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
aeviternities
air-set pipe
aminosidin
amphictyonies
antenna cable coupling measurement
antigvalve
auditory sensation area
average variability
ball hawkings
bequivering
black study
boozed-up
by weight
Cassandra calyculata
cause elimination
charcoal agglutination
comparative superlative
Cotoneaster soongoricus
cytokinome
dc charging
direct-drive permanent-magnet wind turbine generator set
downtakes
downward-facing dog
eczematous polymorphous light eruption
emergency maneuvering device
endosmotic
engine scope
flindersiamine
get down on someone
global restrictions
hand slaking
hexahydroxylene
hirsty
homoform
Huodendron biaristatum
hvoes
induced motion
industrial complex analysis
investment orientation
linear response detector
Little Current
little miss sunshine
lm.,lm
locomotive energy consumption
manor halls
marcela
micrografted
millilambda
misjoining
molavee
must-match
neurilemmal
obsoleteness
pacific rim national park reserve
parallel gradual rule
participating capital stock
particle system dynamics
pasick
Phascolarctinae
physiology of drought resistance in plant
pin clover
port lip
potentiometric measurement
print option
provides for
ptyaloreaction
real analytic structure
resistance training
roman punch
scriple
second anal
semiautomatic position fixing
set point station
sirets
so then
Socinians
sodium peroxometatantalate
Sojongni
solar thermal power plant
special bid
spring seat centerline
surf roof
suspension type fuel
syntactic catagory
System case
Taurotragus oryx
telecommute
terminal carbon
terminal-oriented real-time operating system
thin film component
trenle
tsvetkov
tube with internal screw
Upper Stewiacke
Venae digitales dorsales pedis
verts
video bandwidth compression
voice of conscience
wargs
wind-storms
X-guide
xenoarchaeology