文章第一句：

Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals: true or false?

文章中的替换词是descend from  

另外还可以说 evolve from

1 split sth apart 使...分裂

2 ancestral  adj.祖先的, 祖传的

3 ape  n.猿

4 fundamentalism  n.正统派基督教

5 bitter  adj.苦的, 痛苦的, 怀恨的

6 partisan 游击队

7 politicize        vi.搞政治
                  vt.使具有政治性

8 Wedge issue   Wedge issue is a social or political issue, often of a divisive or otherwise controversial nature, which is used by one political group to split apart or create a "wedge" in the support base of an opposing political group

9 grim  adj.严酷的

10 adherent  n.信徒, 追随者, 拥护者

11 Ironically adv.说反话地, 讽刺地

12 make for
v.(尤指匆匆地)走向, 有利于, 倾向于, 导致
向前进,有助于

13 abundant
adj.丰富的, 充裕的, 丰富, 盛产, 富于

14 Protestant
n.新教, 新教徒
adj.新教的, 新教徒的

metaphor
n.[修辞]隐喻, 暗喻, 比喻说话

15 Ⅰconstitution 1.宪法
             2.构造
             3.章程

  Ⅱ institute
   [ 5institju:t ]
   n.学会, 学院, 协会
   vt.创立, 开始, 制定, 开始(调查), 提起(诉讼)
   
   注意区别

16 catholic
n.天主教徒
adj.天主教的

17 The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (public law 107-110)                  is a United States federal law that reauthorizes a number of federal programs that aim to improve the performance of America's primary and secondary schools by increasing the standards of accountability for states
 Ⅰ accountability
  n.有责任, 有义务, 可说明性

 Ⅱ  account
n.计算, 帐目, 说明, 估计, 理由
vi.说明, 总计有, 认为, 得分
vt.认为

外刊如此精解。。。。。。。。

我没那么多时间啊。。。。。。。。

完了。。。。。

That is a group of people that can be reached.

那是人类可以搞明白的。

呵呵 这是我的理解 不知道是不是正确。

那你有时间干什么

Why doesn't America believe in evolution?

纵观全文,作者的态度：believe in evolution，有明显的文中标记/span>段（一）“this simple question…”

（一）Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals: true or false? This simple question is splitting America apart, with a growing proportion thinking that we did not descend from an ancestral ape.[第一份调查] A survey of 32 European countries, the US and Japan has revealed that only Turkey is less willing than the US to accept evolution as fact. 首段设问，亮明作者观点；举反对派观点，引出话题（扣题）

（二）[根源①]
            Religious fundamentalism,
        [根源②] bitter partisan politics and [根源③]
            poor science education have all contributed to this denial of evolution in the US,
        [主旨脉络线索句! 借专家之口表达自己观点,可见作者用心良苦啊!]says Jon Miller of Michigan State University in East Lansing, who conducted the survey [第二份调查]with his colleagues. "The US is the only country in which [the teaching of evolution] has been politicised," he says. "Republicans have clearly adopted this as one of their wedge issues. In most of the world, this is a non-issue." [ 段（二）后半部分简要阐述根源②]  专家的态度、分析

（三）Miller's report makes for grim reading for adherents of evolutionary theory. Even though the average American has more years of education than when Miller began his surveys[第三份调查，后面段四讲得也是同一份调查] 20 years ago, the percentage of people in the country who accept the idea of evolution has declined from 45 in 1985 to 40 in 2005 (Science, vol 313, p 765). That's despite a series of widely publicised advances in genetics, including genetic sequencing, which shows strong overlap of the human genome with those of chimpanzees and mice. "We don't seem to be going in the right direction," Miller says. [ 现状举例（扣题）]  专家（Miller）的调查

（四）There is some cause for hope. Team member Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California, finds solace in the finding that the percentage of adults overtly rejecting evolution has dropped from 48 to 39 in the same time[指段三：1985-2005年]. Meanwhile the fraction of Americans unsure[半信半疑，这样译更明白！] about evolution has soared, from 7 per cent in 1985 to 21 per cent last year. "That is a group of people[指前一句：21%的Americans] that can be reached," says Scott. [
        段（四）并非可有可无，它起着某种平衡作用，若缺少了它，整篇文章显得一片悲观，体会一下！]  赞成派的乐观态度

（五）The main opposition to evolution comes from fundamentalist Christians, who are much more abundant in the US than in Europe. While Catholics, European Protestants and so-called mainstream US Protestants consider the biblical account of creation as a metaphor, fundamentalists take the Bible literally, leading them to believe that the Earth and humans were created only 6000 years ago. [ 段（五）阐述根源①]  反对派成员及其理由

（六）Ironically, the separation of church and state laid down in the US constitution contributes to the tension. In Catholic schools, both evolution and the strict biblical version of human beginnings can be taught. A court ban on teaching creationism in public schools, however, means pupils can only be taught evolution, which angers fundamentalists, and triggers local battles over evolution. [ 段六、七、八重点阐述根源③，都是讲教育方面的！]  对立双方的斗争

（七）These battles can take place because the US lacks a national curriculum of the sort common in European countries. However, the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind act is instituting standards for science teaching, and the battles of what they should be has now spread to the state level.[ 没有全国性的教学大纲，争来争去关于科学教育的准则，难怪学生对进化论如此茫然！]  斗争扩大化

（八）Miller thinks more genetics should be on the syllabus to reinforce the idea of evolution. American adults may be harder to reach: nearly two-thirds don't agree that more than half of human genes are common to chimpanzees. How would these people respond when told that humans and chimps share 99 per cent of their genes?  专家（Miller）的担忧

根据全文逻辑，可以出几个考查点，一、考查作者对待进化论的的态度；二、几个“短语指代”；三、写文章凭事实说话，那么文章用了几份调查报告呢，已用蓝色字体标注！可以看出老外写文章的思维逻辑，第二段先是列出三大根源，然后一一阐述，但是中间有另外的逻辑交叉，比如粉红色字体标注的思维过程。

以上是我个人的分析，大家参考，不要迷信哦！

丁老师的这篇文章选的很不错！希望以后有时间多摘录些供大家学习！