考研必备阅读研究（下）.pdf

考神团队 陈曲出品 编者按： 1. 上一个文档为《2003 年-2007 年必研究篇章》，以下文章是考研英语（一）2008 年-2012 年五年内必须研究的篇章，里面的题目非常典型，代表了很多做题方法。 2. 请各位同学在研究题目选项时，务必遵循以下步骤：（1）该题目的做题方法是什么？直 选还是排除法？（2）如果是直接选择，那么定位点在哪里？（3）如果是排除法，那么 每个选项错在哪里？（4）错误点是否能够反映出某种规律？（5）总结细节题、推断题、 目的题、中心题和词汇题的做法。 3. 各位同学每天研究一篇，在考试前研究完毕。 注：文档中极有可能存在打印错误，时间有限，无法仔细校对，请大家见谅。 Text 1 （2008年第一篇） While still catching-up to men in some spheres of modern life, women appear to be way ahead in at least one undesirable category. “Women are particularly susceptible to developing depression and anxiety disorders in response to stress compared to men,” according to Dr. Yehuda, chief psychiatrist at New York’s Veteran’s Administration Hospital. Studies of both animals and humans have shown that sex hormones somehow affect the stress response, causing females under stress to produce more of the trigger chemicals than do males under the same conditions. In several of the studies, when stressed-out female rats had their ovaries (the female reproductive organs) removed, their chemical responses became equal to those of the males. Adding to a woman’s increased dose of stress chemicals, are her increased “opportunities” for stress. “It’s not necessarily that women don’t cope as well. It’s just that they have so much more to cope with,” says Dr. Yehuda. “Their capacity for tolerating stress may even be greater than men’s,” she observes, “it’s just that they’re dealing with so many more things that they become worn out from it more visibly and sooner.” Dr. Yehuda notes another difference between the sexes. “I think that the kinds of things that women are exposed to tend to be in more of a chronic or repeated nature. Men go to war and are exposed to combat stress. Men are exposed to more acts of random physical violence. The kinds of interpersonal violence that women are exposed to tend to be in domestic situations, by, unfortunately, parents or other f