【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 fashionable as they were ten years ago.[D] a wellstructured gap year is a guarantee of university word “packages” means_____.[A] parcels carried in travelling [B] a prehensive set of activities[C] something presented in a particular way [D] charity actions can cause the disasters of gap years?[A] Intervention of parents.[B] Careful planning.[C] Good health.[D] Realistic 18yearold is believed to take a meaningful gap year when he/she_____.[A] lives up to his/her parents’ expectations [B] spends time being lazy and doing nothing[C] learns skills by spending parents’ money [D] earns his or her living and gains working experience答案： 核心詞匯和超綱詞匯a gap year學(xué)業(yè)間斷的一年，間斷年vicarious間接感受到的，如He got a ~ thrill out of watching his son score the winning goalpackage包，盒，袋。一套東西，一套建議，一攬子交易，如a benefits ~一套福利措施an aid ~綜合援助計(jì)劃backpack背包旅行 go ~ing 可銳教育官網(wǎng)umbrella綜合體，總體，整體，如an ~ group/fund綜合團(tuán)體/基金fork out大量花錢，大把掏錢slob懶惰而邋遢的人slob out/around游手好閑，無(wú)所事事structure結(jié)構(gòu)，構(gòu)造。精心組織，周密安排，體系dispatch派遣，調(diào)遣，派出。發(fā)出，發(fā)送at short notice隨時(shí)，沒(méi)有提前很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間通知，at two week’s notice提前兩周通知hangover遺留的感覺(jué)，如the insecure feeling that was a ~ from her childhoodcounterbalance抗衡，抵消。對(duì)??起平衡作用。平衡抵消物，抗衡全文翻譯與度過(guò)了新奇的學(xué)業(yè)間斷年的孩子的父母交談，他們的眼神中會(huì)有一種含糊不清的東西。這一年中有一些危機(jī)，即使是目的明確、很有條理的學(xué)生，在間斷年期間也需要家庭從經(jīng)濟(jì)上、情感上和體力上給予幫助。父母眼中的含糊不僅僅是因?yàn)樽屗麄兊暮⒆映墒炱饋?lái)的美好經(jīng)歷，也是因?yàn)樗麄冏约洪g接感受到的生活方式。我們都希望在我們那個(gè)時(shí)代大學(xué)前的間斷年就已經(jīng)很時(shí)興了。我們能看著孩子們變得更堅(jiān)強(qiáng)，更好地準(zhǔn)備從上大學(xué)中有所收獲或者積極地決定他們將做一些除了獲得學(xué)歷之外的事情。學(xué)業(yè)間斷年現(xiàn)在很時(shí)興，這反映在提供它們的慈善團(tuán)體和私人公司的數(shù)目呈巨額增長(zhǎng)。威廉王子在智利吃苦的事情發(fā)揮了作用，但這種趨勢(shì)十年來(lái)一直在加強(qiáng)。學(xué)業(yè)間斷年期間的一整套活動(dòng)從背包旅行開(kāi)始，包括和慈善團(tuán)體一起工作，修建醫(yī)院和學(xué)校，以及常見(jiàn)的做語(yǔ)言助教、教英語(yǔ)。然而，隨著這種趨勢(shì)而來(lái)的也有危險(xiǎn)。一旦父母相信那些學(xué)業(yè)間斷年公司介紹的內(nèi)容，認(rèn)為精心安排的一個(gè)間斷年對(duì)于想成為本科生的孩子進(jìn)入更好的大學(xué)，獲得高學(xué)歷，得到令人印象深刻的簡(jiǎn)歷和待遇良好的工作是至關(guān)重要的，那么他們就會(huì)開(kāi)始組織并資助間斷年期間的活動(dòng)。按照學(xué)業(yè)間斷年公司綜合機(jī)構(gòu)“走出學(xué)業(yè)間斷年團(tuán)體”的負(fù)責(zé)人理查德奧利弗埃的觀點(diǎn)，出現(xiàn)問(wèn)題往往是因?yàn)橛?jì)劃不周。他說(shuō)，“這可能是公司或?qū)W生的責(zé)任，但是最保險(xiǎn)的方法是作好審慎的準(zhǔn)備。當(dāng)人們把它搞砸時(shí)，往往是因?yàn)榻】祮?wèn)題，尤其是女孩，因?yàn)樗齻儚奈措x開(kāi)過(guò)家，或者期望與現(xiàn)實(shí)不符”。學(xué)業(yè)間斷年的意義在于它應(yīng)該是離校生開(kāi)始做自己喜歡做的事情的時(shí)候。如果由父母來(lái)決定孩子怎樣成熟，那么他們不會(huì)真地變成熟。如果18歲時(shí)變成熟的方式是在倫敦漢普斯泰德石南園中無(wú)所事事地曬太陽(yáng)，或者花上一年時(shí)間和康沃爾郡的漁夫一起工作，那么對(duì)于另外一個(gè)人來(lái)說(shuō)將是有所收獲的。然而，多數(shù)人卻認(rèn)為進(jìn)行某種安排是有利的，而且行動(dòng)的安排者應(yīng)是學(xué)生自己?？射J教育官網(wǎng)如果18歲的年輕人兩周前得到父母的通知，被派去加拿大花5,800英鎊學(xué)習(xí)成為一名滑雪教練，回來(lái)后可能只會(huì)留下很少的感覺(jué)。同樣的18歲的年輕人，先通過(guò)工作賺錢，再用一年中剩下的時(shí)間在從新西蘭到瑞士的多個(gè)避暑勝地執(zhí)教，回來(lái)后申請(qǐng)大學(xué)，這樣的經(jīng)歷則是完全不同的積極的做法。四、生態(tài)環(huán)境恐怖主義Islamic terrorism may be a distant threat for Shearer Lumber Products, a timber pany based in ecoterrorism is a very real November, the Earth Liberation Front , an underground organization, gave warning that it had“spiked”trees in the Nez Perce national forest to protest against involves hiding metal bars in tree trunks, thereby potentially crippling chain saws and hurting such attacks are do they fit into America’s war on terrorism?The nation’s forests have seen a sharp increase in violent incidents—equipment vandalized, people intimidated—over the past ten now carefully inspects every tree before cutting and has been using metal detectors to check every trunk being Ihor Mereszczak, of the Nez Perce Forest Service, says it has been hard to get the FBI’s attention, and investigations have got ELF is only one thread in a web of underground radical aim is to inflict as much financial pain as possible on organizations or people who, by its lights, are exploiting the ELF, though made up of anonymous cells, nonetheless operates a website offering tips on how to cause fires with electric recently, it also had a public with the Animal Liberation Front , which operates along the same lines, the ELF is estimated to be responsible for over $45mworth of damage in North America over the past few 1998, it caused fires that did $12mworth of damage in Vail, Colorado, to make the point that the ski resort’s expansion was threatening places where lynxes this year, the ELF burned down the offices of a lumber pany in September 11th, the ALF and ELF have claimed responsibility for starting a fire at a primate research center in New Mexico, releasing mink from an Iowa fur farm, and firebombing a federal corral for wild horses in they terrorists? The two groups reject the label, claiming to take all precautions against harming “animals, whether humans or not”.But earlier this year Louis Freeh, the FBI’s boss, listed both organizations among the most active domestic terrorist McInnis, the Republican congressman whose district includes Vail, argues it is only a matter of time before somebody gets hurt, and he now expects the FBI to put in more The House submittee on forests, which Mr McInnis heads, will hold a hearing on ecoterrorism in he has annoyed some mainstream green groups by asking them to denounce the ELF’s and ALF’s , for instance, says that its disapproval is selfevident, and resents being asked to express still wants their answer by December 1st, but the war on ecoterrorism is off to a rocky did the ELF do to Shearer Lumber Products?[A] Hurt its employees.[B] Crippled its equipments.[C] Hid metals in its trees.[D] Protested against its can infer from the passage that_____.[A] Shearer has experienced many violent incidents [B] new tools have been used to investigate terrorists[C] FBI has been active in the war on ecoterrorism [D] ELF openly declares its beliefs and ends to ELF, all of the following are environmentally harmful except_____.[A] causing fire in the houses [B] expanding ski resort [C] doing research on animals [D] invading into animal habitats is true of radical environmentalists that they_____.[A] aim at causing damage to panies [B] resort to violence to achieve their purpose[C] will do no harm to real people [D] are divided on opinions about terrorism best title for the text may be_____.[A] The Green Threat [B] Protecting Forests [C] Earth’s Liberation [D] Terrorism Defeated 答案： 核心詞匯和超綱詞匯spike尖狀物，尖頭。鞋釘用尖物刺入cripple使殘廢，使跛，使成瘸子。嚴(yán)重?fù)p壞。傷殘人，殘疾人，有缺陷的人vandalize摧殘，破壞，任意破壞 可銳教育官網(wǎng)cell牢房。細(xì)胞。小隔室。電池。政治小組，基層組織，如a terrorist ~along/on the lines按??方式denounce公開(kāi)指責(zé)，公然抨擊，譴責(zé)全文翻譯對(duì)于駐愛(ài)達(dá)荷的希勒木材產(chǎn)品公司來(lái)說(shuō)，伊斯蘭恐怖主義也許是遙遠(yuǎn)的威脅。但是生態(tài)恐怖主義是確實(shí)存在的威脅。十一月份的時(shí)候，地下組織“地球解放陣線” 警告說(shuō)他已在內(nèi)茲佩爾塞國(guó)家森林的樹(shù)木中“釘了釘子”以抗議伐木行為?！搬斸斪印卑ㄔ跇?shù)干中藏金屬棒，從而破壞鏈鋸并有可能傷到人。更多類似的攻擊還會(huì)發(fā)生。它們?cè)鯓託w入美國(guó)對(duì)抗恐怖主義的戰(zhàn)斗中呢?過(guò)去十年中，國(guó)家森林里的暴力事