1. insurance [in'ʃuərəns]
n. 保险；保险费；保险契约
【注】a prudent people一个谨慎的人
真题例句：With the risks obvious and growing, a prudent people would take out an insurance policy now.随着风险越来越明显，并且不断增加，一个谨慎的人现在应该准备一份保单了。
2. standpoint ['stæn(d)pɒɪnt] n. 立场；观点 【注】写作词汇。 真题例句：From a financial standpoint alone, safety pays off. 单从财政的角度来说，安全计划花钱值得。 【词汇辨析】viewpoint，standpoint，perspective和outlook viewpoint (point of view) 和 standpoint 是普通用词，泛指看待问题的观点或立场。 1) The house is not the best choice from the financial point of view. 从经济的观点来看，这栋房子并不是最好的选择。 2) I beg you to look at the problem from my standpoint. 我请你从我的观点来审视这个问题。 perspective 侧重指看待事物的视角，即从……角度来看问题或事物。 1) We should learn to see things in their right perspective. 应该学会从正确的角度看待问题。 3. interaction [ɪntər'ækʃ(ə)n] n. 相互作用；[数] 交互作用 1999·真题例句：While warnings are often appropriate and necessary—the dangers of drug interactions, for example—and many are required by state or federal regulations, it isn’t clear that they actually protect the manufacturers and sellers from liability if a customer is injured. 虽然警示语常常是合理而必要的（如警告药物有相互作用的危险），并且很多是州或联邦法规所要求的，但是当消费者受伤时，这些警示语能否真正保护制造商和销售商使之免于承担责任，却还很难说。 4. celebrity [si'lebrəti] n. 名人；名声 【注】high-profile attempt表“高调尝试”或“努力改变” 真题例句：He has also criticised the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver' s high-profile attempt to improve school lunches in England as an example of how "lecturing" people was not the best way to change their behaviour.他还批判名厨杰米·奥利弗努力改善英国学校午餐的高调行为，并以此作为例子告诉大家“说教”不是改变人们行为的最好方法。 5. dangerous ['deindʒərəs] adj. 危险的 真题例句：They are our happy glasses that protect us from what we perceive is going to be more dangerous.手机是我们快乐的保护镜，让我们远离我们觉得会更危险的事物。 6. welfare ['welfεə] n. 福利；幸福；福利事业；安宁adj. 福利的 【注】fortune-seekers淘金者 真题例句：Second, well-paid jobs as well as pursuit of better living condition and welfare attract millions of rural fortune-seekers into big cities.其次，高新厚职以及对更好的居住环境和福利的追求，吸引了许许多多的乡村“淘金者”涌入大城市。 7. influence ['influəns] n. 影响；势力；感化 vt. 影响；改变 【注】选项词。 【扩展】hard times困难时期 真题例句：The author thinks that the influence of hard times on society is certain.作者认为困难时期对社会的影响是肯定的。 8. purchase ['pə:tʃəs] n. 购买；紧握；起重装置vt. 购买；赢得 真题例句：Which of the following is the most rewarding purchase?下哪一种购买行为回报最大？ 【词汇辨析】purchase和buy的区别是什么？ 若指用金钱去购买东西的话,两者意思是一样的。 (1) buy 是最为普遍的用词,purchase 有时在较为官式的场合出现,比较上来得文化意味较重,而且似乎经过"深思熟虑"才决定的: "The board of directors has decided to purchase the land lot no.231 from xxx". 在此例子里,用 buy 完全不会影响其原意。 (2) buy 和 purchase 例如你可 buy time (争取时间),I don't buy Tom's ida.我不采纳汤姆的意见.这时便不能换作purchase了。 (3) buy 和 purchase 虽然都可作名词.但若是指一项「购入」则多用 purchase.buy 作名词用时多数作「抵到烂/执到宝...」解。 We made the purchase last year (我们在上年达成这项购物/入的) It was a real buy at that price!(以那价钱来说真是抵到烂啦!) 至於deal with则多指安排,处理,涉及,做生意.可以用(make bussiness)、(cope with )、(manage)、(handle)、(see to)、(take care)、(sort out)、(content with)、(take in hand)等作同义词用。 9. tangible ['tæn(d)ʒɪb(ə)l] adj. 有形的；切实的n. 有形资产 真题例句：When you have carefully prepared a blueprint of your abilities and desires, you have something tangible to sell.当你为自己的能力和愿望仔细地筹划了一幅蓝图后，你就有实在的东西可以推销了。 10. encode [en'kəud] vt.编码，译码 真题例句：Girls’ attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it is not.女孩看似无法抗拒粉红色的诱惑，似乎DNA编码就这样，但根据美国研究的副教授乔·宝莱蒂的说法，事实并非如此。
