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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：了解英国从读间谍小说开始 GRE考试模拟：GRE阅读练习：了解英国从读间谍小说开始 GRE考试精品课程训练  To understand Britain, read its spy novels.  要想了解英国，就读读她的间谍小说吧。  Few countries have dominated any industry as Britain has dominated the industry of producing fictional spies.  没有哪个国家像英国霸占了生产虚构间谍产业那样霸占一个产业。  Britain invented the spy novel with Rudyard Kiplings dissection of the Great Game in “Kim” and John Buchans adventure stories.  英国以鲁德亚德·吉卜林在《吉姆》中对大国游戏 (Great Game)的剖析和约翰·巴肯的冒险故事开创了间谍小说。  It consolidated its lead with Somerset Maughams Ashenden stories and Graham Greenes invention of “Greeneland”.  它以萨默塞特·毛姆的阿兴登的故事和格雷厄姆·格林创造的“格林世界”巩固了它的第 一的位置。  It then produced the worlds two most famous spooks: James Bond, the dashing womaniser, and George Smiley, the cerebral cuckold, who reappears this week in a new book.  之后，她生产出了世界上最有名的两位间谍：生猛干练的花花公子詹姆斯·邦德以及在本周的一本新书中再度现身的遭遇妻子不忠的理性之人乔治·史迈利。  What accounts for this success?  什么带来了这种成功的呢?  One reason is the revolving door between the secret establishment and the literary establishment.  一个原因是情报界与文学界之间的旋转门。  Some of the lions of British literature worked as spies.  英国的一些文坛大家曾经干过间谍。  Maugham was sent to Switzerland to spy for Britain under cover of pursuing his career as a writer.  毛姆曾被派到瑞士，以寻求作家人生为名，为英国刺探情报。  Greene worked for the intelligence services.  格林曾为情报部门工作。  Both Ian Fleming, the creator of Bond, and John le Carré, the creator of Smiley, earned their living as spies.  邦德的创造者伊恩·佛莱明和斯迈利的创造者约翰勒卡雷曾以间谍谋生。  Dame Stella Rimington, head of MI5 in 1992-96, has taken to writing spy novels in retirement.  1992-1996年间的军情五处局长——斯蒂拉·利明顿女爵士退休后开始创作间谍小说。  It is as if the secret services are not so much arms of the state as creative-writing schools.  这就好像，作为国家机构，情报部门不如写作学校一样。  Another reason is that British reality has often been stranger than fiction.  另一个原因是英国现实经常比小说还离奇。  The story of the “Cambridge spi