2021考研英语：语法长难句的表达解析(58)

“OUR primary goal is for our users to see us as a gym, where they can work out and keep mentally fit,” says Michael Scanlon, the co-founder and chief scientist of Lumos Labs. For $14.95 a month, subscribers to the firm’s Lumosity website get to play a se lection of online games designed to improve their cognitive performance. There are around 40 exercises available, including “speed match”, in which players click if an image matches a previous one “memory matrix”, which requires remembering which squares o n a matrix were shaded and “raindrops”, which involves solving arithmetic problems before the raindrops containing them hit the ground. The puzzles are varied, according to how well users perform, to ensure they are given a suitably challenging brain-training session each day.

1. Which of the following tasks is presented by the website according to the first paragraph?

[A] To remember some shaded matrix in asquare.

[B] To click the previous matches in “speedmatch”

[C] To prevent mental deterioration with some activities.

[D] To hit raindrops containing arithmetic problems.

题目答案是：

[C]To prevent mental deterioration with some activities.

模糊替换!

人们对于教育意义的探讨，都加重了教育话题的重要性。

今天的句子需要背诵：

It is pathetic to see that education is being valued more by

benefits the individual can profit from society than by the

extent to which the individuals can come into possesion of his or her powers.

切分：

It is pathetic /to see that /education is being valued more by benefits /the individual can profit from society/ than by the extent/ to which the individuals can come into possesion of his or her powers.

参考译文：

我们可以看到：to see that，教育更多是由(more by) 一个人从这个社会中的收益来评价的，而不是(than by)由一个人能多大程度(the extent/ to which)地拥有其能力( come into possesion of his or her powers)来判断的。这是令人可悲的(It is pathetic)。

The astonishing distrust of the news media isn't rooted in inaccuracy or poor reportorial skills but in the daily clash of world views between reporters and their readers.

一、分析

本句是由not…but… 结构构成。注意这个结构引导的是两个方式状语。其重要词分别是inaccuracy和the daily clash。

本句的主干是The astonishing distrust of the news media isn't rooted。两个分词短语充当句子的状语。

二、词汇

be rooted in根源在于

[写作句型] the astonishing … of … is rooted in …

例如：The astonishing ignorance of environmental pollution is rooted in too much importance attached to the results of economic development. 对于环境污染令人震惊的忽视，根源于我们过度重视经济发展的结果。

crush压碎，碾碎 crash碰撞 clash 撞击声，冲突

world view世界观

三、译文

对新闻媒介这种令人震惊的不信任，其根源并非是报道失实或低下的报道技巧，而是记者与读者的世界观每天都发生着碰撞。

The public morals are declining and the revival of them requires sincere commitment to good deeds. No thinking man would refuse to admit