they should report weekly rather than fortnightly. What could be more reasonable?只要到计算机化的就业服务中心找工作的人有简历--网上找工作的注册书，并且开始找工作，那么他们有资格得到福利，然后他们应该每周做一次报告而不是每两周。
还有什么能比这个更合理？2.1 curriculum英/kə'rɪkjʊləm/ 美/kə'rɪkjələm/n. 课程，总课程2.2 vitae英/'viːtaɪ/ 美/ˈvitaɪ/n. 个人简历；血液（vita的复数形式）2.3 eligible英/'elɪdʒɪb(ə)l/ 美/'ɛlɪdʒəbl/n. 合格者；适任者；有资格者adj. 合格的，合适的；符合条件的；有资格当选的2.4 fortnightly英/'fɔːtnaɪtlɪ/ 美/'fɔrtnaɪtli/n. 双周刊adj. 隔周发行的；每两周的adv. 隔周地；每两星期一次地Paragraph 21、More apparent reasonableness followed. There will now be a seven-day wait for the jobseeker`s allowance. “Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on.” he claimed. 下面是更明显的合理性。
2014年考研英语阅读真题Text 1In order to “change lives for the better” and reduce “dependency,” George Osbome,Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced the “upfront work search” scheme. Only if the jobless arrive at the job centre with a register for online job search, and start looking for work will they be eligible for benefit-and then they should report weekly rather than fortnightly. What could be more reasonable?为了“让生活变得更美好”以及减少“依赖”，英国财政大臣乔治•奥斯本引入了“求职预付金”计划。
只有当失业者带着简历到就业中心，注册在线求职并开始找工作，才有资格获得补助金——然后他们应该每周而非每两周报告一次。
有什么比这更合理呢？More apparent reasonableness followed. There will now be a seven-day wait for the jobseeker’s allowance. “Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on.” he claimed. “We’re doing these things because we know they help people say off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster” Help? Really? On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms” to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsides laziness. What motivated him, we were to understand, was his zeal for “fundamental fairness”-protecting the taxpayer, controlling spending and ensuring that only the most deserving claimants received their benefits.更加明显的合理性如下。
Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)Thinner isn’t always better. A number of studies have __1___ that normal-weight people are in fact at higher risk of some diseases compared to those who are overweight. And there are health conditions for which being overweight is actually ___2___. For example, heavier women are less likely to develop calcium deficiency than thin women. ___3___ among the elderly, being somewhat overweight is often an ___4___ of good health.Of even greater ___5___ is the fact that obesity turns out to be very difficult to define. It is often defined ___6___ body mass index, or BMI. BMI ___7__ body mass divided by the square of height. An adult with a BMI of 18 to 25 is often considered to be normal weight. Between 25 and 30 is overweight. And over 30 is considered obese. Obesity, ___8___,can be divided into moderately obese, severely obese, and very severely obese.While such numerical standards seem 9 , they are not. Obesity is probably less a matter of weight than body fat. Some people with a high BMI are in fact extremely fit, 10 others with a low BMI may be in poor 11 .For example, many collegiate and professional football players 12 as obese, though their percentage body fat is low. Conversely, someone with a small frame may have high body fat but a 13 BMI.Today we have a(an) _14 _ to label obesity as a disgrace.The overweight are sometimes_15_in the media with their faces covered. Stereotypes _16_ with obesity include laziness, lack of will power,and lower prospects for success.Teachers,employers,and health professionals have been shown to harbor biases against the obese. _17_very young children tend to look down on the overweight, and teasing about body build has long been a problem in schools.Negative attitudes toward obesity, _18_in health concerns, have stimulated a number of anti-obesity _19_.My own hospital system has banned sugary drinks from its facilities. Many employers have instituted weight loss and fitness initiatives. Michelle Obama launched a high-visibility campaign _20_ childhood obesity, even claiming that it represents our greatest national security threat.1. [A] denied [B] conduced [C] doubled [D] ensured、【答案】B concluded【解析】题干中，一系列的研究已经_____，事实上，正常体重的人的患病风险要高于超重的人。
Text 1为了“让生活更美好”，减少“家庭的扶养”，英国财政部大臣George Osborn，提出了“为找工作提前支付工资”的计划。
只要到计算机化的就业服务中心找工作的人有VC--网上找工作的注册书，并且开始找工作，那么他们有资格得到福利，然后他们应该每周做一次报告而不是每两周。
还有什么能比这个更合理？下面是更明显的合理性。
下来找工作者将会有七天对津贴的等待。
“最初的这些天应该用来找工作，而不是找注册地。
”他还宣称“我们做这些是因为我们这会帮助那些没有福利的人并且让那些已经有福利的人更快地得到工作。
”帮助？真的吗？第一次听到这时，这就是一个关注社会的官员——努力想让生活更美好，和一个对于新待业人员能很容易找到工作的宽松社会的“改革”，以及对懒惰的补贴。
我们后来知道给他动力的是他对“基础公平”的热情——保护纳税人，控制支出，以及保证那些最需要的要求者得到他们的福利。
失去工作是让人伤心的：你不可能心里唱着歌跳着去就业服务中心，有着从一般状态翻番自己收入的愿景，并对此感到高兴。
失业是金融的恐怖，心理的尴尬，你知道得到的支持是最小的并且是非常难得到的。
你现在是不被需要的；为你的生活提供目标和组织体系的工作环境已经把你排除在外了。
更糟糕的是，养活你自己和家人以及各种生活基本支出的经济来源断掉了。
对于最需要什么这个问题，那些新的失业者的答案总是两个字：工作。
但是在奥斯博岛，你的第一本能反应是被扶养——如果你能做到，那么是永久的扶养，被一个不得不放纵你的错误的国家支持。
这就像过去的20年——关于找工作更艰难的改革，并且没有福利管理体系。
现在英国的福利体系原则不再是确保人们可以躲避失业的风险并且能在这种灾难发生时收到无条件的补偿。
即使这个1996年产生的短语“待业者的津贴”是将失业者重新定义为“待业者”，意思是对已经通过为国家保险做贡献得到的福利不在有委托管理权。
确实，这些要求者得到了有期限的“津贴”，条件是积极地找工作；这是欧盟中最不慷慨的一个体系，一周71,70英镑，没有补贴没有保险。
Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life. It might be poetic，philosophical， sensual， or mathematical， but in any case it must， in my view，have something to do with the soul of the human being. Hence it is metaphysical；but the means of expression is purely and exclusively physical： sound. I believe it is precisely this permanent coexistence of metaphysical message through physical means that is the strength of music.（46）It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words， all we can do is articulate our reactions to it， and not grasp music itself.Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure. Sometimes I feel in his late works a will to break all signs of continuity. The music is abrupt and seemingly disconnected， as in the last piano sonata. In musical expression， he did not feel restrained by the weight of convention.（47）By all accounts he was a freethinking person， and a courageous one， and I find courage an essential quality for the understanding， let alone the performance， of his works.This courageous attitude in fact becomes a requirement for the performers of Beethoven's music. His compositions demand the performer to show courage， for example in the use of dynamics.（48）Beethoven's habit of increasing the volume with an intense crescendo and then abruptly following it with a sudden soft passage was only rarely used by composers before him.Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics， but concerned with questions of moral behavior and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.（49）Especially significant was his view of freedom， which， for him， was associated with the rights and responsibilities of the individual： he advocated freedom of thought and of personal expression.Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order as if order were an imperative of human existence. For him， order does not result from forgetting or ignoring the disorders that plague our existence； order is a necessary development， an improvement that may lead to the Greek ideal of spiritual elevation. It is not by chance that the Funeral March is not the last movement of the Eroica Symphony， but the second， so that suffering does not have the last word.。
2014年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语(一)试题文章翻译Section I Use of English一到中年，很多人开始发现他们的记忆力和思维清晰度大不如前。
我们突然记不起刚才把钥匙放在哪了、也记不起老相识的名字或者曾经热爱的乐队的名字了。
由于大脑退化，我们把这类事件称为瞬间性老年痴呆。
虽然表面看起来没什么，但这种大脑注意力的丧失会对我们的职业、社交和个人幸福产生有害影响。
越来越多的神经系统科学专家表示，对此我们并非无能为力。
大脑像我们的肌肉一样需要锻炼，研究证明适当的智力锻炼能极大提高我们基本的认知功能。
思考是在脑海中建立联系的过程。
某种程度上来说，我们擅长建立驱动智力发展的联系的能力是遗传的。
但是，由于这些联系是通过努力和练习建立，所以科学家们相信智商可以扩展，并根据大脑锻炼而浮动。
现在，一家新的网络公司更进一步，开发了一套大脑训练项目，旨在帮助人们改善和重获头脑敏锐性。
这套网络项目能系统的改善记忆力和专注度。
而且记录下你的进步，并对你的表现和提高提供详细的反馈。
更重要的是，他会不断修正和提高你所玩的游戏来强化你的优势——就像是一项有效的日常锻炼，要求你提高抵抗力、改变肌肉使用。
Section II Reading ComprehensionPart AText 1为了“改善生活”和减少“依赖性”，英国财政大臣乔治·奥斯本引进了一项预先求职计划。
失业者只有带着简历到就业中心进行网上求职注册，并开始找工作，才有资格领取失业津贴。
而后他们应该每周而非每两周汇报求职进展。
还有更为比这更为合理的措施吗？以下是更显而易见的合理之处。
求职者领取失业津贴须等上七天。
这七天应用来找工作而不是申请领取失业津贴，他说：“这些举措旨在帮助人们远离失业救济，并帮助依靠失业津贴生活的人尽快找到工作。
”帮助？当真？乍一听，乔治·奥斯本真是一位关心社会福祉的财政大臣，试图改善生活。
现有的社会福利体系对刚失业者施加的再就业压力不够，纵容他们的惰性，乔治·奥斯本希望完成对这一体系的改革。
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该挑战赛邀请、甚至挑战5到14岁的在校学生进行艺术创作或写作，以彰显他们的好奇心，并展示好奇心如何启发他们探索自己的世界。
敢于接受挑战的参加者须画一幅画，或写一篇文章，或拍一张照，或写一首诗，来展示他们所好奇的事物。
所有的参赛艺术品和文学作品都必须于2月8日星期五之前，送往麻省理工博物馆剑桥科学节现场以参加本次竞赛，该博物馆位于剑桥市马萨诸塞大道265号，邮编02139。
参加“创意挑战赛”并获胜的学生将会在4月21日星期日的剑桥科学节期间的特别典礼上进行表彰。
同时特邀发言人还会给这些学生颁奖。
获奖作品将会出版成书。
学生的参赛作品将会被展出并且也有奖励。
参赛者的家属亦会被邀请参加庆祝会及享用由举办方供应的早午餐。
在3月10日至15日期间，将发给每位获奖者有关闭幕式及“创意挑战赛”庆典的详细资料。
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B旅鸽曾飞过美国大部分地区，数量令人难以置信。
18世纪和19世纪的书面记载的旅鸽群如此之大，以至于使天空变暗了数小时。
经计算，在旅鸽数量最多时，其数量超过了30亿只，这一数字相当于美国鸟类总数的24%到40%，使其成为了世界上数量也许最多的鸟类。
甚至到了1870年年底，它们的数量已经变得较少时，人们还是在辛辛那提附近看到了旅鸽群，其覆盖面积宽达1英里，长达320英里（约515公里）。
可悲地是，旅鸽的庞大数量可能导致了它们的毁灭。
在旅鸽数量多的地方，人们认为会有源源不断的鸟供给，因而成千上万地捕杀。
以盈利为目的的猎人先用谷物将它们引至林间的小空地，等到旅鸽飞下来觅食，然后再用大网将它们网住，这样一次能捕几百只旅鸽。
这些旅鸽被运送到大城市，卖给餐馆。
在19世纪的最后几十年，旅鸽筑巢的硬木树林随着美国人对木材的需求而被毁坏，这使得成群的旅鸽被驱散，并且迫使它们向更北的地方迁徙，而北部的低温和春季的风暴导致了旅鸽数量的减少。
