考研英语高频词汇
gap n.差距;空白;间隔
<历年真题考查频次:41次>
真题复现1：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 forthcomingin the journal Psychological Science.(2015年英语二text2P1)
真题翻译：即将发表在《心理科学》杂志上的一篇论文令人泪丧地开头写道，这造成了一个“悖论”，即招收第一代学生，但随后眼睁睁地看着他们中的许多人失败，这意味着高等教育“继续复制和扩大了”基于社会阶层的成就差距，而不是缩小了。
真题复现2：But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach(which involves a one-hour, next-to-no-cost program can close 63 percent of the achievement gap (measured by such factors as grades) between first-generation and other students(2015年英语二text2P2)
真题翻译：但这篇文章实际上相当乐观，因为它概述了这个问题的潜在解决方案，表明一种方法(包括一个小时，近乎免费的项目)可以缩小第一代学生和其他学生之间63%的成绩差距(以成绩等因素衡量)。
真题复现3：They cite past research by several authors to show that this is the gap that must be narrowed to close the achievementgap.(2015年英语二text2P4)
真题翻译：他们引用了几位作者过去的研究，表明这是必须缩小的差距，以消除成就差距。
