1. milestone ['maɪlstəʊn]
n. 里程碑，划时代的事件
【真题例句】The hot spots and their volcanic trails are milestones that mark the passage of the plates.热点及其火山痕迹是标志板块迁移的里程碑。
2. paradise ['pærədais]
n. 天堂
【真题例句】It can be inferred that Facebook is self-enhancer’s paradise because people can withhold their unflattering sides.可以推断，“脸谱”是自我美化者的天堂，因为人们可以隐藏自己不讨好的方面。
3. sufficient [sə'fiʃənt]
adj. 足够的；充分的
【真题例句】Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who “until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient medication to control their pain if that might hasten death”. 蒙特非奥里医疗中心主任南希·道布勒认为，这项原则将保护一些医生，他们直到现在还坚持说，在大量药物可能加速病人死亡的情况下，他们总不能给病人开足够的药来帮助他们止痛。
4. quota ['kwəutə]
n. 配额；定额；限额
【真题例句】According to Reding, quotas may help women get top business positions.根据雷丁的说法，限定比例可能帮助女性在企业中获得高管职位。
5. jobless ['dʒɔblis]
adj. 失业的，无业的n. 失业者
【真题例句】How a new jobless era will transform America.新的失业时代将如何改变美国。
6. complementary [kɒmplɪ'ment(ə)rɪ]
adj. 补足的，补充的
【真题例句】Basic computer skills take—at the very longest—a couple of months to learn. In any case, basic computer skills are only complementary to the host of real skills that are necessary to becoming any kind of professional.不管怎样，基本的计算机技能只是对成为专业技术人员所需的各种实际技能的补充。
7. oxygen ['ɒksɪdʒ(ə)n]
n. [化学] 氧气，[化学] 氧
【真题例句】“I’m not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view, but what I was afraid of was how I’d go, because I’ve watched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and clawing at their masks, ” he says.“从精神层面说，我并不害怕死，但我怕的是怎样死，因为我在医院看到过病人在缺氧时苦苦挣扎，用手抓他们的面罩时的情景，”他说。
8. flash [flæʃ]
v. 闪光；反射n. 闪光，闪现；一瞬间
【真题例句】The sentence “This is no flash in the pan” means that the low inflation rate will last for some time. “This is no flash in the pan”的意思是低通货膨胀率会持续一段时间。
9. present ['prezənt]
adj.n. 现在；礼物
【真题例句】Think about present moment.想想当下。
10. cite [sait]
vt. 引用；传讯；想起；表彰
【真题例句】They cite past research by several authors to show that this is the gap that must be narrowed to close the achievement gap.他们援引了之前几位作者所做的研究，表明要缩小成绩差距，就必须缩短这一实用知识上的差距。
