考研英语阅读材料及译文:Breaking up the Treasury TONY BLAIR once kidnapped a civil servant. It was 2005 and the then prime minister, who was heading to EU budget talks in Luxembourg, needed an ...
考研英语阅读材料及译文:footballing Armageddon THE only previous time that Brazil hosted the World Cup, in 1950, it famously lost the final 2-1 to Uruguay, after shipping two goals in 13 minute ...
考研英语阅读材料及译文:Iran's universities “AT LEAST one thing hasn't changed”, remarked a Tehran University professor who had recently returned to work after several years. “The faculty st ...
考研英语阅读材料及译文:Aviation capacity EVEN before Sir Howard Davies, an economist mulling where to put extra airport capacity in Britain, rejected the idea of building a big new hub in the ...
考研英语阅读材料及译文:Human rights and Europe “UNWORKABLE”, “contradictory” and “incoherent”. Those were among the epithets that have greeted the Conservative Party's plans to reform Br ...
考研英语阅读材料及译文:Palestine and Western aid FEW Arab towns collect rubbish as smoothly as Bethlehem. No sooner have the merchants lowered their shutters at the end of the day than the dus ...
考研英语阅读材料及译文:Opposition research One of the houses the Clintons bought when they were “dead broke”WHEN Bruce Braley, a little-known Iowa Democrat, dismissed Senator Charles Grassle ...
考研英语阅读材料及译文:Google and the EU MAX MOSLEY enjoyed sexual practices which many might find odd. But that was his business, so when in 2008 a now-defunct British tabloid wrongly dubbed ...
考研英语阅读材料及译文:Thailand Long in crisis, Thailand is close to the brink. Without compromises on both sides, it may well collapse LOOK on and despair. A decade ago Thailand was a shi ...
考研英语阅读材料及译文:Turkey's election THE Justice and Development (AK) party has won three general elections in a row, most recently in 2011. Yet although it seems certain to win over 40% o ...
考研英语阅读材料及译文:Argentina defaults ARGENTINA'S first bond, issued in 1824, was supposed to have a lifespan of 46 years. Less than four years later, the government defaulted. Resolving t ...