计划说明
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。但是对大多数备考的同学来说，刚开始投入复习，就去读考试文章难度的新闻报刊，也是不现实、并且不符合循序渐进的学习规律的，所以我们会在每次推送中，给大家给出两篇短文，一篇是初阶水平（大致在初高中水平）；一篇是高阶水平（四六级到考研水平）；同学们可以根据自己当前的情况，选择其中一篇进行学习。
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）
初阶文段
Nearly a week passed before the girl was able to explain what had happened to her. One afternoon she set out from the coast in a small boat and was caught in a storm. Towards evening, the boat struck a rock and the girl jumped into the sea. Then she swam to the shore after spending the whole night in the water. During that time she covered a distance of eight miles. Early next morning, she saw a light ahead. She knew she was near the shore because the light was high up on the cliffs. On arriving at the shore, the girl struggled up the cliff towards the light she had seen. That was all she remembered. When she woke up a day later, she found herself in hospital.
短文翻译
将近一个星期过去了，女孩才能够解释她发生了什么事。一天下午，她乘小船从海岸出发，遇上了暴风雨。傍晚时分，船撞上了一块岩石，女孩跳进了海里。在水里呆了一整夜后，她游到了岸边。在那期间，她游了八英里的距离。第二天一大早，她看见前面有一盏灯。她知道自己离海岸很近，因为悬崖上的光线很高。一到岸边，女孩就朝着她看到的光亮，挣扎着爬上悬崖。她只记得这些。一天后她醒来时，发现自己在医院里。
重点单词
storm [stɔːm]
n.暴风雨
cliff [klɪf]
n.悬崖，峭壁
shore [ʃɔː(r)]
n.海岸
高阶文段
Editorsof newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refused to publish it. The article began: 'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace.' The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.
短文翻译
报刊杂志的编辑常常为了向读者提供一些关紧要的事实和统计数字而走向极端。去年，一位记者受一家有名的杂志的委托写一篇关于非洲某个新成立共和国总统府的文章。稿子寄来后，编辑看第一句话就拒绝予以发表。文章的开头是这样的：“几百级台阶通向环绕总统府的高墙。”编辑立即给那位记者发去传真，要求他核实一下台阶的确切数字和围墙的高度。
重点单词
statistics [stəˈtɪstɪks]
n.统计数字
journalist [ˈdʒɜːnəlɪst]
n.新闻记者
instruct [ɪnˈstrʌkt]
v.指示，命令
president [ˈprezɪdənt]
n.总统
surround [səˈraʊnd]
v.围绕，环绕
