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acquisition
specifically
adjust
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.
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.
thrust
distinguish
function
concentration
evidently
distinctive
diminish
assembly
moisture
rally
moist
proclaim
exclaim
earnest
asset
destination
quest
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,
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
G. skim
J. engage
M. proficiency
B.
acquisition
E. competent
H. beneficial
K.
comprehension
N. exposure
C. diverse
F. competitive
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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persist
evaluate
speculate
boost
accumulate
undertake
invest
accelerate
orient
calculate
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.
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
promising
cynical
liberal
realistic
destructive
unconscious
sufficient
objective
dominant
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.
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
recruit
acknowledge
bother
reform
confirm
install
revise
invest
shrink
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.
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
D. literally
G.
performs
J. inserts
M.
bound
B. asserts
E.
secured
H. insight
K. just
N. perceive
C. distinguish
F. broadened
I. accumulate
L. extremely
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
operator
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
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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deceive
snap
witness
distract
rouse
acquaint
confuse
affirm
hesitate
surrender
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.
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
feasible
refined
static
coarse
sensible
chaotic
stable
alert
implicit
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.
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
and dark sides of the Force,
equivalent
to good and
evil.
A. mysterious
D.
liquid
G. miserable
J.
implicit
M. tends
B.
previous
E. indispensable
H. labeled
K. exploit
N. intends
C. fluid
F. stable
I. shift
L. explore
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
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.
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
D. radical
G. affirms
J. effect
M. sensitive
B. demonstrated
E.
surrender
H. afford
K.
soaked
N. sensible
C.
alert
F. survive
I. affect
L. soaped
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.
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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ambitious
preliminary
weird
cautious
indifferent
abnormal
immune
pessimistic
dynamic
superb
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.
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.
thrill
frown
consequently
incline
impulse
exceedingly
weave
initiative
forge
contact
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
,
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.
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
D.
reserve
G. security
J.
fallen
M. available
B.
deserve
E. charity
H.
demanding
K. lack
N. haste
C. make
F. formula
I. daring
L. desirable
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
stress
in
any
relationship. A second
advantage of an arranged marriage is that parents
may
make
a
better
choice than their children. They
are not only older but also more
superior
in life
experience.
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