【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 orce would make it more difficult for people to lead good moral lives.9. Staff members were asked toacquaintthemselves with what had been discussed and covered if they were absent from the meeting yesterday.10. The young writerhesitated, reluctant to destroy any part of his own work, for which he had devoted all his time for quite a few years.equivalentstaticchaoticalertfeasiblecoarsestableimplicitrefinedsensible1. It39。s understandable that at 15,000 feet, no pilot who is already suffering from the effects of lack of oxygen will be able to makesensibledecisions.2. English law says that circumstances of a marriage aren39。tstatic, and therefore a judge should decide how financial assets will be divided in cases of divorce.3. Contrary to young people, mature adults would prefer to choose some professions that arestableand could bring prestige and economic benefits.4. The new manager of the pany plained several times that he could not work effectively under suchchaoticconditions.5. She didn39。t openly attack the plan, but the fact that she was against it wasimplicitin her silence when others were saying things in support of it.6. Reserved speaking style andrefinedmanners are always considered characteristic of English gentlemen.7. I respected her because she was very polite and, like the rest of her people, never laughed if an outsider said somethingcoarse.8. Now that we have the extra resources from the local government, the longterm project started a year ago seems economicallyfeasible.9. Passengers on the plane were told to stayalertat all times and report any suspicious packages to the crew members immediately.10. Several games based on the Star Wars movies require players to choose between the light and dark sides of the Force,equivalentto good and evil.A. mysteriousB. previousC. fluidD. liquidE. indispensableF. stableG. miserableH. labeledI. shiftJ. implicitK. exploitL. exploreM. tendsN. intendsO. frameI don39。t want any sort of traditional stability in my life right now. The thought of marriage, staying in one place and doing one thing, will make me feelmiserablebecause there are too many things on my todo list. Don39。t take me wrong that I won39。tshiftto marriage, but certainly not yet.Thepreviousfour mon life phases, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age, are now added with two more,labeledodyssey and active retirement. Of the new ones, the less understood is odyssey that frequently occurs between adolescence and adulthood.For our parents39。 generation, adulthoodtendsto be defined by achieving certain things. We all know them – owning a house, having astablecareer, getting married and ultimately having children.We use finding ourselves toframethe concept of the odyssey years, but it39。s more important for us to understand theimplicitmeaning: the pursuit of knowledge and making use of the accessibility of information and experiences around us.In a time when everything isfluid, it seems that the old recipes and time frames for acplishing things don39。t apply. We don39。t have the same expectations as we once had. Weexploreto find our own meanings to things and give voices to our hearts. It seems it bees more important to find out why we are here before we choose to settle.A. diminishedB. demonstratedC. alertD. radicalE. surrenderF. surviveG. affirmsH. affordI. affectJ. effectK. soakedL. soapedM. sensitiveN. sensibleO. somehowTeenagers are different from people of other age groups. The differences can bedemonstratedfrom how they behave. In fact, the brains of teenagers are very different from those of children or adults.Once people believed it wassensiblethat the human brain was fully developed by the age of three. According to this theory, teenager behaviors like risktaking, a lack of sensitivity to how their actionsaffectboth themselves and others, increased aggressive deeds,diminishedconcentration and a negative attitude were thought to be due to bad parenting or changes in body chemistry.However, new technology has allowed researchers to examine the healthy brain at work. What they have discovered is somethingradical: Not only does the brain continue to grow beyond the age of three, but the research alsoaffirmsthat the brain of a teenager is larger than that of an adult.As teen brains aresoakedwith chemicals during adolescence phase, the brain grows. However, only the cells that are used the most willsurvivethe petition within the brain. Those that are used less begin to die off until the brain reaches what will be its adult size.The way that teens spend their timesomehowinfluences which connections remain and which disappear. On the basis of this knowledge, experts advise parents to bealerton how their teenagers spend their time. What teens do today will affect their brains for the rest of their lives.U4ambitiouscautiousimmunedynamicpreliminaryindifferentpessimisticsuperbweirdabnormal1. Even though the global economic situation ispessimistic, not everyone is so pessimistic about the future. They believe it will be recovered in a few years.2. The lab director said that the experiment was at itspreliminarystage and they would need more time to e to a final result.3. The local people have been so realistic andcautiousabout any changes that the progress of reform has been very slow.4. The . is definitely a telephone country. This is partly due to the fact that the telephone service issuperbthere, whereas the postal service is less efficient.5. Although we did a lot better than most or even than our own expectations, we are not entirelyimmuneto that criticism from those who are trying to find fault with us.6. While the occurrences in Bermuda Triangle have be