Exercise

　　Electronics has made possible a new kind of higher education and research, including what counts to a global scale electronic lecture hall.

　　Worse perhaps was the idea of Saturday afternoon cricket; most of my friends would be enjoying leisure at that time.

　　A chart or a graph can often give us an idea in a glance that is communicated verbally only with great difficulty.

　　要點：本句possible是賓語補足語，置于賓語前面是因為賓語過長，通常賓補應在賓語后面。

　　譯文：電子學已使創立一種新型的高等教育和研究成為可能，包括創立可稱之為全球規模的電子大課堂在內。

　　要點：此句為倒裝句。作表語的形容詞worse 和系動詞都被提到句首，把句子較復雜的部分放在句尾，目的是達到尾重的句子效果。

　　譯文：更糟糕的也許是星期六下午打板球的安排，因為這時候我的朋友大都會在悠閑地盡享其樂。

　　要點：本句中，關系代詞引導的定語從句 that is communicated ...修飾名詞an idea,因其較長所以放在作狀語的介詞短語in a glance之后。

　　譯文：看一眼描繪的圖表或圖解常能使人對只用言詞很難表達的東西獲得一目了然的效果。