【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 to speculate about the relationship between Mary and ，還為時(shí)過(guò)早。：)able to produce good ideas or results 富有成果的，富有想象力的 A poet must have a fertile 。2）able to produce good crops or plants 肥沃的，富饒的Fertile soil helps Canada rank among the world’s leading wheat 。：)very intelligent yet simple 巧妙的，簡(jiǎn)潔的the document impressed me with its elegant 。2）beautiful, attractive and graceful 優(yōu)美的，高雅的Patricia looked beautiful and elegant as 。： vt.(undertook, undertaken)agree to be responsible for a job or project and do it承擔(dān)，著手做 undertook the task of writing a prehensive English 。：(be ~ to do sth.)likely to do a particular way because of a fault or tendency 可能（易于）做某事Many parts of the country are liable to suffer from 。：n.[C] 1)a large quantity of can be used 積蓄；儲(chǔ)備Colleges are a reservoir of talents for 。2）an artificial or natural lake where water is stored so that it can be supplied to the houses in an area（人造的）水庫(kù)；（天然）蓄水湖If it rains heavily, the reservoir will ，水庫(kù)里的水就會(huì)溢出來(lái)。 the pany of: in sb’s pany。with 備課紙She caught sight of her grandson, in the pany of three other boys of similar age, going into the narrow alley which led to the ，進(jìn)入了那條通向鐵路的狹窄小巷。： good or impressive 杰出的；出眾的；顯著的 His performance in charitable activities was ，他的表現(xiàn)非常出色。Difficult sentences: data show that as students have increasingly shouldered the everrising cost of tuition, they have defected from the study of the humanities and toward applied science and “hard” skills that they bet will lead to employment.()Meaning: The facts and information show that as students have spent increasingly more money on tuition, they have turned away from studying the humanities to some practical courses that they believe will enable them to get a job more other words, a college education is more and more seen as a means for economic betterment rather than a means for human betterment.()Meaning: In other words, a college education is more considered as a method to improve students’ future economic status rather than improve human nature or beyond words: The quality of a college education is increasingly questionable because the trend among many colleges is to bee more like a business and less like an academic the dominant pillars of university life, the humanities now play little roles when students take their college days, labs are more vivid and pelling than libraries.()Meaning: The humanities that once dominated university life now play a trivial role when students have their college visits。nowadays, labs are more eyecatching and fascinating than beyond words: Libraries were once the only place where students spent much time reading materials, doing research and writing , as more students are taking science courses, labs where students do scientific experiments play a more important role for learning than traditional : A “college tour” is a series of campus visits to a number of colleges or備課紙universities by a prospective tours may be taken individually or by school groups and educational programs as a way for a large number of people to visit several schools over a short period of addition, many colleges now offer virtual tours on the , architects, authors, philosophers and artists have captured the words, images and meanings of this inner struggle in the form of story, music, myth, painting, architecture, sculpture, landscape and traditions.()Meaning: Our historians, architects, authors, philosophers and artists have successfully caught the words, images and meanings of this mysterious inner force by way of story, music, myth, painting, architecture, sculpture, landscape and importantly, studying the humanities invests us with great insight and selfawareness, thereby releasing our creative energy and talent in a positive and constructive manner.()Meaning: The most important advantage for us to study the humanities is that it enables us to bee more analytical and selfaware。therefore, our creativeness and talent are brought out in a positive and constructive people who studied the humanities make a long list ’s easy to see that the humanities can prepare us for many different careers and jobs we can undertake, whether medicine, business, science or entertainment.()Meaning: It is true that famous people who studied the humanities can make up a long , the humanities enable us to engage in many different careers and jobs, no matter whether they are medicine, business, science or : “Whether medicine, business, science or entertainment” is an elliptical can be understood as “Whether they are medicine, business, science or entertainment”.In an elliptical clause some words are left it’s within a context, it is usually clear what is a rule, elliptical sentences consist of two clauses, one containing the grammar elements the other has left example: 1)Jessica had five dollars while Monica(had)，而莫妮卡只有一美元。(The verb had is dropped from the second clause, but the meaning is still clear.)2)Leave quickly when(you are)。(In the sentence, you are is understood though omitted.) we study only mathematics, it’s likely we will be a candidate only for jobs as 8備課紙a mathematician.()Meaning: If we study only mathematics, very possibly we will be a person who only petes for jobs as a beyond words: We can be more petitive if we study the humanities, together with I were the Dean of Admissions at a medical school and two people applied to our school, both having the required basic scientific courses, one a philosophy major and the other solely a premed student, the philosophy applicant would be chosen.()Meaning: Suppose I am the Dean of Admissions at a medical school and I’m recruiting two of them took the required basic scientific courses, but one is a philosophy major and the other just would surely choose the one with the philosophy : In American culture, the “dean” is usually the head of a “division” or “college” within the larger unit of the : a.(AmE)relating to classes that prepare a student for medical school,