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1、2012年海文考研英语讲座讲稿精英版得阅读者得英语，得英语者得天下！所以：单纯地学习词汇对于考研这类应试考试是没有意义的,学的再多不能转换成分数等于零.把每一个单词跟阅读结合起来实现分数最大化才是未来必胜的把握,这也是应试考试的精髓!1TOPIC04-P2:Overthepastcentury,allkindsofunfairnessanddiscriminationhavebeencondemnedormadeillegal.Butoneinsidiousformcontinuestothrive:alphabetism.This,forthoseasyetunaware
2、ofsuchadisadvantage,referstodiscriminationagainst
thosewhosesurnames
beginwith
aletterinthe
lowerhalfofthealphabet.Ithaslongbeen
known
thatataxifirmcalled
AAAA
carshasabigadvantage
overZodiac
carswhencustomers
thumbthrough
theirphonedirectories.
Lesswellknown
istheadvantagethatAdamAbbottha
3、sinlifeoverZo.umlZysman.Englishnamesarefairlyevenlyspreadbetweenthehalvesofthealphabet.Yetasuspiciouslylargenumber
oftoppeoplehavesurnamesbeginningwith
lettersbetweenAandK.ThustheAmericanpresidentandvice-presidenthavesurnamesstartingwithBandCrespectively;and26ofGeorgeBush’spredecessors(inc
4、ludinghisfather)hadsurnamesinthefirsthalfofthealphabetagainstjust16
inthesecond
half.Evenmorestriking,
sixofthesevenheadsofgovernment
oftheG7richcountries
arealphabetically
advantaged
(Berlusconi,
Blair,Bush,
Chirac,
Chrétien
andKoizumi).
Theworld’s
threetopcentralbankers(Greenspan,
Duisen
5、berg
andHayami)
areallclosetothetopofthealphabet,evenifoneofthemreallyusesJapanesecharacters.Asaretheworld’sfiverichestmen(Gates,Buffett,Allen,
EllisonandAlbrecht).Canthismerelybecoincidence?Onetheory,dreamtupinallthesparetimeenjoyedbythealphabeticallydisadvantaged,isthat
the
rotsets
inear
6、ly.
Atthestartofthefirstyearininfantschool,teachersseatpupilsalphabeticallyfromthefront,tomakeiteasier
toremember
theirnames.
Soshort-sighted
Zysmanjunior
getsstuck
inthebackrow,andisrarely
asked
theimproving
questions
posedbythoseinsensitive
teachers.
Atthetimethealphabetically
disadvanta
7、ged
maythinktheyhavehadaluckyescape.Yettheresultmaybeworsequalifications,becausetheygetlessindividualattention,aswellaslessconfidence
inspeaking
publicly.Thehumiliationcontinues.Atuniversitygraduationceremonies,theABCsproudlygettheirawardsfirst;bythetimetheyre
