中科大EPC机考Unit-6.doc

Unit 6 The meaning of life course
Encumbers = hinders poignant = distressing autonomy = independence
intrigued = fascinated intrinsic = inherent conversely = oppositely
contours = outlines exacerbates = worsens = aggravates vacuous = meaningless
mores = customs

1. Its isolated geographic position limited contact with the outside world until the nineteenth century
2. These Protestants stressed ethical and moral behavior, rather than adherence to formal creeds, as essential to Christian life.
3. His formal education being private and scanty, Symons considered himself self-educated and as a writer, self-made.
4. Military communications or signaling comprise all means of transmitting messages, orders, and reports, both in the field and at sea and between headquarters and distant installations or ships.
5. Adulthood was viewed as a time of continuity, a period when what had been developed earlier was utilized.
6. Although china has so many people and its economic output per person is small, it has one of the world’s largest economies in terms of its total economic production.
7. The arteries expand and then constrict with each beat of the heart, a rhythmic movement that may be felt as the pulse.
8. Abusive parents and caretakers may try to justify their methods of punishment as a way of punishing children for being “bad” or of scaring them into being “good”.
9. The contributions of Greece and Rome in philosophy and religion, poetry and drama, and in the realm of specific speculation stand in spectacular contrast with their relatively limited contributions in technology.
10. In the third century BC, Chu and two other states, Chi in the east and Qin in the west, finally absorbed all of the other little states and began a desperate struggle for supreme control of China

For the most young people
1. as 2. that 3. good 4. whether 5. ideas 6. themselves 7. concerned
8. but 9. goals 10. without 11. duty 12. even 13. hard
14. up 15. because 16. when 17. unhappy 18. therefore 19. while
20. grow

But in a technological society such as ours – and we boast that the United States is the most technologically advanced society in the world
1. who are all pictured as Hollywood starlets and whose pleasure lies in endless (endlessly) humiliating the nerds
2. I have heard some explain it by saying that America arose as a pioneer society which (where) strong arms and sturdy frames were needed to tame a wilderness
3. And (But) we are no longer a pioneer society and we are no longer taming a wilderness
4. I have also heard it say (said) that our dismissal of scholarship and learning is purely a matter of money
5. Yet surely that is a rather vulgar way of setting a value to (on) human activity
6. How much more ought we to respect a $60 billions (billion) drug lord than a $60000 professor
7. the threatened (threatening) greenhouse effect
8. These are problems that for possible solutions requiring (require) technological advance and understanding
9. But these problems have resulted in (from) the short-sighted use of technology by people who grabbed for the immediate short-term
10. but political and industrial leaders are willing to try to understand the world of science and technology in depth and to avoid basing their judgments on the “bottom-line”