精读是一种提高英语阅读能力行之有效的方法，但是很多考生不知道精读是读什么、怎么读。编辑老师为大家准备的考研英语阅读能力如何提高对精读做了具体的讲解，请大家认真阅读。

考研英语阅读能力如何提高？

①Most people would define optimism as being endlessly happy, with a glass that’s perpetually half full. ②But that’s exactly the kind of false cheerfulness that positive psychologists wouldn’t recommend. ③“Healthy optimism means being in touch with reality,” says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor. ④According to Ben-Shahar, realistic optimists are those who make the best of things that happen, but not those who believe everything happens for the best.

精读的内容：以句子为单位，把句式、句中表达和每个词或词组都要弄得清清楚楚、明明白白，最好把相关词或词组的用法也都弄清楚。

精读的方法：以具体句子为例，为大家进行讲解。

第① 句：先看句子整体结构，句子整体由define…as…(把…定义为…)这个表达支撑起来, with引导的是一个补充修饰成分，修饰“being endlessly happy”, 表示“怀着、带着……”。词汇：“optimism(about/for)”n. 乐观主义，词根optim(最好)+ism ---

反义：pessimism (about/over) 悲观主义

相关单词：同根词 optimize vt. 使完善、使最优化、充分利用

optimist (n.乐观的人、乐天派)---反义：pessimist 悲观的人

optimistic (adj. ~about/that...)乐观的---反义：pessimistic 悲观的

optimistically adv.乐观地----反义：pessimistically 悲观地

“perpetually”永久地、接连不断地，是“perpetual (长久的、终身的、没完没了的)的副词形式。