近几年考研英语阅读文章选材多集中在《经济学人》《卫报》等外刊，为帮助考生熟悉选题来源篇章，王译博、张琳琳主编的《考研英语选材题库阅读(英语1英语2适用2019)》甄选了近期《经济学人》《卫报》等外刊的时文，并配以全文翻译。所选文章特点突出、时效性强且与考研英语真题难度相当、体裁相近，能够帮助考生轻松驾驭考研阅读。

Unit 1 Economics and Management
Passage 1 Intellectual property：blockchain of command知识产权：控制区块链
Passage 2 Minimum wage?It’s time to talk about a maximum wage最低工资?现在也该
讨论一下最高工资了
Passage 3 Corporate ambitions：Amazon’s empire企业雄心：亚马逊帝国
Passage 4 Logistics firms：boxed in物流公司：陷入困境
Passage 5 Depopulation in Germany：fading echoes德国人口衰减：回声渐弱
Passage 6 Regulating the data economy：the world’s most valuable resource监管数据经
济：世界上最宝贵的资源
Passage 7 Student loans：grading education助学贷款：给教育评级
Passage 8 Social mobility：no room at the top社会流动：高层职位遥不可及
Passage 9 The RBS sell．off：a bad deal all round抛售苏格兰皇家银行：完全是亏本的生意
Passage 10 Trump wants more tax cuts，and I agree．Sort of．特朗普想要更多的减税，我同意。算是吧
Passage 11 Digital disruption on the farm数码科技对农场的干扰
Passage 12 Shock therapy休克疗法
Passage 13 City properties should be homes for people first—not investments城市地产应
首要满足人的住房需求，而不是首要用来投资
Passage 14 The glass precipice玻璃悬崖
Passage 15 Mike Ashley has pocketed millions from treating people like battery hens
迈克·阿什利把人当成机械化饲养的鸡而将数百万收入囊中
Passage 16 Oxbridge owns a huge amount of land．But that’s the tip of the iceberg牛津
剑桥大学拥有大量的土地，但这只是冰山一角
Unit 2 Science and Technology
Passage 1 Tech firms can’t keep our data forever：we need a Digital Expiry Date科技
公司不可以永久存留我们的数据：我们需要一个“数据存留终止期”
Passage 2 Subatomic opportunities：Quantum leaps亚原子的机会：量子跃迁
Passage 3 Schumpeter：a trip to the shrink熊彼特：消泡之旅
Passage 4 The internet of things has opened up a new frontier of domestic abuse物联网
开辟了家暴的新领域
Passage 5 Regenerative medicine：a tissue of truths再生医学：器官真相
Passage 6 Health care：the wonder drug医疗保健：灵丹妙药
Passage 7 Brains and computers：we can remember it for you wholesale人脑与计算机：
我们能为你大规模保存记忆
Passage 8 Renewable energy：clean energy’s dirty secret可再生能源：清洁能源的
肮脏秘密
Passage 9 Rare diseases：fixing fate罕见疾病：修补宿命
Passage 10 The marine world：deep trouble海洋世界：深陷危机
Passage 11 The Arctic：polar bare北极：裸露的北极
Passage 12 The pharma industry：hard to swallow制药业：难以下咽
Passage 13 Hot to trot急不可待
Passage 14 You are what you eat人如其食
Passage 15 The 3％solution 3％的解决方案
Passage 16 Gained in translation翻译何所得
Passage 17 Deadlier than the male比“男飓风”更致命
Passage 18 Cutting down on cutting down减少砍伐
Passage 19 Fitness：five steps to motivate yourself健身：自我激励的五种方法
Unit 3 Politics
Passage 1 Gender budgeting：making women count性别预算：重视女性
Passage 2 No wonder people on benefits live in fear．Supermarkets spy on them now难怪如今领取社会福利补助的人觉得自己整天生活在恐惧之中，因为现在
就连超市也在监视他们的一举一动
Passage 3 The Thatcher papers：too important to be saved by a tax break撒切尔文件：非常重要，值得用减税优惠来获得
Passage 4 The Palace of Westminster：rebuilding from the rubble威斯敏斯特宫：在废墟中重建
Passage 5 Party deputy leaders：a job about nothing政党副职领导人：形同虚设
Passage 6 The Anderson review：good，but only as far as it goes安德森报告：目前来看还不错
Passage 7 Universal credit：needs more work通用福利问题：还有很多工作要做
Passage 8 “Let’s drugtest the rich before approving tax deductions．”U．S．congresswoman
says美国女国会议员说：“在批准富人课税减免前，先要对他们进行毒品
检测。”
Passage 9 Without Scalia，there’s no predicting supreme court decisions
没有斯卡利亚，就没有可预测的最高法院裁决
Passage 10 FATCA’s flaws《海外账户纳税法案》的缺陷
Passage 11 BuzzFeed cancelling RNC ads masks the issue：sponsored content for polit