考研英语要适当的选择外刊（如The Economist，The New York Times，Newsweek，Financial Times，Science，ISIS，The Guardian，CNN等）长度均与考研真题文章长度相当或稍长，难度与考研文章难度一致，适合锻炼提升英语综合能力；每篇文章附有（一）核心词汇、（二）难句解析（语法）、（三）全文翻译、（四）反馈。
试讲外刊：The Meaning of Bill Gates（Part 1）比尔•盖茨的意义（第一部分）【附件下载】
The Meaning of Bill Gates（Part 1）
As his reign at Microsoft comes to an end, so does the era he dominated①.
WHEN Bill Gates helped to found Microsoft 33 years ago there was a company rule that no employees should work for a boss who wrote worse computer code than they did. Just five years later, with Microsoft choking on its own growth, Mr. Gates hired a business manager, Steve Ballmer, (who had cut his teeth at Procter & Gamble, which sells soap②.) The founder had chucked his coding rule out of the window③.
In becoming the world’s richest man, Mr. Gate’s unswerving self-belief has repeatedly been punctuated by that sort of pragmatism. (But those qualities have never been on such public display as they were this week, when the outstanding businessman of his age stepped back from a life’s work④.)
As Microsoft’s non-executive chairman, Mr. Gates will devoted most of his efforts to his charitable foundation, where he will pit himself against malaria and poverty, rather than Google and the Department of Justice⑤. But it is also pragmatic—and a little poignant. Mr. Gates has reveled in the day-to-day details of running his firm. (To let it all go is to acknowledge that his best work at Microsoft is behind him. It is to accept that the innovator’s curse is to be transitory⑥.)
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（一）核心词汇：例句来源于Oxford和外研社等词汇书注解（部分）
dominate | v.支配，俯视
n.支配 | She always tends to dominate the conversation at dinner parties. |
pit | v.凹陷，与sb/sth较量
n..坑 | The two strongest tears were pitted against each other in the final. |
reveal in sth
/in ding sth | 欣赏、陶醉于 | He likes being famous and reveals in the attention he gets. |
poignant
poignancy | a.令人悲伤的
n.悲伤 | a poignant memory |
（二）难句解析（语法）：
1．As his reign at Microsoft comes to an end, so does the era he dominated.
As的用法：【结合词汇】
as. conj [时间] 当…时，随着……之际I met the chief as I was coming here.
[转折尽管、虽然] Much as she liked him, she could not live with him.
[原因由于、因为] As you were not here I left a message.
[方式以……方式、像……一样] 正如。We’d better leave things as they are until the police arrive.
prep. 当作、作为 As parents we are concerned for our children’s future.
adv. 同样的，一样的 My brother runs fast, but I run just as fast.
可以看到，as 有作为连词、介词和副词的用法，这里作为连词的时间状语，当……时的用法。语法知识对于理解难句是很重要的。如果此处做连词的另外三种，解释不通。
（三）全文翻译
当比尔·盖茨在微软的“统治”即将结束，由他所支配的时代也有一样的命运。
当33年前比尔·盖茨协助创立微软时，公司有条规定“员工不应该为编程能力比自己差的老板工作”。仅仅5年之后，为了应对微软飞速发展产生的瓶颈，盖茨先生雇佣了商务经理史蒂芬·巴勒莫。后者只曾在日用化学品公司保洁初试身手。这位创始人便这样把他的编程规则抛到九霄云外。
（四）反馈（课后作业，答疑）。
<1> 讲了as, with, where，定语从句，介宾等语法现象，都理解没？及时反馈，现在多辛苦，为了以后不受苦；很多人英语就1、2分而悔恨终生。
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