2016年
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【答案与讲解】
29:52
130-250
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1. Although adolescent maturational and developmental states occur in an orderly sequence, their timing ___ with regard to onset and duration.
(A) lasts
(B) varies
(C) falters
(D) accelerates
(E) dwindles
选B
翻译：尽管青少年成熟和发育状态遵循一个有规律的顺序，但起止时间却各不相同。
falter 摇晃，蹒跚，迟疑，嗓音颤抖，结巴支吾
dwindle 逐渐减少，缩小
with regard to 关于…，在…方面
2. The development of containers, possibly made from bark or the skins of animals,although this is a matter of ___ , allowed the extensive sharing of forage foods in prehistoric human societies.
(A) record
(B) fact
(C) degree
(D) importance
(E) conjecture
选E
翻译：容器可能由树皮或兽皮制成，尽管这是种推测，但它的发展使得史前人类社会可以大范围分配采集的食物。
conjecture 推测，猜测
3. It is difficult to distinguish between the things that charismatic figures do ___ andthose that are carefully contrived for effect.
(A) formally
(B) publicly
(C) prolifically
(D) spontaneously
(E) willfully
选D
翻译：其他人难以分辨，领袖做一件事是发自本心还是刻意作秀。
prolifically 多产地，作品多地
spontaneously 自发地，非外力勉强地
contrived 显然经过精心设计的，非自发的，矫揉造作的
willfully 故意地，任性地
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4. Imposing steep fines on employers for on-the-job injuries to workers could be an effective ___ to creating a safer workplace, especially in the case of employers with poor safety records.
(A) antidote
(B) alternative
(C) addition
(D) deterrent
(E) incentive
选E
翻译：一旦工人发生工伤就对老板课以极重的罚款，想建立一个安全的工作环境，这可能是个有效刺激，特别是对那些安全记录劣迹斑斑的老板来说。
steep 陡的，(价格或要求)过高而不合理的
on-the-job 在职的 at work
antidote 解毒剂，矫正办法、对抗手段
alternative 可能性之一，可能性中的选择
deterrent 威慑力量，遏止因素
incentive 动因，刺激
5. One virus strain that may help gene therapists cure genetic brain diseases can enter the peripheral nervous system and travel to the brain, ___ the need to inject the therapeutic virus directly into the brain.
(A) suggesting
(B) intensifying
(C) elucidating
(D) satisfying
(E) obviating
(F) avoiding
选EF
翻译：一种可以帮助基因医疗专家治愈脑部基因疾患的病毒，能够进入外围神经系统并移动到脑，使我们不必直接把医用病毒注射进患者脑内。
suggest 建议，使人想到、唤起，暗示，要求
intensify 加强
elucidate 阐明
obviate 消除，排除
avoid 远离，避免
6. It is his dubious distinction to have proved what nobody would think of denying, that Romero at the age of sixty-four writes with all the characteristics of ___ .
(A) maturity
(B) fiction
(C) inventiveness
(D) art
(E) brilliance
(F) ripeness
选AF
翻译：特别就 “六十四岁的作者 Romero 写作风格相当成熟” 这种谁都心知肚明的问题作了一番论证，使他获得了一种明褒实贬的恭维。
dubious 可疑的，名声不好的、不可靠的，不确定的，(尤作反语)有争议的、价值可疑的
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……
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(《后汉书·卷五十四·杨震列传第四十四》)
distinction 区分，差异，特点，优越的品质，荣誉
inventiveness 善于发明，有创造力
brilliance 光彩，卓越的才智，壮丽
7. Vaillant, who has been particularly interested in the means by which people attain mental health, seems to be looking for ___ answers: a way to close the book on at least a few questions about human nature.
(A) temporary
(B) confused
(C) definitive
(D) personal
(E) derivative
(F) conclusive
选CF
翻译：瓦伦一直醉心于让人精神健康的方法，似乎正在寻找一种治本的答案：一种至少在某些人类本质问题上终结争论的方案。
to close the book on something 固定搭配，“彻底地解决某事”
这种每个单词都极熟悉的固定搭配往往更隐蔽，请认真备考的同学充分认识到它们的重要，读不通句子的时候，别忘了怀疑它们。
to close (also shut) the book(s) on:
to draw a line under (a difficult or distressing issue, situation, etc.);
to expend no further energy on (something), to resolve not to engage in further discussion or consideration of.
1981 D. Shapiro Autonomy & Rigid Char. v. 114 The masochistic person cannot permit himself to close the books on old grievances.
1999 N. Haugerud Jailhouse Stories 123 After nearly an hour and a half of questioning I'd given up on getting anything out of Pee Wee, so I stood up ready to close the book on this part of the investigation.
2012 USA Today (Nexis) 21 Sept. 3 a, A scathing internal Justice Department report on a botched gun-trafficking investigation..is not likely to close the book on the scandal.
definitive 确定的，最终的
derivative 非原创的(拷贝的)，沿革的，衍生的
8. Individual freedom of thought should be ___ more absolutely than individual freedom of action, given that the latter, though also desirable, must be ___ the limits imposed by the rights and freedom of others.
选BF
翻译：个人思考的自由应该比个人行为的自由受到更绝对的保护，因为后者尽管值得追求，却必须满足 不影响他人自由与权利 的限制。
exercise 使用，履行，练习
curtail 截短
be subject to 以某事物为条件，取决于某事物
indifferent 公正的，冷漠的，适度的，质量或能力低的
9. To test the ___ of borrowing from one field of study to enrich another, simply investigate the extent to which terms from the one may, without forcing, be ___ the other.
选CD
翻译：想测验一个领域的研究能够如何丰富另一个领域的研究，只需调查在没有外力的影响下，前者的术语在多大程度上能够为后者使用。
universality 普遍性，广泛性
decorum 正派得体，适当，规范性(合乎经典)，礼节
efficacy 效力(产生有效结果的能力)
supersede 取代
10. The wonder of De Quincey is that although opium dominated his life, it never ___him; indeed, he turned its use to ___ when he published the story of its influence in the London Magazine.
选AE
翻译：德昆西最让人惊羡的原因是尽管他一生依赖鸦片，但鸦片从未征服他;实际上，他在《伦敦杂志》上刊发自己的鸦片故事，还因此赚了不少钱。
distressed 痛苦的，用久磨损的，做旧仿古的，削价出售的
altruism 利他主义
德·昆西 [De Quincey, Thomas]
(1785.8.15,英格兰 兰开夏 曼彻斯特～1859.12.8,苏格兰 爱丁堡)
英国散文作家和评论家。在牛津大学就读时，为减轻颜面神经病痛而开始吸鸦片，后来吸食成瘾，也使他写出最好的作品，即《一个英国鸦片吸食者的自白》(1822，Confessions of an English Opium Eater)。这部散文作品充满诗意和想像力，成为英国文学的杰作。文学评论以《论“麦克白”剧中的敲门声》(1823)最为有名。