1. separation [sepə'reɪʃ(ə)n]
n. 分离，分开；间隔
【真题例句】The growth of limited liability companies resulted in the separation of capital from management. 有限公司的发展造成了资本与管理的分离。
2. criterion [krai'tiəriən]
n. （批评判断的）标准；准则；规范；准据
【2004·真题例句】Narrowing your criteria, for example, may work against you: “Every time you answer a question you eliminate a possibility,” says one expert. 比如缩小搜索条件很可能对求职或应聘者不利。一位专家说，“你每回答一个问题就丧失了一次机会”。
3. embryo ['embrɪəʊ]
n. 胚胎；晶胚
【真题例句】Because current federal law already forbids the use of federal funds to create embryos (the earliest stage of human offspring before birth) for research or to knowingly endanger an embryo’s life, NBAC will remain silent on embryo research.因为现行的联邦法律已经禁止联邦基金用于制造研究用的胚胎(人类后代出生前的最早阶段)或有意识地危及胚胎的生命，所以NBAC在胚胎研究这一问题上将保持沉默。
4. summit ['sʌmit]
n. 顶点；最高级会议adj. 最高级的；政府首脑的
【2013·真题例句】When women do break through to the summit of corporate power——as, for example, Sheryl Sandberg recently did at Facebook—they attract massive attention precisely because they remain the exception to the rule.当女性确实突破层层障碍到达企业权力顶层时——例如，雪莉·桑德伯格最近在Facebook的成功——她们便会因为打破了惯例而备受关注。
5. architecture ['ɑ:kitektʃə]
n. 建筑学；建筑风格；建筑式样
【2011·真题例句】It had a great influence upon American architecture.它对美国建筑产生了巨大的影响。
6. warming ['wɔ:miŋ]
n. 加温，暖和；气温升高adj. 让人感到暖和的
【2005·真题例句】There are upsetting parallels today, as scientists in one wave after another try to awaken us to the growing threat of global warming.现在出现了与吸烟类似的令人感到难过的事情，科学家们前仆后继，试图使我们意识到全球气候变暖所带来的日益严重的威胁。
7. resentment [ri'zentmənt]
n. 愤恨，怨恨
【2012·真题例句】In the Internet age, it is particularly easy to see the resentment that has always been hidden within American society.在互联网时代，很容易就能看到美国社会内部隐藏的怨恨。
8. confront [kən'frʌnt]
vt. 面对；遭遇；比较
【2003·真题例句】But not even a great health-care system can cure death—and our failure to confront that reality now threatens this greatness of ours.但是即使有一个伟大的医疗卫生体系，死亡也是无法战胜的——而我们不能面对这个现实却正危及着我们这个时代的伟大。
9. ingredient [in'ɡri:diənt]
n. 原料；要素；组成部分adj. 构成组成部分的
【2004·真题例句】Many consumers seem to have been influenced by stock-market swings, which investors now view as a necessary ingredient to a sustained boom.尽管很多消费者似乎一直受到股票市场波动的影响，投资者却把这种波动看作持续繁荣必不可少的一个因素。
10. reconstruction [,ri:kən'strʌkʃən]
n. 再建，重建；改造；复兴
【2014·真题例句】Next is reconstruction, he analyzes the weak lecture, leaning lessons, for the future about what works and what doesn't.第二种方法是回顾，他分析讲得不好的课，为以后汲取有用经验和失败的教训。
