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速读测试：普京自砸克里姆林墙角

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：
Pussy Riot	一个曾在莫斯科教堂唱反普京歌曲的女子朋克乐队，近日其3名成员被判流氓罪入狱2年
raucous	刺耳的；粗声的
ditty	小曲，小调
panache	羽饰；灿烂；耍派头
flamboyant	艳丽的；火焰似的
balaclava	巴拉克拉瓦盔式帽
Yoko Ono	小野洋子，日裔美籍音乐家、先锋艺术家，列侬(John Lennon)的第二位妻子
apartheid	种族隔离
thug	暴徒；恶棍

常见问题

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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。

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阅读以下文章

<b>Pussy Riot can rock the Kremlin to its foundations</b>

Congratulations Vladimir Putin. Just four months back in the Kremlin and you have inflicted the worst blow to Russia’s international image in more than a decade.
Few can doubt that the Kremlin had a hand in the decision to sentence Pussy Riot to two years in prison. The punishment is grossly disproportionate to the band’s “crime” – singing a raucous anti-Putin ditty in a Moscow cathedral.

Still, professional Russia watchers know that there have been far worse human rights violations in the Putin years. The difference is that Sergei Magnitsky, a murdered lawyer, Anna Politkovskaya, a murdered journalist, and even Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a jailed oligarch, have never really become household names in the outside world. Pussy Riot members, by contrast, are all set to become global celebrities.
Writers and musicians can be far more dangerous opponents for authoritarians than mere politicians or controversial businessmen such as Mr Khodorkovsky. They often have a wit, panache and integrity that makes rulers look ridiculous. Václav Havel, a playwright, became the rallying figure for the opposition in Czechoslovakia. Around the world, Ai Weiwei, an artist, has become the flamboyant face of opposition to the identical apparatchiks of the Chinese Communist party.
Pussy Riot has only just released its first single. But it has courage and a gift for performance art. Its name deftly combines two of the major preoccupations of teenage boys. And, as outspoken women, its members embody the idea of “girl power” – as lauded by the Spice Girls. The band’s trademark balaclavas also provide an easily imitated “look” that has already been emulated in demonstrations from Berlin to New York.
Yet those tempted to dismiss the three imprisoned members of Pussy Riot as simply clever marketeers should read their statements from the dock, which are intelligent, articulate and moving.
Condemnation from Human Rights Watch and pursed lips at the Swedish foreign ministry are one thing. But when Madonna and Yoko Ono are on the case, the Kremlin is entering a different league of international odium. Madonna, in particular, has played an admirable role. In a recent concert in Moscow, she donned a balaclava, wrote the band’s name on her back and spoke out in their support. The crowd at the concert cheered wildly – while Dmitry Rogozin, a Russian deputy prime minister, betrayed the Kremlin’s anger by labelling the singer a moralising “slut”.
It cannot be long before concerts in support of Pussy Riot are held outside Russia. The obvious model would be the “Free Nelson Mandela” concerts of the 1980s, which so acutely embarrassed South Africa’s apartheid government.
The Putin government may try to pretend that it does not care about the outrage of musicians and intellectuals in the west. But it has spent many millions hiring western public relations firms to burnish Russia’s image. Any one of these hired guns could have warned Mr Putin that the Pussy Riot sentence is an unqualified PR disaster.
The danger for Mr Putin is that bashing the Russian government may now become cool. Until recently, critics of Russia were often cast as outdated cold war warriors. When Mitt Romney recently declared that Russia was America’s “number one geopolitical foe”, his statement was widely taken as evidence he was living in the past.
The conviction of Pussy Riot will do much to boost Mr Putin’s reputation as a thug. In the process, it may draw much wider attention to many other unattractive features of Putin’s Russia – from widespread corruption to its protection of brutal regimes such as Syria and the frequent unpunished murders of government critics such as Mr Magnitsky or Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian agent, who was poisoned in London.
The Russian government will insist that Mr Putin is far more representative of the Russian people than some avant-garde musicians from Moscow. There may be some truth in that. Russia is a socially conservative place and there are certainly many religious people in Russia who were genuinely offended by Pussy Riot’s performance.
Nonetheless, independent opinion polls suggest that the government’s heavy-handed treatment of the band has not convinced a majority of Russians. Less than half (44 per cent) said that they regarded the case against Pussy Riot as just.
One of the important questions, when Mr Putin returned to the Kremlin in May, was whether he would be able to put behind him the popular protests that had greeted the rigging of legislative and presidential elections a few months earlier. The initial signs were encouraging for the Kremlin. The demonstrations in Moscow – and the popular movement that had formed around them – appeared to have largely fizzled out.
Now, however, the conviction of Pussy Riot has re-energised the Russian opposition and inflicted a grave blow to Mr Putin’s international image. Even some former Putin loyalists are concluding that the president is now an international embarrassment and a hindrance to Russia’s modernisation. There are signs that the Kremlin realises it has made a mistake with Pussy Riot – and may seek to get the band released early. However, the damage to the president’s standing is done. Pussy Riot is going to prison. But the band still has the power to rock the Kremlin.

选择正确答案

The writer mentions several people as human rights violation victims in Putin years.
Which one of them, according to him, is the less dangerous?

Good!
D项是正确的。作者在第三段中列出了这些人物，在第四段开头说： Writers and musicians can be far more dangerous opponents for authoritarians than mere politicians or controversial businessmen such as Mr Khodorkovsky.作者认为寡头大鳄也没有作家和音乐家危险。

Sergei Magnitsky, a murdered lawyer
Anna Politkovskaya, a murdered journalist
Pussy Riot, a girls' punk band
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a jailed oligarch

选择正确答案

According to the passage, which of the following is a good idea to setablish and restore Russia's image?

Good!
B项正确。A项不正确，是因为雇用公关公司却忽视他们的建议，并不是明智的做法。原文第九段：Any one of these hired guns could have warned Mr Putin that the Pussy Riot sentence is an unqualified PR disaster. C项也不是个好主意，而且普京政府只是try to pretend这么做。D项显然是个树立自己thug形象的做法。

To spend millions hiring western public relations firms.
To let go the demonstrations and protests against him.
To ignore the outrage of musicians and intellectuals in the west.
To protect some brutal regimes such as Syria.

选择正确答案

Which of the following can best depict the popular opinion toward Russia in the west recently?

Good!
C项是正确的。作者说，until recently，认为俄国与西方势不两立的观点被认为是过时的冷战思维，罗姆尼说俄国是美国“最大的地缘政治对手”，被广泛批评he was living in the past.因此B项是不正确的。 A项是普京政府害怕在国内看到的。D项是普京政府的说法。

That bashing the Russian government is cool.
That people who criticise Russia are praised as worriors.
That critics of Russia were often cast as outdated.
That Putin is far more representative of the Russian people than some avant-garde musicians.

选择正确答案

What is the writer's anticipation in the end?

Good!
D是正确的。A项文中并未提到，只是提到他曾经的支持者中有人已经在批评他了。 B项是猜测，Kremlin···may seek to get the band released early. C项是some former Putin loyalists的观点。

That Putin will lose support of many of his loyalists.
That the girls will be released soon.
That Putin is going to hinder Russia's modernization.
That permanent damage to Putin's image cannot be retrieved.

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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。

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