考研英語歷年真題閱讀要點之Text 3（一）

 　各位同學，考研英語復習進度怎么樣?為了心中的目標，一定要堅持哦!為了幫助各位同學更加有效地復習，小編繼續為大家梳理歷年考研英語真題閱讀文章中涉及的要點，包括詞匯、短語、長難句以及簡單的閱讀方法。接下來看一下考研英語真題閱讀Text 3，這篇文章主要探討了科學界的新增獎項。

　　The US$3-million Fundamental Physics Prize is indeed an interesting experiment, ... And it is far from the only one of its type. As a News Feature article in Nature discusses, a string of lucrative awards for researchers have joined the Nobel Prizes in recent years. Many, like the Fundamental Physics Prize, are funded from the telephone-number-sized bank accounts of Internet entrepreneurs. These benefactors have succeeded in their chosen fields, they say, and they want to use their wealth to draw attention to those who have succeeded in science.

　　fundamental“基礎的”;indeed“的確，實在”;experiment結合語境，可以理解為“嘗試”;be far from“遠不是”;News Feature“新聞特寫”;article“文章”;a string of“一系列”;lucrative“有利可圖的”;fund“資助”;telephone-number-sized“電話號碼尺寸的”;bank accounts“銀行賬戶”;entrepreneur“企業家”;benefactor“捐助者”;succeed in“在...方面成功”;chosen“挑選出來的”;field“領域”，也可以用domain;wealth“財富”;draw attention to“吸引注意力”，常見的pay attention to表示“關注”。

　　What’s not to like? Quite a lot, according to a handful of scientists quoted in the News Feature. You cannot buy class, as the old saying goes, and these upstart entrepreneurs cannot buy their prizes the prestige of the Nobels. The new awards are an exercise in self-promotion for those behind them, say scientists. They could distort the achievement-based system of peer-review-led research. They could cement the status quo of peer-reviewed research. They do not fund peer-reviewed research. They perpetuate the myth of the lone genius.

　　What’s not to like?“這有什么不討人喜歡的呢?”a handful of“少量的，一小部分”;quote“引用，引證”;class“階級”;as the old saying goes“正如老話說的那樣，正如古語有云”，往往用于寫作;upstart“暴富的，自命不凡的”;prestige“威望，聲譽”;self-promotion“自我提升”;they指代the new awards;distort“扭曲”;achievement-based“基于成就的”;peer-review-led“由同行評審所主導的”;cement“加強”;status quo“現狀”;perpetuate“使不朽”;myth“神話”，mythical充當形容詞，表示“神話的，虛構的”;genius“天才”。