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① Because the idea of risk also carries with it the 挺身而出 possibility of failure, many of us usually wait for others to take charge. (2005 广东 阅读 B篇) ② Say a store clerk fails to charge us for an item. (2007年阅读 B篇) 收费 ③ On the other hand, if we tell the cleark about the uncharged item, the clerk would be grateful and thank us for our honesty.(2007年阅读B篇) ④ Whatever department in the Aussie government in charge of such things is now moving to make the 负责 practice illegal, which…(2009年广东任务型写作文章)
polysemy (一词多义)
A word has more than one meaning out of context (the meanings are related to one another) eg. A：Do you know what happens to liars when they die? B：Yes, sir. They lie still.
cause: vt.
导致；使发生
①cause sb. to do sth. eg. What caused him to quit his job? 是什么原因使他辞职的? ② cause sb. trouble/problems/inconvenience eg. I'm afraid I'm causing you much trouble. 我怕给你增添很多麻烦。
A:你知道说谎的人死的时候会怎样吗?
B:我知道。他们依然撒谎/躺在那儿一动不动。
1. provide
① We take jobs to stay alive and provide homes for our families always making ourselves believe that this style of life is merely a temporary state of affairs along the road to what we really want to do.
②理由 ③目标,理想,事业
eg. What was the cause of the accident? eg. You have no cause to complain. eg. World peace is a cause we should all work for. 争取世界和平是一项我们都应该为之而努力的事业。
Vocabulary Revision
“ Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed.”
--David Wilkins
2009年高考完型填空
Alfred Nobel became a millionaire and changed the ways of mining，construction， and warfare as the inventor of dynamite（炸 药）. On April 12，1888，Alfred's89.5% brother 68% Ludwig died of heart attack. A major French newspaper 21 mistook his brother for him and carried an article 22 announcing the death of Alfred Nobel. “The merchant of death is . Alfred Nobel，who became 23 rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before，died yesterday.” Nobel was 24upset to find out
4. term
① In a scene in Book Three of War and Peace, the wars having reached the critical year of 1812, Napoleon receives a representative from the Tsar (沙皇), who has come with peace terms. (2008阅读 C 篇) 条款 ② He, not the Tsar, is the one to make the terms. ③ Mostly borrowed from English and Chinese, these terms are often changed into forms no longer under stood by native speakers. （NMET2003.D篇） 这些术语，主要从英语和汉语引入，经常会变成不 再被说本族语的人们理解的形式。 术语;字眼
(2006年广东 阅读 D篇)
提供； 供 应； 供给
② You can add as many users as you want, provided/providing they each have a Windows account. (2007年完型填空)
只要；以...... 为条件； 假如
1. provide v.& conj.
课程
过程；进程 3. course during/in/throughout/over the course of something ① During the course of our conversation, it emerged that Bob had been in prison. ② Over the course of the next few years, the steel industry was reorganized. 航向 ③ The ship was blown off course. ④ The plane changed course to avoid the storm. ⑤ The ticket includes entry and a four-course meal. 一道菜 ⑥ We're having appetizers, a main course, a dessert, drinks, everything. ⑦ golf course 高尔夫球场 主
will:
① 意志
②遗嘱 ③ 意愿
E.g. Where there is a will, there is a way. e.g. Has he made a will yet? e.g. Things turned out to be against his will.
cause: n.
①起因
4. term
从…方面来说； 就…而言
① It’s a mistake to think of Florida only in terms of its tourist attractions. 术语 ② Many legal terms have more than one meaning. ③ It was he who coined (=invented) the term. 任期 ④ It was always clear that Schmidt's third term in office would prove a difficult one. ⑤ We were soon on first-name terms. ⑥ We are on good terms with all our neighbours.
C 篇)
帐户
2. account
描述；叙述
① In the magazine, Cook gives a colorful account of his first meeting with Hamilton. 绝不, Can you charge this to my account please? ② 切莫 On no account must you disturb me ③ ④ Afro-Americans account for 12% of the US population. ⑤ Recent pressure at work may account for his 占…比例 解释 behavior. ⑥ These figures do not take account of 考虑 changes in the rate of inflation(通货膨胀).
① The hotel provides a shoe-cleaning service ___ guests. for ② The project is designed to provide young people with work. ____ ③ You can borrow the car, providing I can ________ have it back by six o'clock. ④ ________ we meet our profit targets, we Provided will donate one million dollars to charity.