2011年考研英语二真题详细解析(3)

集中在毫无特色的领域）。言下之意是如果报纸本身存在吸引人的内容（distinctive）还是可以生存下去的。因此选项Ａ是正确的。

干扰排除：选项Ｂ中Completeness对应原文Newspapers are less complete as a result（报纸行业的危机带来报纸板块的不完整性），这是结果而不是报纸行业危机的原因，因此Ｂ可以排除。选项Ｃ的Foreign bureaus对应原文的Foreign bureaus have been savagely cut off（驻外办事处被裁减），那就不可能产生重要的作用了，所以Ｃ与文意相反可以排除。选项Ｄ的car and film reviews对应原文Car and film reviewers have gone（汽车和电影评论已经消

失），但是原文没有明确指出消失的原因是读者不喜欢，所以Ｄ属于过度推论，可以排除。

30. The most appropriate title for this text would be .

[A]American Newspapers：Struggling for Survival

[B]American Newspapers：Gone with the Wind

[C]American Newspapers： A Thriving Business

[D]American Newspapers：A Hopeless Story

试题类型：全文主旨题

解题思路：标题题最重要的就是抓住全文的核心词进行选项排除。很明显原文是针对美国报纸行业陷入绝望境地展开讨论的。首段首先指出目前人们对于美国报纸行业的担忧。第二段转折，开始讨论美国报纸行业的复苏现象。第三段则对报纸行业为了防止下滑所作出的各种补救措施。第四段＋第五段理性分析了这种报业危机的现象能够促使报纸行业作出改变，也未必就是一件坏事。从全文角度看，作者还是站在客观的角度描述了处于危机中的美国报纸行业的各种挽救措施。因此选项Ａ相对比较符合文意。

干扰排除：选项Ｃ大意是与原文首段部分内容直接矛盾的（处于危机中怎么可能Thriving），可以直接排除。同理，选项Ｂ说美国的报纸行业已经消亡，又过于夸张，事实上美国报纸行业还有复苏的迹象（首段最后一句But the discussions now seem out of date），可以直接排除。选项Ｄ由于存在Hopeless 一词，错误的原因和Ｂ是一样的，也可排除。

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We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth，with soldiers returning home by the millions，going off to college on the G. I. Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.

本段介绍了文章的背景：二战后大量军人回国，读书或者建立家庭，为美国带来人口繁荣。

从考点设置来说，本段不存在明确的观点内容，不适合单独设置考题（错误选项可利用内容太少）。

But when it came to their houses，it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more. During the Depression and the war，Americans had learned to live with less，and that restraint，in combination with the postwar confidence in the future，made small，efficient housing positively stylish.

本段首句给出转折：尽管繁荣，但是美国人信奉“少即是多”。第二句解释首句：这都是因为二战和大萧条导致的，美国人习惯上小而高效的住宅风格。

从考点设置来说，本段第二句解释了首句现象产生的原因，内容上属于重要的考点，可以设置细节题正确选项。

Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living. The phrase “less is more”was actually first popularized by a German，the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe，who like other people associated with the Bauhaus，a school of design，emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools. These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture，but none more so that Mies.

本段首句承接上句指出：经济因素只是原因之一。第二句+第三句进一步提

出，小而高效的流行和德国建筑师Mies 的推动有很大关系。

从考点设置来说，本段第二句为长难句，解释了出经济因素以外其他推动美国小而高效建筑风格的因素，是重要考点，可设置细节题的正确选项。

Mies’s signature phrase means that less decoration，properly organized，has more impact that a lot. Elegance，he believed，did not derive from abundance. Like other modern architects，he employed metal，glass and laminated wood-materials that we take for granted today buy that in the 1940s symbolized the future. Mies’s sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient，rather than big and often empty.

本段首句承接上段继续介绍Mies的建筑思路：装饰少反而凸显效果。第二句+第三句对首句内容展开：他认为优雅并不来自于数量，通过利用金属，玻璃等来制造出现代简约建筑风格。第四句进行总结：Mies的成熟建筑风格可以让人感受到小而高效的好。

从考点设置来说，本段最后一句带有否定结构（rather than）这一重要的考点结构，可以利用其设置细节题的正确选项。

The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive，for example，were smaller-two-bedroom units under 1，000 square feet-than those in their older neighbors along the city’s Gold Coast. But they were popular because of their airy glass walls，the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings’ details and proportions，the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.

本段整体为举例，支持上一段对Mies建筑风格的描述（现代化的设计理念）。

从考点设置来说，按照常规思路本段不适合设置考题，考官虽然打破常规设置第33题，但是因为题干中存在Chicago这种明确定位点，定位点明确的情况下处理并不困难（本段最后一句为转折结构，本身也适合设置考点）。

The trend toward “less”was not entirely foreign. In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses-usually around 1，200 square feet-than the spreading two-story ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.

本段首句提出观点：“少”也并非完全是舶来品。第二句列举Frank Lloyd Wright的例子来支持首句内容。

从考点设置来说，本段首句+第二句构成观点+例证的结构，可对首句的观点内容设置细节题的正确选项。

The “Case Study Houses”commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet anotherhomegrown influence on the “less is more”trend. Aesthetic effect came from the landscape，new materials and forthright detailing. In this Case Study House，Ralph everyday life –few American families acquired helicopters，though most eventually got clothes dryers –but his belief that self-sufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.

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