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　　长难句阅读，这是英语(二)2015 Text 2里面的一句话，这句话能理清楚的同学，语法应该就基本没有问题了。

　　句子原文：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.

　　This has created “a paradox” in that ①recruiting first-generation students, but then②watching many of them fail, means that higher education has “continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close” an achievement gap based on socialclass, according to the depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science.这产生了一种矛盾：因为招收更多的代大学生，而眼睁睁看着他们失败;《心理学》杂志上一篇即将发表且开头并不乐观的文章指出，这意味着高等教育“持续产生并扩大，而非缩小基于社会阶层的成就差距。”

　　句子主干：This has created “a paradox”

　　paradox n. 矛盾

　　in that引导原因状语从句：①recruiting first-generation students, but then ②watching many of them fail, means that higher education has “continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close” an achievement gap based on socialclass, according to the depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science.

　　①②部分是两个分词短语做主语，是由but来连接的，从句的谓语动词是means，这里用来单数第三人称，有人就说了，不是两个主语嘛，应该用复数，但是因为，①②部分说的是一件事情(即：把这些学生招进来，但是，又看着他们大多数人都失败，这就是矛盾的了，这里的失败就是上面说的成绩不好，或者中途退学之类的)，所以，谓语用单数。

　　that后面是宾语从句：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.

　　based部分是分词后置定语修饰gap，social class：社会阶层

　　这里的an achievement gap指的就是句说的成就差距(这里更多的是指经济上的差距)

　　reproduce vt. 产生

　　wide adj. 宽的。—— widen vt. 加宽;变宽

　　close vt. 接近;缩小

　　according to部分是介词短语做状语

　　depressing adj. 压抑的;沮丧的

　　forthcoming adj. 即将到来的;即将出版的(这里是说一篇文章，所以是表的意思，而且这里的形容词用在了名词的后面)

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