昨天的例子修改一下：
明天8点可能会下雨=明天可能会下雨
今天的句子:
British universities have serious problems. The recent strikes protesting against a sudden reduction in pension rights were unusually effective, and a symptom of wider discontent. Yet international comparisons invariably show our universities to be among the best in the world, and incomparably the best in the European Union.
第一句：
British universities have serious problems.
参考译文：英国大学存在严重的问题。
第二句：
The recent strikes protesting against a sudden reduction in pension rights were unusually effective, and a symptom of wider discontent.
词汇突破：
1.Strikes： 罢工
2. pension rights 养老金权益
3. symptom 症状，负面的例子，这里可以转译为动词：凸显，体现
4. unusually 非常
切分：
1.The recent strikes were unusually effective （主干并列部分一）
2.The recent strikes were a symptom of wider discontent.（主干并列部分二）
3. protesting against a sudden reduction in pension rights（定语）
最参考译文：最近抗议养老金权益突然缩水的罢工不同寻常地有效，并体现了更大的不满。（symptom转译为动词是不是很帅！）
第三句：
Yet international comparisons invariably show our universities to be among the best in the world, and incomparably the best in the European Union.
词汇突破：
1.comparison 比较
2. invariably：始终如一，一贯地
3. incomparably 无可比拟的；incomparably the best：无可比拟的第一
切分：
1.Yet international comparisons invariably show our universities to be among the best in the world,
2.and（ our universities to be ）incomparably the best in the European Union.
参考译文：但国际比较始终显示我们的大学跻身世界一流，且在欧盟更是无可比拟的第一。
这说明什么？文章后续写到:其他国家的大学也存在问题，且常常更糟糕。
接着文章再继续说：不管怎么说，我们的问题很严重。在物质层面，问题包括时而草率扩张导致的经济不稳定，短期合同、维持温饱的最低工资、事业架构的缺失和潮水般涌来的监管导致学术教职弱化等等问题。
思考题：
British universities cannot compete with their world’s rivals and even European ones.
英国大学无法与世界高校竞争，甚至不能和欧洲高校竞争。
所以这个说法是不对的！
明天的题目：（不用抄，做题就好，明天我告诉你们抄哪些！）
第一题：
That the plates are moving is now beyond dispute. Africa and South America, for example, are moving away from each other as new material is injected into the sea floor between them. The complementary coastlines and certain geological features that seem to span the ocean are reminders of where the two continents were once joined.
1.That Africa and South America were once joined can be deduced from the fact that ________.
[A] the two continents are still moving in opposite directions
[B] they have been found to share certain geological features
[C] the African plate has been stable for 30 million years
[D] over 100 hot spots are scattered all around the globe
第二题：
Paid and owned media are controlled by marketers promoting their own products. For earned media, such marketers act as the initiator for users’ responses. But in some cases, one marketer’s owned media become another marketer’s paid media—for instance, when an e-commerce retailer sells ad space on its Web site. We define such sold media as owned media whose traffic is so strong that other organizations place their content or e-commerce engines within that environment.
2.According to Passage, sold media feature .
[A]a safe business environment
[B]random competition
[C]strong user traffic
[D]flexibility in organization
第三题：
Rested in the Pacific Ocean, Mauna Kea’s peak rises above the bulk of our planet’s dense atmosphere, where conditions allow telescopes to obtain images of unsurpassed clarity.
3.Mauna Kea is deemed as an ideal astronomical site due to .
[A] its geographical features
[B] its protective surroundings
[C] its religious implications
[D] its existing infrastructure