英语四六级考试题目的来源主要来自纽约时报，经济学家，泰晤士报等全球主流媒体报刊的文章，出题范围涵盖历史哲学，科技，娱乐等多方面。
大学英语四、六级标准化考试自1986年末开始筹备，1987年正式实施。CET-4每年举行两次，报名时间为每年6月份、12月份（每年时间略有不同）。
其分数达到425分及以上即可报考CET-6，所以大家普遍认为CET-4的合格线为425分。
英语四六级考试题目的来源主要来自纽约时报，经济学家，泰晤士报等全球主流媒体报刊的文章，其出题范围涵盖历史哲学，科技，娱乐等多方面。
The New York Times《纽约时报》，The Atlantic《大西洋月刊》，TIME《时代》，The Economist《经济学人》。
Washington Post《华盛顿邮报》，The Wall Street Journal《华尔街日报》，Smithsonianmag美国《史密森尼》杂志等等。
大西洋月刊（The Atlantic）：主攻领域为政治、文学、教育、科学与艺术。
很多著名作家会在该杂志上发表自己对于政治、教育等领域重大事件的评论，在四六级和考研中一般不会涉及政治领域的文章，但教育类的出现率极高。
美国国家公共电台（NPR）：美国收视率最高的电台之一，电台节目内容主要是新闻及综述，很多知识分子、政界和商界人士都会选择收听该广播电台，以利用碎片时间了解日常新闻。
仔细阅读部分要求考生阅读三篇短文。两篇为多项选择题型的短文理解测试，每篇长度为300—350词。一篇为选词填空或简答题。选词填空篇章长度为200—250词，简答题篇章长度为300—350词。
根据数据统计，80%的考研英语阅读来源于《经济学人》、《卫报》、《自然杂志》、《新闻周刊》、《科学美国人》等。偶尔也会在一些书籍中寻找合适的文字做考试素材，但不多见，尤其是这几年已经很难见到。
其中社会科学是考研英语阅读的主要和重点选材，自然科学一直保持在 1 篇文章左右的分量，人文科学的重要性则有上升的趋势。
扩展资料：
考研英语阅读文章内容分析
从体裁上看，大纲要求考生能够顺利读懂四类文章，分别为议论文、说明文、记叙文和应用文。不过，考研阅读理解的文章大多为说明文或者议论文。针对这两类文章，应该有不同的阅读重点和策略。
另外在绝大多数情况下，历年真题的文章来源一般控制在过去的5年之内，即倘若2007年参加考研的话，2007年的文章一般来自于2001年到2006年之间的报刊杂志上。
但近五年的真题来源有所改变，一般选自过去两年内的杂志，甚至一年内的居多，可见文章的时效性越来越明显，所以阅读的范围也就小了很多。
英语阅读真题文章一般字数上控制在450字到550字之间，段落上一般控制在3到6个段落。所以可以把精力主要集中在符合前面字数、段落以及年份的文章来进行复习和阅读，如此一来就把复习的范围大为减少了。
高中英语试卷通常有四篇阅读理解，阅读量是比较大的，那么它们出自哪里呢？跟着我一起来看看吧！
总之，英语阅读理解的文章来源是无穷多的，在考前读到原文的概率非常低。但学生通过提高阅读能力、了解出题规律、训练答题技巧和积累词汇量等，基本都可以取得满意的成绩。
一、2009年考研英语文章出处 摘选自《2011年考研英语大逆转》
1.完形填空 纽约时报（The New York Times） The Cost of Smarts
2.阅读第一篇 纽约时报（The New York Times） Can You Become a Creature of New Habits？
3.阅读第二篇 科学美国人（Scientific American） Who’’s Your Daddy？ The Answer May Be at the Drugstore
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4.阅读第三篇 麦肯锡季刊（The Mckinsey Quarterly） Educating global workers
5..新题型
encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761561730_6/Culture.html
二、2010年考研英语阅读及翻译题的来源
2010年知识运用试题来源：
考研英语完型填空部分，使用了2009年6月6日 Economist 《经济学人》杂志上的一篇文章，文章主要内容，是对社会学上一个经典的理论：霍桑效应的批判和反思。文章难度适中。命题专家在出题的时候也进行了一定程度的改写。
questioning the Hawthorne effect 或Light work; Questioning the Hawthorne effect，June 6, 2009
2010年考研英语阅读真题出处：
第二篇阅读文章
第三篇阅读文章：
Harvard_Business_Review200702，标题是：The Accidental Influentials
第四篇阅读文章
Accounting rules are under attack. Standard-setters should defend them. Politicians and banks should back off. Economist Staff - The Economist《经济学人》杂志，April 10, 2009
新题型试题的来源：
，A Wholesale Shift in European Groceries
2010年翻译真题出处：
原文选自李奥帕德的《沙郡岁月：李奥帕德的自然沉思》，本书是环保生态的经典著作，中译本由吴美真翻译，中国社会科学出版社出版。
给2011年参加考研的学生的几点建议：
1．打好基础，从文章的改写情况和考试命题趋势来看，考研对于大纲词汇要求还是很严格的，所以在准备考试之初就要背好单词，突破单词关。
2．选择较新的辅导材料和语言素材，从最近几年的考试来看，考研阅读理解部分的文章和 考题的风格紧扣时代的节奏，主题很鲜明突出。因此选择合适的考研阅读素材来加强阅读显得非常重要。
三、2010年1月MBA翻译题的来源：摘选自《决胜MBA英语高级篇》
原文是来自一份杂志，叫“experience life”，出题人做了部分改动，原文和改动的文章如下：
Sustainability has become something of a buzzword（出题人把这个单词改为popular word） these days, but to Ted Ning, the concept will always have personal meaning. Having endured a painful period of unsustainability in his own life made it clear to him that sustainability-oriented values must be expressed through everyday action and choice.
Ning, director of LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability), the Boulder, Colo.–based information clearinghouse on sustainable living, recalls spending a tumultuous（出题人把这个词改为了confusing） year in the late ’90s selling insurance. He’d been through the dot-com boom and bust（出题人似乎把这个词改为burst了） and, desperate for a job, signed on with a Boulder agency.
It didn’t go well. “It was a really bad move because that’s not my passion,” says Ning, whose ambivalence about the job translated, predictably, into a lack of sales. “I was miserable. I had so much anxiety that I would pull alongside of the highway and vomit, or wake up in the middle of the night and stare at the ceiling. I had no money and needed the job. Everyone said, ‘Just wait, you’ll turn the corner, give it some time.’”
Ning stuck it out for a year because he simply didn’t know what else to do, but felt his happiness and health suffer as a result. He eventually quit and stumbled upon LOHAS in a help-wanted ad for a data analyst. “I didn’t know what LOHAS was,” he says, “but it sounded kinda neat.” It turned out to be a better fit than he could have ever imagined.
At the time, the LOHAS organization did little more than host a small annual conference in Boulder. It was a forum where progressive-minded companies could gather to compare notes on how to reach a values-driven segment of consumers — the LOHAS market — who seemed attracted to products and services that mirrored their interest in health, environmental stewardship, social justice, personal development and sustainable living.
In contrast with his disastrous foray into the insurance business, Ning’s new job felt like coming home. Growing up in the foothills of the Rockies outside of Denver, he’d developed a love of the outdoors and a respect for the earth, while his parents provided a model of social activism — the family traveled widely, and at one point his parents created and operated a nonprofit that offered microcredit loans to small businesses in Vietnam and Guatemala. He has three adopted sisters from Vietnam and Korea. He studied international relations and Chinese at Colorado University and slipped easily into the Boulder lifestyle — commuting by bike, eating organics, buying local and the rest — though he stopped short of the patchouli-and-dreadlocks phase embraced by many of his peers. (He opted instead for the university’s ski team and, after graduating, wound up coaching the Japanese development team during the Nagano Olympics in 1998.)
From his ground-level job, Ning moved quickly up the ranks in the organization, becoming its executive director in 2006. “When I got the job, LOHAS was a sleepy conference in Boulder,” says Ning. Today, the forum is booming, the organization is expanding and the market is evolving. Ning has more than grown into the position he stumbled on in the want ads. “I don’t consider this a job. It is really more of a calling.”
Ning, 41, coordinates the conference and oversees the organization’s annual journal and Web site (www.lohas.com), while compiling research on trends and opportunities for businesses. He also travels the country promoting — and explaining — the LOHAS concept and the burgeoning market it represents.
First identified by sociologist Paul Ray in the mid-1990s as “cultural creatives,” the U.S. market segment that embraces LOHAS today has grown to about 41 million consumers, or roughly 19 percent of American adults. But those LOHAS consumers are powerfully influencing the attitudes and behaviors of others (witness the rise of interest in yoga, all-natural products, simplicity and hybrid vehicles). Which is why LOHAS-related products now generate an estimated $209 billion annually.
“Over the last two years a green tidal wave has come over us,” says Ning. Riding that wave, says Ning, is not about jumping on a trend bandwagon. It’s connecting with — and acting on — a set of shared, instrinsic values. “People know what is authentic. You can’t preach this lifestyle and not live it,” he says. He and his wife, Jenifer, live in a solar-powered home, raise organic vegetables in their backyard and drive a car that gets 48 miles to the gallon. He even buys carbon offsets to negate the global warming impact of his cell phone.
Ning emphasizes that there are many different ways of “living LOHAS.” Ultimately, it’s really about finding a way of life that makes sense and feels good — now and for the long haul. “People are looking internally,” he says, “asking themselves, ‘What really makes me happy?’ Is it the fact that I can go out and buy that giant flat-screen TV, or is it that I can have a quiet evening with my family just hanging out and playing a game of Scrabble?”
For Ning, it’s a no-brainer. He’ll take Scrabble every time.
