2014年
完型：
出自Forbes的"Explanation: How Brain Training Can Make You Significantly Smarter"
TEXT1选自2013年6月29日的英国卫报。
原文出处
http：///commentisfree/2013/jun/29/new-brutalism-at-westminster
Text 1
第一篇文章出自 2012年6月21日Business-week 上的一篇文章，文章有一定难度。从整个文章脉络来看，文章的第一段用事例引入，第二段讲到文章的主题“快时尚”，并指出它破坏了时尚周期，动摇了时尚产业。第三四段指出“快时尚”这种变革的弊端，比如：给自然资源造成压力、使用大量有害的化学物质、浪费现象。最后两段提到针对“快时尚”的不良影响，可以采取的解决办法。
Part B 排序题
2013年
一．2013年知识运用试题来源
这次知识运用试题选材来自考研英语必考杂志《经济学人》，原文标题是：A Question of Judgment；
来自2012年6月16日 经济学人 science and technology 中的最后一篇文章，共6段。
二．2013年考研英语阅读理解Part A 文章命题来源
2015年
一、完型
二、阅读
Part A
Text 1
选自2014年6月4日《卫报》上一篇名为Is the writing on the wall for all European royals?（所有欧洲皇室注定要失败吗？）的文章。主要讨论了西班牙胡安·卡洛斯国王退位这一事件对欧洲诸多皇室的影响，尤其是对英国皇室的影响。
TEXT2选自2013年2月2日economis
原文出处Leaders 中的第五篇（最后一篇）
http：///news/leaders/21571141-cheaper-legal-education-and-more-liberal-rules-would-benefit-americas-lawyersand-their
47)The United States is the product of two principal forces-the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified thesedistinctly European cultural(命题人删除了这三个词)traits.Of necessity, colonial America was a projection of Europe. Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen, Swedes, and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions to the new world. 48)But,inevitably,(命题人删掉了这个词) the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes.These changes were gradual and at first scarcely visible. But the result was a new social pattern which, although it resembled European society in many ways, had a character that was distinctly American.
Text4
原文节选自2014年6月29日The Guardian上的As the hacking trial proves, we lack moral purpose in public life (by Will Hutton)
Murdoch(默多克)传媒帝国下属的newsoftheworld(《世界新闻报》)的telephonehacking(电话窃听)丑闻.
政治评论文章，有明确的作者观点，作者批评英国财政大臣GeorgeOsborne修改的失业救济政策，认为修改后的失业救济政策起不到对失业者的福利救济作用。考研英语很少选用涉及英美国家政治的内容，但是这篇文章是很明确的政治评论，从文章选材上来讲，也是一个新鲜的思路。文章难度中等偏难，主要是背景知识比较难，题目难度中等
49)The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorations of North America.In the meantime, thriving Spanish colonies had been established in Mexico, the West Indies, and South America. These travelers to North America came in small, unmercifully overcrowded craft. During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on meager rations. Many of the ships were lost in storms, many passengers died of disease, and infants rarely survived the journey. Sometimes tempests blew the vessels far off their course, and often calm brought interminable delay.
Part B（新题型）
段落句子填空题
来自马丁所著的《阅读的方法》的第一单元。
Part C
文章来源于An Outline of American History，《美国历史纲要》，是一本历史学方面的专著。考研翻译曾经在1999年考过历史学方面的话题，当初考的是历史学科建立方面的争论，关于历史研究方法论的。今年的考题与1999年那篇历史学文章的试题相比，简单太多。但是与2014年考研翻译试题相比，难度倒是上升了不小。
To the anxious travelers the sight of the American shore brought almost inexpressible relief. Said one chronicler, "The air at twelve leagues' distance smelt as sweet as a new-blown garden."The colonists' first glimpse of the new land was a vista of dense woods. 50) The virgin forest with itsprofusion(命题人把这个词改为richness) and variety of trees was averitable(命题人把这个词改为real) treasure-house which extendedover 1,300 miles from Maine in the north to Georgia(命题人把这个部分改为：from Maine all the way down to Georgia) in the south. Here was abundant fuel and lumber. Here was the raw material of houses and furniture, ships and potash, dyes and naval stores.
Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a tide of emigration -one of the great folk wanderings of history-swept from Europe to America. 46)This movement,impelled(命题人改写为driven) bypowerful and diverse(命题人删除了这两个词)motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.
原文出处
http：///news/young-upstarts-1.13172
自然科学文章。作者先描述了目前在自然科学界出现了很多新的奖项，这些奖都是由一些新兴互联网企业设立的，奖金很高，但是声望与老牌的诺贝尔奖相比还相差很远，科学家对这些奖的评价也是很有很多批评。但是作者对这些奖项是比较宽容的。文章第二段相当难，其他段落中等难度，题目难度中毒偏难。