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GRE阅读题目解析:美国的波多黎各人

2017-05-25 09:52:00来源:新东方在线整理

  P3

  1

  Discussion of the assimilation of Puerto Ricans in the United States has focused on two different factors: social standing and the loss of national culture, depending on whether the commentator is North American or Puerto Rican.

  关于在美国的波多黎各人如何融入美国社会的讨论,集中在两点:社会地位、以及民族文化的丧失,北美学人倾向于前者,而波多黎各学者倾向于后者。

  (assimilation 同化,被吸收)

  2

  Many North American social scientists consider Puerto Ricans as the most recent in a long line of ethnic entrants to occupy the lowest rung on the social ladder.

  许多来自北美的社会科学家认为,在社会阶序中一些外来种族的移民,会居于最低一级,而波多黎各人是这些外来者中最晚近的例子。

  3

  Such a "socio-demographic" approach tends to regard assimilation as a benign process.

  这种 “ 社会人口统计的 ” 方法趋于认为,同化是一个温和的过程。

  4

  In contrast, the "colonialist" approach of island-based writers tends to view assimilation as the forced loss of national culture in an unequal contest with imposed foreign values.

  与之相对的,岛民作家们所持的 “ 殖民主义者 ” 观点,则偏向认为同化过程强制波多黎各人放弃自己的民族文化,通过不平等的竞争迫使他们接受外来价值。

  5

  There is, of course, a strong tradition of cultural accommodation among other Puerto Rican thinkers, like Eugenio Fernandez Mendez.

  当然,其他波多黎各思想家,如 EFM 也表现出一种明显的文化和解的传统。

  (accommodation 住所,食宿,适应,和解,调解)

  6

  But the Puerto Rican intellectuals who have written most about the assimilation process in the United States all advance cultural nationalist views, advocating the preservation of minority cultural distinctions and rejecting what they see as the subjugation of colonial nationalities. (162 words)

  但大多数在美国的,描写社会同化过程的波多黎各知识分子,都采取了一种文化民族主义视角,鼓吹保护少数族裔的文化特性,并拒绝认同殖民地国籍,视之为一种压迫。

  (colonial nationality 在本句中,是指一些波多黎各人到了美国,不认同自己美国人的身份,认为这不是自己的土地,自己到这里是一种 “ 殖民 ”,殖民在这是个中性词,离开自己的家客居他乡,不要把你在中学历史课上积累的对 “ 殖民 ” 的老印象带入句子,会偏)

  7. It can be inferred from the passage that a writer such as Eugenio Fernandez Mendez would most likely agree with which of the following statements concerning members of minority ethnic groups?

  (A) It is necessary for the members of such groups to adapt to the culture of the majority.

  (B) The members of such groups generally encounter a culture that is static and undifferentiated.

  (C) Social mobility is the most important feature of the experience of members of such groups.

  (D) Social scientists should emphasize the cultural and political aspects of the experience of members of such groups.

  (E) The assimilation of members of such groups requires the forced abandonment of their authentic national roots.

  选 A

  文中提到 EFM 在句 5 ,他是主张文化和解那一派的代表,按照和解的思路看选项:

  A 适应社会多数的文化是必要的,正确。

  B 如果真的是 static and undifferentiated,就不用谈和解了。

  C 社会流动性,无关和解。即使发散到句 2 去的同学也不该错,因为北美学者也认为波多黎各人的阶级是最底层,也看不出什么流动性 mobility 吧。

  D 这是别人对波多黎各的态度,是别人要和解,没说 EFM 们的态度,而且这是一种应然的态度,未必是现实情况。

  E 这已经不是和解了,是忘本吧。

  8. In the context in which it appears, "subjugation" in the last sentence most nearly means

  ○A accommodation

  ○B subjection

  ○C assimilation

  ○D incorporation

  ○E defeatism

  选 B

  A 和解

  B 征服,制服

  C 同化,融入

  D 合并,包含

  E 失败主义。

  不懂失败主义的同学去读《三体》思想钢印那一段,以及章北海后来的故事。失败主义也是个中性词,an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat (WMC)。

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