英语基本功过关阅读

Exercise

It is important that they be looking at the speaker at the precise moment when the speaker reestablishes eye contact: if they are not looking, the speaker assumes that they are disinterested and either will pause until eye contact is resumed or will terminate the conversation.

And the limited investments that are made in training workers are also much more narrowly focused on the specific skills necessary to do the next job rather than on the basic background skills that make it possible to absorb new technologies.

One can only guess that if he heard many of them he was only strengthened in his resolve not to allow himself and his bride to be made a spectacle not their live selves or their bodies

要点分析和参考译文

要点：基本句型 It is important that ，that 主语从句的谓语为虚拟语气（be）。 Eitheror 连接语法上相同的两部分：will pause和 will terminate。

参考译文：重要的是当说话者的目光重新停留在听众脸上的.一瞬间，听众一定得看着他（她），如果没看，说话者就会认为听众不感兴趣，那么就会停下来等听众的目光重新回到他（她）的脸上或者终止谈话。

要点：rather than意为而不。其前后在语法上为相同的成分。此处为两个结构相同的介词短语on the specific skills和on the basic background skills。