[背景了解]
文章取自于2003年1月的阅读真题,是篇关于MBA的文章
[文章部分]
The MBA, a 20th-century product, always has borne the mark of lowly commerce and greed (贪婪) on the tree-lined campuses ruled by purer disciplines such as philosophy and literature.
But even with the recession apparently cutting into the hiring of business school graduates, about 79,000 people are expected to receive MBAs in 1993. This is nearly 16 times the number of business graduates in 1960, a testimony to the widespread assumption that the MBA is vital for young men and women who want to run companies some day.
[单词学习]
commerce n.商业,(尤指国际间的)贸易
discipline v.训练,训导,管教(某人,某物);处罚,处分(某人)
recession n.经济衰退;不景气;后退,撤回
apparently adj.看来,似乎
vital adj.极其重要的,必不可少的
[课后作业]
请翻译下列4个句子
1.We must promote commerce with neighbouring countries.
2.Parents have to discipline their children.
3.He had apparently escaped by bribing a guard.
4.The police perform a vital role in our society.
今天的选段中,第一段比较难理解,大家怎么看呢?我们来畅所欲言吧!