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一、考研英语一英国《卫报》2021年一月份《观点》栏目文章查询方法
英国《卫报》guardian 2020考研英语一共出了二篇阅读理解，一篇来自于《社论》editorial栏目，另外一篇《观点》opinion栏目；《卫报》是考研英语一主要来源之一；自2015年以来，每年至少一篇，今年也应该不出意外；它还有一个栏目the observer《观察家》也出现在英语一的阅读理解文章中，所以提前复习熟悉相关材料是重中之重，下面展示《卫报》2021年一月份《观点》栏目文章查询方法：
根据取材基本原则，可以按照时间顺序搜索，一般看文章标题即可，如果文章不符合考研英语一标准的《观点》文章，直接跳过继续查询，像意识形态，政治观点，种族问题，宗教信仰这一类主题，不在英语一命题范围之内。
把上述内容过滤后，月末有主要《观点》文章总结，也可以在这里查询相关复习内容。经过筛选，就可以获得2021年一月份文章符合考研英语一标准的《观点》文章。
二、考研英语一英国《卫报》2021年一月份《观点》栏目文章汇总
政治经济类和科学技术类；人文教育类，文化交流类；历史传统；此外，热点公共话题也是命题内容，比如去年考的数字税。
《观点》栏目经济类文章比较多，并不需要面面俱到，重复主题只需要选择一篇即可，主要原则是找到符合考研英语一标准文章，就可以分析研究内容信息了，下面就是介绍文化一篇：
《观点》栏目family主题，属于考研英语一命题范围之公共话题。
Two years ago, I interviewed an American time-management expert named Julie Morgenstern. I embarked on it in a playful and unserious spirit, thinking I would most likely waste time discussing time with a time expert, only to ignore her advice and get back to wasting more time. Instead, she absolutely blew my mind.
A couple of things she said were so self-evident, yet so rarely acknowledged, that I still regularly preach them even now, a mini-evangelist army of one. For instance: “How much time and attention do kids need to feel loved and secure? The answer is this: short bursts of five to 15 minutes of truly undivided attention delivered consistently – not big blocks of time delivered erratically.”
This completely changed my parenting. Overnight, I stopped hovering about, dispensing non sequiturs while checking my phone, and gave them the full beam of my gaze in much shorter units. I would say this has made me a lot less annoying, although, inevitably, it has increased the proportion of our interactions that are spent on them telling me how annoying I am.
There is so much more: Morgenstern is not so much a time management expert as a philosopher of the race against mortality, although, arguably, that is what all philosophers are. Let’s just call her the Hegel of the to-do list.
Anyway, she recently said she had some tips on time management in a pandemic, and this is content I am totally here for, as the young people say. Our Zoom was set for 7pm our time, 2pm hers, and Mr Z was trying to give me a glass of wine. I said I didn’t think I could – that might be interpreted as me drinking through a meeting, of which American time-managers would take a dim view.
“Americans don’t care if you drink as long as you give them a varietal,” he insisted. It was 6.57pm and I didn’t really have time to find out what he was on about, yet I did want to know what he was on about.
“What are you on about? And make it fast.” “Well, you can’t say, ‘I’m drinking wine.’ But if you said, ‘My husband’s just poured me a glass of merlot,’ that would be fine.” I don’t know why he’s right, but he is.
“Do we have any merlot?”
“We have a fleurie.”
OK, I am about to change your life: that 15 minutes of attention for your children? It works on everything, according to Morgenstern. Stop waiting until you have 90 minutes to exercise, or a whole evening to pretend you are at a restaurant, or an afternoon to lose yourself in big thoughts – those things won’t happen.
In order to remain passably normal, you need sleep, rest, exercise, love and fun. Sleep, you should continue to plan for in large units of time.
It’s just a lockdown after all – you are not sailing the Atlantic. Everything else, throw 10 or 20 minutes at it. You can always find 10 minutes. I just lost seven minutes staring out of the window (which I am filing under “fun”; I wouldn’t really call it “rest”).
I was chewing over whether this would work – it definitely would for exercise. It is quite a well-established behavioural observation that if you promise yourself it’ll be short, you’re much more likely to do it. But would it work for hobbies? I don’t really have any, so there’s that.
I don’t think 10 minutes is enough to lose myself in a big thought. I tried to remember the last time I had a big thought, and started laughing. Is this the right time to mention the fleurie? It’s so easy to mishear, and then it just sounds random. If only it was merlot.
“If you have kids that are five or under, the only way to work and manage that is somebody else has got to manage it,” Morgenstern continued. It doesn’t make things any easier, since there isn’t a somebody else. But at least it sloughs off the great lie that you can home school and also work, and that BBC Bitesize or Oak Academy are going to help you with that.
The reality is that everybody with children of primary school age or under who has any flexibility in their job is trying to do all their work between 8pm and 1am, leaving them barely enough time to fight with their partner, let alone drink fleurie wishing it was merlot – which is good, in a way, since they have a large number of home school incidents to fight about.
For older children, get a whiteboard, stick it somewhere communal, put everybody’s timetable on it: it is incredibly good for avoiding minor mishaps and understanding one another’s rhythms and it gives you “grist to make you closer”, which is Morgenstern’s elegant way of saying “something to talk about”.
It’s not really about time management, I realised afterwards. It’s about averting conflict. When you can’t see anybody else, getting on with the people you live with is your only genuinely urgent task. I went in looking for a to-do list, and I came out with just one job. And a glass of fleurie that was still full.
三、文章要点
文章讨论了时间管理，尤其是对家庭事务，公共话题考研英语一命题范围之公共话题。内容比较琐碎，文字“坑”比较多，需要抓住论点；为了考研英语一语言能力，要把句子主要语义，句法结构，词汇特点分析透彻；本文对解读、分析、运用英语语言能力要求比较高，需要使用笔记本不断总结，反复提炼；这样，遇到类似考试内容才会从容应对。
文章论点：short bursts of five to 15 minutes of truly undivided attention delivered consistently – not big blocks of time delivered erratically.
关键词：blew my mind， dispensing non sequiturs，take a dim view，give them a varietal， sloughs off the great lie .
尽量根据语境确定语义，英语词汇基本上都是多义，英汉字典字典释义语义有误导作用，多看英文列句，使用英语解释英语是提升语言能力的必由之路。
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