研究生英语.词汇练习

Unit 2 Part I Work out the meaning of the following words and fill in the blanks as required.

neocolonialism neo-Nazi neorealist neo-fascist

neonate neoclassical neo-Darwinist neologism

1. Italian _____________ cinema focused on working-class subjects, using amateur actors and filming on location, rather than in the studio.

2. Despite his wartime atrocities, Hitler is still revered by _________ in many countries.

3. __________ groups are an increasing threat to ethnic minorities across Europe.

4. By _________ we mean the practice of granting a sort of independence with the concealed intention of making a liberated country a client-state.

5. The tutor tried hard to dissuade the students from using ________ in formal writing.

6. He is a ________ who always preaches that evolutionary development of plants and animals is principally determined by natural selection, and that acquired characteristics cannot be inherited.

7. The architect traveled around the whole of Europe seeking Palladio’s wonderful 16th-century ________ buildings.

8. In view of the still unknown physical risks that cloning might impose on _______, caution is appropriate.

Part II Here are some words from the text. Use the appropriate forms of them to complete these sentences.

rave heterosexual twenty-something mainstay fusion

meditation embrace mandatory foster holy grail

1. The challenge for the future lies in __________ conditions in cities that will be favorable to economic growth.

2. The old lady _________ about her grandchildren for about an hour.

3. Gene-therapy---the actual correction or replacement of defective gene sequences in the embryo or the adult--- is the ______of genetic medicine.

4. Through genetic engineering, will scientists be tampering with the genetic diversity that has been the _________ of human survival in the past?

5. A news release by the Chinese Ministry of Personnel printed in a few leading newspapers and on news websites caught the attention of thousands of ________ in October.

6. For many reasons, the vast majority of _______ still prefer the “old-fashioned”, sexual way of producing children. No other method better express the loving union of a man and a woman seeking to make a baby.

7. It is absolutely ________ that every driver of a vehicle must pass a driver’s license test.

8. In today’s lightning-speed world many singles are _______ the newest trend in relationships --- speed dating ---- to size up a potential love interest.

9. As a young man, he spent a lot of time ________ upon the purpose of life.

10. She really enjoyed the film because it was a(n) ________ of history and contemporary events.

Unit 4 V ocabulary study

Part II Here are some words from the text. Use the appropriate forms of them to

complete these sentences.

infringe tangible secular integrate architecture

persistent florist anthropologist patterns spatial

1. Time is not a “mere connection”, as some English ______ would lead us to believe, but one of the most basic organizing systems of life, because all situational behavior has a temporal and a spatial dimension.

2. ________ are those implicit cultural rules by means of which sets are arranged so that they take on meaning.

3. In fact, compared with more ________assaults on his character --- namely Jones’pending sexual-harassment lawsuit and the federal investigation into White-water --- words in a book could barely hurt him.

4. A small but _______ group of critics, many of them supported by the oil and coal industries, still don’t buy it.

5. Mr. Smith, who was worried that the ban might ______ on the rights of law-abiding gun owners, had already voted against the bill.

6. After all, scientists noted, HIV is a retrovirus, a class of infectious agents known for their alarming ability to _______ their own genes into the DNA of the cells they infect.

7. We live in an increasingly _________ world.

8. My study of space --- how people experience it and create a model of the _______ world in the central nervous system--- forced me to acknowledge the perceptual clichés of my culture.

9. My ignorance of both hydroponics and of ________ shops made me feel

somewhat ill at ease. Consequently I did not communicate in the manner I generally use when I am speaking on a familiar subject in a familiar setting.

10. To understand an organization, you have to consider all of its components. Organizations are networks of related parts. Each element works together with the others to support efficient operations. The new MBA buzzword for it all is Organizational _______.

Part III Translation

As one travels abroad and examines the ways in which space is handled, startling variations are discovered; differences we react to vigorously. Since none of us are taught to look at space as isolated from other associations, feelings cued by the handling of space are often attributed to something else. In growing up people learn literally thousands of spatial cues, all of which have their own meanings in their own contexts.

Unit 3 V ocabulary study

Part I Replace the italicized parts in the following sentences with the appropriate forms of words or expressions from the text.

1. In China, home computer ownership is expected to exceed that of the US and Europe combined.

2. The company has been placed in a state of uncertainty as the board decides what to do next.

3. He wrote quickly, but from time to time he stopped and looked out of the window.

4. Thousands of refugees left the country following the outbreak of civil war.

5. An airline spokesman stated that the safety of passengers was absolutely of the most importance.

6. The use of animals in scientific tests raised difficult moral questions.

7. TV coverage of the match had to be extended when it went into over-time.

8. He’s a good person to be with if ever you’re in a tough situation.

9. He seemed to be a born liar.

10. The operation was rather painful, but I felt a lot better afterwards.

Part II Here are some words from the text. Use the appropriate forms of them to complete these sentences.

grapple salvage frontier acquit allegedly

defect euthanasia deformity lingering handicap

1. In the Netherlands _______has been legalized.

2. Some observers doubt whether the peace process can be _______.

3. Lack of essential minerals can cause _________in unborn children.

4. All the cars are tested for _______ before they leave the factory.

5. We help people with mental or physical ________ to find work.

6. She had a(n) _________ sense of guilt for some time after breaking off her relationship with Henry.

7. The government has to _________with the problem of unemployment.

8. He was arrested for ___________ stabbing his former wife.

9. To her relief she was ________of all the charges laid against her.

10. The ___________of medical knowledge are being pushed farther outwards as time goes on.