课前预习 - 单词
naysayer
perplexing
pushover
unpredictable
braggart
absorbing
diversity
isolated
naturalness
endangered
sustainability
anthropogenic
qualifies
ignoring
jettisons
predicting
affirms
confirming
euphemism
cliché
metaphor
elusive
sanctions
endorses
denounces
discloses
relates
lambastes
capricious
insular
mercenary
idealistic
intransigent
unmanageable
troubling
significant
small
deceptive
affable
ebullient
measured
irascible
overwrought
gratify
entice
inspire
confuse
perplex
please
jarring
plausible
gratifying
inevitable
conciliatory
reinforced
reproduced
replaced
stimulated
severed
exposition
elucidation
animadversion
culmination
divination
vulnerable
unobtainable
sustainable
depleted
unexploited
novel
original
derivative
budding
unprecedented
compliment
complement
extol
exalt
applaud
compliant
subservient
amenable
recalcitrant
submissive
unruly
intractable
restive
restless
obedient
loquacious
prolix
voluble
circumlocutory
terse
直播题目-（上直播课前请不要做题目）
1. Mr. Billington, at times, can be a (i)_______. For instance, he deplores the Royal
Shakespeare Company’s eight-and-a-half hour version of Nicholas Nickelby, which many
found (ii)______.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. naysayer D. perplexing
B. pushover E. unpredictable
C. braggart F. absorbing
2. Recent scholarship has questioned the (i)_____ of tropical forests around the world.
Archaeologists have shown, for example, that the largest contiguous tract of what was
thought to be virgin rain forest in the southern Amazon had been transformed into a
cultural parkland before European contact, and many of the forest islands in West Africa’s
savanna forest transition zone are (ii)_____ as well.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. diversity D. isolated
B. naturalness E. endangered
C. sustainability F. anthropogenic
3. The genius of the scientific method is that it (i)_____ the dictum of Aristotle that the
goal of science is knowledge of the ultimate cause of things. True science, we now know,
advances human knowledge by (ii)_____ ultimate causes and focusing instead on the
testing of empirical hypotheses.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. qualifies D. ignoring
B. jettisons E. predicting
C. affirms F. confirming
4. The description of humans having an internal clock is not a (i)_____. Or rather, it is---
you do not have a tiny watch in your cerebellum---but it also refers to (ii)_____, a
specialized bundle of cells that regulates cyclical processes.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. euphemism D. an elusive psychological phenomenon
B. cliché E. a standard literary trope
C. metaphor F. a real biological feature
5. In Schaller’s contradictory introduction to the book, she alternately applauds and ______
humankind’s role in animal conservation.
A. sanctions
B. endorses
C. denounces
D. discloses
E. relates
F. lambastes
6. It is a paradox of the Victorians that they were both _____ and, through their empire,
cosmopolitan.
A. capricious
B. insular
C. mercenary
D. idealistic
E. intransigent
7. Though the volume of radioactive waste produced by nuclear power plants is _____, the
problem of how to dispose of that waste is not: rather, it is of major importance.
A. unmanageable
B. troubling
C. significant
D. small
E. deceptive
8. The stories in Yiyun Li’s recent collection are distinctive particularly for the strong
contrast between their emotional intensity and their consistently _____ tone.
A. affable
B. ebullient
C. measured
D. irascible
E. overwrought
9. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s elegant, incisive study of Lincoln _____ those whose knowledge
of Lincoln is an amalgam of high school history and popular mythology as well as those
who are experts.
A. gratify
B. entice
C. inspire
D. confuse
E. perplex
F. please
10. The idea of a “language instinct” may seem ______ to those who think of language as
the zenith of the human intellect and of instincts as brute impulses.
A. jarring
B. plausible
C. gratifying
D. inevitable
E. conciliatory
11. In one theory, as people learn things throughout the day, connections between neurons
get strengthened, but during sleep then all synapses are weakened, tenuous connections
are _____ and only the strongest bonds could remain.
A. reinforced
B. reproduced
C. replaced
D. stimulated
E. severed
12. This is neither praise nor criticism, neither a compliment nor ____, just an observation.
A. an exposition
B. an elucidation
C. an animadversion
D. a culmination
E. a divination
13. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s elegant, incisive study of Lincoln _____ those whose
knowledge of Lincoln is an amalgam of high school history and popular mythology as well
as those who are experts.
A. gratify
B. entice
C. inspire
D. confuse
E. perplex
F. please
