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16. SAT – the Scholastic Aptitude Test （学业能力测验），一种由大学入学考试委员会(the College Entrance Examination Board) 制定的考试，用以测试考生的智力及学术能力，以确定其能否被录取。通常包括语文(verbal) 和数学(mathematics)两部分，两门满分为1600分。其作用类似中国的高考。 17. Most of the research concluded that for each 100-point increase in the average SAT score, a graduate could expect a 3% to 7% increase in lifetime earnings. 意为：大多数调查的结论是，SAT的平均成绩每高出100分，大学毕业生的一生的收入便会增加3%到7%。 18. selective schools: 指对学生严格挑选，入学竞争极为激烈的大学。 19．It would be stunning if they didn’t. 意为：他们如果事业不成功反倒令人诧异了。也就是说，从名牌大学毕业的学生理应拥有成功的事业，因为他们招收的多是优秀学生。 20． If student X gets into, say, Amherst and Michigan State, and choose to go to Michigan State, will X be shut out of Amherst-style earning potential? 意为：假如某学生同时考上了阿姆赫斯特大学和密歇根州立大学而选择了后者，他会不会就完全没有机会享受阿姆赫斯特大学式的未来收入了呢？ say – used to introduce possible examples or approximate amount potential – the possibility that sth will develop in certain way, or have a particular effect. 21. These factors may reveal abilities, like good communication skills, that are far more valuable in the workplace than a perfect 1600. 意为：在实际工作中，这些技能比得满分1600分要宝贵得多。 22．Until recently, no one had tried to control for unobserved characteristics in measuring the effect of an elite education on earnings. 意为：直到最近才有人试图核实这些被忽视的因素在衡量精英式教育对收入情况产生的影响。 23．Andrew W. Mellon Foundation –梅隆基金会 Andrew W. Mellon – (1855-1973), U.S. financier and industrialist who was an outstandingly able Treasury Secretary （1921-31）; Ambassador to Britain (1932-33). A multimillionaire himself, he founded the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. His vast art collection formed the basis of the National Gallery of Art. 24．National Bureau of Economic Research –国家经济调研局。 25．Their research looked at the 1976 freshman class at 30 schools, ranging in selectivity （determined by average SAT scores）from Yale to Denison. --- their research involved 30 schools which ranged according to selective power ( determined by average SAT) form Yale University to Denison University, and they studied the first-