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老管说过只要讲出做错题的思路就可以找到改进的办法，我现在就把我最近做的几篇阅读错题分析拿来给大家诊断！我问题出在什么地方，应该怎样改进呢？？谢谢各位！
杨继8-2
At the end of the nineteenth century, a rising interest
in Native American customs and an increasing desire to
understand Native American culture prompted ethnolo-
gists to begin recording the life stories of Native Amer-
(5) ican. Ethnologists had a distinct reason for wanting to
hear the stories: they were after linguistic or anthropo-
logical data that would supplement their own field
observations, and they believed that the personal
stories, even of a single individual, could increase their
(10) understanding of the cultures that they had been
observing from without. In addition many ethnologists
at the turn of the century believed that Native Amer-
ican manners and customs were rapidly disappearing,
and that it was important to preserve for posterity as
(15) much information as could be adequately recorded
before the cultures disappeared forever.
There were, however, arguments against this method
as a way of acquiring accurate and complete informa-
tion. Franz Boas, for example, described autobiogra-
(20) phies as being “of limited value, and useful chiefly for
the study of the perversion of truth by memory,” while
Paul Radin contended that investigators rarely spent
enough time with the tribes they were observing, and
inevitably derived results too tinged by the investi-
(25) gator’s own emotional tone to be reliable.
Even more importantly, as these life stories moved
from the traditional oral mode to recorded written
form, much was inevitably lost. Editors often decided
what elements were significant to the field research on a
(30) given tribe. Native Americans recognized that the
essence of their lives could not be communicated in
English and that events that they thought significant
were often deemed unimportant by their interviewers.
Indeed, the very act of telling their stories could force
(35) Native American narrators to distort their cultures, as
taboos had to be broken to speak the names of dead
relatives crucial to their family stories.
Despite all of this, autobiography remains a useful
tool for ethnological research: such personal reminis-
(40) cences and impressions, incomplete as they may be, are
likely to throw more light on the working of the mind
and emotions than any amount of speculation from an
ethnologist or ethnological theorist from another
culture.
7. The passage mentions which of the following as a factor
that can affect the accuracy of ethnologists’
transcriptions of life stories?
(A) The informants’ social standing within the culture
(B) The inclusiveness of the theory that provided the
basis for the research
(C) The length of time the researchers spent in the
culture under study
(D) The number of life stories collected by the
researchers
(E) The verifiability of the information provided by the
research informants
C项是答案，定位于22-23行的investigators rarely spent
enough time with the tribes they were observing，但是感觉这个地方从语气和文章整体脉络来看并不是重点，所以读一遍之后的印象并不是很深导致想不到这点得出错误的答案
8. It can be inferred from the passage that the author would
be most likely to agree with which of the following
statements about the usefulness of life stories as a source
of ethnographic information?
(A) They can be a source of information about how
people in a culture view the world.
(B) They are most useful as a source of linguistic
information.
(C) They require editing and interpretation before they
can be useful.
(D) They are most useful as a source of information
about ancestry.
(E) They provide incidental information rather than
答案是A，原文出处：最后一段： throw more light on the working of the mind
and emotions（得出世界观），感觉和A项这个同意变换联系不起来 导致错选
杨继10-3
Since the early 1970’s, historians have begun to
devote serious attention to the working class in the
United States. Yet while we now have studies of
working-class communities and culture, we know
(5) remarkably little of worklessness. When historians have
paid any attention at all to unemployment, they have
focused on the Great Depression of the 1930’s. The
narrowness of this perspective ignores the pervasive
recessions and joblessness of the previous decades, as
(10) Alexander Keyssar shows in his recent book. Examining
the period 1870-1920, Keyssar concentrates on Massa-
chusetts, where the historical materials are particularly
rich, and the findings applicable to other industrial
areas.
(15 ) The unemployment rates that Keyssar calculates
appear to be relatively modest, at least by Great Depres-
sion standards: during the worst years, in the 1870’s
and 1890’s, unemployment was around 15 percent. Yet
Keyssar rightly understands that a better way to
(20) measure the impact of unemployment is to calculate
unemployment frequencies—measuring the percentage
of workers who experience any unemployment in the
course of a year. Given this perspective, joblessness
looms much larger.
(25) Keyssar also scrutinizes unemployment patterns
according to skill level, ethnicity, race, age, class, and
gender. He finds that rates of joblessness differed
primarily according to class: those in middle-class and
white-collar occupations were far less likely to be unem-
(30) ployed. Yet the impact of unemployment on a specific
class was not always the same. Even when dependent on
the same trade, adjoining communities could have
dramatically different unemployment rates. Keyssar uses
these differential rates to help explain a phenomenon
(35) that has puzzled historians—the startlingly high rate of
geographical mobility in the nineteenth-century United
States. But mobility was not the dominant working-class
strategy for coping with unemployment, nor was assis-
tance from private charities or state agencies. Self-help
(40) and the help of kin got most workers through jobless
spells.
While Keyssar might have spent more time develop-
ing the implications of his findings on joblessness for
contemporary public policy, his study, in its thorough
(45) research and creative use of quantitative and qualitative
evidence, is a model of historical analysis.
3. According to the passage, which of the following is true
of Keyssar’s findings concerning unemployment in
Massachusetts?
(A) They tend to contradict earlier findings about such
unemployment.
(B) They are possible because Massachusetts has the
most easily accessible historical records.
(C) They are the first to mention the existence of high
rates of geographical mobility in the nineteenth
century.
(D) They are relevant to a historical understanding of
the nature of unemployment in other states.
(E) They have caused historians to reconsider the role of
the working class during the Great Depression.
答案是D，我选了A，当时的感觉是：别人都在研究GREAT DEPRESSION，而他研究了这之前，所以理应选A
6. According to the passage, Keyssar considers which of the
following to be among the important predictors of the
likelihood that a particular person would be unemployed in
late nineteenth-century Massachusetts?
Ⅰ. The person’s class
Ⅱ. Where the person lived or worked
Ⅲ. The person’s age
(A) Ⅰonly
(B) Ⅱonly
(C) Ⅰand Ⅱ only
(D) Ⅰand Ⅲ only
(E) Ⅰ,Ⅱ, and Ⅲ
答案是 D，感觉一遍下来没读出Where the person lived or worked这个因素
杨继17-1
As the economic role of multinational, global corpora-
tions expands, the international economic environment will
be shaped increasingly not by governments or international
institutions, but by the interaction between governments
(5) and global corporations, especially in the United States,
Europe, and Japan. A significant factor in this shifting
world economy is the trend toward regional trading biocs
of nations, which has a potentially large effect on the
evolution of the world trading system. Two examples of
(10) this trend are the United States-Canada Free Trade
Agreement (FTA) and Europe 1992, the move by the
European Community (EC) to dismantle impediments to
the free flow of goods, services, capital, and labor among
member states by the end of 1992. However, although
(15) numerous political and economic factors were operative in
launching the move to integrate the EC’s markets, concern
about protectionism within the EC does not appear to have
been a major consideration. This is in sharp contrast to the
FTA, the overwhelming reason for that bilateral initiative
(20) was fear of increasing United States protectionism. None-
theless, although markedly different in origin and nature,
both regional developments are highly significant in that
they will foster integration in the two largest and richest
markets of the world, as well as provoke questions
(25) about the future direction of the world trading system.
1. The primary purpose of the passage as a whole is to
(A) describe an initiative and propose its continuance
(B) chronicle a development and illustrate its
inconsistencies
(C) identify a trend and suggest its importance
(D) summarize a process and question its significance
(E) report a phenomenon and outline its probable future
答案是C我选了E，感觉E的outline its probable future正是对应了文章最后一句： will foster integration in the two largest and richest markets of the world, as well as provoke questions about the future direction of the world trading system.
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