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0296 auto [???t??]

n. 汽車

例 In the 1950s, a young man would have found it much easier than it is today to get and keep a job in the auto industry. 在20世紀50年代，年輕人會發現在汽車行業找到并保住一份工作比現在要容易得多。

0297 automobile [???t?m?bi?l]

n. 汽車

例 A century ago, there was hardly any machine-building industry in China, leave alone an automobile industry. 一個世紀以前，中國幾乎沒有機器制造業，更不用說汽車制造業了。

0298 major [?me?d??]

adj. 主要的

例 F&C Motors, a major auto company, for example, is holding a press conference next week.舉例來說，F&C汽車公司（一家主要的汽車公司）將在下周舉行媒體見面會。

0299 upper [??p?]

adj. 上面的

例 In terms of class, digital divide exists among different types of workers and between the upper and middle classes and the lower class. 從階級的角度講，數字鴻溝存在于不同類型的工作者當中，也存在于中上層社會與下層社會之間。

0300 blank [bl??k]

adj. 空白的

n. 空格；空白

例 When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to ?ll in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. 當短文讀到第二遍時，你需要用你剛剛所聽到的單詞填空。

0301 storage [?st??r?d?]

n. 存儲，存儲區

例 The stress hormones can help nerve cells handle information and put it into storage. 應激激素能夠幫助神經細胞處理信息并把信息放入存儲區。

0302 couch [ka?t?]

n. 沙發

例 Most of us sit at a desk all day at work, and sit on a couch or at a computer when we get home in the evenings. 我們大多數人每天上班時在辦公桌前一坐就是一天，晚上回到家后又坐在沙發上或電腦前。

0303 salary [?s?l?ri]

n. 薪水，工資

例 I have to be tolerant of customers because they pay my salary, and that’s something I can’t a?ord to forget. 我不得不容忍顧客，因為他們支付了我的工資，這是我不能忘記的事情。

0304 muscle [?m?sl]

n. 1 肌肉　2 體力

例 Tomorrow’s wealth depends on the development and exchange of knowledge, and individuals entering the workforce o?er their knowledge not their muscles. 未來的財富取決于知識的發展和交流，個人進入職場貢獻的是他們的知識而不是體力。

0305 mineral [?m?n?r?l]

n. 礦物質

例 This isn’t just plain water. This is mineral water from Tibet. 這不是普通的飲用水，這是來自西藏的礦泉水。

0306 unclear [??n?kl??]

adj. 不清楚的

例 The most basic details were unclear and confusing. 最基本的細節都不清楚并且令人困惑。

0307 weigh [we?]

v. 1 稱重；有…重　2 認真考慮，權衡

例 Finally, the headmaster addressed self-respect and the notion that a person’s sense of beauty must include more than how much a person weighs. 最后，校長談到了自我尊重，并談到影響一個人的美感的因素遠不止體重。

0308 finding [?fa?nd??]

n. 發現

例 The findings of the study go against received wisdom that boys do better when taught alongside girls. 該研究的發現與固有看法相悖，人們之前普遍認為男孩在與女孩一同學習時表現更佳。

0309 nevertheless [?nev?e??les]

adv. 盡管如此

例 The lively discussions spurred Maura to make small but nevertheless life altering changes. 這些熱烈的討論促使毛拉做出盡管很小但卻改變人生的改變。

0310 discussion [d??sk??n]

n. 討論，商議

例 Later today, the Prime Minister will lead a roundtable discussion with principals and school teachers from across the country. 今天晚些時候，總理會和來自全國各地的校長以及教師進行圓桌會談。

0311 meanwhile [?mi?nwa?l]

adv. 同時

例 A study found that 85%of new fathers take some time o? after the birth of a child—but for all but a few, it’s a week or two at most. Meanwhile, the average for women who take leave is more than 10 weeks. 研究發現，85%的新生兒父親會在孩子出生后請假一段時間，但是絕大多數人的假期最多只有一兩周。同時，女性在生產之后的平均請假時間都超過10周。

0312 pace [pe?s]

n. 節奏，步調

例 You can clearly see how your pace a?ects your life and now you just have to build your life based on the right speed. 你可以清楚地看到你的生活節奏對你的生活有怎樣的影響，現在你就必須以適當的速度去安排你的生活。

0313 package [?p?k?d?]

n. 包裹，包裝

v. 將…包裝好

例 Use a general description of the company such as“Major auto manufacturer,”or“International packaged goods supplier.” 用一個通用的說法來描述公司，比如“主要汽車制造商”或“國際包裝商品供應商”。

0314 readily [?red?li]

adv. 容易地

例 Although nutrients from animals may be of higher quality or more readily absorbed than vegetable sources, it is possible to have a healthy vegetarian diet. 盡管與蔬菜中的營養成分相比，來自動物體內的養分可能質量更高或更易吸收，但擁有一個健康的素食膳食也是可能的。

0315 grand [gr?nd]

adj. 宏大的

例 All these works had an imagination and depth that could have taken us to grand opera for every one of them. 所有這些作品都讓人充滿想象，很有思想深度，足以給我們帶來一場大型歌劇。

0316 lower [?l???]

v. 降低

例 To help lower costs, IBM o?ers ?exible virtualisation license costs, where you pay only for the number of virtual resources that you have deployed. 為了幫助降低成本，IBM公司提供靈活的虛擬化許可證費用機制，您只需根據您使用的虛擬資源數量付費即可。

0317 sometime [?s?mta?m]

adv. 在某個時候

adj. 從前的

例 The man can come back sometime later. 那位男士可能稍后回來。

0318 audience [???d??ns]

n. 受眾；聽眾；觀眾

例 Because you can’t drive a car and watch television at the same time, rush hour became radio’s prime time, while music, talk, and news radio greatly enlarged their audiences. 因為開車的時候不能看電視，所以高峰時間成了廣播的黃金時段，音樂、訪談和新聞廣播極大地擴大了它們的聽眾群體。

0319 per [p??]

prep. 每個

例 The average teen consumes about 300 calories per day from sweetened drinks. 普通青少年每天從含糖飲料中攝入約300卡路里的熱量。

0320 wildlife [?wa?ldla?f]

n. 野生動物

例 Hunters are barred from wildlife sanctuaries. 野生動物保護區內禁止狩獵。

0321 range [re?nd?]

n. 范圍；系列

v. （~ from A to B）包括（從…到…）之間的各類事物

例 The government is proposing to put on a new range of taxes to pay for social services. 政府正提議征收一系列新稅，以支付社會服務事務的開支。

0322 crop [kr?p]

n. 農作物

例 Rice, wheat, corn and soybeans are the four most important crops. 水稻、小麥、玉米和大豆是四種主要農作物。

0323 click [kl?k]

v. / n. 1 （發）出咔嗒聲　2 點擊

例 I clicked on the link to the next page of the website where I saw the horrible news. 我點擊鏈接進入了網站的下一頁，在那看到了這個可怕的消息。

0324 exchange [?ks?t?e?nd?]

v. 交換

例 During the marriage ceremony, the new couple usually exchange rings that represent the idea that their union will continue forever. 婚禮上，新郎新娘通常會交換戒指，代表他們的結合將天長地久。

0325 talent [?t?l?nt]

n. 1 天賦　2 人才

例 Due to chronic personnel shortages, many companies are searching beyond their home borders for talent. 由于長時間的人員緊缺，許多公司都跨出國門去尋找人才。

0326 talented [?t?l?nt?d]

adj. 才華橫溢的；天才的

例 In a straightforward sense, a critic must be more talented than the artist she critiques. 直截了當地說，一個評論家必須比她所評論的藝術家更有才華。

0327 farmland [?fɑ?ml?nd]

n. 農田

例 With growing concern about the security of food supply and the signs of an emerging global land grab, the attraction of farmland as an investment is clear. 隨著社會對食品供應的安全越來越關注以及全球爭奪土地的跡象日益明顯，耕地作為投資對象的吸引力是顯而易見的。

0328 length [le?θ]

n. 長度

例 The length of the workday, for many workers, is de?ned by time. 對于許多工人而言，工作日的長度是以時間來度量的。

0329 lengthen [?le?θ?n]

v. （使）延長，伸長

例 There’s no proof that shortening sleep will lengthen life. 還沒有證據能證明縮短睡眠時間能夠延長壽命。

0330 lengthy [?le?θi]

adj. 長時間的；冗長的

例 Once out of a job, older workers are more likely to have a lengthy process ?nding another one. 一旦失業，年齡較大的工人往往會花很長時間才能找到下一份工作。

0331 beg [beg]

v. 乞討

例 There are thousands like him in Los Angeles, begging on the streets and sleeping rough. 在洛杉磯有數以千計像他這樣的人，沿街乞討，露宿街頭。

0332 unknown [?n?n??n]

adj. 未知的

例 Some parts of Shakespeare’s life will always remain unknown. 莎士比亞的一部分生活人們將永遠無法了解。

0333 wedding [?wed??]

n. 婚禮

例 The period of engagement is the time between the marriage proposal and the wedding ceremony. 訂婚期是介于求婚和婚禮之間的時期。

0334 gain [ge?n]

v. 獲得

例 There are people who have had cancers detected by routine screening, and gained several extra years of life because of treatment. 有人通過定期篩查檢測出癌癥，并且由于接受了治療而延長了幾年的生命。

0335 marketplace [?mɑ?k?tple?s]

n. 集市，市場

例 With a boom in e-book sales, physical books will surely become much rarer in the marketplace. 隨著電子書銷量的劇增，實體書必將在市場上越來越少見。

0336 total [?t??tl]

n. 總額

adj. 總的，全部的

例 The total shipment will be invoiced to you at 10%below export list prices. 全部貨物將按低于出口商品價格10%來開發票給你。

0337 totally [?t??t?li]

adv. 完全

例 The washing machine is totally beyond repair. 這臺洗衣機完全修不好了。

0338 mainly [?me?nli]

adv. 主要

例 The passage is mainly about how to cope with stress e?ectively. 這篇文章主要是關于如何有效地應對壓力。

0339 warmth [w??mθ]

n. 溫暖

例 Like ?replaces, books induce a sense of comfort and warmth. 就如同壁爐，書籍令人感到舒適和溫暖。

0340 damage [?d?m?d?]

v. / n. 損害；傷害；破壞

例 If you suspect frostbite, get out of the cold immediately and slowly warm the a?ected area—

but don’t rub it since that can damage your skin. 如果你懷疑自己被凍傷了，要立即離開寒冷的地方并慢慢地捂熱受凍的區域——但不要去揉搓它，因為那樣會損傷你的皮膚。

0341 grader [?gre?d?]

n. 1 …年級學生　2 閱卷人

例 The automated assessment technology is sometimes used to double check the work of human graders. 自動評分技術有時被用來復查人工閱卷者的工作。

0342 weakness [?wi?kn?s]

n. 1 弱點　2 軟弱，虛弱

例 Along with his strength, he had an uncanny ability to spot and exploit any weakness in an opponent. 除了力量優勢，他還有一種非同尋常的能力，能發現并利用對手的任何弱點。

0343 weaken [?wi?k?n]

v. 削弱

例 Some experts argue that the link between lower oil prices and global economic growth has weakened. 一些專家認為，油價降低與全球經濟增長之間的聯系已有所減弱。

0344 score [sk??]

n. 分數

v. 得分

例 We found that those who call themselves lucky score higher on the personality factor of extraversion. 我們發現，那些聲稱自己幸運的人在外向型性格方面得分更高。

0345 soldier [?s??ld??]

n. 士兵

例 Describing her husband as “a born soldier” and “an inspiration”, she said: “I know he led from the front and would not have had it any other way.” 她形容她的丈夫是一位“天生的戰士”，并且“擅于鼓舞士氣”，她說：“我知道他一定會身先士卒，絕不會退縮?！?/p>

0346 possibility [?p?s??b?l?t?]

n. 可能性

例 The study raises the possibility that dieting is bad for your health. 該項研究提出了一種新的可能性——節食可能損害健康。

0347 possibly [?p?s?bli]

adv. 可能

例 Educating girls quite possibly yields a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world. 在發展中國家，允許女孩接受教育很可能比任何其他投資都產生更高的回報率。

0348 pain [pe?n]

n. 1 痛苦　2 疼痛

例 They feel extreme mental or physical pain without drugs. 如果沒有藥物，他們會感到精神上或身體上極端的疼痛。

0349 painful [?pe?nf?l]

adj. 痛苦的

例 Only a few remember what life was like before, and who has always been there in the most painful situations. 只有少數人記得以前的生活是什么樣的，記得在最痛苦的遭遇下是誰陪伴共同度過的。

0350 corn [k??n]

n. 玉米

例 Yield growth has been lower in wheat and rice than in corn and soybeans. 小麥和水稻的產量增長一直低于玉米和大豆。

0351 heat [hi?t]

n. 高溫；溫度

v. 加熱；（使）變暖

例 About 35 per cent of the heat taken in by the oceans during the industrial era now resides at a depth of more than 700 meters, the researchers found. 研究人員發現，工業時代海洋所吸收的35%的熱量都滯留在了海平面下700多米處。

0352 heater [?hi?t?]

n. 加熱器

例 Tankless water heaters only heat water when it is needed, instead of keeping a reserve of water at a constant temperature. 無水箱熱水器只在需要的時候對水進行加熱，而不是將一定量的水儲存在恒溫狀態。

0353 failure [?fe?lj?]

n. 失敗

例 Failure is mother to success as it can strengthen one’s will. 失敗是成功之母，因為失敗能增強一個人的意志。

0354 whenever [wen?ev?]

conj. 無論何時

例 People were then encouraged to use short words whenever possible. 后來鼓勵人們盡量使用短小的詞匯。

0355 dust [d?st]

n. 灰塵；塵土

v. 拂去灰塵

例 When was the last time you dusted the apartment? 你最后一次打掃公寓是什么時候？

0356 choice [t???s]

n. 選擇

例 Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. 在做選擇之前請仔細閱讀短文。

0357 item [?a?t?m]

n. 條目；（新聞等的）一條；一件商品

例 I also saw that news item in the Sunday Times. 我在《星期日泰晤士報》上也看到了那條新聞。

0358 arrival [??ra?v?l]

n. 1 到達　2 到來者

例 There is not enough money to build adequate houses for the people that live there, let alone the new arrivals. 尚且沒有足夠的資金給當地居民建造足夠的房屋，更不用說新來的人了。

0359 data [?de?t?]

n. 數據，資料

例 Roberts has spent much of his working life collating the data on which the study was based.羅伯茨有很大一部分工作時間是在核對研究所依據的數據。

0360 midnight [?m?dna?t]

n. 午夜

例 In a heat wave we choose a midnight birthday party and that is the most exciting of all. 天氣炎熱時，我們便選擇在午夜舉辦生日聚會，這種聚會是最令人激動的。

0361 course [k??s]

n. 1 進程　2 課程，講座

例 Graduates today may be called upon to play many different roles over the course of their careers. 現代的大學畢業生在未來的職業生涯中可能會被要求扮演許多不同的角色。

0362 furthermore [?f??e??m??]

adv. 而且；此外

例 Today, given the job losses of the past year, fewer unhappy couples will risk starting separate households. Furthermore, the housing market meltdown will make it more di?cult for them to ?nance their separations by selling their homes. 今天，鑒于過去一年的失業率，更少有生活不幸福的夫婦會冒險選擇分開另組家庭了。此外，房地產市場的崩潰也使他們更難以通過出售房子來支撐離婚。

0363 friendliness [?frendlinis]

n. 友好

例 Scientists believe that personality characteristics such as friendliness, shyness and fears are probably inherited. 科學家認為，諸如友好、羞怯和恐懼這樣的性格特征可能是遺傳的。

0364 workplace [?w??kple?s]

n. 工作場所

例 As our workplaces get more diverse, it is becoming essential to expand our understanding of others and to reexamine some of our false assumptions. 隨著工作場所的多樣化，增進我們對他人的理解、重新審視我們的一些錯誤觀念變得很有必要。

0365 enable [??ne?bl]

v. 使…能夠

例 Americans’ valuing time enables them to be extremely productive, and productivity itself is highly valued in America. 美國人珍視時間這一點使得他們極其高效，而且在美國，效率本身就是很受重視的。

0366 situation [?s?t?u?e??n]

n. 情況，形勢

例 The manager has obviously not recognised the seriousness of the present situation. 很明顯，經理還沒有意識到目前形勢的嚴重性。

0367 tip [t?p]

n. 1 小竅門　2 小費

例 Don’t forget to add in the tip. 別忘了把小費也算上。

0368 touch [t?t?]

v. 碰；觸摸

n. 觸摸；觸覺；觸感

例 How we express ourselves through language also re?ects the linkage between what we touch and what we think. 我們如何用語言表達自己，也能反映出我們所接觸的事物與內心想法之間的聯系。

0369 deeply [?di?pli]

adv. 深刻地，深深地

例 Children are believed to have the ability to become deeply absorbed in something, and derive intense pleasure from that absorption. 人們相信，孩子有一種能夠深入專注于某事并從這種專注中獲得極大樂趣的能力。

0370 deepen [?di?p?n]

v. 加深；加劇

例 What has helped deepen the divide between the well-o? and the poor? 是什么加劇了富人和窮人之間的差距 ?

0371 role [r??l]

n. 角色

例 Junk food like French fries plays an important role in childhood obesity. 法式炸薯條之類的垃圾食品是導致兒童肥胖的一個重要因素。

0372 tower [?ta??]

n. 塔

例 There is a television tower on my way home. 我回家會路過一個電視塔。

0373 wheat [wi?t]

n. 小麥

例 The prices of wheat, corn and soybean are all high these days. 最近，小麥、玉米和大豆的價格都居高不下。

0374 hire [?ha??]

n. 雇傭，雇用

例 In Mississippi, where centres must hire one teacher for every ?ve infants, the price of care averaged less than $5,000. 在密西西比州，育兒中心必須每五個嬰兒就雇用一個護理老師，護理的價格平均不到5000美元。

0375 bucket [?b?k?t]

n. 桶

例 “When we fetch water from the tap, it will be green with some bacteria, and if you put it in the bucket, you can see there is dirt in the water.” she said. “我們從水龍頭取水，水是綠色的，有一些細菌。如果把水裝在桶里，能夠看到水里的臟東西。” 她說。

0376 depth [depθ]

n. 深度

例 The depth of covert racism in my own profession frightens me. 我所從事的職業中暗藏著如此深的種族主義偏見，這讓我感到驚駭。

0377 deed [di?d]

n. 行為

例 The doer of a good deed can feel spiritually rewarded even when they gain no concrete bene?ts. 做好事的人即使沒有獲得實際的利益，也能從精神層面上得到回報。

0378 lack [l?k]

v. / n. 缺乏，不足；短缺

例 The thing that sets children apart from adults is not their ignorance, nor their lack of skills. It’s their enormous capacity for joy. 讓兒童有別于成年人的不是他們的無知和技能缺乏，而是他們巨大的快樂能力。

0379 further [?f??e?]

adj. 更遠的

adv. 進一步地

例 When a new technology emerges, it will further widen the gap between the old and the young.每當有新技術面世，都會進一步加劇老年人和年輕一代的代溝。

0380 sub [s?b]

n. 代用品，代替者

例 We had a few injuries and had to use youth team kids as subs. 我們有幾名隊員受傷了，只好用青年隊的小隊員做替補。

0381 select [s??lekt]

v. 選擇

adj. 精選的；優等的

例 The students can select an adviser based on shared academic interests. 學生們可以根據學術興趣的共性選擇一個導師。

0382 selection [s??lek?n]

n. 挑選，選擇

例 Working parents have to face the selection of a good daycare centre. 上班族父母不得不面對如何選擇一個好的日托中心的問題。

0383 selective [s??lekt?v]

adj. 選擇的；選擇性的

例 Not all colleges o?er merit aid; generally, the more selective a school, the less likely it is to do so. 并不是所有大學都提供獎學金；一般來說，一所學校的選擇性越多，就越不可能提供獎學金。

0384 site [sa?t]

n. 1 地點，位置；發生地　2 網站

例 If you are considering posting your resume online, make sure the job search site you are considering has a privacy policy. 如果你正考慮在網上發布簡歷，那么你要確保你所考慮的求職網站有隱私保護措施。

0385 paragraph [?p?r?grɑ?f]

n. 段落

例 We were asked to write three paragraphs in our composition. 老師要求我們的作文要寫成三段。

0386 learn [l??n]

v. 學習；得知；認識到

例 Since I started working part-time at a grocery store, I have learned that a customer is more than someone who buys something. 自從我開始在雜貨店做兼職，我認識到顧客不僅僅是一個買東西的人。

0387 historical [h??st?r?kl]

adj. 歷史的

例 Beijing is an old city with many sites of historical interest. 北京是一座有許多歷史名勝的古城。

0388 historic [h??st?r?k]

adj. 歷史性的

例 We’ve achieved historic peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan that will hold up for decades. 我們已經與埃及和約旦達成了歷史性的和平協議，這將會維持幾十年。

0389 scan [sk?n]

v. / n. 掃描

例 While the “average” male and “average” female brains were slightly di?erent, you couldn’t tell it by looking at individual brain scans. 由于一般男性和一般女性的大腦差別很細微，你無法通過單人大腦掃描來發現區別。

0390 sense [sens]

n. 1 知覺；感覺，意識　2 理解力；判斷力

v. 意識到

例 American audiences prefer natural, spontaneous delivery that conveys a lively sense of communication. 美國觀眾更喜歡自然的、有感而發的、給人以現實交流感的演講風格。

0391 phrase [fre?z]

n. 詞組，短語

例 We are often asked to underline the key words and phrases in the reading class. 閱讀課上，老師經常要求我們劃出重點詞匯和短語。

0392 lately [?le?tli]

adv. 最近

例 Innovation used to spill over from military and corporate laboratories to the consumer market, but lately this process has gone into reverse. 創新曾走出軍事和企業實驗室進入到消費市場，但最近這一過程發生了逆轉。

0393 partly [?pɑ?tli]

adv. 部分地

例 Obesity is partly caused by overeating. 導致肥胖的部分原因是飲食過量。

0394 alongside [??l???sa?d ]

prep. 1 在…旁邊　2 與…一起

例 A recent study found that using sunscreen routinely, alongside other protection such as hats, long sleeves or staying in the shade, did give some protection. 最近一項研究發現，經常使用防曬霜，再配合其他防曬措施，比如戴帽子、穿長袖衣服或待在陰涼處，的確對皮膚有一定的保護作用。