考研英语（二）历年真题阅读要点之2015-Text 2（一）
针对考研英语阅读，其重要性对于考研英语乃至整个考研是不言而喻的。因此，各位同学一定要予以重视。为了帮助大家更好地复习，文都教育考研英语老师为各位同学梳理一下历年真题阅读文章中涉及的要点，包括词汇、短语、长难句以及简单的阅读方法。接下来看一下2015年Text 2，这篇文章主要探讨了“第一代大学生”面临的问题及其解决措施。For years, studies have found that first-generation college students--those who do not have a parent with a college degree--lag other students on a range of education achievement factors. Their grades are lower and their dropout rates are higher. But since such students are most likely to advance economically if they succeed in higher education, colleges and universities have pushed for decades to recruit more of them. This has created “a paradox” in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has “continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close” an achievement gap based on social class, according to the depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science.
first-generation“第一代的”；college students“大学生”；lag“落后于”；a range of“一系列”；education achievement“教育成就”；grade“成绩”；dropout rates“中途退学率”；be most likely to do“最可能做某事”；advance“进步”；succeed“成功”，反义词fail“失败”，名词形式success，反义词failure；push“推进，推动”；recruit“录取”，也可以表示“招聘”；paradox“悖论”；in that“原因在于”；recruiting first-generation students充当主语，谓语动词是means，其中but then watching many of them fail为插入语；continue to do“继续做某事”；reproduce“复制”；rather than“而不是”；achievement gap“成绩差距”；social class“社会阶级”；depressing“压抑的，使人沮丧的”；paper“论文”；forthcoming“即将来临的”；journal“学术期刊”。
But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach (which involves a one-hour, next-to-no-cost program) can close 63 percent of the achievement gap (measured by such factors as grades) between first-generation and other students.
article“文章”；optimistic“乐观的”；as“因为”，引导原因状语从句；outline“概述”；potential“潜在的，可能的”；a potential solution to this problem“这一问题潜在的解决途径”；approach也表示“途径”；next-to-no-cost“成本微乎其微”。
以上就是文都教育考研英语老师为大家梳理的2015年Text 2前两段的要点。时钟滴答滴答从不停歇，考研迫在眉睫。一直在努力的各位同学一定要坚持到底哦，坚持就是胜利！之前不够努力的同学也不要气馁。“临阵磨枪，不快也光。”现在行动起来，简单高效，认真复习，也是有机会的。
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