时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:历年考研英语阅读理解


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[00:03.34]2000 Passage4
[00:07.54]Aimlessness has hardly been typical of the postwar Japan
[00:11.47]whose productivity and social harmony
[00:14.20]are the envy of the United States and Europe.
[00:17.42]But increasingly the Japanese are seeing a decline
[00:20.54]of the traditional work-moral values.
[00:24.14]Ten years ago young people were hardworking
[00:27.69]and saw their jobs as their primary reason for being,
[00:31.32]but now Japan has largely fulfilled its economic needs,
[00:35.46]and young people don't know where they should go next.
[00:39.50]The coming of age of the postwar baby boom
[00:42.73]and an entry of women
[00:44.33]into the male-dominated job market
[00:46.55]have limited the opportunities of teen-agers
[00:49.29]who are already questioning the heavy personal sacrifices
[00:53.01]involved in climbing Japan's rigid 1 social ladder to
[00:56.58]good schools and jobs.
[00:59.00]In a recent survey, it was found
[01:01.42]that only 24.5 percent of Japanese students
[01:05.35]were fully 2 satisfied with school life,
[01:07.98]compared with 67.2 percent of students in the United States.
[01:13.57]In addition, far more Japanese workers expressed dissatisfaction
[01:18.21]with their jobs than did their counterparts
[01:21.03]in the 10 other countries surveyed.
[01:23.86]While often praised by foreigners
[01:26.28]for its emphasis on the basics,
[01:28.39]Japanese education tends to stress test taking
[01:32.22]and mechanical learning over creativity and self-expression.
[01:36.66]"Those things that do not show up in the test scores--
[01:39.80]personality, ability, courage
[01:42.13]or humanity --are completely ignored,"
[01:45.65]says Toshiki Kaifu, chairman of the ruling
[01:48.68]Liberal Democratic Party's education committee."
[01:52.65]Frustration against this kind of thing
[01:54.97]leads kids to drop out and run wild."
[01:58.40]Last year Japan experienced 2,125 incidents
[02:03.84]of school violence,
[02:05.66]including 929 assaults on teachers.
[02:09.49]Amid the outcry, many conservative leaders
[02:12.71]are seeking a return to the prewar emphasis
[02:15.23]on moral education.
[02:18.25]Last year Mitsuo Setoyama,
[02:21.18]who was then education minister,
[02:23.71]raised eyebrows 3 when he argued
[02:25.48]that liberal reforms introduced
[02:27.69]by the American occupation authorities after World War Ⅱ
[02:31.24]had weakened the
[02:31.94]"Japanese morality of respect for parents."
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[02:36.27]But that may have more to do
[02:38.19]with Japanese life-styles.
[02:40.11]"In Japan," says educator Yoko Muro,
[02:43.23]"it's never a question of
[02:44.98]whether you enjoy your job and your life,
[02:47.40]but only how much you can endure."
[02:49.63]With economic growth has come centralization;
[02:53.57]fully 76 percent of Japan's 119 million citizens
[02:58.91]live in cities where community
[03:01.02]and the extended family have been abandoned
[03:03.65]in favor of isolated,
[03:05.04]two-generation households. Urban Japanese
[03:09.17]have long endured lengthy 4 commutes
[03:11.69](travels to and from work) and crowded living conditions,
[03:16.66]but as the old group and family values weaken,
[03:19.98]the discomfort 5 is beginning to tell.
[03:22.81]In the past decade, the Japanese divorce rate,
[03:26.26]while still well below that of the United States,
[03:29.29]has increased by more than 50 percent,
[03:32.22]and suicides have increased by nearly one-quarter.


1 rigid
adj.严格的,死板的;刚硬的,僵硬的
  • She became as rigid as adamant.她变得如顽石般的固执。
  • The examination was so rigid that nearly all aspirants were ruled out.考试很严,几乎所有的考生都被淘汰了。
2 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
3 eyebrows
眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 )
  • Eyebrows stop sweat from coming down into the eyes. 眉毛挡住汗水使其不能流进眼睛。
  • His eyebrows project noticeably. 他的眉毛特别突出。
4 lengthy
adj.漫长的,冗长的
  • We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
  • The professor wrote a lengthy book on Napoleon.教授写了一部有关拿破仑的巨著。
5 discomfort
n.不舒服,不安,难过,困难,不方便
  • One has to bear a little discomfort while travelling.旅行中总要忍受一点不便。
  • She turned red with discomfort when the teacher spoke.老师讲话时她不好意思地红着脸。
学英语单词
accelerene
air pump choke seat
akhbars
Allah's House
association of stars
backbending
bank guarantee
barfly
basilar cell
be remodeled from
boasty
bordeaux-type
cadmium acetylide
cammarano
cervicolabial
Cheeseman Town
chemical design institute
CIE standard illuminants
citokeratin
Clydevale
coating quantity
commercial zine
complex coordination test
conference on production
construction diversion
data line terminals
data storage device
defenestration
directional steadiness
doctors of musical arts
dot frequency
double shot moulding
drawing papers
drift stratigraphy
dry-humps
eagle-beak
electro optical
ex-sun
fast neutron exposure
fugitive flavo(u)r
gain-time
genus Seriphus
gomphosis
have no option but
healedmyocardial infarction
high line rig
high-lift slabbing mill
hydrofluoric aicd
HYSCAN
in line filter
insley
jet impactor
jizz
Jungingen
kasindorf
kid around
Klosterreichenbach
Kosovska Kamenica
leakage quantity
light refraction
mastoid branch
microfossil flora
microscope adapter
modification-independent workload model
mustard celery
near enough
Neolite
nine - eyes
not anymore
octofollin
offices of homeland security
Onavas
one at a time
palenthropic man
person injured
phlebotomus fly
president carters
pressure balanced workover rig
projective special linear group
rag-content paper
Raphiolepis gracilis
ratio of gains
regular spacing
roaches
Ryzdvyanyy
safety lamp
safety value
scooping up
self assembler
serologist
smokers' vertigo
speed and altitude supremacy
stubbliest
system specific address
taenicides
terminal hydroxyl group
tonalism
ungenerous
unharmonious
varelas
wedge angle
Zanthoxylum kwangsiense