研究生综合英语-vocabulary

The young mother crooned  a  sweet lullaby as she rocked the baby to sleep.

At the Security Council of the United Nations the following year,Khrushchev,then First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party,committed another diplomatic gaffe.

The young President claims that with his good common sense and good instincts he can have the country get over the economic recession.

It would be irrational to expect a sound understanding of the intricate plot from a child.

In spite of the political disturbances for years,the birthrate of the African country has continued to vault.

Market-economy practice doesn't in any sense mean dishonesty or cheating. It irks me to see typical local products bearing imitation foreign brands.

Based on my experiense with the railroad travel here for the past years,we daren't bet on  the train arriving on time.

In a broader sense of development,adolescence encompasses psychological,socail and moral terrain as well as the strictly physical aspects of maturation.

The victims in the flood-ravaged areas are now scrambling for the reconstruction of their homeland.

Dr. Miller has long contended that China was,according to Marco Polo's description,the first in the world to build huge ships with separate watertight bulkheads.

The fierce floods have          the whole nation into showing a belated concern for ecosystem protection.

It was not until the third morning of the bitter battle that the besieged infantry regiment was                with frech troops

One ant hole may               a long  and solid dike and cause the collapse.

Planetary scientists believe ridges and valleys formed when sections of the crust broke into plates of sheet ice and                                 each other

He is                 on the point that the inefficiency of the language teaching in China has,in part at least,resulted from the mechanical and indiscriminate application of foreign theories and methods.

They will have to leave the college because they have                    out this year.

I am now trying to put across some essentials of the              of the Chinese calligraphy.

At first many people               the modern painter's works,but later they have turned out to be highly regarded and valuable.

When the official got a chance to talk,he would produce, often as not, an endless stream of hackneyed and stereotyped                    .

Their every effort at creative teaching was                by the so-called official syllabus which was dogmatic and specious.

Having been promoted to be President,he behaves as though the very top drawer he enjoys automatically bestows the right to be obeyed.

This time.even top-flight politicians were hopelessly powerless to break down suspicion between the two parties.

The mother couldn't help moaning when she watched her son coming home,his face covered with dirt and sweat.

With one hand she clasped his head,her lips,red and moist as pomegranate seed,lightly touching his forehead.

The manager would grumble for minutes when that surly women in the dress department burst in.

With the young reporter at his side,he ventured in the light of day into Main Street or strode up and down on the rickety front porch of his own house,talking excitedly.

Two months after the A&P was founded,coffee,spices,and extracts were added to the sales.

Lywood wondered how the mother could cool her anger by whacking with a club her wayward son,who had just broken their neighbor's window.

He received a few sticks of antique furniture with haircloth by inheritance upon the death of his aunt.

As all the desks and chairs were coated with half an inch of grime,those early birds gave their classroom a spring cleaning.

The managing director attempted to               the  public responses to the new product before he would take further action.

William,dean of the department,stretched his authority and for several years put down his home telephone bill         a business cost.

The dying man,speechless with his ailment,          to his side his son ,who was waiting outside the surgical ward.

Last year this time,the canditate                   all the  voters in this district,which finally won him a seat in the parliament.

The old man set off before dawn and              through deep snow all the way home with many a rest on any secluded bench he came across.

Beneath his gtuff exterior,he is              with a rare kindheartedness,which has been  little noted by the average  person around him.

It demands professional instruction and technical guidance to              a talented amateur into a brilliant actor.

Upon the half-decayed veranda of a small frame house that stood near the          of a ravine, a fat little man walked nervously up and down.

The mother has persistently tried every means possible to         her son from self-centeredness.

The government at last               to pressure of the press and agreed to take some action against it.

Although truth and justice may be the most powerful  impulses to show moral courage,there are others:compassion is one of these.

Until the vice presidency of Theodore Roosevelt,most of those who held the office remained marginal political figures.

Those who leave their post to avoid hazardous duty or to shirk important assignments will be punished.

Confucian philosophy holds that music is a means of calming the passions and of dispelling unrest and lust,rather than as a form of amusement.

On going back to school,George,an impudent urchin of ten years old,remembered perfectly well being thrashed by Joseph by Joseph Sedley,when the latter was a big,swaggering guy.

He wrote a story about a ten-year-old boy who humorously faces realistic problems,such as being beaten up by the class bully.

His mind was distracted from his studies because those women were chattering in the backyard like a flock of magpies.

The rules he laid down helped transform boxing's image from that of a spectacle of brawling to that of a contest of skill and agility.

It's just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

"But-but-oh,for God's sake,do come and live near me,and-and-come and see me from time to time,"whimpered out the unfortunate man.

He has a hobby of collecting colorful          found in old graveyards

Many ancient religious rituals and customs have been carried over into modern times and incorporated into both           and religious observations.

A brave or          fighter carries out a dangerous mission,not without fear,but without letting fear preventing him from doing his duty.

The researchers argued that only a(n)             rise in atmospheric radioactivity resulted from the test.

The detective was first puzzled then thoroughly               as to why she had never mentioned her husband in the hundreds of diaries entries she had made.

Many Chinese painters preferred less              subjects than did the western painters,often selecting a single tree or a rock with bamboo.

Jefferson had no constitutional authority to buy the territory from France, but Congress eventually           funds and approved the land deal.

Many cultures do not value openness and directness because,to them,openness and directness seem rude and destructively           .

If we glimpse the unutterable,it is unwise to try to           it nor should we seek to invest with significance what we cannot grasp.

During the 1980s the increase in reports of violent use of guns          a major problem in the United States.

Pasteur's method of immunization by injecting the attenuated virus was used successfully in the treatment of rabies.

The Pyramids of Egypt,built at Giza during the 4th Dynasty,are the oldest of the seven wonders and the only ones remaining intact today.

Seeking to control inflation,Kennedy in April 1962 forced several of the leading steel companies to rescind a price increase

English scorn for Native Americans no doubt derived in large measure from the tension and friction generated by the English desire to acquire more and more land.

Planning for the future becomes difficult when activities that could help tommrrow's generations may seem idealistic to those for whom survival is at stake.

The notion that human beings can know anything absolutely,as God knows,seemed to be highly presumptuous.

To reach Greece,German troops had to be sent through the Balkan countries,all of them officially neutral.Hitler managed to bully these countries into accepting the passage of German troops.

Files are lost when they are inadvertently deleted,when on-disk information about their storage is damaged,or when the disk is damaged.

In the history of religions and cultures,nature worship as a definite and complex system of belief or as a predominant form of religion has not been well documented.

Primitive accumulation in English economic history was epitomized by the record of land enclosure.

A person's religious beliefs and forms of worship are matters of strictly private conscience,into which no government act or official may           .

Essential to all automatic-control mechanisms is the feedback principle,which enables a designer to          a machine with the capacity for self-correction.

Having to ask for assistance was        for many men who had thought of themselves as self-sufficient and breadwinners for their families.

NATO troops were sent into Bosnia to oversee the implementation of the agreement,which calls for the         of the republic into Muslim-Croat and Serb areas.

Slum structures are characterized by               materials,lack of underground sewerage,unsanitary conditions,and tenements of one-room apartments.

A highly adapted hibernator,such as a ground squirrel,will           underground at the appropriate season,reduce its body temperature drastically within a few hours,and become dormant.

When people are said to have bad grammar,the inference is that they                the rules of accepted usage associated with the language they speak.

America's secondary school adjusted itself more and more to preparing the young for everyday living,and it went to great            to accommodate the generality of young America with courses in driving,cookery,carpentry,and the like.

                the potential of new technology and the accompanying advances in science,it is possible to foresee a world in which a relatively stable human population can live at a high level of material affluence.

The Balkan Pact,a mutual-defense agreement between Greece,Turkey,Romania,and Yugoslavia,was intended to guarantee the signatories' territorial              and political independence against attack by another Balkan state.

Theorists argue that dependence upon foreign capital,technology,and expertise encumbers economic development in developing countries.

"Death of a salesman" reveals the alonenes of an ordinary,undistinguished man.Undeniably poignant,the play approaches true tragedy.

Self-acceptance,environmental mastery and autonomy usually improve as a person ages and gains life experience.

The idea that people fall into certain personality type categories in relation to bodily characteristics has intrigued numerous modern psychologists.

In the human brain there are approximately 10,000,000,000 neurons.Each neuron has its own function,depending on its intrinsic properties and location.

Humanistic themes and techniques were woven deeply into the development of Italian Renaissance art;conversely,the general theme of "art" was prominent in humanistic discourse.

During the period of the Ming Dynasty,the fortification of the Great Wall reached a length of about 2400km,following the course of rivers instead of conforming to the contours of the mountains and valleys in its path.

More than one-half of the national population now live in the central cities.This distribution of population exacerbates the effects of natural disaster in a zone prone to seismic activity.

It has proved to be more profitable to concentrate on the specific explanation of individual cases of change in animal behavior rather than to search for broad explanatory principles that end up being nearly vacuous.

Genesis is still regarded by many as a literal account of creation the view of  most Christians and Jews.Others see the book as myth or legend expressive merely of tribal beliefs,superstitions,and mores.

The history of Namibia is not well chronicled.Its            geographic position limited contact wiith the outside world until the nineteenth century.

These Protestants stressed ethical and moral behavior,rather than          to formal creeds,as essential to Christian life.

His formal education being private and scanty,Symons considered himself self-educated and as a writer,         .

Military communications or signaling               all means of transmitting messages,orders,and reports,both in the field and at sea and between headquarters and distant installations or ships.

Adulthood was viewed as a time of      ,a period when what had been developed earlier was utilized.

Although China has so many people and its economic output per person is small ,it has one of the world's largest economics       its total econamic production.

The arteries expand and then               with each beat of the heart,a rhythmic movement that may be felt as the pulse.

Abusive parents and caretakers may try to             their methods of punishment as a way of punishing children for being "bad" or of scaring them into being "bad" or of scaring them into being "good".

The contributions of Greece and Rome in philosophy and religion,poetry and drama,and in the       of specific speculation stand in spectacular contrast with their relatively limited contributions in technology.

In the third century BC,Chu and two other states,Chi in the east and Qin in the west,finally absorbed all of the other little states and began a          struggle for supreme control of China.

The black cultures are not well supported by formal institutions or the government,owing both to doubts as to what would enable rather than smother their development and to a lack of fiscal resources.

With the rise of naturalistic writing demanding realism,slang began to creep into English literature even though many people who aspired to gentility banished it from the home.

Much of what is now known about the history of Rome was pieced together from surviving objects and illuminated manuscripts.

Because he had been emotionally involved with the client,he was unable to examine the issue with detachment.

Reading these books brought back poignant memories of her school life during the Cultural Revolution.

Goats are agile animals in the wild state,bounding from rock to rock and landing with both front feet close together.

The colouring of granite is not uniform but has a salt-and-pepper quality and may glint with quartz crystals.

As a rule,an irrevocable claim to the pension rights is gained only after the person has worked with the employer for a given number of years or has reached a given age.

International interest has been quickened by an alternative system of education,integrating vocational skills into the secondary curriculum.

Some acts of worship arise from the need of the worshipper to exult in praise of the holy and to express his gratitude that his situation,in fact,has changed for the better.

Some species of animals in Canada have adapted very well to new environments and they have been brought back from the        of  extinction by conservation efforts.

Most hard drives in a computer have multiple platters          on top of one another,each with its own read-write heads.

In a comparably skeptical spirit,current feminist critics draw attention to literary evidence of           prejudice against women or stereotypic views of women.

As the acrobat on the stage fell off the tightrope,there were          of horror from the spectators.

Troubled by her near-sightedness,Jane has to wear her glasses wherever she goes,otherwise everything will be a            .

Zola's novels        with a passionate love of life,a life which he showed as tortured and twisted by character and condition.

Though Jews            upon alcoholic beverages,they do not forbid them,and wine is an important element in many rituals and feasts.

The main purpose of protection apparatus is to prevent damage to the most                part of the motor.

Many of the stimulus words may appear to be emotionally neutral;of special interest are words that tend to               personalized reactions.

Xin An Jiang River Dam was constructed between 1957 and 1977,and its completion was         as a triumph of Chinese technology.