1.subsidise ['sʌbsɪdaɪz]
vi. 消退;下沉vt. 资助(等于subsidize);给...补助金 [ 过去式 subsidised 过去分词 subsidised 现在分词 subsidising ] 真题例句:On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with "reforms" to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.乍一听,奥斯本是一为关注民生的财政大臣,试图改善民生,希望对过于纵容的社会福利体系进行改革。(2014阅读理解) 2.legal['liːg(ə)l] adj.法律的;合法的;法定的;依照法律的 【解析】leg做词根表“法律” 真题例句:Divorce is legal and easy to obtain, but not common.离婚是合法的,也容易达成,但不常见。(2016 完形填空) 3.shareholder ['ʃeəhəʊldə] n. 股东;股票持有人 【注】circulation在本句子中指“发行量”。 真题例句:The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business-friendly, wealth generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation.相关的重要词是效率、弹性、股东利益、财富制造、销售、影响力以及新闻界的发行量。(2015阅读理解) 4.Inclination [ɪnklɪ'neɪʃ(ə)n] n. 倾向 真题例句:The reason is that Chinese people in different regions have totally different inclination to choose food and Chinese food everywhere is quite delicious.原因是不同地区的中国人选择食物的倾向完全不同,而且每个地方的中餐都相当美味。 5.demoralization[di,mɔrəlai'zeiʃən] n.堕落;道德败坏;士气低落 【解析】de表“负面”,moral表“道德”或“士气”,此处本词指情绪不好。 真题例句:Most of us give into a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological conditions, until one day we find ourselves in garden and feel the expression vanish as if by magic.我们大多数人通常把陷入精神颓丧归咎于某些心理疾病,直到有一天置身花园,才顿觉压抑感神奇地消失了。(2013 翻译) 6.keywords['ki:,wə:ds] n.关键词;关键字 【注】本句中,paper指“论文”。 真题例句:However, the numbers are still small :in 2010,about 1,600 of the 100,000 social-sciences papers published globally included one of these Keywords.然而,数量仍然还是很少的:2010年,在国际上发表的10万篇社科类论文中,大约只有1600篇包含了这些关键词之一。(2013 新题型) 7.literacy['lɪt(ə)rəsɪ] n. 读写能力;精通文学 【解析】liter表“字,识字”,相当于letter。 真题例句:Together, they make up the reading component of your overall literacy or relationship to your surrounding textual environment.它们一起构成了你总体的读写能力或者你与周围环境的关系。(2015 新题型) 8.eliminate[ɪ'lɪmɪneɪt] vt.消除;排除 [过去式 eliminated 过去分词 eliminated 现在分词 eliminating] 【解析】e表“向外”,limin表“范围”。 真题例句:Overhead may be high and circulation lower, but rushing to eliminate its print edition would be a mistake.企业经常性支出也许居高不下而发行量在降低,但仓促取消纸质版将是个错误。(2016 阅读理解) 【词汇辨析】eliminate, remove, dismiss的区别 eliminate vt.排除, 消除v.除去。 解析:eliminate the possibility of排除可能性。 remove可以表示将某物移到某处,不带感情色彩; He removed the picture and put it in the drawer. 他把画取下来, 放到抽屉里。 Our office has removed. 我们的机关迁移了。 dismiss常指上级打发或遣走下级; The new governor dismissed the staff that served his predecessor. 新州长将前任州长的职员全部解雇。 He dismissed me from the club. 他把我开除出俱乐部。 eliminate指例行公事的排除某物,也指有系统的摧毁某物。 9.initiative [ɪ'nɪʃɪətɪv; -ʃə-] n. 主动权;首创精神 adj. 主动的;自发的;起始的 真题例句:In South Africa, an HIV-prevention initiative known as Love Life recruits young people to promote safe sex among their peers.南非的一项艾滋病预防项目“热爱生命”,招募年轻人在同伴之间宣传安全性行为。(2012阅读) 10.treasure ['trɛʒɚ] n. 财富,财产;财宝;珍品 真题例句:On the contrary, those wise readers thirsty for knowledge, treat books as the origin of intelligence and reading as the process of getting treasure of knowledge. 相反,那些聪明的读者求知若渴,他们把书籍看作是智慧的起源,把阅读看作是获得知识财富的过程。(2017考研写作)