专八高频词汇及必备句型.doc

1.lexis：n. 词汇2.liaison：n. （团体或个体间的）联系3.lieu：n. 代替in lieu of 代替4.ligament：n. 韧带5.lilac：n. 1.紫丁香；2.淡紫色6.limelight：n. 众人注意的焦点to be in the limelight 成为公众注目的中心7.lineage：n. 家系，血统8.liquidate：v. 1.消灭，杀戮；2.清盘（破产公司）The government tried to liquidate the rebel movement and failed.政府试图清肃反叛运动，结果失败了。）9.litigation：n. （非刑事的）诉讼10.livid：a. 1.青灰色的2.极生气的a livid bruise（青淤）1.habitue：n. 常客2.hack：v. 1.砍；2.私自存取（计算机化存储系统）例如：He hacked at the branch until it fell off.他朝着树枝砍, 直到砍下来为止。3.hacked：a. 生气的，恼火的4.hackle：n. 脾气，怒气例如：make sbs hackles rise （使某人勃然大怒）5.hackneyed：a. 陈腐的，老生常谈的6.hacksaw：n. 钢锯7.hag：n. 母夜叉8.haggard：a. 憔悴的9.haggle：v. 争论，讨价还价例如：In many countries you have to haggle before you buy anything.在许多国家里买东西之前都得讨价还价。10.hairdo：n. 发型，发式1.contraception：n. 避孕（法）2.contrive：v. 发明，设计，设法做到He contrived to make matters worse.他弄巧成拙。3.convene：v. 召集Does the UN convene every year?联合国每年都召开大会吗？4.convulse：v. 1. 使振动，使震撼；2. 使抽筋5.corollary：n. 必然结果，推论6.corpulent：a. 肥胖的，臃肿的He was fifty or there abouts and was corpulent and tall in person.他大约50岁，身体肥胖高大。7.coup：n. 妙计，出乎意料的行动8.courtship：n. 求爱，求婚9.covet：v. 垂涎，贪图The other boys coveted his new bat.其他的男孩都想得到他的新球棒。10.cowardice：n. 胆小，怯懦1According to a recent survey, four million people die each year from diseases linked to smoking. 依照最近的一项调查，每年有4，000，000人死于与吸烟有关的疾病。 2The latest surveys show that quite a few children have unpleasant associations with homework. 最近的调查显示相当多的孩子对家庭作业没什么好感。 3No invention has received more praise and abuse than Internet. 没有一项发明像互联网一样同时受到如此多的赞扬和批评。 4People seem to fail to take into account the fact that education does not end with graduation. 人们似乎忽视了教育不应该随着毕业而结束这一事实。 5An increasing number of people are beginning to realize that education is not complete with graduation. 越来越多的人开始意识到教育不能随着毕业而结束。 6When it comes to education, the majority of people believe that education is a lifetime study. 说到教育，大部分人认为其是一个终生的学习。 7Many experts point out that physical exercise contributes directly to a persons physical fitness. 许多专家指出体育锻炼直接有助于身体健康。 8Proper measures must be taken to limit the number of foreign tourists and the great efforts should be made to protect local environment and history from the harmful effects of international tourism. 应该采取适当的措施限制外国旅游者的数量，努力保护当地环境和历史不受国际旅游业的不利影响。 9An increasing number of experts believe that migrants will exert positive effects on construction of cityHowever, this opinion is now being questioned by more and more city residents, who complain that the migrants have brought many serious problems like crime and prostitution. 越来越多的专家相信移民对城市的建设起到积极作用。然而，越来越多的城市居民却怀疑这种说法，他们抱怨民工给城市带来了许多严重的问题，像犯罪和卖淫。 10Many city residents complain that it is so few buses in their city that they have to spend much more time waiting for a bus, which is usually crowded with a large number of passengers. 许多市民抱怨城市的公交车太少，以至于他们要花很长时间等一辆公交车，而车上可能已满载乘客。 11There is no denying the fact that air pollution is an extremely serious problem: the city authorities should take strong measures to deal with it. 无可否认，空气污染是一个极其严重的问题：城市当局应该采取有力措施来解决它。 12An investigation shows that female workers tend to have a favorable attitude toward retiremennt. 一项调查显示妇女欢迎退休。 13A proper part-time job does not occupy students too much timeIn fact, it is unhealthy for them to spend all of time on their studyAs an old saying goes: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 一份适当的业余工作并不会占用学生太多的时间，事实上，把全部的时间都用到学习上并不健康，正如那句老话：只工作，不玩耍，聪明的孩子会变傻。 14Any government, which is blind to this point, may pay a heavy price. 任何政府忽视这一点都将付出巨大的代价。 15Nowadays, many students always go into raptures at the mere mention of the coming life of high school or college they will beginUnfortunately, for most young people, it is not pleasant experience on their first day on campus. 当前，一提到即将开始的学校生活，许多学生都会兴高采烈。然而，对多数年轻人来说，校园刚开始的日子并不是什么愉快的经历。 16In view of the seriousness of this problem, effective measures should be taken before things get worse. 考虑到问题的严重性，在事态进一步恶化之前，必须采取有效的措施。 17The majority of students believe that part-time job will provide them with more opportunities to develop their interpersonal skills, which may put them in a favorable position in the future job markets. 大部分学生相信业余工作会使他们有更多机会发展人际交往能力，而这对他们未来找工作是非常有好处的。 18It is indisputable that there are millions of people who still have a miserable life and have to face the dangers of starvation and exposure. 无可争辩，现在有成千上万的人仍过着挨饿受冻的痛苦生活。 19Although this view is wildly held, this is little evidence that education can be obtained at any age and at any place. 尽管这一观点被广泛接受，很少有证据表明教育能够在任何地点、任何年龄进行。 20No one can deny the fact that a person's education is the most important aspect of his life. 没有人能否认：教育是人生最重要的一方面。21People equate success in life with the ability of operating computer. 人们把会使用计算机与人生成功相提并论。 22In the last decades，advances in medical technology have made it possible for people to live longer than in the past. 在过去的几十年，先进的医疗技术已经使得人们比过去活的时间更长成为可能。 23In fact，we have to admit the fact that the quality of life is as important as life itself. 事实上，我们必须承认生命的质量和生命本身一样重要。 24We should spare no effort to beautify our environment. 我们应该不遗余力地美化我们的环境。 25People believe that computer skills will enhance their job opportunities or promotion opportunities. 人们相信拥有计算机技术可以获得更多工作或提升的机会。 26The information I've collected over last few years leads me to believe that this knowledge may be less useful than most people think. 从这几年我搜集的信息来看，这些知识并没有人们想象的那么有用。 27Now，it is generally accepted that no college or university can educate its students by the time they graduation. 现在，人们普遍认为没有一所大学能够在毕业时候教给学生所有的知识。 28This is a matter of life and death-a matter no country can afford to ignore. 这是一个关系到生死的问题，任何国家都不能忽视。 29For my part，I agree with the latter opinion for the following reasons: 我同意后者，有如下理由： 30Before giving my opinion，I think it is important to look at the arguments on both sides. 在给出我的观点之前，我想看看双方的观点是重要的。 31This view is now being questioned by more and more people. 这一观点正受到越来越多人的质疑。 32Although many people claim that，along with the rapidly economic development，the number of people who use bicycle are decreasing and bicycle is bound to die outThe information I've collected over the recent years leads me to believe that bicycle will continue to play extremely important roles in modern society. 尽管许多人认为随着经济的高速发展，用自行车的人数会减少，自行车可能会消亡， 然而，这几年我收集的一些信息让我相信自行车仍然会继续在现代社会发挥极其重要的作用。 33Environmental experts point out that increasing pollution not only causes serious problems such as global warming but also could threaten to end human life on our planet. 环境学家指出：持续增加的污染不仅会导致像全球变暖这样严重的问题，而且还将威胁到人类在这个星球的生存。 34In view of such serious situation，environmental tools of transportation like bicycle are more important than any time before. 考虑到这些严重的状况，我们比以往任何时候更需要像自行车这样的环保型交通工具。 35Using bicycle contributes greatly to people's physical fitness as well as easing traffic jams. 使用自行车有助于人们的身体健康，并极大地缓解了交通阻塞。 36Despite many obvious advantages of bicycle，it is not without its problem. 尽管自行车有许多明显的优点，但是它也存在它的问题。 37Bicycle can't be compared with other means of transportation like car and train for speed and comfort. 在速度和舒适度方面，自行车是无法和汽车、火车这样的交通工具相比的。 38From what has been discussed above，we may safely draw the conclusion that advantages of bicycle far outweigh its disadvantages and it will still play essential roles in modern society. 通过以上讨论，我们可以得出结论：自行车的优点远大于缺点，并且在现代社会它仍将发挥重要作用。 39There is a general discussion these days over education in many colleges and institutesOne of the questions under debate is whether education is a lifetime study. 当前在高校和研究机构对教育存在着大量争论，其中一个问题就是教育是否是个终身学习的过程。 40This issue has caused wide public concern. 这个问题已经引起了广泛关注。41It must be noted that learning must be done by a person himself. 必须指出学习只能靠自己。 42A large number of people tend to live under the illusion that they had completed their education when they finished their schoolingObviously, they seem to fail to take into account the basic fact that a person's education is a most important aspect of his life. 许多人存在这样的误解，认为离开学校就意味着结束了他们的教育。显然，他们忽视了教育是人生重要部分这一基本事实。 43As for me, I'm in favor of the opinion that education is not complete with graduation, for the following reasons: 就我而言，我同意教育不应该随着毕业而结束的观点，有以下原因： 44It is commonly accepted that no college or university can educate its students by the time they graduate. 人们普遍认为高校是不可能在毕业的时候教会他们的学生所有知识的。 45Even the best possible graduate needs to continue learning before she or he becomes an educated person. 即使最优秀的毕业生，要想成为一个博学的人也要不断地学习。 46It is commonly thought that our society had dramatically changed by modern science and technology, and human had made extraordinary progress in knowledge and technology over the recent decades. 人们普遍认为我们的现代科技使我们的社会发生了巨大的变化，近几十年人类在科技方面取得了惊人的进步。 47Now people in growing numbers are beginning to believe that learning new skills and knowledge contributes directly to enhancing their job opportunities or promotion opportunities. 现在越来越多的人开始相信学习新的技术和知识能直接帮助他们获得工作就会或提升的机会。 48An investigation shows that many older people express a strong desire to continue studying in university or college. 一项调查显示许多老人都有到大学继续学习的愿望。 49For the majority of people, reading or learning a new skill has become the focus of their lives and the source of their happiness and contentment after their retirement. 对大多数人来讲，退休以后，阅读或学习一项新技术已成为他们生活的中心和快乐的来源。 50For people who want to adopt a healthy and meaningful life style, it is important to find time to learn certain new knowledgeJust as an old saying goes: it is never too late to learn. 对于那些想过上健康而有意义的生活的人们来说，找时间学习一些新知识是很重要的，正如那句老话：活到老，学到老。 51There is a general debate on the campus today over the phenomenon of college or high school students doing a part-time job. 对于大学或高中生打工这一现象，校园里进行着广泛的争论。 52By taking a major-related part-job, students can not only improve their academic studies, but gain much experience, experience they will never be able to get from the textbooks. 通过做一份和专业相关的工作，学生不仅能够提高他们的专业能力，而且能获得从课本上得不到的经验。 53Although people's lives have been dramatically changed over the last decades, it must be admitted that, shortage of funds is still the one of the biggest questions that students nowadays have to face because that tuition fees and prices of books are soaring by the day 近几十年，尽管人们的生活有了惊人的改变，但必须承认，由于学费和书费日益飞涨，资金短缺仍然是学生们面临的最大问题之一。 54Consequently, the extra money obtained from part-time job will strongly support students to continue to their study life. 因此，业余工作挣来的钱将强有力地支持学生们继续他们的求学生活。 55From what has been discussed above, we may safely draw a conclusion that part-time job can produce a far-reaching impact on students and they should be encouraged to take part-time job, which will benefit students and their family, even the society as a whole. 通过上面的讨论，我们不难得出结论：业余工作对学生们会产生深远的影响，我们应鼓励学生从事业余工作，这将有利于学生和他们的家庭，甚至整个社会。 56These days, people in growing numbers are beginning to complain that work is more stressful and less leisurely than in pastMany experts point out that, along with the development of modern society, it is an inevitable result and there is no way to avoid it. 现在，越来越多的人们开始抱怨工作比以前更有压力。许多专家指出这是现代社会发展必然的结果，无法避免。 57It is widely acknowledged that computer and other machines have become an indispensable part of our society, which make our life and work more comfortable and less laborious. 人们普遍认为计算机和其他机器已经成为我们社会必不可少的一部分。 它们使我们的生活更舒适，减少了大量劳动。 58At the same time, along with the benefits of such machines, employees must study knowledge involved in such machines so that they are able to control them. 同时，随着这些机器带给我们的好处，员工们也必须要学习与之相关的知识以便使用它们。 59No one can deny the basic fact that it is impossible for average workers to master those high-technology skills easily. 没有人能否认这一基本事实：对于一般工人来讲，轻松掌握这些技术是不可能的。 60In the second place, there seem to be too many people without job and not enough job position. 第二方面，失业的人似乎太多而又没有足够的工作岗位。 61Millions of people have to spend more time and energy on studying new skills and technology so that they can keep a favorable position in job market. 成千上万的人们不得不花费更多的精力和时间学习新的技术和知识，使得他们在就业市场能保持优势。 62According to a recent survey, a growing number of people express a strong desire to take another job or spend more time on their job in order to get more money to support their family. 根据最近的一项调查，越来越多的人表达了想从事另外的工作或加班以赚取更多的钱来补贴家用的强烈愿望。 63From what has been discussed above, I am fully convinced that the leisure life-style is undergoing a decline with the progress of modern society, it is not necessary a bad thing. 通过以上讨论，我完全相信，随着现代社会的进步，幽闲的生活方式正在消失并不是件坏事。 64The problem of international tourism has caused wide public concern over the recent years. 近些年，国际旅游的问题引起了广泛关注。 65Many people believe that international tourism produce positive effects on economic growth and local government should be encouraged to promote international tourism. 许多人认为国际旅游对经济发展有积极作用，应鼓励地方政府发展国际旅游。 66But what these people fail to see is that international tourism may bring about a disastrous impact on our environment and local history. 但是这些人忽视了国际旅游可能会给当地环境和历史造成的灾难性的影响。 67As for me, I'm firmly convinced that the number of foreign tourists should be limited, for the following reasons: 就我而言，我坚定地认为国外旅游者的数量应得到限制，理由如下： 68In addition, in order to attract tourists, a lot of artificial facilities have been built, which have certain unfavorable effects on the environment. 另外，为了吸引旅游者，大量人工设施被修建，这对环境是不利的。 69For lack of distinct culture, some places will not attract tourists any moreConsequently, the fast rise in number of foreign tourists may eventually lead to the decline of local tourism. 由于缺乏独特的文化，一些地方不再吸引旅游者。因此，国外旅游者数量的快速增加可能最终会导致当地旅游业的衰败。 70There is a growing tendency for parents to ask their children to accept extra educational programs over the recent years. 近些年，父母要求他们的孩子接受额外的教育呈增长的势头 71This phenomenon has caused wide public concern in many places of world. 这一现象在全世界许多地方已引起了广泛关注。 72Many parents believe that additional educational activities enjoy obvious advantageBy extra studies, they maintain, their children are able to obtain many kinds of practical skills and useful knowledge, which will put them in a beneficial position in the future job markets when they grow up. 许多家长相信额外的教育活动有许多优点，通过学习，他们的孩子可以获得很多实践技能和有用的知识，当他们长大后，这些对他们就业是大有好处的。 73In the first place, extra studies bring about unhealthy impacts on physical growth of childrenEducational experts point out that, it is equally important to take some sport activities instead of extra studies when children have spent the whole day in a boring classroom. 首先，额外的学习对孩子们的身体发育是不利的。教育专家指出，孩子们在枯燥的教室里呆了一整天后，从事一些体育活动，而不是额外的学习，是非常重要的。 74Children are undergoing fast physical development; lack of physical exercise may produce disastrous influence on their later life. 孩子们正处于身体快速发育时期，缺乏体育锻炼可能会对他们未来的生活造成严重的影响。 75In the second pl