-
audio
focus
boundary
overtake
cup (v.)
species
decade
subtle
directly
tone
1. The
essayist’s language expresses rich and
meanings.
2. The stockbrokers
by the sharp drop in the stock market last
Tuesday.
3. Biologists have estimated
that there are around one million animal and plant
living and growing in the rainforests.
4. In the United States the cost of
living has been steadily rising in the past few
。
5. The quickly
growing company has ambitious plans to expand
beyond national
。
6. That computer store is having a sale
of softw
are; let’s go and
have a look.
7. To be safe,
you may put on your dark glasses to avoid the sun
shining into your eyes.
8.
When the kitchen is f
inished, I’m going
to
my attention on the garden
shed.
9. In a serious of
voice, the doctor warned him to keep off sugar.
10. She her hands around the
mug of hot coffee to warm them.
answer:
1.
subtle 2. were overtaken 3. species 4. decades 5.
boundaries 6. audio 7. directly 8. focus 9. tone
10. cupped
1. I didn’t
expect you to be so efficient;
the task will be finished ahead of schedule.
2. safety, you must keep all
medicines away from children.
3. When
we know these new employees better, we
will assign more suitable tasks to each of them.
4. This evening dress is rather
expensive since it is made
。
5. In the
World Cup, England tried to beat its long-term
rival Argentina
and qualify from the
“Group of Death” and
。
Answer:
1. at
that rate 2. For the sake of 3. come to 4. by hand
5. vice versa
1.
I say he, though I really don’t have a
clue if she is a he
or vice
versa
.
尽管存在贸易摩擦，美国离不开中国，反之亦然。
Aswer: In spite of trade frictions, the
US cannot do without China or
vice
versa
.
2.
“Why are you here,” I
found
myself asking
him.
如果你发现自己工作没有效率，你最好休息一会儿。
2.
Answer: If you
find yourself working
without efficiency,
you’d better relax
for a while.
3.
He turned his head
this way and that
listening
to that tone.
演讲者先扫视了一下听众，然后才开始发言。
Answer: The speaker glanced around the
audience
this way and that
before he started speaking.
4.
Possibly the tone of my computer
sounded to
him
like
other tree frogs.
父亲对我调换工作的意见让我听上去就像警告似的。
Answer: My father’s opinion on my job
change
sounded
to me
like
a warning.
5.
That we,
for
the sake of
our relatives,
must act now.
为了更多的工作岗位，工会同意了放弃增加工资的要求。
Answer: The labor union agreed to give
up a pay increase
for the sake
of
more job opportunities.
一、
十年前，当公司还处在生产的鼎
盛时期时，我们就决定投资新技术，将公司转型为技术密集型
企业。由于拥有先进技术，我们在激烈动荡的市场
竞争中脱颖而出。现在我们的成本下降
了百分之三十，销售业绩却上涨了三分之二，利润翻了一番。
Answer: Ten years ago, when our company
was at the height of its production, we decided to
invest in new technologies, so as to
turn our company into a technology-
intensive one. With our advanced technologies, we
out-competed all our competitors in the rough
and tumble of the marketplace. Now we
have reduced the cost by 30 percent, even as /
while our sales have grown by two-thirds and
the earnings have doubled.
2.
我们将可持续性定义为保持企业盈利，但不以环境为代价
。从商业的角度看，这合理吗？事实上，在追求可持续发展目标的过程中，我们的收
益已
经超过了所有的投资和开支。可持续发展的推进起到了如此重要的作用，帮助我们撑过了史上最深重的经济衰退。
Answer: We define
sustainability as keeping a business profitable,
but not at the expense of the environment. Does
this make good
business sense?
Actually, what we get has more than offset all the
investments and expenses incurred in pursuit of
the goal of
sustainable development.
The boost of sustainability made such a difference
that it helped us survive the deepest recession in
the
history.
pparent
patience
convince
respond
curiosity
spark
detail
stir
fundamental
ultimate
1. The theories of relativity have made
changes in our views of the universe.
2. That is our proposal, and
no other changes will be considered.
3. he forest ire was found to have been
by a cigarette end.
4. The speaker had
noticed that his topic wasn’t popular
with the audience, s
o he quickly ended
his speech.
5. I’ve no
with people who are always complaining of their
misfortune.
6.
I have never imagined that I would be the object
of such
7. The doctors tried to
her that she didn’t need to
fe
el depressed about her health.
8. The police asked him to
describe the accident in every .
9. The quality guarantee and good
after-sale services will certainly meet with
positive from the consumers.
10. The story of Harry
Potter the imagination of children
throughout the world.
Answer:
1.
fundamental
2.
ultimate
3.
sparked
4.
apparently
5.
patience
6.
curiosity
7.
convince
8.
detail
9.
responses
10.
(has)
stirred
1. The scoundrel has a lot
of people
believing he’s a
rich man.
2. Isn’t this
straw hat beautiful? My wife
it on her business trip to China last year.
3. A group of bystanders was invited to
the game.
4. Scientists will have to
new tec
hnologies to improve the world’s
food and fuel supplies.
5.
The news of the President’s warlike speech
yesterday pushed the stock market to a sharp rise
of
120 points.
Answer:
1.
fooled ... into
2. came upon
3. join in
4. come up with
5. up to
1.
记者敦促发言人就此次军事打击作出解释。
(press
for)
Answer: Reporters pressed the
spokesman for an explanation of the military
attack.
2.
他的竞选演讲
未能使选民相信他就是参议员的合适人选。
(convince)
Answer: His election speech failed to
convince the voters that he was the right person
for the Senate seat.
3.
尽管我承认有问题存在，但我并不认为这些问题不能解决。
(while
)
Answer: While I admit that there are
problems, I don’t agree that they cannot be
solved.
4.
他在电视上的
第一次辩论给观众留下了深刻的印象。
(impression)
Answer: His first debate on TV made a
deep impression on his audience.
5.
一切事物都是互相联系又互相作用的。
(interact
with)
Answer: All things are
interrelated and interact with each
other.
1.
1) They
might have thought
him slow,
but
there was something else evident.
她本以为历史就是一堆乏味的名字和日期而已，但易教授的讲
座彻底改变了她的看法。
Answer: She
might have thought that history was just boring
names and dates, but Professor Yi’s lectures
completely changed h
er view.
2.
All
he
could do
was stare with
questioning eyes.
< br>飞机失事后，幸存者们唯一能做的就只有待在荒岛上等待救援了。
Answer: After the plane crash, all the
survivors could do was wait for rescue on this
desert island.
3.
Hermann Einstein brought Albert a
device
that did stir
his
intellect.
这个小男孩偶然读到了一些关于百慕大三角（
Bermuda
Triangle
）的故事。正是这些故事激发了他对自然界奥秘的好奇心。
Answer: JThe little boy happened
to read some stories about Bermuda Triangle that
did stir his curiosity in the mysteries of
nature.
4.
The
invisible force
was evidence
to
Albert
that
there was more to our world that meets the eye.
DNA
检测结果向警方证明凶手另有
他人。
Answer: The DNA test result
was evidence to the police that the murderer was
someone else.
5.
He
was convinced that
beauty lies in the simplistic.
达尔文坚信进化论（
The Theory of
Evolution
）的基础是天竞物择。
Answer: Darwin was convinced that The
Theory of Evolution is based on natural
selection.
1.
这位年轻的埃及男孩在一些化学项目中积累了丰富的经验。这些经验帮助他在埃及大学读书时
成绩名列班级前茅。在研究生学习即将结束时，他决
定在化学学习方面继续深造。当面临
选择去哪所大学时，他选择了宾夕法尼亚大学而放弃了加州理工学院，仅仅只是因为他当时认为“大学”比“学<
/p>
院”听起来更负盛名。
Answer:
This young Egyptian boy had received a wealth of
experience in some chemistry projects. Such
experience helped him to sail to
the
top
of
his
class
at
college
in
Egypt.
When
he
was
about
to
finish
his
postgraduate
study,
he
decided
to
further
his
chemistry
education.
When confronted with choosing which
university to go to, he chose University of
Pennsylvania over California Institute of
Technology
(Caltech) just because he
thought “university” sounded more prestigious than
“institute”.
2.
瑞
典皇家科学院授予他第
28
届诺贝尔医学奖，以褒奖他为战胜癌
症所做的开创性工作。实际上，他已经做了整整
20
年的研究才
取得了这一了不起
的突破，他也是他所在大学第一位获得诺贝尔奖殊荣的教师。如今已将
诺贝尔奖收入囊中的他更加坚定地声言，将以前所未有的更大动力去继续开拓
人类攻克癌
症的事业。
Answer: The Royal
Swedish Academy awarded him with the 28th Nobel
Prize in Medicine for his groundbreaking work in
fighting against
cancer. It turns out
that he had spent 20 years on his research before
he made this wonderful breakthrough, and he is the
first faculty
member of his university
to receive the Nobel Prize. Now with Nobel Prize
under his belt, he claimed that he had never been
so much
more motivated to continue to
push the envelope of what human beings can
possibly do about cancer.
attain
manufacture
attractive
market
brand
modest
campaign
precise
import
sponsor
1. I
don’t
think
that
the
amount
of
studying you
did in high school
would
be sufficient
for
you
to
good marks
in
university.
2. Because of the impact of poor sales
in other Asian countries, there has been a
decrease in house sales in China this year.
3. Some young people find computer
games so
that
they can hardly pull themselves away to tend to
other matters.
4. The victim was able
to give a description of the drunken
driver, which was rather helpful to the police.
5. Some non-governmental organizations
are planning a public to awaken people
to the problem of noise pollution.
6.
The cost of producing a tube of toothpaste is
about 3 yuan, so we will it at yuan to
ensure our profits.
7. Mike is now the
director of a factory which canned
food.
8. Plenty of football and
basketball clubs are eager to young
athletes if they show great promise.
9.
The sweaters are made of wool from
Australia.
10. According to a recent
survey, youths are beginning to have a lot of
influence on the products and their
parents choose
Answer:
1. attain
2. modest
3. attractive
4. precise
5.
campaign
6.
market
7. manufactures
8. sponsor
9. imported
10.
brands
1. She wants to drop
out of college and become a singer, but her
parents ery much her
intention.
2. Many great men have risen
from poverty; , Lincoln and Edison.
3. The number of families with both
parents taking full-time jobs is growing;
children are doing more of the housework.
（
4. I can use a
computer; but hardware, I know almost
nothing at all. 5. It is expected that all the
countries the WTO should trade
on equal
terms.
Answer:
1. frown ... on
2. for instance
3. as a result
4. when it comes to
5. under ... umbrella
1.
思想是通过语言来表达的。
(by means of)
Answer: Thoughts are expressed by means
of language.
2.
我今年买的新书多得难以数清。
(keep count
of)
Answer: I have bought so many new
books this year that it’s really difficult for me
to keep count of them.
3.
这位老太太确信，今天她儿子会回家来为她庆祝生日。
(feel
assured)
Answer: The old lady feels
assured that her son will come back home today to
celebrate her birthday.
4. <
/p>
他妈妈坚持说他每月的零用钱不能超过
100
元。
(exceed)
Answer: His
mother insisted that his pocket money should not
exceed 100 yuan per month.
5.
上个月我们买了一辆车，是用我的名字登记的。
(register)
Answer: We bought a
car last month, which was registered under my
name.
1
American
mothers have long believed that
when it
comes to
washing out the mouths of
naughty children,
nothing
beats
lvory Soap.
对于大部分美国青少年来说，要论既舒服又时尚的衣着，没有
什么能比得过
T
恤和牛仔裤了。
Answer: For most American teenagers,
when it comes to
comfortable
and fashionable clothing, nothing beats T-shirts
and jeans.
2.
People were told that Ivory was “so
pure that it floats,” and the notion
took hold
.
李宁公司从<
/p>
2010
年开始广为宣传“让改变发
生”
，并且使这种观念深入人心。
Answer:
Starting in 2010, Li-
Ning widely
promoted that “Make the change,” and the notion
took hold
.
3.
So many hands, faces, and
baby bottoms have been washed with Ivory that
their numbers
beat the
imagination
.
当这条消息在网上首
次发布时，上网浏览的人不计其数。
Answer: When the news was first
released online, the number of its viewers
beats the
imagination
.
4.
The company’s
big
break
came with
the
introduction of its floating soap.
这个女孩在歌唱比赛上的杰出表现为她带来了巨大的机遇。
Answer: The girl’s
big break
came with
her outstanding performance
at the singing contest.
5.
Mothers
tend to frown
on
the practice.
在许多欧洲国家，人们都反感在公共场所吸烟。
Answer: In many European countries
people
tend to frown on
smoking in public places.
1.
海尔在海外市场试图以形象而不是价格击败对手。它将其
主要注意力集中在像学生这样的利基市场（定位市场）上，期望他们年长以后还会钟爱海
尔品牌。目前，海尔在美国的家用电器年销售额已达
2
亿美元，
并占有美国小型冰箱市场
35
％以上的市场份额。这对美国的家
电生产商形成了挑战。
Answer:
Haier
is
seeking
to
outflank
its
competitors
by
competing
on
image
rather
than
on
price
in
overseas
markets.
It
has
been
focusing
most of its
attention on niche markets, such as students, in
the hope that they will remain loyal as they get
older. Currently, Haier
sells $$200
million worth of household appliances in the US
annually and claims more than a 35% share of the
US market for the minibars,
which
constitutes a challenge for the American household
appliance makers.
2.
作为一个全球品牌，海尔致力于通过创新来满足消费者的需求，为消费者提供更多的明智的选择，让他们
可以享受时尚的、负担得起的并且是可持
续的生活方式。海尔秉承着一个信念，那就是为
消费者设计和制造经久耐用、无后顾之忧的产品是一个负责任的企业应承担的使命。
Answer: As a global brand, Haier is
dedicated to meeting customer needs through
innovation. It is committed to giving customers
more
sensible options that enable them
to enjoy a modern, affordable and sustainable
lifestyle. It holds a belief that to design and
produce
durable and worry-free products
for the customers is a mission that a responsible
corporation should undertake.