核心詞匯

　　1.        individual n. 個人，個體a. 個人的，個體的

　　【巧記】 individuality n. 個性

　　2.        fame n. 名聲，名氣

　　【巧記】 famous a. 著名的

　　3.        reality n. 現實

　　4.        lonely a. 孤獨的

　　【巧記】 alone a. 獨自的，單獨的

　　5.        kiss vt. 吻…… n. 吻

　　6.        prospect n. 前景，前途，視野

　　【巧記】 perspective n. 眼力，遠景，前景

　　7.        manual a. 手動的，體力的n. 手冊，指南

　　8.        genuine a. 真正的

　　9.        barely ad. 幾乎不

　　10.    wonder v. 納悶，不知道n. 奇跡

　　11.    uncertainty n. 不確定性

　　12.    failure n. 失敗

　　核心詞組

　　many a… 一個又一人……            dream of 夢想到……

　　feel like 想，感覺好像……            keep doing sth. 一直在做……

　　(總字數：360；單詞：308；中文：52)

　　Passage 3

　　工作生活類議論文。文章闡述了公司如果想在世界市場上具有競爭力，多樣化是必要的。

　　It’s very interesting to note where the debate about diversity (多樣化) is taking place. It is taking place primarily in political circles. Here at the College Fund, we have a lot of contact with top corporate (公司的) leaders; none of them is talking about getting rid of those instruments that produce diversity. In fact, they say that if their companies are to compete in the global village and in the global market place, diversity is an imperative. They also say that the need for talented, skilled Americans means we have to expend the pool of potential employees. And in looking at where birth rates are growing and at where the population is shifting, corporate America understands that expanding the pool means promoting policies that help provide skills to more minorities, more women and more immigrants. Corporate leaders know that if that doesn’t occur in our society, they will not have the engineers, the scientists, the lawyers, or the business managers they will need。

　　Likewise, I don’t hear people in the academy saying, “Let’s go backward. Let’s go back to the good old days, when we had a meritocracy (不拘一格降人才)” (witch was never true we never had a meritocracy, although we’ve come closer to it in the last 30 years。) I recently visited a great little college in New York where the campus has doubled its minority population in the last six years. I talked with an African American who has been a professor there for a long time, and she remembers that when she first joined the community, there were fewer than a handful of minorities on campus. Now, all of us feel the university is better because of the diversity. So where we hear this debate is primarily in political circles and in the media not in corporate board rooms or on collage campuses。

　　核心詞匯

　　1.        debate n./v. 辨論，討論

　　【巧記】 debatable a. 可議論的，可爭辯的‖debater n. 議論者

　　2.        contact n. 接觸，聯系，交往vt. 與……聯系，接觸

　　【巧記】 contactless a. 失去聯系

　　3.        imperative a. 必要的，重要的

　　4.        expand v. 擴大，展開，擴張

　　【巧記】 expansion n. 擴張‖expansive a. 擴張性的‖expanse n. 大片，大面積

　　5.        potential a. 潛在的，可能的n. 潛力

　　6.        promote vt. 提升，舉辦，促成，幫助實現

　　【巧記】 promoter n. 促進者‖promotion n. 升級，推廣‖promotional a. 推銷的，促進的

　　7.        minorities n. 少數民族

　　8.        immigrant n. (外來)移民，僑民a. 移來的，移民的

　　9.        academy n. (高等)院校，學會，協會

　　【巧記】 academic a. 學術的，學院的，學究的

　　10.    minority n. 少數；少數民族

　　11.    debate v./n. 辯論，爭論

　　核心詞組

　　have a lot of contact with 與……有聯系      on campus 在(在學)校園里

　　(總字數：326；單詞：294；中文：32)

　　科技類說明文

　　Passage 1

　　科技類說明文。Priscilla Ouclinda 的具有“能源效率”特點的房子結果變成了其一家生病的“罪魁禍首”。專家最后將其定家生病的原因歸結到了室內甲醛氣體嚴重超標。從中我們可以看到，正是Ouclinda 一家人在建造自己的房子時過多地考慮到節約能源，反而忽略了室內空氣污染。他們的房子是密封的，同時安裝有雙層玻璃……這一切均不利用房屋換氣通風。這個問題在當今美國社會里非常普遍，作者與過去在能源便宜時期房屋的建造狀況相比，得出室內空氣污染是一定要受重視的。