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1、acquisitionthrustconcentrationdistinctivespecificallydistinguishevidentlydiminishadjustfunctionU11. The risk from viruses certainly hasntdiminished; on the contrary, it has mushroomed and people can easily get infected with virus.2. I like wild sunflower not because it has a(n)distinctiveNorth Ameri

2、can flavor but because its image is closely connected with our continents early history.3. One of the main characteristics thatdistinguishthe male bird from female bird is that the former has beautiful feathers.4. He went to apply for hundreds of jobs with a masters degree in computer science but en

3、ded up with nothing.Evidently, its because he was disabled.5. Some books arespeciallydesigned to tell us information about the social, cultural or professional life of the country.6. I was embarrassed as an American for havingthrustsuch an awful concept upon the French, saying that the French hated

4、the idea of the theme park, Euro Disney.7. In places where it does not rain very often, thefunctionof canals is to drain water from rivers or lakes and carry it to fields.8. There is also evidence of sloweracquisitionof language and a higher frequency of learning difficulties for these physically di

5、sabled students.9. If you must sit facing the desk, shift your chair slightly as you sit down oradjustyour body in the chair slightly so that you can be right in front of your interviewer.10. Clever readers focus their attention, keeping theirconcentrationon the material they know best and answering

6、 questions quickly because they are confident.assemblymoistearnestdestinationmoistureproclaimassetquestrallyexclaim1. Last Saturday, about 5,000 people held a protest march andrallyagainst social discrimination against all people with AIDS.2. When appearing in court, my friend Debraexclaimedin anger

7、 to a judge to defend her actions, I wasnt hurting anyone!3. Human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief, which has beenproclaimedas the highest aspiration of the common people.4. Henry Ford was one of the first to applyassemblylinemanufacturing to the mass production of affordable automob

8、iles.5. Unless you have a heated greenhouse, you will have difficulty in keeping the plant indoors for very long because they need a really warm andmoistatmosphere.6. In dry weather, youd better water your vegetables, flowers, and plants in the morning before the earth loses too muchmoisture.7. When

9、 you are faced with a difficult situation, you may rely on some of yourassetssuch as family, friends, skills, education, money, and good health.8. After many years searching of the world, herquestfor her missing brother finally succeeded when she found him in Africa9. She decided long ago that she w

10、ould study the subject of physics inearnestas soon as she was accepted by the school.10. He regretted that he hadnt followed his friends suggestion. If he had taken the short-cut across the river, he would have arrived at thedestinationmuch earlier.A. fluentB. acquisitionC. diverseD. reverseE. compe

11、tentF. competitiveG. skimH. beneficialI. enhanceJ. engageK. comprehensionL. confusionM. proficiencyN. exposureO. efficiencyTesting has replaced teaching in most public schools. Instead of teaching reading or writing skills which arebeneficialto students, now teachers are somehow encouraged toreverse

12、the learning process. For instance, they ask students to read the questions at the end of a reading text first, and then teach them to skimthe text for the answers with various test-taking skills. We wonder whether the test-taking skills really help improve their languageproficiency.The ability to r

13、ead or write shouldenhancethe ability to do reasonably well on comprehension of reading texts orfluentwriting. However, neither reading nor writing develops simply through learning test-taking skills. Teachers must be careful when they teach students how to read and write to avoid any false language

14、acquisition. Too many discussions on test-taking skills will only end up with moreconfusionin learning because students have become more interested in test-taking skills rather than concentrating on the nature and quality of what should be taught.As a result, students may becompetentin taking tests

15、while they have little or noexposureto serious reading or thinking. They are unable to understand or talk about what they read, which is definitely disastrous to their academic preparation.U2persistboostinvestorientevaluateaccumulateacceleratecalculatespeculateundertake1. The United Nations official

16、 said toundertakea new peace move in the Middle East when there is a chance to reach an agreement.2. We mightspeculatefurther from the story and say that these people probably lived very close to the well because of the importance of water to life.3. As they are not sure about the situation in the f

17、lood-stricken area, they will first send trained nurses there toevaluatethe needs of each patient.4. If the extremely hostile relationships tend topersist, the conflicts between the two parties make it difficult to recognize that they share common needs and goals.5. As more students are inclined to

18、choose business as their major, the college has to offer more courses that are business-oriented.6. If workers believe inflation is likely toaccelerate, they will demand higher wages to compensate for expected increases in prices.7. If you have a good planning to set aside 500 dollars per month, it

19、would take two years toaccumulatedthe minimum sum needed for your child.8. If the population continues to rise at the present rate, scientists havecalculatedthat the worlds population will double by the end of the century.9. The cost of repairing damaged public facilities is so high that some local

20、governments are unwilling toinvestin the rebuilding projects.10. According to recent research reports, learning a new dance step mayboostthe brain in the same way that learning a language does.liableliberalunconsciousobjectivepromisingrealisticsufficientdominantcynicaldestructive1. Both parents and

21、teachers are very concerned about thedestructiveeffects that violent films may have on children.2. If you keep interrupting me, it is unlikely that I will havesufficienttime to give you the complete picture which you are so anxious to get!3. The new method is both reliable andobjective; furthermore,

22、 it has benefited greatly from the development of computer technology.4. Of all the media, the Internet is clearlydominant, with television a close second, at least as a source of news and other information.5. Body movements are oftenunconsciousforms of expressions, and they can convey certain infor

23、mation to the audience.6. The school principal has someliberalviews about what his students should wear and how much freedom should allow them.7. Word meanings are especiallyliableto change because people learn them by hearing them in context rather than by looking up the standard definition.8. The

24、company seemspromisingbecause the electronic and printing unit alone has annual sales of about $80 million.9. During the time of economic depression, many people may seem to becynicalabout what the government might do, and they just cannot believe the wealthy officials.10. The bottom line is that I

25、have tried to be true to myself at all times and in all situations, and I simply dont think it isrealisticto expect anything else.enrollbotherinstallinvestrecruitreformreviseshrinkacknowledgeconfirm1. Steve Jobs has beenacknowledgedas a genius in business; his greatest skills are his insight, creati

26、ve mind, and his management ability.2. To keep the companies going, firms need torecruitcandidates frequently to replace those who choose not to continue their contracts.3. I believe I have torevisemy ideas about my boss hes stubborn sometimes but very clever and creative in many cases.4. In order t

27、o improve their job skills to get new jobs or to advance in the ones they already have, manyenrollin some forms of continuing education courses.5. In business settings, email is best used to convey some key information, toconfirmappointments, to document decisions, or to contact a decision maker dir

28、ectly.6. Wetland losses have caused populations of some bird species starved for water, food, and nesting sites toshrinkby 60 to 80 percent.7. Better technology means you caninstallmore sensitive alarm systems in your home and carry less cash on the street.8. The name Joe particularlybothersme as so

29、me think it makes me more qualified to be a baseball player rather than an art critic.9. We can surelyreformour public health care system, but it still gives us, for all its flaws, the best health care in the world.10. The manual labor in the countryside for 10 years hadinvestedhim witha strong will

30、 and perseverance to overcome difficulties.A. calculateB. assertsC. distinguish D. literallyE. securedF. broadenedG. performsH. insightI. accumulateJ. insertsK. justL. extremelyM. boundN. perceiveO. sightWhy study the humanities? The 19th-century English philosopher John Stuart Millassertsthat, inst

31、ead of places for pure learning, universities ought to be places thatliterallyencourage students to become good human beings.This assertion may sound out-of-date since most college students today areboundto learn knowledge and special skills. According to Mill, human beings arejusthuman beings befor

32、e they are lawyers or doctors. Mill further explains that a strong liberal arts curriculum will make lawyers or doctors see differently withbroadenedhorizons.But can someone be a successful lawyer of great innerinsightwithout studying the humanities? Yes. Can someone succeed in business or medicine

33、without the liberal arts? Sure. But we ought todistinguishthe goodness of the operation from the goodness of the operator. How well someoneperformsin a specialized field is not necessary to do with how well a person behaves as a good human being.The study of the humanities, therefore, prepares stude

34、nts for their future philosophic habit of mind somethingextremelydifferent from an Internet and Information Age which values speed and instant satisfaction. On the contrary, studying the humanities enables us toaccumulateslow, on-going knowledge to respond to the basic questions of our age, a means

35、of human betterment.U3deceivedistractconfusehesitatesnaprouseaffirmsurrenderwitnessacquaint1. More and more unexpected stress and pressure began to get to her, and one morning she justsnappedas she could no longer bear them.2. The young and handsome speaker was standing in front of a large crowd of

36、people, attempting torousethe crowd with a cry for action.3. No matter where we are, we must not let cultural, racial, or social barriersdistractus from the job that must be done on our responsibility.4. The government hassurrendereditself to the pressure from big business and companies and eventual

37、ly brought down interest rates.5. The fresh air and bright sunlightdeceivedme into thinking I might still have some youthful energy left in these old bones of mine.6. The man denied havingwitnessedthe accident because he was afraid of getting himself involved in a long process of investigation.7. Th

38、e press gave a completely different version of the events, which greatlyconfusedthose who tried to understand the truth.8. He continued toaffirmthat the introduction of divorce would make it more difficult for people to lead good moral lives.9. Staff members were asked toacquaintthemselves with what

39、 had been discussed and covered if they were absent from the meeting yesterday.10. The young writerhesitated, reluctant to destroy any part of his own work, for which he had devoted all his time for quite a few years.equivalentstaticchaoticalertfeasiblecoarsestableimplicitrefinedsensible1. Its under

40、standable that at 15,000 feet, no pilot who is already suffering from the effects of lack of oxygen will be able to makesensibledecisions.2. English law says that circumstances of a marriage arentstatic, and therefore a judge should decide how financial assets will be divided in cases of divorce.3.

41、Contrary to young people, mature adults would prefer to choose some professions that arestableand could bring prestige and economic benefits.4. The new manager of the company complained several times that he could not work effectively under suchchaoticconditions.5. She didnt openly attack the plan,

42、but the fact that she was against it wasimplicitin her silence when others were saying things in support of it.6. Reserved speaking style andrefinedmanners are always considered characteristic of English gentlemen.7. I respected her because she was very polite and, like the rest of her people, never

43、 laughed if an outsider said somethingcoarse.8. Now that we have the extra resources from the local government, the long-term project started a year ago seems economicallyfeasible.9. Passengers on the plane were told to stayalertat all times and report any suspicious packages to the crew members imm

44、ediately.10. Several games based on the Star Wars movies require players to choose between the light and dark sides of the Force,equivalentto good and evil.A. mysteriousB. previousC. fluidD. liquidE. indispensableF. stableG. miserableH. labeledI. shiftJ. implicitK. exploitL. exploreM. tendsN. intend

45、sO. frameI dont want any sort of traditional stability in my life right now. The thought of marriage, staying in one place and doing one thing, will make me feelmiserablebecause there are too many things on my to-do list. Dont take me wrong that I wontshiftto marriage, but certainly not yet.Theprevi

46、ousfour common life phases, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age, are now added with two more,labeledodyssey and active retirement. Of the new ones, the less understood is odyssey that frequently occurs between adolescence and adulthood.For our parents generation, adulthoodtendsto be define

47、d by achieving certain things. We all know them owning a house, having astablecareer, getting married and ultimately having children.We use finding ourselves toframethe concept of the odyssey years, but its more important for us to understand theimplicitmeaning: the pursuit of knowledge and making u

48、se of the accessibility of information and experiences around us.In a time when everything isfluid, it seems that the old recipes and time frames for accomplishing things dont apply. We dont have the same expectations as we once had. Weexploreto find our own meanings to things and give voices to our

49、 hearts. It seems it becomes more important to find out why we are here before we choose to settle.A. diminishedB. demonstratedC. alertD. radicalE. surrenderF. surviveG. affirmsH. affordI. affectJ. effectK. soakedL. soapedM. sensitiveN. sensibleO. somehowTeenagers are different from people of other

50、age groups. The differences can bedemonstratedfrom how they behave. In fact, the brains of teenagers are very different from those of children or adults.Once people believed it wassensiblethat the human brain was fully developed by the age of three. According to this theory, teenager behaviors like

51、risk-taking, a lack of sensitivity to how their actionsaffectboth themselves and others, increased aggressive deeds,diminishedconcentration and a negative attitude were thought to be due to bad parenting or changes in body chemistry.However, new technology has allowed researchers to examine the heal

52、thy brain at work. What they have discovered is somethingradical: Not only does the brain continue to grow beyond the age of three, but the research alsoaffirmsthat the brain of a teenager is larger than that of an adult.As teen brains aresoakedwith chemicals during adolescence phase, the brain grow

53、s. However, only the cells that are used the most willsurvivethe competition within the brain. Those that are used less begin to die off until the brain reaches what will be its adult size.The way that teens spend their timesomehowinfluences which connections remain and which disappear. On the basis

54、 of this knowledge, experts advise parents to bealerton how their teenagers spend their time. What teens do today will affect their brains for the rest of their lives.U4ambitiouscautiousimmunedynamicpreliminaryindifferentpessimisticsuperbweirdabnormal1. Even though the global economic situation ispe

55、ssimistic, not everyone is so pessimistic about the future. They believe it will be recovered in a few years.2. The lab director said that the experiment was at itspreliminarystage and they would need more time to come to a final result.3. The local people have been so realistic andcautiousabout any

56、 changes that the progress of reform has been very slow.4. The U.S. is definitely a telephone country. This is partly due to the fact that the telephone service issuperbthere, whereas the postal service is less efficient.5. Although we did a lot better than most or even than our own expectations, we are not entirelyimmuneto that criticism from those who are trying to find fault with us.6. While the occurrences in Bermuda Triangle have been reported that the area is f