考研英語歷年真題閱讀要點之Text 2（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 2，這篇文章主要探討了美國律師行業的現狀及弊端。

　　All around the world, lawyers generate more hostility than the members of any other profession -- with the possible exception of journalism. But there are few places where clients have more grounds for complaint than America.

　　lawyer“律師”;generate“產生”;hostility“敵意”，形容詞形式hostile，常見搭配be hostile to“對...有敵意”;with the exception of“除了...以外”;journalism“新聞業”;client“客戶”;ground“理由”;complaint“抱怨，投訴”，動詞形式complain，往往與about連用。

　　During the decade before the economic crisis, spending on legal services in America grew twice as fast as inflation. The best lawyers made skyscrapers-full of money, tempting ever more students to pile into law schools. But most law graduates never get a big-firm job. Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance-lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare.

　　economic crisis“經濟危機”;legal service“法律服務”;inflation“通貨膨脹”;skyscraper“摩天樓”;skyscrapers-full表示“非常多”;tempt“誘使”;pile into“擠進”;law school“法學院”;graduate“畢業生”;firm“公司”;nuisance“麻煩事”;lawsuit“訴訟案件”;filer“文件歸檔員”;tort“侵權行為”;costly“昂貴的，代價高的”;nightmare“噩夢”。

　　There are many reasons for this. One is the excessive costs of a legal education. There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam. This leaves today’s average law-school graduate with $100,000 of debt on top of undergraduate debts. Law-school debt means that they have to work fearsomely hard.

　　reason“原因，理由”，也可以表示“推理，理性”;excessive“過度的”;legal education“法律教育”;path“路徑”;undergraduate degree“學士學位”;authorize“授權”，authority“權威，當局”;American Bar Association“美國律師協會”;expensive“昂貴的”;preparation for“為...做準備”;bar exam“律師資格考試”;leave“使得”;average“普通的”;debt“債務”;fearsome“可怕的”，fearsomely hard可以指“拼命地努力”。