2015年考研英语阅读理解精选20篇(第九篇)

　　考研英语中阅读理解是重头戏，所占比例较大，考生在复习提高的过程中需要多付出精力。可是对于阅读理解来说，要提高并不是一蹴而就的事情，阅读能力需要日积月累，才能够提高速度和做题的技巧效率。为此，新东方在线小编为广大考生奉上20篇阅读理解，希望大家通过积累来最终提升综合阅读能力。

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　　六本好书推荐

　　The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz (Orion, hardback, out now).

　　Within seconds of being invited by the Conan Doyle estate to write a new Sherlock Holmes novel, Anthony Horowitz was off the starting-blocks, piecing together a plot as involved and involving as the best of the originals. All the old familiars are here: Lestrade, Wiggins, Moriarty, the warmth of 221b Baker Street and the freezing fogs outside. At the centre, however, is a crime Conan Doyle would not have contemplated, and, chronicling it after Holmes’s death, Watson becomes unaccustomedly wistful. The text is pot-holed with typos, but Horowitz rides through them with panache.

　　The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (4th Estate, hardback, out January 19th).

　　You may need to bone up on baseball to enjoy this, but it’s actually about friendship, failure and coming of age. Set in a college on the shores of Lake Michigan, the story revolves around a student team preparing to exchange the security of the baseball diamond for the complexities of the real world. When their gifted shortstop is afflicted with the sports equivalent of writer’s block, all their lives begin to unravel. Harbach’s prose is sharp-eyed but big-hearted. Over 500 pages, he immerses you in his imaginary campus, provoking nostalgia for youth, and relief that it’s over.

　　SHORT STORIES

　　We Others by Steven Millhauser (Corsair, hardback, out now).

　　Millhauser, a Pulitzer prize-winner, is drawn to the surreal and uncanny, blooming on the fringes of ordinary lives “like growths of mold”. His title story is narrated by a ghost who, yearning for companionship, breaks the heart of a lonely teacher. Another, the inspiration for the film “The Illusionist”, follows a magician so good at creating illusions that he becomes, himself, illusory. In a third, a giant shopping mall seduces, then enslaves, an entire town. Behind his courteous prose, Millhauser seems to be holding something back, like a doctor soft-pedalling on grim news.

　　FINANCE

　　Boomerang by Michael Lewis (Allen Lane, hardback, out now).

　　Following “The Big Short”, and again exercising his twin passions for high finance and human folly, Michael Lewis shifts his focus from America to Europe on a hilarious journey of “financial-disaster tourism” through the countries that gorged most grossly through the credit boom. Lewis enables you to see the wood and the trees, so while getting to grips with European debt you also form a mental gallery of bizarre vignettes: the governor of Iceland’s Central Bank holed up in his office writing poems; or Ireland’s Bertie Ahern exclaiming, on the collapse of Lehman’s, “They had testicles everywhere!”

　　MEMOIRS

　　Blue Nights by Joan Didion (Fourth Estate, hardback, out now).

　　“What greater grief can there be for mortals”, Euripides asked, “than to see their children dead?” Joan Didion’s only daughter, Quintana Roo, died in 2005, two years after Didion’s husband John Gregory Dunne, mourned so memorably in “The Year of Magical Thinking”. Here, her grief is just as forensically examined, but all the more devastating for being tinged with guilt. Quintana was adopted, and troubled. Were the two connected? Didion’s feel for the material world—fabrics, food and flowers—assumes a terrible poignancy as she contemplates oblivion.

　　Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson (Cape, hardback, out now).

　　The question was asked by Winterson’s adoptive mother. Mrs Winterson, as her daughter chillingly styles her, is the star of this artful memoir, comic but appalling, a frugal, religiose tyrant who dispensed End Time commandments and hoarded Royal Albert china. Jeanette, born Janet, “self-invented”, racked by rage, asks her own questions. Why is she so bad at loving? Why did her real mother give her away? Was Mrs Winterson perhaps not “normal” herself? How does a mind work with its own “brokenness”? Her answers are tentative, but fierce, funny, harrowing.

　　付出会有回报，提高需要努力，小编希望每一位决定了考研的考生都能够坚定自己的目标，并为实现目标努力奋斗，坚持不懈，只有这样才能收获丰厚的果实。2015年考研圆梦，大家一起努力。

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