考研英语：长难句解析（16）

　　得阅读者得考研英语考研英语最关键的当然是长难句!

　　【例句】(2012阅读Text4)

　　Those with degrees from elite universities catch up fairly quickly to where they would have been if they had graduated in better times; it is the masses beneath them that are left behind.

　　【解题技巧】① 符号断句 - 划出谓语 - 划出从句引导词

　　② 对过去事实的虚拟 If had done,would have done③ 强调句 It is + 强调部分 + that + 剩余部分

　　【参考译文】那些名 牌大学的毕业生会很快达到他们在经济较好时期毕业时相当的地位;落后的正是那些不如他们的大众阶层。