考研英语历年阅读真题解析
(1994-2005)
CONTENTS
2005 PASSAGE 1 1
2005 PASSAGE 2 2
2005 PASSAGE 3 5
2005 PASSAGE 4 7
2004 TEXT 1 11
2004 TEXT 2 12
2004 TEXT 3 14
2004 TEXT 4 16
2003 TEXT 1 19
2003 TEXT 2 22
2003 TEXT 3 25
2003 TEXT 4 28
2002 TEXT 1 31
2002 TEXT 2 34
2002 TEXT 3 37
2002 TEXT 4 39
2001 PASSAGE 1 42
2001 PASSAGE 2 45
2001 PASSAGE 3 47
2001 PASSAGE 4 50
2001 PASSAGE 5 53
2000 PASSAGE 1 56
2000 PASSAGE 2 58
2000 PASSAGE 3 61
2000 PASSAGE 4 64
2000 PASSAGE 5 66
1999 PASSAGE 1 69
1999 PASSAGE 2 72
1999 PASSAGE 3 74
1999 PASSAGE 4 77
1999 PASSAGE 5 80
1998 PASSAGE 1 83
1998 PASSAGE 2 86
1998 PASSAGE 3 88
1998 PASSAGE 4 91
1998 PASSAGE 5 94
1997 PASSAGE 1 96
1997 PASSAGE 2 99
1997 PASSAGE 3 101
1997 PASSAGE 4 104
1997 PASSAGE 5 107
1996 PASSAGE 1 109
1996 PASSAGE 2 111
1996 PASSAGE 3 113
1996 PASSAGE 4 116
1996 PASSAGE 5 118
1995 PASSAGE 1 120
1995 PASSAGE 2 122
1995 PASSAGE 3 124
1995 PASSAGE 4 127
1995 PASSAGE 5 129
1994 PASSAGE 1 131
1994 PASSAGE 2 133
1994 PASSAGE 3 135
1994 PASSAGE 4 137
1994 PASSAGE 5 138
2005 Passage 1
Everybody loves a fat pay rise. Yet pleasure at your own can vanish if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he has a reputation for slacking, you might even be outraged. Such behaviour is regarded as “all too human”, with the underlying assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance. But a study by Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlanta, ia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it all too monkey, as well.
The researchers studied the behaviour of female brown capuchin monkeys. They look cute. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food tardily. Above all, like their female human counterparts, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.
Such characteristics make them perfect candidates for Dr. Brosn
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