*author What is the author’s attitude to the event he describes?

*conversation Where does the conversation probably take place?

*infer What can you infer according to the passage?

*paragraph What is the meaning of the word mild in the second paragraph?

*title What is the best title for the passage?

*underline The underlined word down probably mean____.

★ access If you have access to a building, you are able or allow to go into it.

She’s gained unlimited access to the swimming pool.

They admit the prisoner’s access to his children.

If you access information, you are able to see or get it.

The doctor gave him access to his medical records.

★ account If you have an account with a bank, you leave money with the bank.

He gave a detailed account of what happened.

If you take/bring something into account, it means you consider it.

Can you account for all these mistakes in the project?

★accuse If you accuse someone of something, you say that you believe they did something wrong or dishonest.

They accused him of stealing a large sum of money from the company.

During election, he was accused to be a member of a right-wing league.

★ ambition If you have an ambition to achieve something, you want very much to get it.

His ambition is to sail round world in less than 60 days.

★amount He needs amount of money to survive. Amount of work is left to do.

Up till now, the total rainfall has accounted to 50mm in this area.

★amuse If something amuses you, it makes you laugh or smile.

The joke he told amused everybody in the room.

If you amuse yourself, you do something in order to pass the time and not be bored.

I often surf the Internet to amuse myself.

★analyze If you analyze something, you consider it or examine it in order to understand it or find out what it is made up of.

John analyzed what was causing the stress in his life.

★ancient

★anyway It is used to indicate a previous (clear) point (fact).

I’m certain David’s told you his business trouble. Anyway ,it’s no secret that he

owes money.

It is used to correct a statement.

Jack doesn’t want to take holidays. Not right now, anyway.

★apart She’s shy enough to stay apart from others. He was standing feet apart

The young couple had a quarrel, and now they live apart.

The room was empty apart from one man seated by the fire.

The president stayed calm apart from the bomb incident taking place nearby

★apartment flat, a set of rooms in a large building

★aside Sarah closed the book and laid it aside. He moved aside and let me enter the room.

★assume If you assume something is true, you suppose it is true, sometimes wrongly.

The teacher assumed the strange noise came from Jack. Yet she was uncertain.

★ Aware to know about

Smokers are aware of the danger to their own health.

They were aware that they might lose their jobs.

★awful very bad or terrible

I hardly slept at all and felt pretty awful. I’ve got an awful lot of work to do.

★battery 電池

★ bother I usually buy sliced bread because it’s less bother.

Getting fresh water here is becoming a bother.

More and more don’t bother to write letters ;instead ,they use emails.

Since I’ve been wet through in the rain, I can’t be bothered to put on my raincoat.

★cancel All passengers are on board. Yet, because of the bad weather, the flight has been

Canceled ,though.

★ceremony 儀式

★characteristic quality or feature of someone or something

★cheat to behave dishonestly

Bell cheated everyone out of the affairs.

★ committee IOC: International Olympic Committee

BOCOG: Beijing Organizing Committee for Olympic Games

★ complex Complex things have many different parts and are hard to understand.

complex machines; her complex personality; complex system of networks

★ consist contain; be made up of

Her breakfast consists of break ,milk and cheese.

Her problem with math consisted of a chain of puzzles.

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★convince If someone or something convince you of something, they make you believe that it is true or it exists.

The professor convinced the students that the experiment was safe to carry out.

Nowadays ,people are convinced that the earth is round.

★culture These two countries have different cultures.

a man of little culture

★debt something owed, such as money, goods, or services.

If I pay all my debts I shall have no money left.

★dot a blue necktie with white dots

On the map towns were marked by a red dot.

★fee a license fee; tuition fees. feed; feeing; fees;

to give a tip to

The government will finance the building of the new roads with the taxes it collects.

★finance People who work in banks know about finance.

The government will finance the building of the new roads with the taxes it collects.

★focus Because of his strange clothes, he immediately became the focus of attention when he entered the office.

★folk I'd like you to meet my folks.

★forecast The dark clouds forecasts a coming heavy rainstorm.

★function 官能, 功能, 作用, 職責, 典禮, 儀式, [數]函數

40 vi. (器官等)活動, 運行, 行使職責

★honey 蜜、蜂蜜

★horrible There was a horrible accident here yesterday.

What a horrible building!

★ignore I tried to tell her but she ignored me.

Ignore the child if he misbehaves, and he'll soon stop.

★import Machinery is one of our import.

Imports of household appliances rose last month.

★impress His words are strongly impressed on my memory.

I impressed on him the importance of his work.

★indicate A signpost indicated the right road for us to follow.

I indicated that his help was not welcome.

★insurance I bought another safety lock as an additional insurance against thieves.

He was said to be an insurance salesman but later was found to be a cheat.

★junior She teaches a junior class.

He is the junior partner in the firm.

He has junior position in the company.

★kid I'm not kidding you. You're kidding!

★latter the latter years of his life

Did he walk or swim? The latter seems unlikely.

50 Between captain and major, the latter is the higher rank.

★literature 文學

★means There is no doubt that radio and television are important means of communication.

The local army men helped the victims of the earthquake by every means at their command.

★movie film 電影

★observe In 1948, he went to lake Kivu in the Congo to observe a new volcano.

The patient with mental disease was observed taking the medicine.

★occupy to occupy a house to occupy a position

The lecture that occupied three hours ended at last..

★outstanding 杰出、出色

★ overcome If you overcome a problem or a feeling, you successfully deal with it and

control it.

Molly had fought and overcome her fear of flying.

The night after the test, she’s overcome by a feeling of success.

★per 40 miles per hour, two seasons per year,

★positive If you are positive, you are hopeful and confident, and think of the good sides of a situation rather than the bad ones.

Be positive about your future.

Working abroad should be an exciting and positive experience.

If you make a positive decision or take positive action, you so something definite in order to deal with a task or problem.

He was expected to make a very positive contribution to the firm.

★ Potential You use potential to say that someone or something is able to develop into a

particular kind of person or thing.

The firm has admitted many of its workers are potential.

60 The boy has great potential.

★predict If you predict an event, you say that it will happen.

He predicted that my hair would grow back in no time.

★profit A profit is an amount of money that you gain when you are paid more for something than it cost you.

The bank made pre-tax profits of $3.5 million.

If you profit from something, you earn a profit from it or gain advantage or benefit from it.

The dealers profited shamefully at the expense of my family.

★purchase When you purchase something, you buy it/them.

The group is the second largest purchase of fresh fruit in the US.

This week he is to visit Thailand to discuss the purchase of machinery.

★quality The quality of something is how good or bad it is.

A photo is printed in high quality paper.

He is a man of fine quality.

★quit If you quit something, you leave it or stop doing it.

Those people broke in and refused to quit the building.

Nicotine patches are widely used to help smokers quit the habit.

★rank Rank is one’s position in an organization or society.

A group of people of high are gathering at the seaside hotel.

★rate The rate at which something happens is the speed or frequency(times) with which it happens.

Now diet books appear at a rate of nearly one a week.

A rate is the amount of money that is charged for goods or services.

There is a specially reduced rate for the travelers using bikes.

The film was rated excellent.

They rated the project the first class.

★reality His dream became a reality.

The house looks very old, but in reality it is quite new.

★reflect The lake reflected the trees.

Her face was reflected in the mirror.

The letter reflected her sorrow.

★ Religion 宗教

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★rely depend on sb./ sth.

Nowadays we rely increasingly on computers for help.

You can rely on him.

Don’t rely on me seeing you off.

★rent How much is the rent for this house?

We rented this house from Mr. Smith.

★resist resist enemy; resist attack;

resist a disease; resist damp

The children can’t resist chocolate.

★retire He will retire at the age of sixty.

★risk possibility of meeting danger or suffering harm

Is there any risk of the bomb exploding?

He saved the child at the risk of his life.

★salary （月、年）薪金，工資

★schedule programme of work to be done

a class schedule; a television schedule

★secure Our house is secure from storm.

Don’t use the ladder. It is not secure.

Some measures are needed to secure the bank from flood.

★senior He is five years senior to me.

There are separate rooms for senior and junior officers.

★sensitive a sensitive ear; the sensitive skin of a baby

80 This material is sensitive to light.

★shallow not deep

★shelter condition or structure of being kept safe from rain, danger, attack…

The high fence gives us some shelter from the wind.

a bus shelter; an air-raid shelter

★specific What are your specific aims?

The money is to be used for one specific purpose: the building of a school.

★spot Please clean off the coffee spot from the table.

This is the very spot where he was murdered.

There are several weak spots in your statement.

★staff the teaching staff; the hotel staff

We need more staff in the office.

★stress She stressed the importance of the cooperation.

He is under great stress because of his new job.

★tend be likely to behave in a certain way

He tends to get angry when people oppose to his plan.

Women tend to live longer than men.

★theme The theme of our discussion is ‘Europe in the 1990’s.’

the theme park

★theory 理論

★timetable a school timetable; a train or bus timetable

90

★tonight

★tough not easily cut or broken

This wire is tougher than that one.

Difficult

It is tough to find a job these days.

★update bring sth up to date, act of updating

You’d better update your computer system.

Maps need regular updates.

★upset His strange behavior upset his father.

I was really upset by the news.

★virus a computer virus

★volunteer to offer to perform a service of one’s own free will

They volunteer to give their blood.

We want some volunteers to help paint the house.

★website 網址 visit a website