Unit 1 P24
1.This research seems to lend some validity（有力的）to the theory that the drug might cause cancer .
2.In a number of developing countryies ,war has been an additional impediment (障碍）to progress .
3.Anthea was about to play her trump card（王牌卡）;without her signature none of the money could be released .
4.I flunked（挂科）my second year exams and was lucky not to be thrown out of college .
5.I didnt want to lose my composure（镇静）in front of her . 6.The management did not seem to consider office safety to be a priority（优先）.
7.For three hours a committee of state senators listened to a parade（一系列）of local residents giving their opinions.
8.Thousands of lives will be at stake（在危机关头）if emergency aid does not arrive in the city soon.
9.Brierley's book has the merit(优点）of being both information and readable .
10.I think there was a conspiracy（阴谋）to keep me out of the committee .
Unit 2 P59
1.It is not easy for chinese people to respond properly to others compeliments and equally difficult for them to accept criticisms gracefully（优雅）.
2.We shoud be truly thankful to Mr Deng Xiao Ping for taking the plunge（做一个决定）and initiating the economic reform in china .
3.Unfortunately ,television studio are strangely designed and
dressing -rooms are often miles away from the studios ,so we had to find a place where she and her entourage（随从人员）could relax in comfort without the need to climd stairs .
4.What is the use of whining about（发牢骚）you bad luck ?It is more important to find the real cause of your misfortune .
5.The rising real estate prices thwarted（阻碍）his ambition of owning a house of his own in the big city ,disappointed ,he returned to his hometown .
6.The old women sat silently beside her collapsed house ,her eyes brimming with（充满）tears and hatred .
7.He writes clearly and lightheartedly about the 100 best rivers and gives his expert advice on how to navigate（航行）their reaches .
8.Outside the forest the snow was already six inches deep and growing steadily , relentlessly（无情地，残忍地）deeper .
9.There is no doubt that his duty extends to informing his patient ,if asked ,of the nature of his illness and its likely prognosis（预测，诊断）
10.Those who are climbing the career ladder fast may use alcohol as a booster to help them to achieve,and those who recognize that that they have failed to reach the top may also turn to alcohol ,in an attempt to bolster（支持，提升）their failing self-image.
11.A typically chinese countryside house is one whose eaves protrude（伸出，突出）over the wall.
12.The ship came back from the region that had just been attacked by a strange disease.Thus the health officials placed all its crew in quarantine（检疫）
Unit 3 P95
1.Given the sophistication（成熟）of modern machines,
there is little that require manual labor .
2.After the police released their report ,john was exonerated(开脱) from all responsibility for the accident .
3.The world constructed by online games seems to many youngsters a reasonable surrogate（代理）for \"real life \
4.In a speech at the Congress ,the president extolled（赞美）the virtues of free enterprise andexpressed his distaste for the blatant hegemony in IT industry .
5.He soon became notorious because he enjoyed deriving perverse（倒行逆施）satisfaction from embarrass ing people .
6.I endorse（赞同，支持，认可签署）everything that has been said from both side of the House in support and admiration of him and of the courage and fortitude that he and his family have displayed.
7.The opposition members of the parliament derided（嘲笑，嘲讽）the government 's response to the crisis .
8.The poor women was defrauded（骗取）of her money by a dishonest accountant .
9.The other guests were stunned into silence as h began swinging into the gaggle(一群) of giggling photographers and kicking at tem frantically .
10.Back to the us,the sly businessman was faced with racketeering（敲诈勒索）charges that may send him to life imprisonment .
Unit 4 P131
1.It is certainly undemocratic ,and many people are beginning to feel that it borders on(相当于) the unconstitutional .
2.Traditionally ,organizations are constructed pyramidally; with a hierarchy（阶级资料）most powerful at the top and
progressively less so as the pyramid spreads downwards .
3.\"No theory explains everything ,\"she remarks .\"yet it is just the desire to explain everything which is the spur(刺激，激励) of theory .
4.The archaeologist in the film knew that there was a curse（祸因，诅咒）upon anyone who entered the pyramid .
5.I have always belived tourism has an important part to play in the spreading of understanding between countries ,as well as being a catalyst(促进) for economic development .
6.Her body looked diminished,almost shriveled(枯萎) in the huge chair ,and her hands on the arms began very gently to shake .
7.The talks will not be easy and the fundamental differences between the parties remain as potentially irreconcilable（不可调和的）as ever .
8.A real love song is infinitely more appropriate for christmas than a trashy song cooked up(编造) as a commercial gimmick .
9.A local builder offered to knock down the remain of the house in exchange for the materials he could salvage（抢救）.
10.Edward now wore the manic look of some animal transferred into the wrong environment ,as though he might run amok(四处狂奔).or bite .
11.Alan attempted to read every press clipping ,interview anyone who ever knew the movie star ,and cobble together（拼凑）a book out of it .
12.Some sociologists tend to bemoan（哀悼）the loss of community in the face of modern urbanism ;there is a wistful longing for the past in their analysis of the modern word .
Unit 5 P191
1.\"You just can't escape the fact(忽略事实) that we're in a
transformational
period,\"Cole
said,\"The
old
way
is
not
survivable.Investors,managers and laborers all have accepted that big things have to be done.\"
2.I think you've just put a finger on (指出) the biggest problem facing the Conservative party in this election.
3.The great conundrum（谜）of my life is that my public career continues to flourish and expand even at a time when the music I love,the music I write ,the music I
champion,the music on which I am the world's leading expert,is utterly out of fashion in every segment of musical society.
4. Flummoxed(使…混乱) by the surreality of history and the mind boggling changes unleashed in the 60s,many writers in that era became
minimalists,withdrawing,turtlelike,inside their own homes and heads.
5.Hannah Arendt's clear message is directed at the citizens of democratic societies that the raison d’etre (存在的理由)of politics is freedom.
6.According to a survey of college graduates recently released by the government's Council of Labor Affairs(CLA),the average starting monthly salary for college graduates in 2006 decreased,which reveals stagnation(停滞) in economy.
7.Financial incentives( 鼓励机制) are said to exist where an agent can expect some form of material reward-especially money-in exchange for acting in a particular way.
8.Girls from dalit families,the lowest in the caste hierarchy in India have the yearning(渴望) for formal school education.
9.The heated argument is getting out of control,And it must
be admitted that
Challenger is provocative（积极的）in the last degree,but Summerlee has an acid tongue,which makes matters worse.
10.Malaise（不舒服，不适）is a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness,an out of sorts feeling,often the first indication of an infection or other disease.
Unit6 P225
1.In the following week，the question reiterated(重申) itself in his mind ,but he was incapable of answering it.
2.We were very rapidly using up a certain kind of irreplaceable asset, namely the tolerance margins which our benign（仁慈的）nature always provides.
3.A d isruptive（破坏性的）innovation is a technological innovation, product, or service that eventually overturns the existing dominant technology or status quo product in the market.
4.The fiscal（财务的）income of Tibet Autonomous Region hit 1.06 billion yuan in the first six months of 2007, an increase of 26.7 percent year-on-year, according to sources with the region’s statistics bureau.
5.We apologize for the sluggishness（缓慢的）of Type Pad-powered sites this morning,
and we’re working to resolve the hardware problem that’s causing it.
6.The office boy tried to dissipate（消解）the smoke by opening a window of the meeting room.
7.The concept that people are born equal is embodied（表达了）in the American Constitution.
8.Victoria Beckham hasn’t quite picked up on all US custom, and incurred（招致）the wrath of a waitress for allegedly failing
to leave
a tip.
9.He complains about his own staff as well, those who are not suddued（减轻）into silence.
10, Speeches or statements made in pubic that vilify（诽谤）people because of their race, homosexuality, transgender status or HIV or AIDS.
Unit7 P260
1.Brenda rose to stardom(出名) as an actress last year, which shocked Hollywood.
2.Mr. Bush ostentatiously(卖弄) wooed and embraced Castro at the U.N. general assembly.
3.It is ludicrous(荒唐的) to suggest that I was driving under the influence of alcohol.
4.The professor trashed(指责) Conservative’s proposals as well as Liberal’s.
5.A best seller(畅销的) is a book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on a list of topsellers.
6.Politicians are always pontificating(夸夸其谈) about education.
7.Out of the pubic’s expectation, President declared that he had no intention to publish his memoirs(自传).
8.He was asked to be the overseer(公头) of the project. 9.Unsatisfied with the ruling, he had a squabble(争吵) with the referee.
10.He hurled(扔) a chair across the set, smashing the lamp and vases.
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