考研英语从阅读中积累语言材料 语言的.学习离不开语境。在某种语境中学习语言，不仅有助于学习者记忆语料，更重要的是能够帮助他们了解和掌握词汇的各种变化、惯用法、相互关联、各种修辞和特别用法等。阅读则是学习者熟悉英语语境的主要方法之一。 学习者可以从众多的原汁原味的阅读材料吸取语言素材，再通过记忆、运用(口语、写作等)内化成自己的语言。比如，在冲刺阶段，考生通过做模拟题的方式，从一篇文章及语境中学到许多有用的词组和表达法。 ①Invention and innovation have been quintessentially American puisuits from the earliest days of the republic. BenjaminFranklin was a worldfamous scientist and inventor. Cyrus McCormick and his harvester, Samuel F.B. Morse and the telegraph, Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone—the 19th century produced a string of inventors and their worldchanging creations. And then there was the greatest of them all, Thomas Alva Edisonl. He came up with the crucial devices that would give birth to three enduring American industries: electrical power, recorded music and motion pictures. ② Much of the world we live in today is a legacy of Edison and of his devotion to science and innovation. Edison taught us to invent, and for decades we were the best in the world. But today, more than 160 years after Edison’s birth, America is losing its scientific edge. A landmark report released in May by the National Science Board lays out the numbers: while U.S. investment in RD as a share of total GDP has remained relatively constant since the mid1980s at 2.7%, the federal share of RD has been consistently declining—even as Asian nations like Japan and South Korea have rapidly increased that ratio. At the same time, American students seem to be losing interest in science. Only about onethird of U.S. bachelor’s degrees are in science or engineering now,...
