轻松备考09年MBA英语阅读理解(1)

阅读理解复习方法：几乎所有的英语考试都会有阅读理解这一道题目。据辅导老师说，MBA联考的英语考试中阅读理解的难度介于大学英语四、六级考试之间，可见难度并不高，但要拿高分并不容易。做阅读理解最需要的是耐心和细心。有时候，题目很容易，可是出题人往往会绕一个弯给题目，稍不留意就被“套”了。至于答题技巧，可以采用“倒推法”。先看题目和选项，然后看文章，这样可以有针对性地阅读，阅读的同时把关键的地方用笔勾出来，再看题目的时候，便能够很准确地找到问题的答案了。在做阅读理解时，有一点尤其值得注意：所有问题的答案都要依据原文，千万不能随心所欲、想当然，这才是真正的“阅读理解”。

在MBA联考的阅读理解试题里，有一个笔答题。放心，该题是为不懂英语的人设计的，只要有起码的阅读能力，就能把这道题目做好。

　　1. Wearing a seat belt saves lives; it reduces your chance of death or serious injury by more than half.
 
　　2. But it will be the driver's responsibility to make sure that children under 14 do not ride in the front unless they are wearing a seat belt of some kind.

　　3. However, you do not have to wear a seat belt if you are reversing your vehicle; or you are making a local delivery or collection using a special vehicle; or if you have a valid medical certificate which excuses you from wearing it.

　　4. Remember you may be taken to court for not doing so, and you may be fined if you cannot prove to the court that you have been excused from wearing it.

　　5. Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of ageing could he slowed down.

　　6. With a team of colleagues at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages and varying occupations.

　　7. Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain, which relate to intellect （智能） and emotion, and determine the human character.

　　8. Contraction of front and side parts as cells die off was observed in some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not evident in some sixty and seventy-year-olds.

　　9. The findings show in general terms that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns.

　　10. White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are, however, as likely to have shrinking brains as the farm worker, bus driver and shop assistant.

　　11. We know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges, and that the costs of living of our young men, while with you, would be very expensive to you.

　　12. But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things, and you will therefore not be offended if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours.

　　13. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we refuse to accept it; and, to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their education, teach them in all we know, and make men of them.

　　14. In what now seems like the prehistoric times of computer history, the earth's postwar era, there was quite a wide-spread concern that computers would take over the world from man one day.

　　15. Already today, less than forty years later, as computers are relieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives. We are faced with a less dramatic but also less foreseen problem.

　　16. Obviously, there would be no point in investing in a computer if you had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something has gone wrong.

　　17. Certainly Newton considered some theoretical aspects of it in his writings, but he was reluctant to go to sea to further his work.

　　18. For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early intercontinental travellers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it, let alone to ask what lay beneath the