考研人数逐年增加，竞争之激烈使得我们不得不加急复习的日程。众所周知，阅读理解占据了考研英语二100分试卷的一半分值，而考研英语阅读文章大多来自英美国家的主流报刊杂志，所以如果能在日常就多多阅读这些文章，对以后读懂文章做对题目来说会大有裨益。
学习步骤如下：
1.不看汉语译文自己看一遍短文做理解
2.看汉语译文比对自己理解的意思与之出入
3.强化记忆重点单词（以记忆其汉语意思为主）
Today, widespread social pressure to immediately go to college in conjunction with increasingly high expectations in a fast-moving world often causes students to completely overlook the possibility of taking a gap year. After all, if everyone you know is going to college in the fall, it seems silly to stay back a year, doesn’t it? And after going to school for 12 years, it doesn’t feel natural to spend a year doing something that isn’t academic.
短文翻译
如今，即刻进入高校的广泛的社会压力以及对快速发展的世界越来越高的期望，常常令学生完全忽视度过一个空档年的可能。毕竟，如果你认识的每一个人都在秋季入学，那留下待一年似乎很愚蠢，不是吗？上了 12 年学之后，花一年时间做一些和学术无关的事情,感觉会很不自然。
核心单词一览
真题练习
*一定要做题哦
31.One of the reasons for high-school graduates not taking a gap year is that _______.
[A] they think it academically misleading
[B] they have a lot of fun to expect in college
[C] it feels strange to do differently from others
[D] it seems worthless to take off-campus courses
题目解析
31.【解析】题目问的是高中毕业生不选择间隔年原因之一是什么。根据题目中的high-school和gap year可定位到第一段第一句话。这句话后面一句的after all可以知道后面应该是解释理由了，After all, if everyone you know is going to college in the fall, it seems silly to stay back a year, doesn't it?这句话是说如果大家秋天都上大学去了，你要是晚了一年看起来有点傻。这个句子等同于C选项中的feel strange to do differently from others，因此选C。
【A】他们认为这在学术上具有误导性，无中生有。
【B】他们在大学里有很多乐趣，无中生有。
【D】校外课程似乎毫无价值，未提及，无中生有。
