医学博士英语统考核心词汇题精练9_W

1、微信公众号：医学博士英语南京医科大学小白老师医学博士英语统考核心词汇题精练（9）1. The public school system suddenly found itself overtaxed. While the number of schoolchildren rose because of wartime and postwar conditions, these same conditions made the schools even less prepared to cope with the flood.(A) well prepared(B) plentifully su

2、pplied(C) heavily burdened(D) charged too much2. Therefore, in the 1950s and 1960s, the baby boom hit an antiquated and inadequate school system. Consequently, the custodial rhetoric of the 1930s and early 1940s no longer made sense; that is, keeping youths aged sixteen and older out of the labor ma

3、rket by keeping them in school could no longer be a high priority for an institution unable to find space and staff to teach younger children aged five to sixteen.(A) deficient(B) expanded(C) innovative(D) specialized3. With the baby boom, the focus of educators and of laymen interested in education

4、inevitably turned toward the lower grades and back to basic academic skills and discipline.(A) unwillingly(B) impartially(C) irrationally(D) unavoidably4. Deeply philosophical historians such as Henry Adams lamented the role that the new frenzy for business was playing in eroding traditional values.

5、 A distrust of industry and business continued among writers throughout the rest of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth.(A) complained about(B) analyzed(C) explained(D) reflected on5. One thinks of melodramas, boys books, thrillers, romances, and the like rather than novels of the first ra

6、nk.(A) largest category(B) highest quality4 / 4(C) earliest writers(D) most difficult language6. These writers, who can genuinely be said to have created a genre, the railroad novel, are now mostly forgotten, their names having faded from memory.The words faded from in line 21 are closest in meaning

7、 to(A) grew in(B) disappeared from(C) remained in(D) developed from7. The engine that became standard on western steamboats was of a different and novel design. It was the work primarily of an unsung hero of American industrial progress, Oliver Evans (1755-1819) .(A) fictional(B) intricate(C) innova

8、tive(D) powerful8. The self-educated son of a Delaware farmer, Evans early became obsessed by the possibilities of mechanized production and steam power. As early as 1802 he was using a stationary steam engine of high-pressure design in his mill. Engines of this type were not unknown, but before Eva

9、ns they were generally considered impractical and dangerous.(A) single(B) fixed(C) locomotive(D) modified9. In shallow western rivers the weight of vessel and engine was important; a heavy engine added to the problem of navigation.(A) fuel(B) crew(C) cargo(D) craft10. The key concepts emerged about

10、1957. Townes and Arthur Schawlow, then at Bell Telephone Laboratories, wrote a long paper outlining the conditions needed to amplify stimulated emission of visible light waves.The word emerged is closest in meaning to which of following?(A) increased(B) concluded(C) succeeded(D) appearedThe word out

11、lining is closest in meaning to which of following?(A) assigning(B) studying(C) checking(D) summarizing11. On this perfect surface, the artist would sketch a composition with chalk, refine it with inks, and then begin the deliberate process of applying thin layers of egg tempera paint (egg yolk in w

12、hich pigments are suspended) with small brushes.(A) decisive(B) careful(C) natural(D) unusual12. The quick-drying tempera demanded that the artist know exactly where each stroke be placed before the brush met the panel, and it required the use of fine brushes.(A) ordered(B) reported(C) required(D) q

13、uestioned13. The painter or master who is credited with having created the painting may have designed the work and overseen its production, but it is highly unlikely that the artists hand applied every stroke of the brush. More likely, numerous assistants, who had been trained to imitate the artists

14、 style, applied the paint.(A) copy(B) illustrate(C) promote(D) believe in14. On the other hand, when it comes to substantive-particularly behavioral-information, crows are less well known than many comparably common species and, for that matter, not a few quite uncommon ones: the endangered California condor, to cite one obvious example. There are practical reasons for this.(A) interestingly