【正文】 equipment may be to produce VCD sets. between different peoples facilitate the cultural and economic interchange.17The pany has its operations in Stanford by opening a new branch office there. and corporations are equivalent under the law. and other agricultural machines greatly farming. design of the electric circuits of the digitcontrolled lathe must be to meet the new requirement.ClozeFill in the blanks with the proper words beginning with the letters given below. A new Environmental Protection Agency Acquisition Regulation 1. c______（條款）has been developed to provide statistical data concerning EPA awards made to businesses owned by various ethnic groups, regardless of size or disadvantaged status. The new clause will be incorporated into all EPA solicitations and contracts expected to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold ($100,000). The clause asks EPA contract recipients to voluntarily identify the specific ethnic category that best represents the ownership of its business. The statistics 2. g_______ (產生) by the clause will help EPA 3. t_______ （把…作為目標）future outreach initiatives to both large and small business owners who are unaware of EPA contracting opportunities. The clause contains minor variations to 4. e_______ (使能夠) EPA to pare collected data to data published by the US Census Bureau. As Census Bureau data bees pliant with the Office of Management and Budget Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, EPA will 5. a_______ (調整) the clause accordingly. The ment period for the proposed rule extended from June 23rd, 2000, to August 22nd, 2000, and yielded one 6. e_______ (外界的) ment. In response to the ment, EPA has made three minor changes to the proposed rule to better describe: (1) Why EPA needs the new clause, (2) the information requirements of the new clause, and (3) statistical evidence to support that there is not an impact on asubstantial number of small 7. e_______ （機構）.Answer SheetA1. 產生 2. 目標3. 分句 4. 調整5. 自由主義者 6. 邏輯7. 執(zhí)照 8. 基礎的9. 圖象 10. 穩(wěn)定的 14. 相當?shù)? 16. 精神的 B： 1. welfare 2. ratio 3. challenge 4. revenue 5. decline 6. aware 7. capacity 8. discrete 9. contact 10. enforce 11. expand 12. precise 13. draft 14. notion 15. prime 16. perspectivec:1. generates 2. clause3. adjust 4. logic 5. licensed 6. stable 7. fundamental 8. equivalents 9. enables 10. energy 11. conflicted 12. psychology 13. aware 14. evolved 15. modified 16. contacts17. expanded 18. entities 19. facilitate 20. altered Cloze 1. clause 2. generated 3. target 4. enable 5. adjust 6. external 7. entities附錄：詞匯應用擴展部分句子的中文意思。1. When coal burns, it generates heat.煤燃燒時，產生熱量。2. The clause in the contract is insusceptible of another interpretation.合同中的這條規(guī)定是不能有其他解釋的。3. The government has announced its intention gradually to adjust electricity and fuel prices upwards.政府宣布其意圖是逐漸調整電和燃料價格的上漲。4. This paper lacks the logic to prove the author’s thesis.這篇論文缺少能證明作者論點的正確推理5. These purchases will soon be licensed.訂貨不久可得到批準。6. It is very important that banks are given incentives to adopt more stable rating schemes.激勵銀行采取更加穩(wěn)定的利率方案是非常重要的。7. Insufficient attention has been paid to the difficulties and dangers of teaching which challenges students’ fundamental beliefs about themselves and society.教學使學生質疑自身和社會的基本信仰，人們對教學的這一困難和危險沒有給予足夠的重視。8. Readers should learn how to puzzle out the meaning of such unfamiliarlexical items by looking for their familiar equivalents which often occurearlier in the text.讀者應該學習如何通過找尋經常在前文出現(xiàn)的熟悉的相當?shù)脑~思索出如此不熟悉的詞條。9. The rights protection law for the consumers enables any impaired consumer to claim money from the pany.保護消費者權益法使任何受損害的消費者有向公司索賠的權利。10. Each year Americans consume a high percentage of the world39。s energy.每年美國人都消耗掉世界能源的很大比例11. All these actions by the NATO conflicted with the universally accepted international laws.北約的這些行動都與公認的國際法相抵觸。12. The professor is a specialist of studying a criminal39。s psychology.這位教授是位研究罪犯心理的專家。13. The principal didn39。t seem to be aware that there should have been so much dispute about the decision.校長好象沒有意識到這個決定竟會有這么多分歧。14. The British present political system has evolved over several centuries.英國的現(xiàn)行政治制度是經過幾個世紀逐步發(fā)展而成的。15. The equipment may be modified to produce VCD sets.這設備可以經過改裝用來生產光碟機。16. Friendly contacts between different peoples facilitate the cultural and economic interchange.各國人民的友好接觸促進文化和經濟交流。17. The pany has expanded its operations in Stanford by opening a new branch office there.這家公司在斯坦福新開辟了一家分理處,擴大了在那兒的經營。18. Persons and corporations are equivalent entities under the law.個人和企業(yè)是依法存在的對等的獨立實體。19. Tractors and other agricultural machines greatly facilitate farming.拖拉機及其它農業(yè)機械大大方便了農業(yè)耕作。20. The design of the electric circuits of the digitcontrolled lathe must be altered to meet the new requirement.這臺數(shù)控機床的電路設計必須改動,以適應新的要求。