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速读测试：拉登难救奥巴马

本文作者为英国《金融时报》专栏作家吉迪恩·拉赫曼（Gideon Rachman）

测试中可能遇到的词汇和知识：
al-Qaeda	基地组织
drone strikes	无人袭击
lukewarm	冷淡的
neoconservative	新保守派

常见问题

阅读FT对你有什么好处？

对于全球的商业精英来说，阅读英国《金融时报》是每天必须进行的修炼。《金融时报》的文章以分析见长，逻辑严密，特别适合准备GRE和GMAT的考生。培生集团推出的PTE考试的阅读题，就是利用了FT的文章来做阅读理解。

阅读速度多快才够用？

在信息爆炸的今天，能够迅速地阅读和理解大量资料，已成为所有人必不可少的技能。对于准备参加各种英语测试的考生来讲，阅读速度可能是决定成绩的关键。要想在GRE和GMAT的考试中拿到高分，你的阅读速度至少要达到每分钟200字。

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阅读以下文章

<b>One bullseye cannot rescue Obama’s record</b>

“Weak.” “Apologist.” Those two words are repeated endlessly in the Republican party’s attack on Barack Obama, as it tries to persuade voters that the US president is not worthy of another term as commander-in-chief.

The charge of weakness will be difficult to make stick. As the president’s team will endlessly remind us, he is the man who sent in a combat team to kill Osama bin Laden – against the advice of some of his aides – and who has ruthlessly pounded al-Qaeda camps in Pakistan with drone strikes.

The irony is that there are really serious criticisms that can be made of Mr Obama’s handling of foreign affairs. But the real problem is not that he is weak or apologises for the US. It is that he has over-promised and under-delivered. Fortunately for the president, this is a relatively complicated idea that relies on some knowledge of world affairs. Therefore it is not a critique that the Republicans are likely to attempt.

Nonetheless, it is sobering to measure Mr Obama against the goals he set himself. His international priorities in 2008 were clear and ambitious. He intended to solve the Iranian nuclear issue through diplomacy. He wanted to make peace between Israel and Palestine. He would transform America’s image in the Muslim world. The Guantánamo prison camp would close and terrorists would be tried in US courts. The new president would get the US out of Iraq and use the freed-up resources to fix Afghanistan. And he would dramatically improve relations with Russia and China, allowing the world to make progress on issues of common concern, from global warming to global trade.

Go down this checklist and you will notice far more failures than successes. The rapprochement with Iran never happened. Instead, as Mr Obama nears the end of his first term, the US and Iran are dangerously close to armed conflict. The president’s efforts to revive the Middle East peace process have got nowhere. Guantánamo has not closed and the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad is taking place there.

After some agonising, the president ordered a George W. Bush-like troop “surge” into Afghanistan. This policy also looks likely to end in failure, with little sign that Nato will leave behind a functioning Afghan state. When it comes to Pakistan, Mr Obama has out-Bushed Mr Bush. The use of drone strikes has increased dramatically. This will be portrayed as evidence of strength by the Obama camp. But it leaves behind a dangerous legacy of a rotten relationship with Pakistan, a nuclear-armed nation of 180m people.

After the early ecstatic reaction to Mr Obama’s Cairo speech of 2009, in which the president called for a “new beginning” between the US and Muslims, America’s popularity has slumped again in the Islamic world. Mr Obama’s rightwing critics cite the Cairo speech as evidence that he apologises for America. In fact, it was a balanced plea for a reset with the Muslim world – but it failed. The US “favourability rating” in three key Muslim countries – Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan – is now actually below the levels of 2008, Mr Bush’s last year in office.

Intent on according the Muslim world more respect, the president was also initially blindsided by the Iranian uprising of 2009 and the Arab spring of 2011 – both of which were events that fitted more easily into a neoconservative narrative, about the universal yearning for democracy.

Mr Obama must surely regret his lukewarm support for the Iranian uprising. When it came to the Arab spring, he struck a necessarily uneasy compromise between supporting US ideals and protecting US interests. The idealistic president called for Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to go and supported the ousting of Libya’s Muammer Gaddafi. The pragmatist has allowed the Bahrain uprising to be crushed and has hung back over Syria. It is hard to argue that he has made any big mistakes. But the big picture is of declining American influence in the region.

The president’s policies towards Russia and China have also not worked out as planned. He came to power at a time when relations between the US and Russia were at a dangerous low, after the Russian war with Georgia. The Obama team proclaimed its desire to press the “reset” button with Russia – and for a while this policy paid dividends. The two countries signed a new arms-control accord and co-operated at times at the UN. But the “reset” was built around President Dmitry Medvedev. The return of Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin has brought a fresh chill to US-Russian relations.

Mr Obama’s initial hope of forging a new and co-operative relationship with the rising superpower in Beijing has also been mugged by reality. The two powers have maintained a reasonable dialogue. But they have also clashed over trade, climate change and human rights. And military tensions between China and the US are rising in the Pacific.

Nor, despite the premature award of a Nobel Peace Prize, can Mr Obama point to any transformative impact on global diplomacy. The UN remains a tetchy and dysfunctional forum. The G20 – while it played an important role in stabilising the world economy in 2009 – is now something of a disappointment. There have been no big new deals on climate or trade.

If the newly elected president in 2008 had been told this would be his list of global achievements he would surely have been disappointed. Mr Obama ran as the anti-Bush candidate. So it is ironic that his signature achievement overseas – the killing of bin Laden – is one George W. Bush would have been proud of.

选择正确答案

According to the passage,which of the following is correct?

Good!
“Go down this checklist and you will notice far more failures than successes. ”意思是奥巴马的败笔比政绩多，故选项A错误。"The rapprochement with Iran never happened. "即从未与伊朗建立友好联系，故B也错误。

Obama'successes is far more than failures as a president.
US built ties with Iraq instead of the armed conflict.
Obama keeps a troop in Afghanistan.
None of is correct.

选择正确答案

What about the relationship between US and Russia according to the passage?

正确！
正确答案在文章倒数第二段，俄美两国签订了军备控制协议并时不时的在联合国上形成同盟。然而俄美两国的友好合作只停留在梅德韦杰夫在位期间，普京当选总统，俄美两国的合作变得不容易。故选D。

The two countries signed a new arms-control accord.
The former Russian president are willing to collaborate with US.
The two countries sometimes cooperate at the UN.
All of the above.

选择正确答案

Which divergence is between China and US according to the article?

Good!
"The two powers have maintained a reasonable dialogue. But they have also clashed over trade, climate change and human rights."贸易，气候变化，人权问题都是中美存在分歧，冲突的问题。故选D。

climate change
human rights
trade
All of the above.

选择正确答案

What is not the author's perspectives on Obama during a president?

Good!
从正文可知，奥巴马没有关闭关塔那摩监狱，也没能与穆斯林的国家建立友好联系，他在2008年竞选时提出的所有美好畅想，现如今看来真正实现的寥寥甚少，只把拉登给击毙了，借此来炫耀一下，其他方面都不免让人失望。据此看选项C是错误的。

If the newly elected president in 2008 had been told Obama's list of global achievements,he would be fail.
The killing of bin Laden is a showy achivement during as a president.
Guantanamo has been closed and the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad is taking place there.
He failed to reset with the Muslim world .

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您的正确率太低，在目前这个阶段，对你来说最重要的是提高英文水平和金融专业水平，而不是速度。请您点击后退仔细查看您答错的题目，并和原文对照。对原文中所有不懂的句子和知识点，也请一一查明。建议您：
1. 在进行下一次训练的时候，将滚屏速度保持在100以下。
2. 您可以找一些有声读物，如《经济学人》的audio edition，帮助你提高英文水平。

看得出你是非常认真来进行这次训练的，如果你坚持的话，你会获得非常大的提高。目前你的阅读速度偏低，可能是因为英文不是你的母语。不过，请不要放慢阅读速度。研究表明，阅读速度越快的人，其理解的正确率反而越高。因此，您可以同时提高您的阅读速度和理解能力。给你一点建议：
1. 一定要改掉默念的习惯
2. 不要一个词一个词的看，要学会把一个语义群当作一个整体来看。比如“an emergency $180bn injection of dollar”这个语义群，你要学会把他当作一个整体来看。
3. 看DVD的时候，切换到英文字幕。

用正常语速来朗读一篇文章，平均速度是每分钟140词。这说明你的阅读速度比朗读还要慢。建议您：1. 每一段的第一句话往往是最重要的。
2. “速读”最忌讳的就是“读”，不要一边看一边默念。
3. 在下一个训练中将滚屏速度设为140，迫使自己不能回头去看已经读过的部分。

您的阅读速度已经超过了正常语速，说明你已经开始有些速读的感觉了。美国大学生的最低阅读速度为每分钟250词，加把劲你就可以赶上了。建议您：
1. 养成习惯，读过的部分不要回头去看，这样会影响速读。
2. 加强“扫描”的训练，让自己的眼睛能“一目一行”。

您的阅读速度已经达到了美国大学生的水平，可喜可贺。不过作为金融从业人员，每天需要阅读数不清的中英文研究报告、公司年报、报刊杂志等，您还需要向每分钟350字进军。建议您：
1. 加强“扫描”的训练，让自己的眼睛能“一目两行”。
2. 对中英文的数字，尤其是大数字(million, billion)的转换进行总结和练习。

厉害，您的阅读速度已经超过了美国大学生的水平。不过，要成为巴菲特那样的金融专家，您需要锻炼出“一目十行”的火眼金睛。建议您在每次的训练中注意三个要点：
1. 您已经学会了将文章分成语义群，而非词来阅读，现在，你需要扩大每一个语义群中的词数。
2. 加快阅读每个语义群的速度。
3. 看过的内容尽量不要回看。

这就是传说中的“一目十行”吗？难以置信！

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