动车晚点提前发题，一道有情怀的真题

武汉到南昌，动车晚点，说是途中大雨造成通讯故障，希望一切都好吧。

给大家找一道早年的真题，很有情怀，很多表达可以用在写作当中！

今天的题目：

Education in any society is a mirror of that society. In that mirror we can see the strengths, the weaknesses, the hopes, the prejudices, and the central values of the culture itself. The great interest in exceptional children shown in public education over the past three decades indicates the strong feeling in our society that all citizens, whatever their special conditions, deserve the opportunity to fully develop their capabilities.

The reason that the exceptional children receive so much concern in education is that ________.

[A] they are expected to be leaders of the society

[B] they might become a burden of the society

[C] they should fully develop their potential

[D] disabled children deserve special consideration

昨天句子的解析：

People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

词汇突破：1.immutable 不可改变的，永恒不变的

2. principles of the art of composition 艺术创作的规律

3. individual temperaments 个性

4. species 种类

主干识别：People generally will soon understand that

          一般而言，人们将很快明白，

其他成分+独立成句

1）writers should be judged not according to rules and species, which are 

contrary to nature and art

             评价作家不应该依据规则和种类，（这些与自然和艺术背道而驰）

          2）（writers should be judged） according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.             而应该依据艺术创作永恒的原理和个性的特殊规律。

参考译文：一般而言，人们将很快明白，评价作家不应该依据规则和种类，（这些与自然和艺术背道而驰），而应该依据艺术创作永恒的原理和个性的特殊规律。

翻译点拨：被动变为主动！

那晚的文章最后三段非常精彩送给大家阅读：

对就是这晚：你总得去面对吧！

Perhaps the main reason these frivolous（微不足道） products and services frustrate me is because of their creators’ insistence（坚持认为） that changing lives for the better is their reason for being（存在的原因）. To wit, the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, who has invested in companies like Airbnb and Twitter but also in services such as LikeALittle (which started out as a flirting tool among college students) and Soylent (a sort of SlimFast concoction for tech geeks), tweeted（发微博） last week: “The perpetually missing headline（这个人在抱怨没人报道他们的成就）: ‘Capitalism worked okay again today and most people in the world got a little better off.’ ”

To wit :也就是说，即；

例句：Pilot error, to wit failure to follow procedures, was the cause of the accident.

      飞行员的失误，也就是没有遵守操作程序，是事故的原因。

参考译文：或许这些微不足道的产品与服务令我烦恼的主要原因，是因为它们的创造者坚持认为，它们的存在就是为了让生活变得更好。马克·安德烈森(Marc Andreessen)上星期在Twitter上的言论也（to wit）表达了这个意思：“你永远看不到的新闻：‘今天资本主义再次运行良好，世界上的大多数人生活得到改善’。”这位风险投资资本家曾经给Arirbnb和Twitter等公司投资，但也给LikeALittle（一开始是个大学生互撩的工具）和Soylent（面向技术极客们的SlimFast类减肥食谱工具）等服务投资。

（作者就是看不惯这帮自以为是的投资人和所谓创新者的tree new bee）

Meanwhile, in San Francisco, where such companies are based, sea level rise is ominous(不吉利的), the income gap between rich and poor has been growing faster than in any other city in the nation, a higher percentage of people send their kids to private school than in almost any other city, and a minimum salary of $254,000 is required to afford an average-priced home. Who exactly is better off?

参考译文：与此同时，在旧金山，很多这类公司的所在地，海平面以危险的势头上升，贫富之间的收入鸿沟增长得比这个国家的任何城市更快，送孩子去私立学校的人比例比任何城市都更高。需要至少25.4万的年薪才能住得起普通价格水平的房子。到底谁过得更好了？

（既然你们这些人说你们发明让世界变好了，那你们这些公司周边地区怎么样呢？房价死贵，工资不高。人们生活好了吗？）

Ms. Helfand calls for a deeper embrace of personal vigilance（警惕）: “Design may provide the map,” she writes, “but the moral compass that guides our personal choices resides permanently within us all.”

参考译文：赫尔方呼吁更多的个人警觉：“设计或许能够提供地图，”她写道，“但是能够指引个人选择的道德罗盘却永远存在于我们每个人的内心。”

Can we reset that moral compass?

我们能重新校准我们的道德罗盘吗？

（发出呼吁！）