四六级词汇(视频).doc

四六级词汇1. The combination of the increased burden of AIDS in the developing world and the absence of affordable therapies and vaccines has raised the sensitivity of health professionals to issues of ethics and equity in international biomedical research.实用短语：The combination of (A) and (B) Sth. has raised the sensitivity of 同源词汇：(adj.) sensitive, sentimental, sensible, sensational, senseless2. As is abundantly clear from their art and literature, the ancients attached great importance to ideals of bodily perfection and to outward appearance in general.实用短语：Somebody attached great importance to sth.词语分类：appearance, figure, lineament, expression, complexion3. The children who showed the most gains over the year in terms of learning the alphabet and numbers, as well as achieving basic reading and math skills, were those who had more individual interaction with teachers.句子主干：The children were those.近义词辨析：(adj.) skilled, skillful实用短语：the alphabet of 4. In 2007, an influential paper in the journal Behavioral and Brain Functions found that while most of us process emotions through the right hemisphere of the brain, about 35% of people especially victims of trauma process their hurt and anger through their left brain, where logic and language sit.句子主干：an paper found that（宾语从句）优秀句型：while , （让步转折）词语替换：emotions- their hurt and anger5. Silence can exact a high psychological price on individuals, generating feelings of humiliation, pernicious anger, resentment and the like that, if unexpressed, contaminate every interaction, shut down creativity and undermine productivity.根据语境推导词义：silence单词表达力度：humiliation, pernicious, resentment单词精确理解：contaminate, undermine6. When two drunken men fight over a woman, alcohol and stupidity may not be the only things at work. Sadly, evolution may have shaped men to behave this way. Almost all of the traits considered to be masculinebig muscles, facial hair, square jaws, deep voices and a propensity to violenceevolved, it now seems, specifically for their usefulness in fighting off or intimidating other men, allowing the winner to get the girl.7. The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness. A good book often serves as a match to light the dormant powder within us. 8. The potential consequences are perilous, so to curb crime, lawmakers should consider more forceful deterrents and promote cyber security by increasing funding for law-enforcement personnel and for more training and equipment to investigate and prosecute cyber criminals.近义词辨析：（危险 n.）danger, risk, peril, hazard, jeopardy单词感情色彩：result, consequence, fruit9. Type D personality, first defined in the 90s, is characterized by feelings of negativity, depression, anxiety, stress, anger, and loneliness. Type D personalities sweat the small stuff and often expect the worst. They have trouble making friends and often have low self-esteem. They are tense, chronically angry, and overreact to stressful situations; they also tend to conceal their feelings from others out of fear of rejection.10. First, the teachers personality should be pleasantly live and attractive. This does not rule out people who are physically plain, or even ugly, because many such have great personal charm. But it does rule out such types as the over-excitable, melancholy, frigid, sarcastic, cynical, frustrated, and over-bearing: I would say too, that it excludes all of dull or purely negative personality. I still stick to that school children probably suffer more from bores than from brutes.同类词归纳：over-excitable, melancholy, frigid, sarcastic, cynical, frustrated, over-bearing11.Wine buffs are like art collectors. Few can tell the difference between a well-made fake and the real thing. Yet whereas counterfeit art has been around for centuries, wine forgery is relatively new. It started in the late 1970s when the prices of the best winesespecially those from Bordeauxshot up. Today, with demand from China fuelling a remarkable boom, counterfeiting is rife. By some estimates 5% of fine wines sold at auction or on the secondary market are not what they claim to be on the label.12. The simplest technique is to slap the label of a 1982 Chteau Lafite (one of the most prized recent vintages) onto a bottle of 1975 Lafite (a less divine year). Another trick is to bribe the sommelier of a fancy restaurant to pass on empty bottles that once held expensive wine, along with the corks. These can be refilled with cheaper wine, recorked and resealed. Empty Lafite and Latour bottles are sold on eBay for several hundred euros.13. My point is that philosophy does not (and should not, and must not) stand apart from the rest of the sciences. Rather, philosophy should be integrated with the rest of the sciences through a method of rational judgment. Rather than sailing behind, or next to but away from, the rest of the sciences, philosophy should be the flagship of the group. Although the other sciences can provide us with data, observations, and theories, only philosophy can integrate those into a coherent whole, tell us what to do with them, or provide a meaningful context for using these facts in our daily lives.14. Many companies reuse parts from old products in new models. This is not cheatingit makes both environmental and economic sense. Canon, for example, has adopted a corporate philosophy known as “kyosei”. In Canons context it means “living and working together for the common good” including a fundamental goal of achieving sustainable economic development and harmony between the environment and corporate activities. The company has even gone so far as to say that environmental assurance should come before all business activities, and that companies incapable of achieving such assurance do not deserve to remain in business.15. The best way to overcome it is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a riversmall at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who in old age can see his life in this way will not suffer from the fear of death.16. Every profession or