2019年研究生入学考试英语高频考点词汇串讲Unit 24

Unit 24,A. 单词识记,adapt 【v.】( 使 ) 适应；改编；改写形近词adaptiveness n. 适应性；适应能力readmit v. 重新接纳,contempt【n.】轻视；蔑视；鄙视形近词 contemptible adj. 可鄙的,dense 【adj.】稠密的；浓密的；密集的；( 物质 ) 密度大的形近词denselyadj. 稠密的；浓密的；密集的；( 物质 ) 密度大的,exhaust 【v.】使筋疲力尽；耗尽；抽完【n.】排气装置；废弃,forecast 【n.】 预测；预报,mutual 【adj.】相互的；彼此的；共有的形近词mutually adv. 互相地词组mutual benefit： 共同的利益,nowhere【adv.】任何地方都不；没有任何地方,preferable 【adj.】 更可取的；更好的；更合适的形近词 preference n. 偏爱；优先 ( 权 )；偏爱的事物 ( 或人 ),reinforce 【v.】 增援；加强形近词enforcev. 强制执行(法律、规定等 )；强行实施；强加；迫使,renew 【v.】 重新开始；更新；恢复；使 ( 受到损毁或丢失后 ) 重获新生,sympathy 【n.】同情；同情心；赞同词组show sympathy for： 同情in sympathy with： 同情；赞成,excel【v.】 优于；超过【n.】 擅长；胜过其他形近词excess, excessive, excellent, excellence,形近词excessn. 过多；过量；无节制；无度adj. 过量的；过多的；额外的；多余的excessive adj. 过分的；excellent adj. 极好的；卓越的；杰出的excellence n. 优秀；卓越；杰出,词组excel in/at： 在方面胜过；在方面擅长,forth 【adv.】 向前；向外词组set forth： 启程；出发back-and-forth： 来回的；一来一往的and so forth： 等等；诸如此类,frightening【adj.】 可怕的；令人恐惧的,frustrate【v.】使灰心；使沮丧；挫败；阻挠的成功词组be frustrated by/with： 因沮丧；因受挫,grain【n.】 谷物；谷类；颗粒；细粒；粮食,inferior【adj.】下等的；下级的；( 质量等 ) 差的；次的【n.】 境遇或成绩比其他人差的人形近词inferiority n. 自 卑；自卑感；劣等；下级,initiative【adj.】 创始的；起始的【n.】 积极的行动；倡议；主动权；主动性；积极性；进取心形近词initiate v. 引发；开始；创始；使初步了解同义词initial adj. 最初的,instrument【n.】工具；仪器；机械；乐器形近词instrumentalistn. 乐器演奏家,mathematical 【adj.】数学的；精确的；( 具有 ) 数学 ( 头脑 ) 的形近词mathematics n. 数学；数学运算,形近词miss v. 错过 ( 机会 )；漏掉；忽略commissionn. 委员会；佣金；犯 ( 罪 )；委任；委任状v. 委任；使服役；委托制作emissions-free： 零排放admission n. 承认；入场费；准许进入；坦白commissioner n. 理事；委员；行政长官；总裁,Unit 24,C. 单词应用,exhaust adj筋疲力尽的 2012 年阅读 Text 4They worked until exhausted, lived with few protections and died young.,forecast n 预测 2013 年阅读 Text 3As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which ourdescendants will find themselves.,nowhere adv 任何地方 2009 年阅读 Text 4According to the standard history of American philosophy, nowhere else in colonial America was “so much important attached to intellectual pursuits.”,preferable adj 更可取的2007 年翻译While comment and reaction from lawyers may enhance stories, it is preferable for journalists to rely on their own notions of significance and make their own judgments.,preference n 偏爱 2010 年阅读新题型The first and more important is the consumers growing preference for eating out; the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000 and is expected to approach 38 percent by 2005.,reinforce v 加强2009 年阅读新题型Durkheim proposed that religious beliefs functioned to reinforce social solidarity.,enforce v 强制执行 ( 法律、规定等 )2013 年阅读 Text 4In Arizona v. United States, the majority overturned three of the four contested provisions of Arizonas controversial plan to have state and local police enforce federal immigration law.,renew v 更新2013 年阅读 Text 1These labels encourage style-conscious consumers to see clothes as disposablemeant to last only a wash or two, although they dont advertise thatand to renew their wardrobe every few weeks.,excessive adj 过多的2014 年阅读 Text 2There are many reasons for this. 0ne is the excessive costs of a legal education.,excellent adj 极好的 2013 年阅读 Text 3Take a broader look at our species place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.,excellence n 优秀；卓越；杰出 2014 年阅读 Text 4In 20l0, Leading congressional Democrats and Republicans sent letters to the AAAS asking that it identify actions that could be taken by “federal, state and local governments, universities, foundations, educators, individual benefactors and others” to “maintain national excellence in humanities and social scientific scholarship and education.”,frightening adj 可怕的 2007 年阅读 Text 3From the middle-class family perspective, much of this, understandably, looks far less like an opportunity to exercise more financial responsibility, and a good deal more like a frightening acceleration of the wholesale shift of financial risk onto their already overburdened shoulders.,inferiority n 自卑感 2010 年翻译This seems a justification for neglect of those in need, and a rationalization of exploitation, of the superiority of those at the top and the inferiority of those at the bottom.,initiative n 积极的行动 2012 年阅读 Text 1In South Africa, an HIV-prevention initiative known as LoveLife recruits young people to promote safe sex among their peers.,mathematical adj ( 具有 ) 数学 ( 头脑 ) 的 2014 年翻译Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life. It might be poetic, philosophical, sensual, or mathematical, but in any case it must, in my view, have something to do with the soul of the human being.,miss v 错过 2011 年阅读 Text 1Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance are missing the point.,admission n 准许进入 2006 年阅读新题型In March 1998, a friend of Williamss got him involuntarily confined to a treatment center for addictions, and wrote to inform the casino of Williamss gambling problems. The casino included a photo of Williams among those of