时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇


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[00:00.00]Megan had attended secondary school

[00:03.60]at a private girls'school

[00:05.67]five hundred kilometers from home.

[00:08.52]In junior school she had

[00:10.81]been a straight A student.

[00:12.79]Now in high school

[00:14.43]she continued to study hard,

[00:16.07]play sports, join the school orchestra,

[00:20.66]plus a variety of school clubs.

[00:23.07]As a joke, her friends

[00:25.37]labeled her a genius,

[00:27.12]often just to make her angry.

[00:28.76]As well as being

[00:31.06]a high academic achiever

[00:33.13]she had a great capacity for fun.

[00:36.20]She thrived on

[00:38.17]an active social life.

[00:40.03]Slender, pretty and vivacious 1,

[00:42.76]she was the apple

[00:44.51]of her parents’ eye.

[00:47.24]Every year in accordance with

[00:49.88]school policy, a student candidate

[00:52.06]was chosen to travel and

[00:53.70]live in another commonwealth 2 country

[00:56.76]for six months.

[00:58.84]As Megan had an interest

[01:00.92]in a diplomatic career

[01:03.11]after completing university,

[01:04.87]she figured she would be

[01:06.28]considered a prime applicant 3

[01:08.03]if she applied 4 for the position.

[01:10.55]A detailed 5 essay was necessary

[01:13.17]to provide the committee

[01:15.69]with a clear idea of her intention.

[01:17.88]The selection committee would

[01:21.60]spend a fortnight reviewing

[01:23.25]the applications in an attempt

[01:26.30]to identify the ideal student.

[01:29.37]Megan also needed to undergo

[01:32.11]a rigorous personal interview,

[01:34.84]which would validate 6 her academic background

[01:37.57]and evaluate her general behavior.

[01:40.64]The interview proceeded well,

[01:44.69]Megan taking the initiative

[01:47.64]to underline her strengths.

[01:49.72]After school some of her friends

[01:53.11]gathered for coffee

[01:54.86]in the cafe  near the school.

[01:56.94]They confessed to Megan that

[01:59.23]they were rather envious 7 of

[02:01.21]the opportunity she might have

[02:03.40]to live in another country.

[02:05.80]They enquired 8 about

[02:08.97]the details of the interview.

[02:10.84]Two weeks later Megan received

[02:13.46]a phone call notifying her of

[02:15.32]the successful results of the interview



1 vivacious
adj.活泼的,快活的
  • She is an artless,vivacious girl.她是一个天真活泼的女孩。
  • The picture has a vivacious artistic conception.这幅画气韵生动。
2 commonwealth
n.共和国,联邦,共同体
  • He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
  • Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。
3 applicant
n.申请人,求职者,请求者
  • He was the hundredth applicant for the job. 他是第100个申请这项工作的人。
  • In my estimation, the applicant is well qualified for this job. 据我看, 这位应征者完全具备这项工作的条件。
4 applied
adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
5 detailed
adj.详细的,详尽的,极注意细节的,完全的
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。
6 validate
vt.(法律)使有效,使生效
  • You need an official signature to validate the order.你要有正式的签字,这张汇票才能生效。
  • In order to validate the agreement,both parties sign it.为使协议有效,双方在上面签了字。
7 envious
adj.嫉妒的,羡慕的
  • I don't think I'm envious of your success.我想我并不嫉妒你的成功。
  • She is envious of Jane's good looks and covetous of her car.她既忌妒简的美貌又垂涎她的汽车。
8 enquired
打听( enquire的过去式和过去分词 ); 询问; 问问题; 查问
  • He enquired for the book in a bookstore. 他在书店查询那本书。
  • Fauchery jestingly enquired whether the Minister was coming too. 浮式瑞嘲笑着问部长是否也会来。
学英语单词
3-MECA
academic motivation
assembling time
automatic cutout valve
averaging interval
Aykel
Basidiolichenes
belwys
besperple
blue shield movement
buiters
butter-boy
carbon-containing
catalytic
cephalic ballottement
choreiformkineto-acanthocytosis
cnemidophorus tesselatuss
coated stone
conflictful
cropping season
database retrieval task
deltoplastis ovatella
detention warrant
direct method of determing cyclical fluctuations
Donmyo
drift netting
durable grip
even-parity state
fibre plate
five zone heating furnace
full rate
galleass
Gambuta, Gunung
genus Stachys
geobotany
grasping for straws
grauman's
gymnasia
hand-crusher
heat-sink shield
Herblock
herringbone joint
hghr
hiangs
hom dyne reception
hosei
Houben-Hoesch synthesis
hybridprotein
hydranths
illiterate person
incineration firing
inner envelope rotor flank
intrinsic transpiring power
kob-
last contact of umbra
last orders
leadswinging
leg lifts
lincomycinum
Mahmudiye
master-slaves
materialness
measured mile
minimax procedure
Monkey Hangers
mortar and rocket apparatus
Motten
nasoocular
native iron making process
nonclaims
nuclelr fusion
on contact
Orthopristis chrysopterus
oxy
pattern draft
peripheral arterial pulsation
phreatic zone
polyphalangism
promoter of disorder
psoriasis ostracea
purchase record card
Pv.
Repino
riveting in groups
roccas
rust-resisting paint
sao jose dos camposs
sheet rectifier
slide valve
smoke screen laying maneuver
soaky
special verdict
stand-by program
sungo
surface geothermal manifestation
synergisic adduct
tadocizumab
traditional reporting
Ugt (urgent)
vacuum wetting
vertical lifting wheel separator
you chicken