贵州大学英语总复习(研究生)

Lesson1

II. Vocabulary

A. Choose the best word from the four choices to complete each of the following sentences.

1.There has been much opposition from some social groups, ______ from the farming

community.

A. straightforwardly

B. Notably 显著地；尤其

C. virtually

D. exceptionally

2.The ______ view in Britain and other Western countries associates aging with decline,

dependency, isolation, and often poverty.

A.predominant 主要的，卓越的，支配的

B. credulous

C. inclusive

D.

sustainable

3.But gifts such as these cannot be awarded to everybody, either by judges or by the most

______ of governments.

A.tough

B. demanding

C. diverse

D. Benign亲切地

4.The foreman read the ______ of guilty fourteen times, one for each defendant.

A. prejudice

B. verification

C. verdict裁定

D. punishment

5. They fear it could have a(n) ______ effect on global financial markets.

A. sizeable

B. adverse不利的，相反的

C. beneficial

D. consequential

6. The UN threatened to ______ economic sanctions if the talks were broken off.

A. engage

B. pursue

C. abandon

D. Invoke调用引起，恳求

7. There are at least four crucial differences between the new ______ and the old government.

A. regime政权政体社会制度

B. hegemony

C. complex

D. federation

8. These questions ______ a challenge to established attitude of superiority toward the outside

world.

A. evolve

B. constitute 组成，构成，建立

C. tolerate

D.

aroused

9. Because of this, a strong administrative ______ was needed to plan the use of scarce

resources, organize production and regulate distribution.

A. apparatus机构，组织

B. constitution

C. insistence

D. promotion

10. I learnt that there are no genuinely ______ animals in this area, all the animals were brought

here from other places.

A. endangered

B. domesticated

C. indigenous本土的，国产的

D. extinct II. Translation

Put the following passages into Chinese.

1. For English is a killer. It is English that has killed off Cumbric, Cornish, Norn and Manx. There are still parts of these islands where sizeable communities speak languages that were there before English. Yet English is everywhere in everyday use and understood by all or virtually all, constituting such a threat to the three remaining Celtic languages, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh... that their long-term future must be considered... very greatly at risk.

因为英语是个杀手。正是英语造成了康瑞克、康尼施、诺恩、曼科斯等语言的消亡。在其中一部分岛上还有相当多的人使用在英语到来之前就已存在的语言。然而，英语在日常生活中无处不在。所有的人或几乎所有的人都懂英语。英语对现存的凯尔特语——爱尔兰语、