capture★

　　構詞capt拿，抓，握住+ure→抓住毛病→挑剔的

　　vt.1.to gain possession or control of 贏得;奪取

　　2.to attract and hold引起(注意)并吸引住

　　真題連線1998 Passage 1

　　Few creations of big technology capture the imagination like giant dams. 在重大技術所創造的東西中很少能像大型水壩這樣讓人癡迷的。

　　casualty★

　　構詞cas落下，降臨+ual形容詞后綴+ty名詞后綴→突然落下的事→事故

　　n.1.person who is killed or injured in war傷亡者

　　2.thing that is lost, damaged or destroyed in an accident 事故

　　真題連線2000 Passage 1

　　For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had invented and which sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty. 人們曾一度感覺下一個在海外品牌面前全軍覆沒的似乎該輪到美國的半導體制造業了，而在新計算機時代有著核心作用的半導體正是美國人發明的。

　　centralization▲

　　構詞central中心的+ization…化或發展過程(表名詞)→集中化

　　真題連線2000 Passage 4

　　With economic growth has come centralization; fully 76 percent of Japan’s 119 million citizens live in cities where community and the extended family have been abandoned in favor of isolated, two-generation households. 隨著經濟的發展，居住集中化也跟著來了，在日本1億1900萬人當中，足有76%住在城市，在那里社區和幾世同堂的大家庭已經成為過去，而取而代之的是單門獨戶的兩代之家。

　　certificate★

　　構詞certify搞清，區別+icate名詞或動詞后綴→證明的東西

　　n.1.證(明)書

　　2.執照

　　3.憑證

　　vt.to furnish with, testify to, or authorize by a certificate用證明書證明

　　真題連線2007 Text 1

　　If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006’s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the late months. 如果你打算檢查2006年世界杯錦標賽上所有足球運動員的出生證明，那么你最可能發現一種引人注意的巧合：優秀足球運動員更可能出生于每年的前幾個月而不是后幾個月。

　　charitable★

　　構詞charity可愛的+able能…的→慈善的

　　a.1.generous in giving money or other help to the needy.施舍慷慨的，慈善的

　　2.mild or tolerant in judging others; lenient.寬容的，仁愛的

　　鏈接charity n.施舍物，救濟金; 慈善、博愛

　　真題連線1997 Passage 2

　　It was not a matter of choice for the traveler or merely a charitable impulse on the part of the settlers. 對旅行者來說，這不是一個選擇的問題;而對當地居民來說，這也并非是行善的一時沖動。

　　charter★

　　構詞chart紙片+er名詞后綴→紙上的東西→契約等

　　n.1.營業執照;

　　2.特許狀

　　真題連線1996 Passage 2

　　The reason for its inquiry is that the BBC’s royal charter runs out in 1996 and it must decide whether to keep the organisation as it is, or to make changes. 這樣做的原因是BBC所持的皇家特許證于1996年到期，政府必須決定讓公司維持原狀還是進行變革。

　　circuit★

　　構詞circu圓，環+it走→環行

　　n.1.line, route or journey round a place 周線; 圈

　　2.an electric current flows 電路

　　真題連線2002 Text 2

　　Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when it appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to copy the action of the human brain by the year 2010, researchers lately have begun to extend that forecast by decades if not centuries. 雖然一開始在20世紀60年代和70年代有過一段樂觀的時期——那時候仿佛晶體管電路和微處理器的發展將使他們在2010年能夠模仿人類大腦的活動——但是最近研究人員已經開始將這個預測延后數十年，甚至數百年。