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 发表: 2024-07-19 19:00:10 人气:711  
每天记学位英语（英语三级英语）词汇之一
每天记学位英语（英语三级英语）词汇之一
单词记忆一直是成人三级英语考生最头疼的事。因为记单词本身很枯燥，而且在没有语境的情况下很难记住，常常是一边记忆，一边遗忘，况且我们的考生又都是已经参加工作多年的成人！所以很多考生对此感到很苦恼。本章的目的就是帮助考生解决这个问题——根据历年北京地区成人三级英语考试的阅读真题记单词。专家将历年考试阅读文章翻译成中文，并且给出重点词汇的英文及其同义词或近义词，这样，考生就可以根据一个单词记住一连串的词汇。这些重点词汇基本上覆盖了成人三级英语一些经常出现和常考的内容。通过这种方法记单词，效率高，印象深，不易忘记，而且对阅读理解和英译汉也有很大帮助。这种记单词的方法推出后受到学员的热烈欢迎，取得了满意的效果。从今天起，我们每天推送一篇阅读真题让大家记词汇。
Unit 1
The multi-billion-dollar Western pop music industry is under fire. It is being blamed by the United Nations for the dramatic rise in drug abuse worldwide. “The most worrying development is a culture of drug-friendliness,”says the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board in a report released last year.
The 74-page study says that pop music, as a global industry, is by far the most influential trend-setter for young people of most cultures. “Some songs encourage people to take drugs. (76) Certain pop stars make statements and set examples as if the use of drugs for non-medicinal purposes were a normal and acceptable part of a person’s lifestyle,”the study says.
Surprisingly, says the Board, the effect of drug-friendly pop music seems to survive despite the occasional shock of death by overdose (过量用药). “Such incidents tend to be seen as an occasion to mourn (哀悼) the loss of a role model, and not an opportunity to face the deadly effect of drug use,” it notes. Since the 1970s, several internationally famous singers and movie stars—including Elvis Presley, Janice Joplin, John Belushi, Jimi Hendrix, Jonathan Melvin and Andy Gibbs—have died of either drug abuse or drug-related illnesses. With the globalization of popular music, messages promoting, drug abuse are now reaching beyond their countries of origin. “In most countries, the names of certain POP stars have become familiar to the members of every household,” the study says.
The UN study also blames the media for its description of certain drug incidents, which encourages rather than prevents drug abuse. “Over the past years, we have seen how drug abuse is increasingly regarded as being acceptable or even attractive,” says Hamid Ghodse, president of the Board. “Powerful pressure groups run political campaigns aimed at legalizing controlled drugs,” he says. Ghodse also points out that all the developments have created an environment which is tolerant(容忍的) of or even favorable to drug abuse and spoils international drug prevention efforts currently under way.
The study focuses on demand reduction and prevention within an environment that has become tolerant of drug abuse. The Board calls on governments to do their legal and moral duties, and to act against the pro-drug (赞成吸毒) messages of the youth culture to which young people increasingly are being drug exposed.
数十亿美元的西方流行音乐（pop music）产业（industry: busines）正在受到攻击（under fire: attack）。联合国指责（blame: accuse, charge, criticize）它导致了全世界（worldwide: all over the world, globally, internationally）毒品滥用（drug abuse）事件的大幅度（dramatic: big, great, tremendous）增长（rise: growth, increase）。“最令人担忧的（worrying: anxious）趋势（development: current, tide, trend, tendency）就是毒品友谊文化（culture: civilization），”联合国国际麻醉剂控制委员会在去年发布（release: issuse, publish）的一份报告（report: research, study）指出。
这份七十四页的研究报告（study: report, research）指出，作为一项全球性（global: international, world）产业，流行音乐是到目前为止对大多数文化的年轻人影响（influential: powerful）最大的新潮引领者（trend-setter）。“有些歌曲鼓励（encourage: inspire, stir）人们吸（take: eat, use）毒。76．有些流行歌星发表（make）言论（statement: speech），树立（set: establish）榜样（example: model, pattern），好像服用（use: eat, take）非医疗（non-medicinal）用途（purpose: aim, end, goal, objective）的药物是一个人生活方式（lifestyle）中一个正常的（normal: formal, natural, right）并且可以接受的（acceptable: receivable）部分，”该研究报告指出。
该委员会指出，令人吃惊的是（surprisingly: startling, to one’s surprise），虽然人们对因过量用药（overdose）而死亡（death）的事情会偶尔（occasional: casual）震惊（shock: amaze, astonish, startle, surprise），但崇尚毒品友谊的流行音乐产生的影响（effect: impact, influence）似乎（seem）还在（survive）。“这样的事件（incident: event）往往被看成（see: regard, think of）是对失去（loss）一个行为榜样（role model）进行哀悼（mourn）的机会（occasion: chance, opportunity），而不是一个直面（face）滥用毒品所产生的致命（deadly: fatal）影响的机会（opportunity: chance, occassion），”该委员会指出（note: point out, state）。自二十世纪七十年代以来，一些国际上（internationally: all over the world, globally, worldwide）著名的（famous: distinguished, noted, well-known）歌星和影星，包括埃维斯•普里斯利、贾尼斯•乔普林、约翰•贝拉西、吉米•亨德里克斯、乔纳森•梅尔文以及安迪•吉布斯，要么（either）死于（die of: die from）滥用毒品，要么（or）死于与毒品有关的（drug-related）疾病（illnesses: disease）。随着流行音乐以及信息（messwage: infromation, news）拓展（promote: spread）的全球化（globalization），滥用毒品已经超越（reach beyond: exceed, surpass）了其原产（origin: beginning, start）国。“在大多数国家，某些流星歌手的名字已经为每个家庭（hosehold: family, jome）成员（memeber）所熟知（familiar: acquainted），”该研究报告指出。
联合国的研究报告还指责媒体（media: medium）对某些毒品事件的描述（description），那些描述是鼓励而不是（rather than: instead of, other than）防止（prevent: avoid, stop）滥用毒品。“在过去几年，我们目睹了滥用毒品是如何逐渐（increasingly:gradually）被看成（regard: think of, see）是可以接受的甚至是吸引人的（attractive: absorbing, charming）事情，”该委员会的主任哈米德•歌德斯说。“一些有影响的（powerful: influential）施压团体（pressure group）发动了旨在（aim at）使服用受控制的（controlled）毒品合法化（legalize）的政治（political）运动（campaign: motion, movement），”他说。歌德斯还指出（point out: note, state），所有这些趋势（trend: current, tide, tendency）导致形成了容忍（tolerant: patient）滥用毒品甚至赞成（favorable: affirmative）滥用毒品的环境（environment: circumstance, condition, setting, situation），破坏（spoil: damage, destroy, ruin）了当前国际上正在（under way）为防（prevention）毒所作出的努力（effort: endeavor）。
联合国的研究报告关注（focus on: concentrate on）容忍滥用毒品的环境中毒品需求（demand: need, requirement）的减少（reduction: decrease, fall）和预防。联合国国际麻醉剂控制委员会呼吁（call on: appeal）各国政府承担（do: bear, undertake）其法律（legal）和道德（moral）责任（duty: responsibility），采取行动（act: take action）反对（against）把青年文化中赞成吸毒的讯息描述成年轻人正在逐渐接受（expose: accept）毒品。
句子解析
(76) Certain pop stars make statements and set examples as if the use of drugs for non-medicinal purposes were a normal and acceptable part of a person’s lifestyle.
解析：as if引导的是一个虚拟语气从句。make statements应该译成“发表言论”， set examples应该译成“树立榜样”，purpose应该译成“用途”，normal应该译成“正常的”。
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