1998 text 1-5詞匯測試

1、<p>　　1998 Text 1</p><p><b>　　課文單詞、短語</b></p><p>　　題干及選項單詞、短語</p><p><b>　　長難句</b></p><p>　　Perhaps it is humankind’s long suffering at the

2、mercy of flood and drought that makes the idea of forcing the waters to do our bidding so fascinating.</p><p>　　________________________________________________________________________</p><p>　　

3、________________________________________________________________________</p><p>　　It doesn’t help that building a big, powerful dam has become a symbol of achievement for nations and people striving to asser

4、t themselves.</p><p>　　________________________________________________________________________</p><p>　　The Aswan Dam, for example, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile s

5、ilt that floods left—all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.</p><p>　　_______________________________________________________________

6、_________</p><p>　　________________________________________________________________________</p><p>　　Proper, scientific study of the impacts of dams and of the costs and benefits of controlling

7、water can help to resolve these conflicts.</p><p>　　________________________________________________________________________</p><p>　　____________________________________________________________

8、____________</p><p>　　1998 Text 2</p><p><b>　　課文單詞、短語</b></p><p>　　題干及選項單詞、短語</p><p><b>　　長難句</b></p><p>　　The trouble is that part

9、 of the recent acceleration is due to the usual rebound that occurs at this point in a business cycle, and so is not conclusive evidence of a revival in the underlying trend.</p><p>　　There is, as Robert Rub

10、in, the treasury secretary, says, a “disjunction” between the mass of business anecdote that points to a leap in productivity and the picture reflected by the statistics.</p><p>　　1998 Text3</p><p

11、><b>　　課文單詞、短語</b></p><p>　　題干及選項單詞、短語</p><p><b>　　長難句</b></p><p>　　A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the anti-science tag has been attached to

12、 many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research.</p><p>　　The true

13、enemies of science, argues Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University, a pioneer of environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer and other consequences o

14、f industrial growth.</p><p>　　They have in common only one thing that they tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more enlightened.</p><p>　　1998 Text 4</p><p><

15、;b>　　課文單詞、短語</b></p><p>　　題干及選項單詞、短語</p><p><b>　　長難句</b></p><p>　　This development—and its strong implications for US politics and economy in years ahead—has en

16、throned the South as America’s most densely populated region for the first time in the history of the nation’s head counting.</p><p>　　________________________________________________________________________

17、</p><p>　　________________________________________________________________________</p><p>　　Nonstop waves of immigrants played a role, too—and so did bigger crops of babies as yesterday’s “baby

18、boom” generation reached its child-bearing years.</p><p>　　________________________________________________________________________</p><p>　　_____________________________________________________

19、___________________</p><p>　　Moreover, demographers see the continuing shift south and west as joined by a related but newer phenomenon: More and more, Americans apparently are looking not just for places wi

20、th more jobs but with fewer people, too.</p><p>　　________________________________________________________________________</p><p>　　______________________________________________________________

21、__________</p><p>　　________________________________________________________________________</p><p>　　1998 Text 5</p><p><b>　　課文單詞、短語</b></p><p>　　題干及選項單詞、短

22、語</p><p><b>　　長難句</b></p><p>　　The complementary coastlines and certain geological features that seem to span the ocean are reminders of where the two continents were once joined.<

23、;/p><p>　　________________________________________________________________________</p><p>　　________________________________________________________________________</p><p>　　The relati

24、ve motion of the plates carrying these continents has been constructed in detail, but the motion of one plate with respect to another cannot readily be translated into motion with respect to the earth’s interior.</p&g

25、t;<p>　　________________________________________________________________________</p><p>　　________________________________________________________________________</p><p>　　_______________

26、_________________________________________________________</p><p>　　As the dome grows, it develops deep fissures (cracks); in at least a few cases the continent may break entirely along some of these fissures

27、, so that the hot spot initiates the formation of a new ocean.</p><p>　　________________________________________________________________________</p><p>　　________________________________________