1. attribute [ə'tribju:t]
n. 属性；特质vt. 归属；把…归于
【2000·真题例句】Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes as a devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle.很少有美国人将此仅仅归因于美元贬值或经济的周期循环这些显而易见的原因。
2. patriarchal [peɪtrɪ'ɑːk(ə)l]
adj. 家长的；族长的；由族长统治的
【真题例句】The paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business now passing away. 领取报酬后代表公司经营的经理与工人以及工人需求的关系更加直接，但甚至他也不像正在被淘汰的旧式家族企业的家长制中的雇主那样熟悉了解工人的情况。
3. commitment [kə'mitmənt]
n. 承诺，保证；委托；承担义务
【注】affordable housing经济适用房
【2014·真题例句】While the government’s commitment to long-term funding may have changed, the very pressing need for more affordable housing is real and is not going away. 尽管政府对长期资助的承诺会动摇，但人们对更多经济适用房的迫切需要真实存在，且暂时不会改变。
4. abbreviation [ə,bri:vi'eiʃən]
n. 缩写；缩写词
【2012·真题例句】G.I. is just a military abbreviation meaning Government Issue, and it was on all of the articles handed out to soldiers. G.I.只是Government Issue（政府分发）在军事上的缩写，该缩写印在所有分发给士兵的物品中。
5. dramatic [drə'mætik]
adj. 戏剧的；引人注目的；激动人心的
【注】dramatic declaration引人注目的声明
【2003·真题例句】Straitford’s briefs don’t sound like the usual Washington back-and-forthing, whereby agencies avoid dramatic declarations on the chance they might be wrong. 司特雷福公司的简报听上去不像华盛顿当局常常提供的躲闪的言辞，这些政府机构往往以此来避免发布引人注目的言论，因为这些言论可能出错。
6. motivation [məʊtɪ'veɪʃ(ə)n]
n. 动机；积极性；推动
【2015·真题例句】This movement, driven by powerful and diverse motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.这场移民运动由各种强大的动机所推动，在一片荒野之中创立了一个国家，并且，就其本质而言，该运动也塑造了一个未知大陆的性格并决定了它的命运。
7. receptor [ri'septə]
n. 受体；接受器；感觉器官
【2005·真题例句】These receptors are the cells which sense smells and send to the brain.这些嗅觉感受器是一些可以感觉到气味并将其信息送给大脑的细胞。
8. introduce [,intrə'dju:s]
vt. 介绍；引进；提出；采用
【2001·真题例句】In a significant tightening of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a draft bill that will propose making payments to witnesses illegal and will strictly control the amount of publicity that can be given to a case before a trial begins.为了加强对报界的法律控制，大法官埃尔温勋爵将要提出一个法案的草案，这一法案将提议把报界付款给证人的做法定为非法，并且，法案还严格对案件在开庭前的公开程度加以限制。
9. alphabetism [ælfə'bɪtɪzəm]
n.用字母做符号;
【2004·真题例句】But one insidious form continues to thrive: alphabetism. 但是，有一种隐蔽的不公平待遇却继续盛行：字母排序。
10. unemployment [,ʌnim'plɔimənt]
n. 失业；失业率；失业人数
【2015·真题例句】Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June, along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent, as good news.六月份，劳动局报告新增28.8万个工作岗位，同时失业率降到6.1%，许多人都将这看作是好消息。
