【正文】 nough to 【obliterate】 details, it only made them little, and mellow, and dainty, like landscapes and towns seen through the wrong end of a spyglass.2. The water, however, will 【encroach】 little by little on the shore, the island being lower and smaller, and the space between the inner edge of the reef and the beach proportionately broader.3. To 【remit】 the punishment of such crimes was, he said, to encourage them.4. Elizabeth also wept and was unhappy, but hers also was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides but cannot 【tarnish】 its brightness.5. When Ajax saw his mark he knew it and was glad。 he threw it to the ground and said, My friends, the lot is mine, and I rejoice, for I shall 【vanquish】 Hector.6. “Now, it is of no use, Peak,” said Sir John, raising his hand in 【deprecation】 of his delivering any message。 “I am not at home.”7. In submarine works, the workman, clad in an【 impervious】 dress, with his head in a metal helmet, receives air from above by means of forcing pumps and regulators.8. Large 【valances 】of silk, embroidered with flowers of gay colors, which were rather faded, fell from the wide windows。 the fittings of the room were simple, but in excellent taste9. Perhaps had one been there to point them out to us, we might have noted 【indentations】 in the mud, but they were countless, one overlapping another into a confusion that would have been entirely meaningless to us.10. Their arms were rather longer and their legs shorter in proportion to the torso than in man, and later I noticed that their great toes protruded at right angles from their feet—because of their arboreal habits, I presume.Vocabulary Check BFill in the blanks with the best choice.1. The sea laughed and flashed and preened and allured, like a beautiful, coquettish woman.A. coquettish B. vulnerable C. weird D. shrewd2. He has done me no harm, poor wrench, but he is an eyesore to me now, for he is Driscoll, the young gentleman, and I am a—oh, I wish I was dead.A. eyelash B. eyewitness C. eyesore D. eyeopener3. Does any secret repugnance, or any hereditary dislike, exist between you and her family? A. hysterical B. hereditary C. incredible D. incredulous4. And so the sailors fled into the stern and crowded bemused about the rightminded helmsman, until suddenly the lion sprang upon the master and seized him。 and when the sailors saw it they leapt out overboard one and all into the bright sea, escaping from a miserable fate, and were changed into dolphins. A. amused B. amazed C. bemused D. obsessed5. There must be some good reasons for these dispensations of fate, but I have never sought to discover them. A. discrepancies B. discriminations C. dispatches D. dispensations6. The rifle hanging upon the wall caught his first attention。 it was for this strange, deathdealing thunderstick that he had yearned for months。 but now that it was within his grasp he scarcely had the temerity to seize itA. temerity B. condolence C. tenacity D. conspiracy 7. And here, instead of its being a matter of_ condolence, it turns out to be one of congratulation A. meditation B. condolence C. relevance D. sensation8. Upon this, Jones began to beg earnestly to be let into this secret, and faithfully promised not to divulge it. A. divulge B. dispense C. dissolve D. disperse9. Consider that the poison was so virulent that even a man who is as strong as an ox like Malone here, could hardly get up the stairs before he fell unconscious. A. vicious B. villainous C. virulent D. vehement10. Anne was sitting at her open window, for the time forgetful of the woes of examinations and the cares of the world, as she drank in the beauty of the summer dusk, sweetscented with flower breaths from the garden below and sibilant and rustling from the stir of poplars. A. thrilling B. shimmering C. thundering D. sibilant