美国左派（自由派，民主党）的观点是支持大政府，主张政府干预经济，而右派（保守派，共和党）的传统观点是支持小政府，主张政府不要干预经济。现在的特朗普总统作为一名共和党的总统，却和传统的方式不一样了。因为今天的文章来自华盛顿邮报。

今天的句子：

President Trump is increasingly intervening in the economy, making decisions about corporate winners and losers in ways that Republicans for decades have insisted should be left to free markets — not the government.

思考题：

The orthodox way of Republicans holds corporate boom and doom should be independent of political factors.

词汇突破：

1.Interven in：干预

2.Republicans 共和党人

3. orthodox way 传统方式

4. winners and losers= boom and doom 繁荣和衰败

5. insist 坚持认为

6. be independent of 不受…的影响

7.in ways that 就…而言 (that 指代前面的句子)

切分：

1.President Trump is increasingly intervening in the economy

  特朗普总统越来越多的干预经济

2. making decisions about corporate winners and losers

  决定哪家公司赢，哪家公司输

3. in ways 

4. Republicans for decades have insisted （that）should be left to free markets — not the government

 几十年来，共和党人都坚持认为这种事情应该交由自由市场来完成，而不是政府。

参考译文：

特朗普总统越来越多的干预经济，决定哪家公司赢，哪家公司输，但几十年来，共和党人都坚持认为这种事情应该交由自由市场来完成，而不是政府。

思考题：

The orthodox way of Republicans holds corporate boom and doom should be independent of political factors. 

所以思考题是正确的！

明天的句子：

The marshmallow test is one of the most famous pieces of social-science research: Put a marshmallow in front of a child, tell her that she can have a second one if she can go 15 minutes without eating the first one, and then leave the room. Whether she’s patient enough to double her payout is supposedly indicative of a willpower that will pay dividends down the line, at school and eventually at work. Passing the test is, to many, a promising signal of future success.

思考题：

The marshmallow test could tell the possible future of one’s success to some extent. 

明人不说暗话昨天的加餐就是真题！服气就好！砥砺前行，明天收作业！

第一组：

A句：Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could re-create the same threats to competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the U.S., when the Standard Oil Trust was broken up.

B句：the Standard Oil Trust might have threatened competition

第二组：

A句：Anyway, the townsfolk can’t understand why the Royal Shakespeare Company needs a subsidy. (The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. Last year its 1,431 seats were 94 percent occupied all year long and this year they’ll do better.)

B句：According to the townsfolk, the RSC deserves no subsidy because the theatre attendance is on the rise.