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今天的题目：06年第四篇第三题
Today the messages the average Westerner is surrounded with are notreligious but commercial and forever happy .Fast-food eaters, news anchors,text messengers, all smiling, smiling. Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. And since these messages have an agenda—to lure us to open our wallets－they make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable. “Celebrate！” Commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks.
In the author’s opinion, advertising
A. emerges in the wake of the anti-happy art.
B. is a cause of disappointment for the general public.
C. replace the church as a major source of information.
D. creates an illusion of happiness rather than happiness itself.
[正确答案]这是06年第四篇文章第三题，正确答案D
[解题思
路]根据题干主语advertising定位到第六段最后一句。该段倒数第二句提到这些信息是为了诱使人们掏腰包，这就使快乐这个概念变得不再可靠，选项D为同义改写。
[干扰排除]根据第四段句第三句可知：反幸福的艺术应该出现在广告之后，因此选项A错误（翻一翻书看看）。原文并没有提到广告造成了大众的失望，因此选项B错误。第六段第一句指出如今人们被商业信息所包围而不是宗教信息，不能由此推知“广告”代替了“宗教”成为主要的信息来源，因此选项C错误。
[核心词汇] emerge出现 illusion幻觉 lure引诱 track痕迹 ideology思想体系
下一讲题目，大家提前做：
The definingterm of intelligence in humans still seems to be the IQ score, even though IQ tests are not given as often as they used to be. The test comes primarily intwo forms: the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler IntelligenceScales (both come in adult and children’s version). Generally costing severalhundred dollars, they are usually given only by psychologists, althoughvariations of them populate bookstores and the World Wide Web. Superhigh scoreslike vos Savant’s are no longer possible, because scoring is now based
on astatistical population distribution among age peers, rather than simplydividing the mental age by the chronological age and multiplying by 100. Other standardized tests, such as the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), capture the main aspects of IQ tests.
People nowadays can no longer achieve IQ scores as high as vosSavant’s because
[A] the scoresare obtained through different computational procedures.
[B] creativityrather than analytical skills is emphasized now.
[C] vosSavant’s case is an extreme one that will not repeat.
[D] the definingcharacteristic of IQ tests has changed.
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【考研阅读同义改写词】
每天一组同义词
(不是说只有同义词才可以改写)
关于“聪明”的一组词汇，考研阅读中考过的有：bright, brilliant, clever,wise, intelligent, ingenious, smart, shrewd
【本文由陕西考研教学研究院独家名师吴扶剑提供】
