illuminating /i5lju：mi7neitiN/（照明的；启发的）即illuminat（e）+ing形容词后缀，illuminate（照明；启发）可看作illumin+ate，illumin谐音一路明，-ate动词后缀，使一路明→照明→引申为启发。The man of science， like the artist， may easily have more facts than he can use. Both seek the one fact out of a million that will illuminate their idea. Both find that it is rarely to be had without research.与艺术家一样，科学家可以轻易得到用不尽的事实。他们都在上百万的事实中寻求能说明自己想法的那一个，都发现未经调查研究而得到它几乎是不可能的。
superficial /sju：pE5fiFEl/（表面的；肤浅的）即super+fici+al，super-前缀上面的，fici看作face表面，-al形容词后缀，表面上的→肤浅的。To know things well， we must know them in detail； but as that is almost endless， our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.为了充分认识事物，我们必须详细了解它们，然而那几乎是没有穷尽的，所以我们的知识总是肤浅和不完善的。
be known as称为；alien to为……所不熟悉；put down roots in定居；get around to抽时间做。
难句解析：
①Sad to say， this project has turned out to be mostly low-level findings about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes， combined with lots of head-scratching puzzlement about what in the world those readers really want.▲本句主语是this project，谓语是has turned out to be，findings为宾语，mostly low-level是宾语的定语修饰成分，about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes是宾语的补语成分。combined with lots of head-scratching puzzlement about what in the world those readers really want是过去分词引导的伴随状语，其中about what in the world those readers really want是puzzlement的补语。
△要正确理解本句，一定要注意lots of head-scratching puzzlement about what in the world those readers really want这一部分并不包含在findings里面，而应该是与findings属于同一层次上的东西，换言之，可以把turned out to be后面的表语看成是由两个并列的意思构成的。
②In other words， there is a conventional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready-made narrative structure for otherwise confusing news.▲本句的主干是there is a conventional story line……，后面的that provides a backbone and a ready-made narrative structure for otherwise confusing news是定语从句修饰conventional story line.
△本句的理解重点在单词意思：a story line一种写新闻报道的故事主线；newsroom culture报社文化；backbone本义为脊柱，此处是主干；otherwise否则
③There exists a social and cultural disconnect between journalists and their readers， which helps explain why the standard templates of the newsroom seem alien to many readers.▲此句的结构和上句非常类似，主句也是一个there加系动词的用法。而表语后都有一个定语从句。本句的定语从句是which helps explain why the standard templates of the newsroom seem alien to many readers.
△alien本义为异国的，此处是相差甚远，背道而驰。如果考生不了解standard templates的意思，可以从上下文中找与其有相同作用和功能的词组，如上句中的a story line和backbone，那么就应该知道它们指的都是记者们在写新闻和评论时固定的套路和思维。 |
