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thrust
concentration
distinctive
specifically
distinguish
evidently
diminish
adjust
function
1.
The
risk
from
viruses
certainly
hasn't
diminished
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)
distinctive
North American
flavor but
because its image is closely
connected with our continent's early history.
3. One of the main characteristics that
distinguish
the male bird
from female bird is
that the former has
beautiful feathers.
4. He went to apply
for hundreds of jobs with a master's degree in
computer science
but ended up with
nothing.
Evidently
, it's
because he was disabled.
5. Some books
are
specially
designed to
tell us information about the social, cultural or
professional life of the country.
6. I was embarrassed as an American for
having
thrust
such an awful
concept upon the
French, saying that
the French hated the idea of the theme park, Euro
Disney.
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7. In places
where it does not rain very often, the
function
of canals is to
drain water
from rivers or lakes and
carry it to fields.
8. There is also
evidence of slower
acquisition
of language and
a higher frequency of
learning
difficulties for these physically disabled
students.
9. If you must sit facing the
desk, shift your chair slightly as you sit down or
adjust
your
body
in the chair slightly so that you can be right in
front of your interviewer.
10. Clever
readers focus their attention, keeping their
concentration
on the
material
they know best and answering
questions quickly because they are confident.
assembly
moist
earnest
destination
moisture
proclaim
asset
quest
rally
exclaim
1.
Last
Saturday,
about
5,000
people
held
a
protest
march
and
rally
against
social
discrimination
against all people with AIDS.
2. When
appearing in court, my friend Debra
exclaimed
in anger to a
judge to defend
her actions,
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3.
Human
beings
shall
enjoy
freedom
of
speech
and
belief,
which
has
been
proclaimed
as the highest aspiration of the common people.
4. Henry Ford was one of the first to
apply
assembly
line
manufacturing to the mass
production of
affordable automobiles.
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 and
moist
atmosphere.
6.
In
dry
weather,
you'd
better
water
your
vegetables,
flowers,
and
plants
in
the
morning before the earth
loses too much
moisture
.
7.
When
you
are
faced
with
a
difficult
situation,
you
may
rely
on
some
of
your
assets
such as family,
friends, skills, education, money, and good
health.
8. After many years' searching
of the world, her
quest
for
her missing brother finally
succeeded
when she found him in Africa
9. She
decided long ago that she would study the subject
of physics in
earnest
as
soon
as she was accepted by the school.
10.
He
regretted
that
he
hadn't
followed
his
friend's
suggestion.
If
he
had
taken
the
short-
cut across the river, he would have arrived at the
destination
much earlier.
A. fluent
D. reverse
B. acquisition
E. competent
C. diverse
F. competitive
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G. skim
J.
engage
M. proficiency
H.
beneficial
K. comprehension
N. exposure
I. enhance
L. confusion
O. efficiency
Testing has replaced teaching in most
public schools. Instead of teaching reading
or
writing
skills
which
are
beneficial
to
students,
now
teachers
are
somehow
encouraged
to
reverse
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
skim
the text for the
answers with various test-taking skills. We wonder
whether
the test-taking skills really
help improve their language
proficiency
.
The
ability to read or write should
enhance
the ability to do
reasonably well on
comprehension
of
reading
texts
or
fluent
writing.
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
acquisition
. Too many
discussions on test-taking skills will only end up
with more
confusion
in 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
be
competent
in
taking
tests
while
they
have
little
or
no
exposure
to serious reading
or thinking. They are unable to understand or talk
about what they read, which is
definitely disastrous to their academic
preparation.
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boost
invest
orient
evaluate
accumulate
accelerate
calculate
speculate
undertake
1. The United
Nations official said to
undertake
a new peace move
in the Middle East
when there is a
chance to reach an agreement.
2. We
might
speculate
further
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 flood-stricken area, they will
first send
trained nurses there to
evaluate
the needs of each
patient.
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4. If
the extremely hostile relationships tend to
persist
, 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 choose business as their
major, the college has to
offer more
courses that are business-
oriented
.
6. If workers believe inflation is
likely to
accelerate
, 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 would take two
years to
accumulated
the minimum sum
needed for your child.
8. If
the population continues to rise at the present
rate, scientists have
calculated
that
the world's population will double by
the end of the century.
9.
The
cost
of
repairing
damaged
public
facilities
is
so
high
that
some
local
governments are unwilling to
invest
in the rebuilding
projects.
10.
According
to
recent
research
reports,
learning
a
new
dance
step
may
boost
the
brain
in the same way that learning a language
does.
liable
liberal
unconscious
objective
promising
realistic
sufficient
dominant
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cynical
destructive
1. Both
parents and teachers are very concerned about the
destructive
effects that
violent films may have on children.
2. If you keep interrupting me, it is
unlikely that I will have
sufficient
time to give you
the complete picture which you are so
anxious to get!
3. The new method is
both reliable and
objective
; furthermore, it has benefited greatly
from the development of computer
technology.
4. Of all the media, the
Internet is clearly
dominant
, with television a close second, at
least as a source of news and other
information.
5. Body movements are
often
unconscious
forms of
expressions, and they can convey
certain information to the audience.
6. The school principal has some
liberal
views about what
his students should wear
and how much
freedom should allow them.
7. Word
meanings are especially
liable
to change because
people learn them by
hearing them in
context rather than by looking up the standard
definition.
8. The company seems
promising
because the
electronic and printing unit alone has
annual sales of about $$80 million.
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9. During the time of
economic depression, many people may seem to be
cynical
about
what the government might do, and they
just cannot believe the wealthy officials.
10. The bottom line is that I have
tried to be true to myself at all times and in all
situations, and I simply don't think it
is
realistic
to expect
anything else.
enroll
bother
install
invest
recruit
reform
revise
shrink
acknowledge
confirm
1. Steve Jobs has been
acknowledged
as a genius in
business; his greatest skills are his
insight, creative mind, and his
management ability.
2. To keep the
companies going, firms need to
recruit
candidates
frequently to replace
those who choose
not to continue their contracts.
3. I believe I have to
revise
my ideas about my
boss
—
he's
stubborn sometimes but
very clever and
creative in many cases.
4.
In order to improve their job skills
—
to get new jobs
or to advance in the ones they
already
have, many
enroll
in some
forms of continuing education courses.
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5.
In
business
settings,
email
is
best
used
to
convey
some
key
information,
to
confirm
appointments,
to
document
decisions,
or
to
contact
a
decision
maker
directly.
6.
Wetland losses have caused populations of some
bird species
—
starved for water,
food, and
nesting sites
—
to
shrink
by 60
to 80 percent.
7. Better
technology means you can
install
more sensitive
alarm systems in your home
and carry
less cash on the street.
8.
The name Joe particularly
bothers
me as some think it
makes me more qualified to
be a
baseball player rather than an art
critic.
9. We can surely
reform
our 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 had
invested
him with a strong
will and perseverance to overcome
difficulties.
A.
calculate
B. asserts
C.
distinguish
D. literally
E. secured
F. broadened
G. performs
H. insight
I. accumulate
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J. inserts
K. just
L. extremely
M. bound
N. perceive
O. sight
Why study the humanities? The 19th-
century English philosopher John Stuart
Mill
asserts
that, instead of places for pure learning,
universities ought to be places
that
literally
encourage
students to become good human beings.
This assertion may sound out-of-date
since most college students today are
bound
to
learn
knowledge and special skills. According to Mill,
human beings are
just
human
beings before they
are lawyers or doctors. Mill further explains that
a strong liberal arts
curriculum will
make lawyers or doctors see differently with
broadened
horizons.
But can someone be a successful lawyer
of great inner
insight
without studying the
humanities? Yes. Can someone succeed in
business or medicine without the liberal arts?
Sure. But we ought to
distinguish
performs
in 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
students for their future
habit of
mind
—
something
extremely
different from an Internet and
Information
Age which values speed and
instant satisfaction. On the contrary, studying
the
humanities enables us to
accumulate
slow,
on-going knowledge to respond to the
basic questions of our age, a means of
human betterment.
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distract
confuse
hesitate
snap
rouse
affirm
surrender
witness
acquaint
1.
More
and
more
unexpected
stress
and
pressure
began
to
get
to
her,
and
one
morning
she just
snapped
as she
could no longer bear them.
2. The young
and handsome speaker was standing in front of a
large crowd of people,
attempting to
rouse
the crowd with a cry
for action.
3. No matter where we are,
we must not let cultural, racial, or social
barriers
distract
us
from the job that must be done on our
responsibility.
4.
The
government
has
surrendered
itself
to
the
pressure
from
big
business
and
companies and eventually
brought down interest rates.
5. The
fresh air and bright sunlight
deceived
me into thinking I
might still have some
youthful energy
left in these old bones of mine.
6.
The
man
denied
having
witnessed
the
accident
because
he
was
afraid
of
getting
himself involved in a long process of
investigation.
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7.
The
press
gave
a
completely
different
version
of
the
events,
which
greatly
confused
those who tried to
understand the truth.
8. He continued
to
affirm
that the
introduction of divorce would make it more
difficult
for people to lead
9.
Staff
members
were
asked
to
acquaint
themselves
with
what
had
been
discussed
and covered if they were absent from
the meeting yesterday.
10.
The
young
writer
hesitated
,
reluctant
to
destroy
any
part
of
his
own
work,
for
which
he had devoted all his time for quite a few years.
equivalent
static
chaotic
alert
feasible
coarse
stable
implicit
refined
sensible
1.
It's
understandable
that
at
15,000
feet,
no
pilot
who
is
already
suffering
from
the
effects of lack of
oxygen will be able to make
sensible
decisions.
2. English law says that circumstances
of a marriage aren't
static
,
and therefore a judge
should decide how
financial assets will be divided in cases of
divorce.
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3. Contrary to
young people, mature adults would prefer to choose
some professions
that are
stable
and could bring
prestige and economic benefits.
4. The
new manager of the company complained several
times that he could not work
effectively under such
chaotic
conditions.
5. She didn't openly attack the plan,
but the fact that she was against it was
implicit
in
her
silence when others were saying things in support
of it.
6. Reserved speaking style and
refined
manners are always
considered characteristic
of English
gentlemen.
7. I respected her because
she was very polite and, like the rest of her
people, never
laughed if an outsider
said something
coarse
.
8.
Now
that
we
have
the
extra
resources
from
the
local
government,
the
long-term
project started a
year ago seems economically
feasible
.
9.
Passengers on the plane were told to stay
alert
at all times and
report any suspicious
packages to the
crew members immediately.
10. Several
games based on the
the light and dark
sides of the Force,
equivalent
to good and
evil.
A. mysterious
B.
previous
C. fluid
D.
liquid
E. indispensable
F.
stable
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G. miserable
H. labeled
I. shift
J. implicit
K. exploit
L. explore
M. tends
N. intends
O. frame
I
don't
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
feel
miserable
because
there
are
too
many
things
on
my
to-do
list.
Don't
take
me
wrong that I won't
shift
to
marriage, but certainly not yet.
The
previous
four
common
life
phases,
childhood,
adolescence,
adulthood
and
old
age, are
now added with two more,
labeled
new ones, the less
understood is odyssey that frequently occurs
between adolescence
and adulthood.
For our parents' generation, adulthood
tends
to be
defined by achieving certain things.
We
all
know
them
–
owning
a
house,
having
a
stable
career,
getting
married
and
ultimately having children.
We use
frame
the concept of the odyssey years, but
it's more
important
for
us
to
understand
the
implicit
meaning:
the
pursuit
of
knowledge
and
making use of the accessibility of
information and experiences around us.
In a time when everything is
fluid
, it seems
that the old recipes and time frames for
accomplishing things don't apply. We
don't have the same expectations as we once had.
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We
explore
to find
our own meanings to things and give voices to our
hearts. It seems
it becomes more
important to find out why we are here before we
choose to settle.
A. diminished
B. demonstrated
C. alert
D. radical
E. surrender
F. survive
G. affirms
H. afford
I. affect
J. effect
K. soaked
L. soaped
M. sensitive
N. sensible
O. somehow
Teenagers are different from people of
other age groups. The differences can
be
demonstrated
from how they behave. In fact, the
brains of teenagers are very
different
from those of children or adults.
Once
people believed it was
sensible
that
the human brain was fully developed by the
age of three. According to this theory,
teenager behaviors like risk-taking, a lack of
sensitivity to how their actions
affect
both
themselves and others, increased
aggressive deeds,
diminished
concentration 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 healthy brain at work.
What they
have discovered is something
radical
: Not
only does the brain continue to
grow
beyond the age of three, but the research also
affirms
that the
brain of a
teenager is larger than that
of an adult.
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As teen
brains are
soaked
with chemicals during adolescence
phase, the brain grows.
However, only
the cells that are used the most will
survive
the
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
time
somehow
influences which connections remain
and which disappear. On the basis of
this knowledge, experts advise parents to
be
alert
on how their teenagers spend their
time. What teens do today will affect their
brains for the rest of their lives.
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cautious
immune
dynamic
preliminary
indifferent
pessimistic
superb
weird
abnormal
1.
Even
though
the
global
economic
situation
is
pessimistic
,
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
its
preliminary
stage
and
they
would need more time to come to a final
result.
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3.
The
local
people
have
been
so
realistic
and
cautious
about
any
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 is
superb
there, 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
entirely
immune
to 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 filled
with
weird
happenings, he was
not apparently disturbed by what he had seen.
7. I truly believe I would not be the
strong and
ambitious
person
as I am today if I did
not have a
hearing disability, an innate physical problem.
8.
Many
reports
show
that
earthquake
occurrences
can
be
predicted
by
abnormal
animal
behavior
that
can
be
seen
minutes
as
well
as
weeks
before
the
events.
9.
The University of London is located in one of the
world's most
dynamic
cities,
which
can offer international students
an exciting cultural life as well as the very best
course
choice.
10. Before
the competition, she assumed that she had a winner
on her hands, but her
indifference
to the rivals
led to her ultimate failure.
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thrill
incline
weave
forge
frown
impulse
initiative
contact
consequently
exceedingly
1. We all buy
goods on
impulse
sometimes,
simply because we saw them on the shelf
of the shop and they looked tempting.
2. My coach checked his watch and
frowned
,
young
athlete like you.
3.
While
the
population
has
increased
only
40
percent
since
1960,
violent
crime
in
America has increased 550 percent, so
Americans are
exceedingly
worried about it.
4. Believe me, it's a
real
thrill
to see my own
story published in a national newspaper
and so favorably reviewed by famous
critics.
5. Children with parents whose
guidance is firm, consistent, and rational are
inclined
to
be
straightforward and possess high levels of self-
confidence.
6. I bought a used car last
month, and it often caused trouble. Yesterday, my
car broke
down again and
consequently
I was late for
my physics class.
7. AIDS spreads in
three basic ways: first, through sexual
intercourse; second, through
contact
with diseased
blood; and third from an HIV mother to her baby.
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8. Under the poet's wide
imaginations, nature and mystery were
woven
into the poems
–
along with fear
and sophisticated ideas, so it's hard for readers
to understand.
9. Because of a stupid
mistake in our decision-making process, we lost
the chance to
take the
initiative
in the business
deal; the other side has taken advantage of it
now.
10. You are the person who is
responsible and enthusiastic, making our work
possible,
so I'll try to
forge
more reliable links
between us.
A. dictate
B.
deserve
C. make
D. reserve
E. charity
F. formula
G. security
H. demanding
I. daring
J. fallen
K. lack
L. desirable
M. available
N. haste
O. superior
Choosing a
husband or wife is one of the most important
decisions in a person's life. In
many
cultures,
young
men
and
women
are
daring
to
choose
their
own
marriage
partners.
In
some
cultures,
however,
parents
reserve
the
right
to
arrange
their
children's
marriages.
Such
arranged
marriages
have
both
advantages
and
disadvantages.
One advantage of having parents arrange
a marriage is financial
security
. Of
course,
money
doesn't
automatically
bring
happiness,
but
a
lack
of
money
certainly
causes