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gap

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英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

n. 间隙；缺口；空白
vi. 裂开
vt. 使成缺口

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It further widens the gap between the old and the young.

As a result, their math grades overtook those of the other students by the end of the first semester—and the gap between the two groups continued to widen during the two years we followed them.

High school degrees offer far less in the way of preparation for work than they might, or than many other nations currently offer, creating a growing skills gap in our economy.

The gap between Apple and other tech firms is now likely to narrow.

Houses built before 1939 use about 50% more energy per square foot than those built after 2000, mainly due to the tiny cracks and gaps that expand over time and let in more outside air.

In fact, the more information flows throughout the entire society, the wider the gap becomes between "information haves" and "information have-nots", leading to digital divide .

Moreover, in order to be curious, you have to be aware of a gap in your knowledge in the first place.

The greatest gap, however, is between the Net-generation, familiar with personal computers and the Internet, and the older generation, accustomed to an industrial society.

Yet there are recent signs that the gap could be starting to shrink.

The achievement gap between children from high- and lowincome families is 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than those born 25 years earlier, according to Mr.

How much is today's spirit of harmony a change from our more turbulent past? A mere generation ago, parentchild relations were described as the generation gap.

have placed religious beliefs above party politicshave bridged the gap between the rich and the pooroffer poor children more chances to climb the social laddersuffer from higher levels of racial and economic segregationFamily structure.

Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.

Inequality is dangerous, he argued, not merely because it doesn't look good to have a large gap between the rich and the poor, but because inequality itself destroys upward mobility, making it harder for the poor to escape from poverty.

For all the new attention devoted to the 1 percent, a new dataset from the Equality of Opportunity Project at Harvard and Berkeley suggests that, if we care about upward mobility overall, we're vastly exaggerating the dangers of the rich-poor gap.

But if it was known that Black people were viewed differently from African Americans, researchers, until now, hadn't identified what that gap in perception was derived from.

in a 2012 report,the World Economic Forum found that when it comes to closing the gender gap in"economic participation and opportunity,"the United States is ahead of not only Sweden but also Finland,Denmark,the Netherlands,Iceland,Germany,and the United Kingdom.

It is a society well worth studying,and its efforts to conquer the gender gap impart a vital lesson—though not the lesson the Swedes had in mind。

Sweden has done more than other nations to close the gender gap.

Still, there's a huge disconnect between the way we currently train scientists and the actual employment opportunities available for them, and an urgent need for dramatic improvements in training programs to help close the gap.

Middlebury College in Vermont, another top school, had a 19-point gap in 2007 and a 22-point gap in 2006.

The most selective private schools – Harvard, Yale, and Princeton – show almost no gap between black and white graduation rates.

But such a Darwinian spirit is beginning to give way as at least a few colleges face up to the graduation gap

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the gap has been roughly halved over the last three years.

With effort and money, the graduation gap can be closed

Harvard, Yale, and Princeton show almost no gap between black and white graduation rates mainly because they recruit the best students.

Washington and Lee University is cited as an example to show that the gap of graduation rates between whites and minorities can be closed

The generation gap is bound to narrow.

In many countries immigrants have been filling such gaps in the labour force as have already emerged (and remember that the real shortage is still around ten years off).

A mere generation ago, parent-child relations were described as "the generation gap".

Because of these differences, comparing France's consumption with the U.S.'s overstates the gap in economic welfare.

If we want to fix the problem of the income gap, first we have to understand it.

What has become obvious to me when it comes to the income gap is that there needs to be an opportunity for the people at the bottom to push them back up and push them into the middle class to give them hope in their lives.

How does Owain James feel about the gap-year phenomenon?

It is not surprising that more and more students are taking a gap year to earn money to support their study for the degree.

More students than ever before are taking a gap year before going to university.

Silence may be viewed by some cultural groups as extremely uncomfortable; therefore attempts may be made to fill every gap 间隙 with conversation.

Students taking a gap year are better prepared for college studies.

Students who take a gap year are often more mature and responsible, he said.

The gap-year phenomenon originated with the months left over to oxbridge applicants between entrance exams in november and the start of the next academic year.

Their wings can bridge the gap between lines, resulting in electrocution if they touch two lines at once.

There is no gap between mind and matter.

Finally,because automation threatens to widen the gap between capital income and labor income, taxes and the safety net will have to be rethought.

"The gap is between the jobs that take no skills and those that require a lot of skill,” says Rob Spohr, a business professor at Montcalm Community College.

But despite common misconceptions, a gap year does not hinder the success of academic pursuits—in fact, it probably enhances it.

But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach can close 63 percent of the achievement gap between first-generation and other students.

But while this may be true, it's not a good enough reason to condemn gap years.

finally, because automation threatens to widen the gap between capital income and labor income, taxes and the safety net will have to be rethought.

Gap year experiences can lessen the blow when it comes to adjusting to college and being thrown into a brand new environment, making it easier to focus on academics and activities rather than acclimation blunders.

giving more children this training could increase the number of people interested in the field and help fill the jobs gap, Cortina said.

Koziatek's Manchester School of Technology high School is trying to fill that gap.

Rather than pulling students back, a gap year pushes them ahead by preparing them for independence, new responsibilities and environmental changes—all things that first-year students often struggle with the most.

Studies from the United States and Australia show that students who take a gap year are generally better prepared for and perform better in college than those who do not.

Taking a gap year to figure things out initially can help prevent stress and save money later on.

There is a gap in working-class jobs, but the workers who need those jobs most aren't equipped to do them.

They cite past research by several authors to show that this is the gap that must be narrowed to close the achievement gap.

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 th

Today, widespread social pressure to immediately go to college in conjunction with increasingly high expectations in a fast-moving world often causes students to completely overlook the possibility of taking a gap year.

with the gap between the church's teachings and ways of thinking being eclipsed by the Renaissance, the gap between the medieval and modern periods had been bridged, leading to new and unexplored intellectual territories.

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