今天咱们还是来一个改版吧~在一个帖子里进行，这样可以省去大家转来转去的时间。
海豚知道也许很多人都已经做过这个真题了，那么可以不做选择题，但是海豚挑出来的3个长难句还是希望大家分析一下结构，翻译一下哦~ 不要忘了我们的主旨就是研究真题，(*^__^*) 嘻嘻……
节选自：2004 第二篇阅读
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1、先看题目，题目的主要部分，也就是一会儿我们在看文章的时候要注意哪些内容，海豚已经用绿色表示出来了：
46. What does the author intend to illustrate with AAAA cars and Zodiac cars?
47. What can we infer from the first three paragraphs?
46问的是提到AAAA cars and Zodiac cars的目的，一会儿去看文章的时候，要留意AAAA cars and Zodiac cars附近的句子。
47问的是头三段的推断，老老实实看文章去吧~(*^__^*) 嘻嘻……
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2、现在是原文，大家回忆一下刚才看过的题干给我们的提示哦，一会儿要留意。
呵呵，不知道字体够不够大？
Over the past century, all kinds of unfairness and discrimination have been condemned or made illegal. But one insidious form continues to thrive: alphabetism. This, for those as yet unaware of such a disadvantage, refers to discrimination against those whose surnames begin with a letter in the lower half of the alphabet.
It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phone directories. Less well known is the advantage that Adam Abbott has in life over Zoë Zysman. English names are fairly evenly spread between the halves of the alphabet. Yet a suspiciously large number of top people have surnames beginning with letters between A and K.
Thus the American president and vice-president have surnames starting with B and C respectively; and 26 of George Bush's predecessors (including his father) had surnames in the first half of the alphabet against just 16 in the second half. Even more striking, six of the seven heads of government of the G7 rich countries are alphabetically advantaged (Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chrétien and Koizumi). The world's three top central bankers (Greenspan, Duisenberg and Hayami) are all close to the top of the alphabet, even if one of them really uses Japanese characters. As are the world's five richest men (Gates, Buffett, Allen, Ellison and Albrecht).
| 46. What does the author intend to illustrate with AAAA cars and Zodiac cars?
[A] A kind of overlooked inequality.
[b) A type of conspicuous bias.
[C] A type of personal prejudice.
[D] A kind of brand discrimination.
47. What can we infer from the first three paragraphs?
[A] In both East and West, names are essential to success.
[b) The alphabet is to blame for the failure of Zoë Zysman.
[C] Customers often pay a lot of attention to companies' names.
[D] Some form of discrimination is too subtle to recognize.
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3、写下您的答案，然后看解析哦，然后分析、翻译下面的句子，有额外奖励~~~
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①This, for those as yet unaware of such a disadvantage, refers to discrimination against those whose surnames begin with a letter in the lower half of the alphabet.
②It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phone directories.
③Thus the American president and vice-president have surnames starting with B and C respectively; and 26 of George Bush's predecessors (including his father) had surnames in the first half of the alphabet against just 16 in the second half.
DICT.
condemn（声讨，谴责） 即con加强意义+demn詛咒指责。we all condem cruelty to children.我们一致谴责虐待儿童的行为 The meat was condemned as unfairt for human consumption.这种肉已宣布不适宜食用。
insidious （暗中进行的，不知不觉的）insidious diease 潜伏的疾病 the insidious approach of age不知不觉就老了 （ life is short and time is swift .孩子们努力吧！）thrive （兴旺，繁荣） He that will thrive, must rise at five. [谚]五更起床, 百事兴旺。
thumb through （ 翻阅[书页] ）
suspiciously （猜疑地;形迹可疑） Everything was suspiciously quiet. 一切静的离奇。predecessor （前辈；[被取代的] 原有事物） 即pre－前面+cess-走+or-人→“走在我们前面的人”→“前辈”。 John Adams was Jefforson’s predecessor as President. 杰弗逊的前任总统是约翰－亚当斯The new proposal is better than its predecessor.新的建议比原来的好。
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