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venkatmba - 2008-7-31 20:44:00

难句突破 　　But to look at the data on global warming, biological diversity, marine depletion and deforestation and still things are generally getting better takes a willful blindness. 　　主体句式：to look at the data… takes a willful blindness。　　结构分析：该句主语较长，且主语中含有并列和从属关系，不容易看清楚句子各成分之间的关系。“to look at the data on global warming, biological diversity, marine depletion and deforestation and still say things are generally getting better”是主语，其中“to look at… and still say…”是并列主语，“things are generally getting better”是say的宾语从句。整个句子的谓语是takes，宾语是“a willful blindness”。　　句子译文：明明知道全球变暖、生物差异、海洋损耗、森林采伐等环境问题的数据，却仍然声称总的来说环境问题有好转，这是故意装着看不见。　　题目分析 　　1． 答案是C，属推理判断题。文章第一句话指出Bjorn Lomborg…the great Satan of environmentalism，可推断出Bjorn Lomborg遭到环保主义者的抨击。接下来第二句“By telling everyone he is an environmentalist but sounding like the opposite. ”回答了为什么他会遭到抨击。原来他认为环境问题日益得到好转，不再是人类面临的大问题。　　2． 答案是A，属推理判断题。从第二段第一行“The book, which was published in English last year, became a best seller”可以看出该书吸引了广大民众的注意。第三段第一行“Some scientists say they initially hoped to ignore Lomborg but in the wake of his book's popularity have reacted with a fury rarely seen in academia.”进而证明该书不仅吸引了普通读者，也引起了科学家的注意。　　3． 答案是D，属猜测意义题。文中第二段开头指出世界各地的保守派用鲁姆伯克书中的观点为自己在解决森林采伐、全球变暖问题上的不作为辩解。并在引文中说：由此可猜测出保守派和　　4． 答案是B，属于事实细节题。第三段第6—第9行“A dozen esteemed environmental scientists, including Raven and Harvard's Edward O. Wilson, are demanding that Lomborg's publisher cut him loose. . . they write in a letter calling on Cambridge to transfer publishing rights to a popular, nonscholarly press.”可以说明科学家们要求剑桥大学出版社语鲁姆伯克断绝关系，停止出版、销售他的书，并将版权转让给非学术性出版社。与回答本体相关的关键词语有：cut sb. loose 表示“与······断绝关系”。promote：促销 nonscholarly：非学术性的。　　5． 答案是C，属推理判断题。在第四段开头，作者指出鲁姆伯克书中虽然有很多事实、引证也显得很翔实，但鲁姆伯克书中不乏夸张和由选择地使用资料，而且还故意无视严重的环境问题，得出环境问题有好转的结论。因此，作者认为该书很片面。但接着作者又指出对鲁姆伯克一味的谩骂或斥责无济于事，那样只会“avoid what could be a valuable debate on the substance of environmental policy”，应该就环境政策的实质问题展开有意义的讨论。由此可推断作者认为应该就此书展开讨论。　　参考译文: 　　一个其貌不扬、不拘小节、政治上极其保守的丹麦素食主义者如何成为环保主义的大叛逆者？尽管他一直自称是一名环保主义者，可在他的论著中他却大唱反调。现年三十七岁的博兆恩·鲁姆伯克是丹麦大学奥尔胡斯分校统计学副教授，曾是“绿色和平”组织成员，在他1998年出版的《持怀疑态度的环抱主义者》一书中，他这样写道 “我们并没有面临能源和自然资源短缺的问题。我们周围的空气和水越来越洁净，事实上，几乎所有的测量指标都表明人类的命运已经得到改善。” 　　这本书的英译本去年一出版，就成为畅销书。世界各地的保守份子纷纷用书中的观点为自己在森林采伐和全球变暖等问题上的不作为作辩解。谈到遵循有关全球变暖的《京都议定书》的费用时，博兆恩·鲁姆伯克这样写道：“我们应该注重实效性，而不要一味追求表面效应，”“执行《京都议定书》一年的费用可以为地球上所有的人口提供洁净的饮用水和卫生设施。” 　　一些科学家说起初他们不想理睬鲁姆伯克的言论，可是随着《持怀疑态度的环保主义者》一书的不断升温，他们愤怒回击，其愤怒程度在学术界实数罕见。美国科学促进会主席彼得·瑞文就此发表评论时说：“在我们这个时代，一些人为达个人政治目的而歪曲统计数字和综述，鲁姆伯克就是最好的例子。”十多位德高望重的环境科学家，包括瑞文以及哈佛大学的爱德华·奥·威尔森要求鲁姆伯克的出版发行方剑桥大学出版社与他解除合作关系。他们联名写信给出版社说：“剑桥大学出版社出版发行这样一本错误百出、引证不详、未经同行评论过的作品，我们深感不安。”他们呼吁剑桥大学出版社将该书版权转让给一家通俗的、非学术性的出版社。　　问题是鲁姆伯克书中包含大量事实，而且他还列出了2930条脚注，以方便读者查证。一些科学家和环保人士在他们的著说中确实夸大了环保问题的严重性，难怪他们都被列在其中。然而鲁姆伯克正像他所抨击的那些人一样，也存在夸大事实、有选择性地使用数据等问题。在世界的大多数地区，空气质量和水的质量已得到改善，农业产量有提高，在这一点上，鲁姆伯克是正确的。可是鲁姆伯克故意无视全球变暖、生物多样性、海洋损耗、森林采伐等方面的资料，仍然声称总的来说环境问题有所好转。非常遗憾，针对鲁姆伯克的攻击多半是人身攻击。这些漫骂不但妨碍人们就环境政策的实质问题展开有价值的争论，而且客观上帮鲁姆伯克卖书。鲁姆伯克说：“我从这本书上赚了一大笔钱，比剑桥预计得多得多。”

venkatmba - 2008-7-31 20:47:00

As colleges and universities send another wave of graduates out into the world this spring, thousands of other job seekers with liberal-arts degrees like Martin's find themselves in a similar bind. True enough, this is an era of record-breaking lows in unemployment. But technology companies, which are contributing the lion's share of new jobs, are simultaneously declaring a shortage of qualified workers. The emphasis is on the word qualified.

　　It's no surprise that high-tech companies rarely hire liberal-arts graduates. "Our p.r. people, our marketers, even our attorneys have technical talent," says Tracy Koon, director of corporate affairs at Intel. The need for technical expertise is so pervasive that even retailers are demanding such skills. "Company-wide, we're looking for students with specific information-systems skills," says David McDearmon, director of field human resources at Dollar Tree Stores. "Typically we shy away from independent-college students who don't have them."

　　Fortunately for Martin, some invaluable help was at hand when he needed it. The Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, a network of 15 liberal-arts colleges in the state, has teamed up with local companies to bridge the learning gap faced by its members' graduates. VFIC invited 30 companies, including First Union and Electronic Data Systems, to link the needs of businesses with the skills being taught in college classrooms. With grants from corporate sponsors like AT&T, VFIC asked 20 information-technology managers to help its members create an exam, based on the work students will be expected to do in the real world, to test and certify their technological proficiency.

　　The result, Tek.Xam, is an eight-part test that requires students to design a website, build and analyze spreadsheets, research problems on the Internet and demonstrate understanding of legal and ethical issues. Says Linda Dalch, president of VFIC: "If an art-history major wants a job at a bank, he needs to prove he has the skills. That's where this credential can help." This year 245 students at VFIC's member colleges have gone through the program. The long-term hope is that Tek.Xam will win the same kind of acceptance as the LSAT or CPA for law or accounting students. "To know a student has taken the initiative and passed could mean that less training is needed," explains John Rudin, chief information officer at Reynolds Metals, one of the corporations that helped create the test.

　　All this begs an important question: Has the traditional liberal-arts curriculum become obsolete? College presidents naturally argue that the skills their schools provide are invaluable. A B.A. degree, says Mary Brown Bullock of Atlanta's Agnes Scott College, "gives graduates the ability to reinvent themselves time and time again...and the knowledge and thinking skills that transcend a particular discipline or time frame."

　　Martin is finding that to be the truth. "It would be nice to have computer classes on my transcript," he says, but Tek.Xam has armed him with the power to learn those skills on his own--and a credential to show he has done so. He's now waiting to hear when his job as a network-support assistant for a large Boston firm will start.

1.The main problem many liberal-arts students face in job seeking is ____________.
　　[A] too much competition in job market
　　 their lack of technical expertise
　　[C] company’s discrimination against liberal-arts students
　　[D] the recording-breaking unemployment rate

2.It can be inferred from the text that _____________.
　　[A] in the modern era, technical talent means everything in securing a job
　　 independent colleges are not giving their students proper educationt
　　[C] retailers are following the fashion only to promote sales
　　[D] there is a big demand for students with technical skills

3.Tek-Xam is designed to _____________.
　　[A] offer VFIC members’ graduates more job opportunities
　　 compete with LSAT and CPA
　　[C] help students cope with real world problems
　　[D] test students’ technical skills

4.We can draw a conclusion from the text that ____________.
　　[A] liberal arts education still proves valuable to students
　　 Tek-Xam is gaining wide acceptance among employers and students alike
　　[C] Technology companies are eager to promote Tek-Xam
　　[D] computer classes will be excluded from the curriculum of liberal-arts students

5.From the text we can see that the writer seems____________.
　　[A] positive
　　 suspicious
　　[C] pessimistic
　　[D] disapproving

　　答案：B D D A A

　　篇章剖析：

　　本篇文章是说明文，主要介绍当前就业市场对技术知识的巨大需求以及为应对这种需求而设

　　立的“技术考试”。文章第一段介绍了用人单位所面临的问题，即缺少合格的员工；第二段说明文科生在就业市场不受青睐的原因：他们缺少技术知识；第三段交待了“技术考试”设立的背景；第四段介绍了“技术考试”的内容，设立考试的目的，考试举办情况以及考试前景；第四段提出文科教育是否过时的问题，最后一段以一个具体例子说明二者结合的好处。

　　词汇注释：

　　bind: [baind] n困扰；困境

　　lion’s share: 最大或最好的部分

　　pervasive: [pE:5veisiv] adj. 遍布的；普遍的

　　shy: [Fai] v. （常与away from, at连用）躲避，退避

　　proficiency: [prE5fiFEnsi] n. 熟练, 精通, 熟练程度

　　spreadsheet: [5spred5Fi:t] n. [计] 电子制表软件, 电子数据表

　　credential: [kri5denFEl] n.文凭；凭证；证书

　　initiative:[ i5niFiEtiv] n. 主动

　　obsolete: [5CbsEli:t] adj. 废弃的；过时的

　　discipline: [5disiplin] n. 学科

　　transcript: [5trAnskript] n. 成绩单

　　难句突破：

　　But technology companies, which are contributing the lion’s share of new jobs, are simultaneously declaring a shortage of qualified workers.

　　主体句式：But technology companies… are declaring a shortage…

　　结构分析：这一句句子结构并不算复杂，只包含一个非限定性定语从句，但其中用到的表达“the lion’s share”可能不太容易被理解。“the lion’s share”意味“最大或最好的部分”。

　　句子译文：但同时招聘岗位最多的技术公司仍然宣布缺少合格的员工。

　　题目分析：

　　1. 答案是B，属于事实细节题。从文章第一段和第二段的内容可知，技术公司的用人需求最大，但却缺少合格的员工。在市场上，the need for technical expertise is pervasive。而很多公司不愿意要文科生的原因是“they don’t have them”，他们因缺少技能而难以找到工作。

　　2. 答案是D，属于判断推理题。文章第二段提到对技术知识的需求如此普遍，连零售商都要求员工具有这种技能。由此可见，D是正确答案。

　　3. 答案是D，属于事实细节题。文章第三段最后一行提到设立这一考试目的是“to test and certify their technological proficiency”，所以应选择D。

　　4. 答案是A，属于推理判断题。从文章第五段引用大学校长的话，以及马丁的例子可以推知，文科教育仍然很有价值。

　　5. 答案是A，属于推理判断题。作者的态度可以从作者的选材角度判断出来。本文提到了Tek Xam这种考试设立的背景，考试的前景以及他带给参加考试者的积极变化。由此可见，作者对这种考试是持肯定态度的。

　　参考译文

　　今年春天又有一批毕业生从大学步入社会，与此同时，成千上万像马丁那样具有文科学历的求职者也面临同样的问题。的确，现在的失业率比以往任何时候都低。但同时招聘岗位最多的技术公司仍然宣布缺少合格的员工。关键就在这个词：合格。

　　高技术公司很少雇用文科毕业生这不足为奇。“我们的公关人员，市场营销人员，甚至律师都有技术才能，”英特尔公司企业事务部主管特雷茜·库恩说。对于技术专长的需求非常普遍，连零售商都要求具有这种技能。“我们公司各个部门都需要掌握一定信息系统技术的毕业生，”美元树（Dollar Tree Stores）的人力资源总监大卫·麦克德蒙说。“一般我们都不会聘用那些没有这些技能的独立学院毕业生。”

　　马丁算是比较幸运的，现在他能够得到急需的帮助。弗吉尼亚独立学院基金会（VFIC）是该州15所文科大学的网络组织。它同当地公司合作一起帮助其成员学校的毕业生弥补知识的不足。VFIC邀请了30家公司，包括第一联合国家银行和电子数据系统公司，将企业需求和大学课堂教授的技巧结合起来。在美国电话电报公司（AT&T）等企业的资助下，VFIC邀请了20位信息技术经理来帮助其成员学校举办一个考试，考试内容基于学生在现实世界中所需要做的工作，目的是测试和证明他们对技术的熟练程度。

　　“技术考试”（Tek Xam）由此诞生。它分为八个部分，要求学生设计网站，建立和分析电子数据表，在互联网上调查和研究问题以及证明自己对法律和伦理问题的理解等。VFIC的负责人琳达·戴奇说：“如果一个艺术史专业的学生想得到一份银行的工作，他就要证明自己有这方面的技能。这个证书就是要在这方面帮助他。”今年VFIC成员学校的245名学生参加了这一考试。今后“技术考试”也许能够像法律专业学生参加的“法学院入学考试”（LSAT）和会计专业学生参加的“注册会计师考试”（CPA）一样推广开来。“如果某个学生主动参加并且通过了这个考试，那么也就意味着他需要接受的培训相应减少了，”雷诺兹金属公司的信息主管约翰·鲁丁说到。雷诺兹金属公司也参加了创立这一考试的工作。

　　所有这一切都避开了一个重要问题：传统的文科课程过时了吗？大学校长们自然会说他们学校给学生传授的技能是无价的。亚特兰大艾格尼丝·斯考特学院的玛丽·布朗·布洛克说，一个本科学历“让毕业生有能力不断重新塑造自己……而他们所学的知识和思维技巧超越了任何一个特定的学科或者时期。”

　　马丁也有同感。“成绩单上有电脑课当然好，”他说，但“技术考试”让他有能力自学这些技能---而且一张证书可以证明他所付出的努力。现在他已经受聘成为一家波士顿大公司的网络支持助理，正在等待上班通知。

venkatmba - 2008-7-31 20:48:00
Plowing through the New York Times on a recent Sunday, I read in the Metro Section that infertile couples in the market for smart-kid genes regularly place advertisements in the newspapers of their own Ivy League alma maters offering female undergraduates $7,500 for a donated egg. Before I could get that news comfortably digested, I came across an article in the Magazine section describing SAT prep courses for which parents spend thousands in the hope of raising their child's test scores enough to make admission to an Ivy League college possible. So how can people who have found a potential egg donor at an Ivy League college tell whether the donor carries genuine smart-kid genes or just pushy-parents genes?

　　The donor herself may not even be aware that such a distinction exists. After years of expensive private schooling and math tutors and tennis camps and SAT prep courses and letters of recommendation from important family friends, she's been told that, unlike beneficiaries of affirmative action, she got into an Ivy League college on pure merit.

　　Since it is probably safe to assume that people intent on securing high-priced Ivy League eggs are carrying some pushy-parents genes themselves, their joining forces with a donor who got into an Ivy League college by dint of her family's willingness to fork over 10 grand to an SAT prep course could result in a child with somewhere between a dose and a half and 2 1/2 doses of pushy-parents genes. Apparently the egg seekers aren't troubled by the prospect of having their grandchildren raised by this sort of person.

　　If you have any doubts about whether the dosages I cite are based on a thorough grounding in genetics and statistics and advanced microbiology, rest assured that I attended an Ivy League college myself. That was in the days, I'll admit, when any number of people were admitted to such institutions without having shown any evidence of carrying smart-kid genes even in trace elements. Somehow, most of these dimmer bulbs managed to graduate--every class needs a lower third in order to have an upper two-thirds--and somehow most of them are now millionaires on Wall Street.

　　One element many of them had going for them in the admissions process was that they were identified as "legacies"--the offspring of alumni. In Ivy League colleges, alumni children are even now admitted at twice the rate of other applicants. For that reason, egg seekers may not actually need genuine smart-kid genes for their children: after all, an applicant whose mother and father and egg donor were all alumni could be considered a triple legacy.

　　But how about the college-admission prospects of the grandchildren? As methods are perfected of enhancing a college application through increasingly expensive services--one young man mentioned in the magazine article had $25,000 worth of SAT preparation--it might become more important to have a parent who's a Wall Street millionaire than to have smart-kid genes. Maybe it would be prudent to add a sentence to those ads in college papers: "Preference given to respondents in the lower third of the class."

1.In the author’s eyes, a female student from an Ivy League college is__________.
　　[A] an ideal egg donor
　　 not necessarily an intelligent person
　　[C] more influenced by her parents than by anything else
　　[D] more likely to carry smart-kid genes

2.According to the author, what may chiefly be the reason for the donor’s admission in an

　　Ivy League college?
　　[A] her own merits
　　 the affirmative action
　　[C] her smart-kid genes
　　[D] her parents’ efforts

3.Which of the following is true according to the author?
　　[A] American parents would send their children into an Ivy League college at any cost
　　 Ivy League colleges used to admit students who showed no sign of intelligence
　　[C] alumni children stand a better chance to be admitted than other applicants
　　[D]egg-seekers care nothing about the pushy-parents genes

4.The author’s attitude towards the issue seems to be ____________.
　　[A] approving
　　 objective
　　[C] indifferent
　　[D] ironic

5.It could be inferred from the text that____________.
　　[A] wealth is more important than intelligence in application for Ivy League colleges
　　 Ivy League colleges are increasingly expensive
　　[C] egg-seekers can get better genes from millionaires
　　[D] the prospects of college-admission are gloomy

　　答案：B D C D A

　　篇章剖析：

　　本文为议论文，指出不孕夫妇高价求购名校大学生卵子之事的荒谬之处以及名校门槛难进的严峻现实。本文采用的是提出问题―分析问题―解决问题的模式。在第一段，作者指出为了生下聪明宝宝而高价求购名校大学生卵子的人无法真正知道捐卵人的基因是聪明孩子的基因还是要强家长的基因。第二段着重说明这些捐卵者都是在家庭的帮助下进入名校学习的。第三段分析了了求卵者与捐卵者联合的可能结果。第四段指出智商和成功之间联系并不明显――因为很多差生也能成为百万富翁。第五段进一步分析名校学生被录取的一个原因，那就是他们的“校友子女”身份。最后一段提出一个讽刺性的解决办法：优先考虑可能成为百万富翁的差生。

　　词汇注释：

　　SAT: （美国）学术能力测验（Scholastic Aptitude Test）

　　admission: [Ed5miFEn] n. 许可入场；入学、入会

　　pushy: [5pJFI] adj. 有进取心的

　　affirmative action: 平权措施，指美国大学在录取新生和分配奖学金时，在成绩相同或相近的条件下优先考虑少数族裔的学生，如非洲裔、西班牙裔和印第安裔考生。

　　dint: [dint] n. 力量，努力；权力 by dint of 由于；凭藉

　　fork over: 花费，为…投入金钱

　　trace element: 微量元素

　　alumni: [E5lQmnai] n. 校友

　　prudent: [5pru:dEnt] adj. 谨慎的；明智的

　　难句突破：

　　1.Since it is probably safe to assume that people intent on securing high-priced Ivy League eggs are carrying some pushy-parents genes themselves, their joining forces with a donor who got into an Ivy League college by dint of her family’s willingness to fork over 10 grand to an SAT prep course could result in a child with somewhere between a dose and a half and 2 1/2 doses of push-parents genes.

　　主体句式：their joining forces…could result in a child…

　　结构分析：本句是个复杂长句，首先由since引导一个原因状语从句，在这个从句里又包含了一个宾语从句（assume后面that引导的部分），一个较长的定语（intent on securing high-priced Ivy League eggs），主句的主语是一个较长的动名词短语，其中包含了一个定语从句（who引导的部分），而这个定语从句中还含有一个较长的状语（由介词词组by dint of引导），主句的宾语里也包含有一个由介词with引导的长定语。在阅读的时候，一定要先理清主次，然后把各部发之间的修饰，限定等关系看清楚，才不至于出错。

　　句子译文：也许可以安全地假定那些想要获得高价常青藤联盟卵子的人自己身上就带有要强的家长的基因，他们和那些靠家庭心甘情愿花1万美元参加SAT考前辅导班而进入常青藤联盟学校的捐卵者联合，其结果也许就是生出的孩子身上的要强父母基因剂量介于1.5至2.5之间。

　　2.As methods are perfected of enhancing a college application through increasingly expensive services---one young man mentioned in the magazine article had $25,000 worth of SAT preparation---it might become more important to have a parent who’s a Wall Street millionaire than to have smart-kid genes.

　　主体句式：it might become more important to have a parent…

　　结构分析：本句也是一个复杂长句。as引导一个较长的原因状语从句，其中还含有一个插入语，对increasingly expensive进行实例说明，从句中的时态为被动，主语method的定语修饰成分（of引导的部分）因为过长而被后置到谓语之后；主句是以it做形式主语，两个被比较的不定式做为真正主语的结构。

　　句子译文：由于通过日益昂贵的服务来提高大学申请成功的可能性的方法日臻完美---杂志文章里面提到的一个年轻人花了25000美元准备SAT考试---那么有个华尔街百万富翁家长也许比有聪明孩子基因更重要。

　　题目分析：

　　1. 答案为B，属于推理判断题。作者在第一段提出疑问：how can people…tell whether the donor carries genuine smart-kid genes or just pushy-parents genes? 接着又在下文中分析这些学生是如何入学的：父母不惜重金的栽培以及父母为校友的优势。文中第二段末作者以讽刺的口吻说道：they were told…they got into an Ivy League college on pure merit。文中第四段作者以那些后来成为百万富翁的差生来说明名校的学生未必聪明。可见作者并不认为那些名校女生真的是因为聪明智慧而被录取的。

　　2. 答案为D，属于事实细节题。文章举了很多例子说明捐卵者的家庭为她们进入常青藤联盟学校所作的一切：多年的昂贵私立学校教育，数学辅导，网球训练营，不惜重金的SAT考前辅导班，有身分地位的家庭友人的推荐信以及父母的校友身份等。可见D为最佳答案。

　　3. 答案为C，属于事实细节题。文章第5段提到了校友子女的录取比例是其他申请人的两倍，可见他们的被录取机会较大。

　　4. 答案为D，属于推理判断题。作者通过分析举例来说明高价求购名校女生卵子做法的荒谬之处，并在文章最后写道：应该在这类求卵广告上加一句“差生应征，优先考虑”，语气中充满讽刺意味，应该选D。

　　5. 答案为A，属于推理判断题。作者在文章最后一段指出：“methods are perfected of enhancing a college application through increasingly expensive service”在下文中又说：“it might become more important to have a parent who’s a Wall Street millionaire than to have smart-kid genes”，可见跨入名校门槛需要付出高昂代价，因此申请这些学校的时候，财富比智慧更重要。

　　参考译文：

　　最近的某个星期天，我在翻阅《纽约时报》的时候，在都市版读到一则消息，说一些不孕不育夫妇到市场上求购能生下聪明宝宝的基因，这些夫妇定期在他们自己的常青藤联盟母校的报纸上刊登广告，出资7500美元欲求大学本科女生捐赠一枚卵子。我还没有从那条消息中回过味来，就又在杂志版读到一篇文章，讲述家长们花费数千元让孩子参加SAT（大学入学考试）考前辅导班，希望孩子的考试成绩能提高到有可能考取常青藤联盟学校。那么那些在常青藤联盟学校找到捐卵者的人怎么能够辨别捐卵人的基因是真正的聪明孩子的基因还是那些要强的家长的基因呢？

　　捐卵者本人也许甚至都没有意识到存在这样一种区别。多年的昂贵私立学校教育，数学辅导，网球训练营，SAT考前辅导班以及有身分地位的家庭友人的推荐信，这些都在告诉她，不像那些平权措施的受益者，她是因为表现出色而被常青藤联盟学校录取的。

　　也许可以安全地假定那些想要获得高价常青藤联盟卵子的人自己身上就带有要强的家长的基因，他们和那些靠家庭心甘情愿花1万美元参加SAT考前辅导班而进入常青藤联盟学校的捐卵者联合，其结果也许就是生出的孩子身上的要强父母基因剂量介于1.5至2.5之间。显然，那些渴望得到卵子的人不会因为他们的孙子可能会由这种人抚养长大而烦恼。

　　如果你怀疑我引用的剂量是否完全基于遗传学和统计学以及先进的微生物学，那么大可以放心，因为我本人就曾在常青藤联盟学校就读。我要承认，那时候上这些学校的人很多，而且不必出示任何证据来证明连他们的微量元素里面都有聪明孩子基因。不知何故，这些成绩不太出色的学生大都顺利毕业---每个班都需要有三分之一的差生，这样才会有另外三分之二的好学生---而且他们中的大部分人现在都成了华尔街的百万富翁。

　　他们很多人有一样帮助他们顺利入学的共同之处，那就是他们的“传承者”身份---他们是校友们的子女。在常青藤联盟学校里，校友子女的入学率是其他申请人的两倍之多。鉴于此，渴望得到卵子的人也许实际上并不需要给他们的子女一些真正的聪明孩子基因：毕竟，申请人的父母和捐卵者都是校友的话，那么他就算得上是一个三倍“传承者”了。

　　那么他们的孙子辈的大学入学前景如何呢？由于通过日益昂贵的服务来提高大学申请成功的可能性的方法日臻完美---杂志文章里面提到的一个年轻人花了25000美元准备SAT考试---那么有个华尔街百万富翁家长也许比有聪明孩子基因更重要。不妨在这些大学报纸广告上加上一句：“优先考虑成绩在班级后三分之一的应征者。”

张一万6681 - 2008-9-6 17:18:00
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