1. mortality [mɔ:'tæləti]
n. 死亡数，死亡率；必死性，必死的命运
【2000·真题例句】But the great universal of male mortality is being changed. 但是男性死亡率普遍偏高的情况正在改变。
2. alert [ə'lə:t]
vt. 警告；使警觉 n. 警戒，警惕；警报
【2010·真题例句】The heightened alert followed an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that convened after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and rising numbers in Britain, Japan, Chile and elsewhere. 随着猪流感病例在澳大利亚、英国、日本、智利和其他地方急剧增加，世界卫生组织在日内瓦召集流感专家举行了紧急会议，会后提高了警告级别。
3. demographer [diː'mɒɡrəfə]
n.人口统计学家，人口学家
【注】词汇题
【真题例句】The word “demographers” most probably means scientists engaged in the study of population.单词"demographers"的含义可能是“从事人口研究的科学家”。
4. misfortune [mɪs'fɔːtʃuːn]
n. 不幸；灾祸，灾难
【真题例句】Or so the thinking has gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers’ misfortunes. 这种想法大约自20世纪80年代初开始传播，那时陪审团开始认为更多的公司应对其客户所遭受的不幸负责。
5. competition [,kɔmpi'tiʃən]
n. 竞争；比赛，竞赛
【2003·真题例句】Growing bodies need movement and exercise, but not just in ways that emphasize competition.青少年成长中,身体需要运动和锻炼，但这并不是仅仅通过竞争的方式来进行。
6. conventional [kən'venʃənəl]
adj. 符合习俗的，传统的；常见的；惯例的
【2001·真题例句】In other words, there is a conventional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready-made narrative structure for otherwise confusions news.换言之，在媒体的新闻采编室文化中存在着一套约定俗成的写作模式，为纷繁复杂的新闻报道提供了一个主干框架和一个现成的故事叙述套路。
7. quarrel ['kwɒr(ə)l]
vi. 吵架；争论n. 吵架；反目；怨言
【真题例句】Interest in historical methods has arisen less through external challenge to the validity of history as an intellectual discipline and more from internal quarrels among historians themselves.人们之所以关注历史研究的方法论，主要是因为史学界内部意见不一，其次是因为外界并不认为历史是一门学问。
8. readily ['redili]
adv. 容易地；乐意地；无困难地
【2014·真题例句】While it probably wasn't apparent at the time, much of this work is permeated by a spirit of romantic escapism that the likes of Wordsworth would have readily understood.尽管在当时并不明显，但大多数这种作品都散发出一种浪漫的逃离主义精神，这种精神会很容易被华兹华斯那类人所理解。
9. painful ['peinfl]
adj. 痛苦的；疼痛的；令人不快的
【2001·真题例句】The American Society of Newspaper Editors is trying to answer this painful question. 美国新闻编辑协会正试图回答这个痛苦问题。
10. quality ['kwɔləti]
n. 质量，[统计] 品质；特性；才能
【2014·真题例句】For example, many collegiate and professional football players quality as obese, though their percentage body fat is low. 例如，许多校队和专业的足球运动员算得上肥胖，但是他们身体脂肪比却较低。
