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Text Study 美国社会最受重视的价值观之一就是使国民有能力在有生之年不断“向上升迁”， 但是现在这种升迁的机遇比过去少了。 如今能否升迁越来越取决于大学学历。大多数受过高等教育和有钱人的绝大多数子女都有可能获得大学学历，而大学学历文凭对于大多数低收入家庭的学生只能是可望不可及。 虽然高收入家庭的子女进入大学的人数剧增，但是越来越多的贫困家庭的子女只上得起社区大学，而这类大学通常不授予学士学位。 2001年拿到学位的贫困学生的比率不足5%，30年来这比率几乎是纹丝不动。许多学者担心这将导致更大社会阶层的分化（class stratification)。 The Abu Ghraib prison The prison is in Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi city 32 km west of Baghdad. It became internationally known as a place where Saddam Hussein tortured and executed dissidents, and later as the site of torture-interrogation of Iraqi suspects by the United States military. The prison was renamed after United States forces expelled the former Iraqi government, wich had called it the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF) or Baghdad Central Correctional Facility. The prison came to the notice of the world when an American television network (CBS) publicized several graphic and disturbing photos of Coalition prisoner abuse there. Satellite state Satellite state, b analogy to stellar objects orbiting a larger object, such as planets revolving around the sun, refers to a country that is formally sovereign but that is in fact dominated by a larger hegemonic power. The expression is used by some the describe the Central and Eastern European countries of the Warsaw pact during the Cold War, which were influenced by the Soviet Union (from 1945-1948 until 1989). The former Soviet satellite states are Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The expression has also been used to describe states within the United States sphere of influence that are in NATO such as Italy, France and West Germany, as well as Latin American satellite states like El Salvador and Panama and Asian satellites like the Philippines. a slew of 大量的 N H C E 典 型 例 句 意 群 提 示 a large amount or number of; a lot of 逆 译 练 习 汤姆有一大堆未付的账单，并最终被捕入狱。 Tom had a slew of unpaid bills and at last he was put in jail. 新视野 － 兼容性表达与应用 Back Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Sl