冲刺指南：考研英语阅读利剑——主题_大学英语阅读

冲刺指南：考研英语阅读利剑——主题

　　我们首先来看一下第一个段落：

　　Over the past century, all kinds of unfairness and discrimination have been condemned or made illegal. But one insidious form continues to thrive: alphabetism. This, for those as yet unaware of such a disadvantage, refers to discrimination against those whose surnames begin with a letter in the lower half of the alphabet.

　　本段中出现了一个转折词，其后的内容是我们需要关注的，而后面的内容告诉我们：one insidious form continues to thrive: alphabetism。这里就出现了刚才所提过的生词alphabetism，其实考官在后面给考生进行了详尽的解释This, for those as yet unaware of such a disadvantage, refers to discrimination against those whose surnames begin with a letter in the lower half of the alphabet。也就是说alphabetism指的就是字母歧视。读到这里，我们可以确定第一个段落的主题现在存在着不为大家所重视的字母歧视的问题。

　　下面我们需要关注的是第二段作者有没有对于第一段的观点有没有改变。

　　It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phone directories. Less well known is the advantage that Adam Abbott has in life over Zo Zysman. English names are fairly evenly spread between the halves of the alphabet. Yet a suspiciously large number of top people have surnames beginning with letters between A and K.