二十道填充题考试, 明天宣布答案 23

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二十道填充题考试, 明天宣布答案 23

Fill-in-the-blanks Instructions: Select the word listed on the bottom which best fills in each blank.
请选择考卷底部所列出的最适当单字填写在每一个空格内(二十道题目, 二十个选择, 每一选择只许使用一次)

01. Remember, we are not _______. Even the effort to get all of us much closer and integrated are often been ridiculed as ludicrous by certain sectors.
02. They lie near the boundary of two _______ plates — giant rafts of rock floating on the earth's molten interior.
03. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in _______ denial of these dangers.
04. This does not include the right to _______ or to abridge the Work substantially without the Author's permission.
05. The male sex _______, long dismissed as the underachieving runt of the genome, has now been fully sequenced in a common chimpanzee.
06. It is this radical change of route that marks the new _______ and heralds a future of autonomous human beings instead of monopolized state subjects.
07. Brazil's finance minister, Guido Mantega, painted a _______ picture of the nation's economy as it heads toward general elections in the fall.
08. They're not a serious measure of performance, but a first cut meant to _______ out hopelessly slow systems quickly.
09. It's also imperative for businesses to handle negative situations with _______ if and when they do arise.
10. Had he possessed the financial _______ to go with his engineering brilliance, he would have made a fortune.
11. Back to school, nose to the grindstone, hamster on the wheel--the all of it, the _______ stuff of daily routine that focuses some of us, anyway, away from the staying-stillness of lying on a beach, etcetera.
12. Nothing is more troubling to me than the _______ press during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
13. The sickness _______ its victims until they can no longer get out of bed.
14. As an aside, just in case you are a Hayekian, please name a country where _______ capitalism has worked for a period as long as Soviet Russia existed, or even one-quarter as long.
15. Meanwhile, 17 year-old Mike Perham of the UK is halfway through his attempt to _______ the globe as well.
16. _______ describes the science of systems and devices of nanometer proportions. A nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter.
17. Why does TV love to portray men as idle, _______ idiots?
18. They lauded the efforts made by government to _______ them so as to enable them vote during elections adding that parliament should do all in their power to make sure that the bill is passed as soon as possible.
19. He called upon the teachers to impress upon their students to _______ the habit of reading books and buy at least one book every month.
20. As the article reminds us, copy, cut and paste make it all too easy to _______.

(acumen, alacrity, bowdlerize, chromosome, circumnavigate, enervate, enfranchise, feckless, homogeneous, inculcate, laissez-faire, nanotechnology, obsequious, paradigm, plagiarize, quotidian, sanguine, tectonic, vehement, winnow)

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二十道填充题答案与解说

请网友注意, 你只能选择考卷底部所列出的最适当单字填写在每一空格(而且每个单字只能使用一次). 这次我把一些比较难的单字拿出来考网友. 如果您能够答对十题以上, 我恭喜您的优越单字程度.

01. Remember, we are not homogeneous. Even the effort to get all of us much closer and integrated are often been ridiculed as ludicrous by certain sectors.
解说: 记住, 我们并非同文同种(homogeneous). 即使做出使我们更紧密团结以及统一的努力也经常被某些区域的人讥讽为荒谬可笑.
编者按: 这里的homogeneous在此句必须要解释为同文同种, 但本义是为同性质的, 所以culturally homogeneous也可以解释为同一文化的.

02. They lie near the boundary of two tectonic plates — giant rafts of rock floating on the earth's molten interior.
解说: 它们处于两片地壳(tectonic)板块的边缘—飘浮在地球熔融内部上面的巨大岩层筏.

03. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers.
解说: 但是同时, 这个社区一群少数但强而有力的小团体带领群众激烈(vehement)地否认这些危险.
编者按: 这里的world在此句我解释为群众(public).

04. This does not include the right to bowdlerize or to abridge the Work substantially without the Author's permission.
解说: 这并不包括在没有作者授权之下大幅度地删除作品不妥内容(bowdlerize)或删减作品内容的权力.

05. The male sex chromosome, long dismissed as the underachieving runt of the genome, has now been fully sequenced in a common chimpanzee.
解说: 男性染色体(chromosome), 长久以来一直被忽视为能力低下的发育不全的基因组, 现在已经在大黑猩猩身上被全部地被定序.

06. It is this radical change of route that marks the new paradigm and heralds a future of autonomous human beings instead of monopolized state subjects.
解说: 由于这个激进的路线改变, 标志着新的典范(paradigm), 预兆一个未来自主人类而不是一个被垄断的附属子民.

07. Brazil's finance minister, Guido Mantega, painted a sanguine picture of the nation's economy as it heads toward general elections in the fall.
解说: 当他们接近秋天大选季节时, 巴西财政部长, 吉多.孟特加, 勾勒出一张他们国家经济乐观的(sanguine)前景.

08. They're not a serious measure of performance, but a first cut meant to winnow out hopelessly slow systems quickly.
解说: 这些并不是严谨功能的衡量, 但是第一个削减行动意味着迅速地淘汰毫(winnow out)无希望的缓慢系统.

09. It's also imperative for businesses to handle negative situations with alacrity if and when they do arise.
解说: 十分乐意(alacrity)地应付一旦发生的不利状况对生意也极为重要.

10. Had he possessed the financial acumen to go with his engineering brilliance, he would have made a fortune.
解说: 如果他当初拥有财务精明(acumen)再配合他的工程才华, 他就可以致富.
编者按: 这句话是一个与事实相反的假设语句.

11. Back to school, nose to the grindstone, hamster on the wheel--the all of it, the quotidian stuff of daily routine that focuses some of us, anyway, away from the staying-stillness of lying on a beach, etcetera.
解说: (假期结束)回学校, 埋头苦干, 忙碌于枯燥无味的工作—一切的一切, 每天例行公事的日常发生(quotidian)事情集中在我们一些人身上, 至少, 让我们无法想到静静地躺在海滩, 等等.

12. Nothing is more troubling to me than the obsequious press during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
解说: 对我来说, 没有比在入侵伊拉克之前, 卑躬屈膝的(obsequious)新闻媒体更令人忧心忡忡.

13. The sickness enervate its victims until they can no longer get out of bed.
解说: 这个病变使病患感到身体耗弱(enervate)直到他们无法从病床起身.

14. As an aside, just in case you are a Hayekian, please name a country where laissez-faire capitalism has worked for a period as long as Soviet Russia existed, or even one-quarter as long.
解说: 顺便一提, 如果你是一位哈耶克自由主义者, 请你说出一个国家成功地实行自由放任(laissez-faire)资本主义的时间跟苏联时期一样长, 甚至或者长至四分之一的苏联时期时间.
编者按: 这句话意思是虽然苏联经济政策失败了, 但自由放任资本主义却更无执行可能性.

15. Meanwhile, 17 year-old Mike Perham of the UK is halfway through his attempt to circumnavigate the globe as well.
解说: 同时, 英国十七岁的麦克.派尔翰已经走了他尝试的环球航行(circumnavigate)旅游的一半航程.

16. Nanotechnology describes the science of systems and devices of nanometer proportions. A nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter.
解说: 纳米科技(Nanotechnology)描述有关纳米部分的系统与仪器的科学. 一纳米等于一毫米的百万分之一的长度.

17. Why does TV love to portray men as idle, feckless idiots?
解说: 为什么电视节目总把男人描述成无所事事, 软弱无能的(feckless)白痴?

18. They lauded the efforts made by government to enfranchise them so as to enable them vote during elections adding that parliament should do all in their power to make sure that the bill is passed as soon as possible.
解说: 他们赞扬政府授予他们投票权(enfranchise)的努力以至于使他们在选举时可以投票, 他们又说国会应该尽全力使这个法案越快通过越好.

19. He called upon the teachers to impress upon their students to inculcate the habit of reading books and buy at least one book every month.
解说: 他呼吁教师门影响他们的学生, 反复教导(inculcate)阅读书籍跟每个月至少买一本书的习惯.

20. As the article reminds us, copy, cut and paste make it all too easy to plagiarize.
解说: 这篇文章提醒我们, 复制, 剪贴使抄袭(plagiarize)更加容易.

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