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本周我们来精读一篇来自2012年12月大学英语四级中的阅读真题，为了便于大学学习，我先给出原文，同学们先仔细读一篇，看是否能够读懂，然后对照老师的解析，分析自己没有读懂的句子和结构，找出原因，总结经验。同时查阅阅读中遇到的新词汇，掌握其用法和搭配。 原文第一段： I’ve worked in the factories surrounding my hometown every summer since I graduated from high school, but making the transition（转变）between school and full-time blue-collar work during the break never gets any easier. For a student like me who considers any class before noon to be uncivilized, getting to a factory by 6 o’clock each morning is torture. My friends never seem to understand why I’m so relieved to be back at school or that my summer vacation has been anything but a vacation. 原文第一段解析： I’ve worked in the factories surrounding my hometown（现在分词作后置定语修饰前面的factories） every summer since (since 引导的时间状语从句） I graduated from（短语：毕业于） high school, but making the transition（转变）between school and full-time blue-collar work （动名词作主语）during the break（此处指假期） never gets any easier. For a student like me who considers any class before noon to be uncivilized（who 引导的定语从句修饰先行词student）, getting to a factory by 6 o’clock each morning is torture（核心词汇torture). My friends never seem to understand why I’m so relieved to be back at school or that my summer vacation has been anything but (注意和nothing but的区别） a vacation. 相关词汇和短语： graduate from transition uncivilized torture relieve anything but 译文：自从高中毕业后, 我每个夏天都会在家乡附近的工厂里打工,但是在假期里,要从学校生活转变为全职蓝领工作总是不那么容易。我认为在学校上午上课是不舒适的，对于一个像我这样的学生来说，每天早晨6点前就要到工厂简直就是一种折磨。 我的朋友们似乎不明白我回到学校时为什么会那么如释负重，他们也不明白我的暑假根本算不上假期。 原文第二段： There’re few people as self-confident as a college student who has never been out in the real world. People of my age always seem to overestimate the value of their time and knowledge. In fact, all the classes did not prepare me for my battles with the machine 1 ran in the plant, which would jam whenever I absent-mindedly put in a part backward or upside down. 原文第二段解析： There’re few people as self-confident as a college student who has never been out in the real world（who 引导的定语从句修饰student). People