核心詞匯

　　1.        effort n. 努力，嘗試

　　【巧記】 effortless a. 不費(fèi)力的，輕易的

　　2.        background n. 背景a. 背景的

　　3.        amateur n. 業(yè)余愛好者

　　4.        represent vt. 代表，代理，表達(dá)，象征

　　【巧記】 representation n. 代表，表現(xiàn)‖representative n. 代表，代理人a. 典型的

　　5.        qualification n. 資格

　　6.        committee n. 榮譽(yù)，委員會

　　7.        symbol n. 象征

　　8.        route n. 路線，路程

　　9.        ancient a. 古代的，古老的，年老的，看上去很老的

　　10.    amateur n. (藝術(shù)、科學(xué)等的)業(yè)余愛好者，外行

　　【巧記】 amateur n. (藝術(shù)、科學(xué)等的)業(yè)余愛好者，業(yè)余運(yùn)動員，外行‖amateur a. 業(yè)余愛好的，業(yè)余(身份)的，外行的

　　核心詞組

　　more A than B 與其說B不如說A               with the same goal of 有……同要的目標(biāo)

　　meet all these qualifications 滿足所有的資格      make a profit 盈利

　　教育類文章

　　Passage 1

　　教育類記敘文。作者認(rèn)為工程學(xué)的學(xué)生應(yīng)該是文理兼?zhèn)涞牡浞叮�但�?dāng)談到自己的大學(xué)生涯時(shí)，卻認(rèn)為自己是個(gè)理想主義者兼而是個(gè)傻瓜。作者為了得到廣泛的教育，努力想使自己成為思想活躍和在今后的求職道路上有自己的價(jià)值體系的人，因而選擇了一所很小的文科學(xué)校，學(xué)習(xí)工程學(xué)，并認(rèn)為此舉必將會使自己成為一名真正的工程人員，既是技術(shù)天才又是人文學(xué)者。但最后，現(xiàn)實(shí)證明成為一名獨(dú)特的文理兼?zhèn)涞膶W(xué)生是不切實(shí)際的。

　　Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality, but when it comes to my college education, I am an idealist and a fool. In high school I wanted to be an electrical engineer and, of course, any sensible student with my aims would have chosen a college with a large engineering department, famous reputation and lots of good labs and research equipment. But that’s not what I did。

　　I chose to study engineering at a small liberal arts (文科) university that doesn’t even offer a major in electrical engineering. Obviously, this was not a practical choice; I came here for more noble reasons. I wanted a broad education that would provide me with flexibility and a value system to guide me in my career. I wanted to open my eyes and expand my vision by interacting with people who weren’t studying science or engineering. My parents, teachers and other adults praised me for such a sensible choice. They told me I was wise and mature beyond my 18 years, and I believed them。

　　I headed off to college sure I was going to have an advantage over those students who went to big engineering “factories” where they didn’t care if you had values or were flexible. I was going to be a complete engineer: technical genius and sensitive humanist (人文學(xué)者) all in one。

　　Now I’m not so sure. Somewhere along the way my noble ideals crashed into reality, as all noble ideals eventually do. After three years of struggling to balance math, physics and engineering courses with liberal arts courses, I have learned there are reasons why few engineering students try to reconcile (協(xié)調(diào)) engineering with liberal arts courses in college。

　　The reality that has blocked my path to becoming the typical successful student is that engineering and the liberal arts simply don’t mix as easily as I assumed in high school. Individually they shape a person in very different ways; together they threaten to confuse. The struggle to reconcile the two fields of study is difficult。

　　核心詞匯

　　1.       suppose vt. 猜想；認(rèn)為

　　【巧記】 supply vt. /n. 供給；供應(yīng)‖support vt. 支持；擁護(hù)；支撐；支承

　　【辨析】 suppose, expect, figure, guess

　　上述四個(gè)單詞均可以作為“料想”，“認(rèn)為”理解。在一般使用中區(qū)別不大，可換用。suppose 偏重于“料想”，也可以有“想法”的意思；expect主要用于美國英語中，表示對“料想”的事情較有把握；figure 指估計(jì)，判斷，總結(jié)；guess 則指沒有根據(jù)地料想。

　　【真題】 He’s watching TV? He’s   to be cleaning his room。

　　(A) known    (B) supposed    (C) regard    (D) considered

　　答案：B。

　　句意：他在看電視嗎？　　他應(yīng)該在清掃房間。

　　2.       sensible a. 明智的，合情理的

　　【巧記】 sensational a. 令人激動的，轟動的，感覺的‖senseless a. 無知覺的，愚蠢的；無意義的‖sensitive a. 敏感的，靈敏的‖sensitivity n. 敏感性，靈敏度

　　【搭配】 be sensible of=know 知道‖be sensible to sth. 對……有感覺

　　【真題】 Some plants are very   to light; they prefer the shade。

　　(A) sensible    (B) flexible    (C) objective    (D) sensitive

　　答案：D. 本題考點(diǎn)為 sensible (明智的) 與 sensitive (敏感的) 的區(qū)別。

　　句意：一些植物對陽光非常敏感，它們適于陰涼處。

　　3.       aim n. 目標(biāo)，目的，意圖 vt. 對……瞄準(zhǔn)，對準(zhǔn)，針對，旨在

　　【巧記】 aimless a. 無目的的‖aimlessly ad. 無目的地

　　【搭配】 aim at/aim for瞄準(zhǔn)，針對‖the aim in sth. 做……的目的

　　【辨析】 aim, goal, object, objective, purpose, target