问答题 (66) Prosperous alumni helped make 2006 a recorded fund-raising year for colleges and universities, which hauled in $28 billion -- a 9.4 percent jump from 2005.
(67) There were increases across the board, but for usual it was the already wealthy who tared best. (68) Stanford"s $911 million was the most ever collected by a single university, and rose the possibility of a billion-dollar fund-raising year in the not-too-distant future.
(69) "There were a set of ideas and a set of initiatives that the university is undertaking that people wanted to invest," said Martin Shell, Stanford"s vice president for development. (70) "This is an unbelievably generous response from unbelievably philanthropic set of alumni, parents, and friends."
(71) Harvard ranked two in fund-raising last year with $595 million.
(72) National, donations from alumni rose 18.3 percent from 2005, according to figures released yesterday by the Council for Aid to Education. (73) Alumni donations account about 30 percent of giving to higher education. (74) Giving from other groups, such as corporations and foundations, increased by much small amounts.
(75) Survey director Ann Kaplan said the strong economics played a role, but universities also were asking more aggressively as part of formal fund-raising campaigns.
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【答案解析】recorded应改为record[解析] recorld意为“创纪录的”,可做定语。如:The project was completed in record time. (工程在从未有过的短时间内完成了。)
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【答案解析】for应改为as[解析] as usual意为“照常”。本句的意思是:整体都有增长,但是像往常一样,本来 就很富的人经营得最好。
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【答案解析】rose应改为raise[解析] rise意为“升起;起身;发源;起义;高耸;增长”,而此处是说筹集基金,因 此应改为“raise”,意为“筹集”。
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【答案解析】invest后应添加in[解析] invest in意为“投资于,买进”。后面that引导的定语从句是说人们想投资的领 域是大学正在从事的研究或创新性行为,“in”不能省略。
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【答案解析】在from unbelievablv之间应添加an[解析] set作为名词时意为“一班志趣相投者;一伙年龄相当的人”,是可数名词。 unbelievably是以元音开头的单词,所以应在“unbelievably”之前添加“an”。此处是说一群 极其博爱的校友、父母和朋友。
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【答案解析】two应改为secondrank意为“排列,归类于,把……分等级”,后面接数字时应用序数词。此处是 说哈佛位居第二名。所以应把“two”改为“second”。
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【答案解析】national应改为nationally[解析] national意为“国家的,国立(有)的,民族的”。而此处是说“从全国来看”, 应该用副词nationally做状语,意为“全国性”。
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【答案解析】account后应添加for[解析] account意为“说明,总计有”,短语account for意为“说明,占”。此处是说高 等教育的捐赠中校友捐赠占30%,因此应在“account”后添加“for”。
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【答案解析】把small改为smaller[解析] small意为“小的,少的”,而此处是说来自其他群体的捐款,比如公司和基金, 其增长数额小得多。所以应用“small”的比较级“smaller”。
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【答案解析】把economics改为economy[解析] economics意为“经济学”,而此处是说强劲的经济发挥着作用。所以应用economy “经济”。