2015考研英语阅读伊莉莎白二世_大学英语阅读

2015考研英语阅读伊莉莎白二世

　　美国的社会传记作家莎莉贝德尔史密斯向读者描述了女王作为朋友的一面。贝德尔史密斯女士生动地记叙了她在华盛顿一个花园派对和在伦敦的一次招待会上同女王简短的谈话，也写到了一些遇见女王的人的轻率之举动。老布什总统透露，伊丽莎白二世非常遵守礼节但又不冷淡。一个目击者描述，在女王去肯塔基州一户养马人家时，一只小狗当着女王的大便，这打破了沉默的气氛。南希里根回忆：有一次和女王，菲利普亲王以及查尔斯王子在温莎城堡里共进早餐，当她看到在座的每个人都自己从一个大盒子里倒出吃的食物，她很惊讶。据报道，女王喜欢在膝盖上裹一条毯子，在看她的种马和母马交配时喜欢戴一顶安全帽。这些无足轻重的事情一点都不有趣，仅仅因为它们和女王有关。但不幸的是，这些家庭生活的细节和作为女王的伊丽莎白二世是否有趣一点关系都没有。

　　Mr Marr, a former political editor of the BBC and author of some shrewd books on modernBritain, sets himself a more ambitious task: to explain what the queen s role and positiontell us about her subjects. It is an admiring portrait, of an unfashionably dutiful monarchwho in her weekly audiences offers prime ministers what he calls a kind of highertherapya chance to share anxieties or explanations which will never leak, with someonewho has read almost every state secret of the past 60 years .He describes the queen and her strong sense of vocation, as a monarch God-called togive her life to her people as a sacrifice. Only by understanding that calling, he writes, canthe queen be understood.