96年十月section 4

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尽管销售自从去年开始一直持续增长，使人遗憾的是，增长速度放慢了。

capitulate 1 archaic1: parley2, negotiate 2 a: to surrender often after negotiation3 of terms b: to cease resisting: acquiesce4 syn see yield

retaliate5 : to repay in kind ~ vi: to return like for like; esp: to get revenge. retaliate usu. implies a paying back of injury in exact kind, often vengefully reciprocate6 implies a mutual7 or equivalent exchange or a paying back of what one has received .

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尽管创作有新意并且独特的诗和戏剧的思维与创建和讲解科学创造的思维毫无疑问地类似，但

是这他们的创造者之间却有显著的差异。

非常巧妙的比较结构，请注意短语a discernible difference between它表明的是差级比较，而上半句有是同样的比较双方，依据两套比较结构的出题规律：比较双方不变，比较结果肯定改变可以得出结论，上半句的比较结果应为没difference, d的analogous吻合。ETS愈加倾向于用隐含的比较结构（beyond, different, compared with）和同级比较来出题, 请记住这几个短语。参照：94年2月section2 7th , 94年4月section1 5th, 95年十月 section6 2nd.

peripheral9 1: of, relating to, involving, or forming a periphery10 or surface part 2: of, relating to, or being part of the peripheral nervous system ~ nerves 3: of, relating to, or being the outer part of the field of vision 4: auxiliary11, supplementary12 ~ equipment; also: of or relating to computer peripherals pe.riph.er.al.ly adv 2peripheral n : a device connected to a computer to provide communication or auxiliary functions

contiguous 1: being in actual contact: touching15 along a boundary or at a point 2 of angles: adjacent 2 3: next or near in time or sequence 4: touching or connected throughout in an unbroken sequence ~ row houses syn see adjacent con13.tig.u.ous.ly adv con.tig.u.ous.ness n

analogous 1: showing an analogy or a likeness16 that permits one to draw an analogy 2: being or related to as an analogue17 syn see similar anal.o.gous.ly adv anal.o.gous.ness n

inconsistent a: not compatible with another fact or claim ~ statements b: containing incompatible18 elements c: incoherent or illogical in thought or actions: changeable d: not satisfiable by the same set of values for the unknowns ~ equations ~ inequalities in.con.sis.tent.ly adv

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让人失望的是，这个最新版的文献目录辜负了它长期的大全的声誉，由于它遗漏了一些有关最

新出版物的条目。

又是一道目前的动作证明了过去的某声誉为假的老题，类似的题目出目前科学家身上（No.8 section3 3rd）, 出目前文学评论家身上（93年十月section5 7th）, 目前又到了文献目录学身上。我非常同情ETS, 他已经非常难玩出什么新花样了。本题中第二空格是伤害过去声誉的动作，a和e侯选，又需要时间对比前后反义词，e正确。

imprecise not precise: inexact, vague im.pre.cise.ly adv im.pre.cise.ness n im.pre.ci.sion n

relevance19 1 a: relation to the matter at hand b: practical and esp. social applicability: pertinence20 2: the ability to retrieve21 material that satisfies the needs of the user

timeliness 1time.ly adv 1 archaic: early, soon 2: in time: opportunely23 2timely adj time.li.er ; -est 1: coming early or at the right time: opportune22 2: appropriate or adapted to the times or the occasion time.li.ness n

meticulousness24 : marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details syn see careful me.tic.u.los.i.ty n me.tic.u.lous.ly adv me.tic.u.lous.ness n

exhaustiveness : testing all possibilities or considering all elements: thorough ex.haus.tive.ly adv ex.haus.tive.ness n ex.haus.tiv.i.ty n

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尽管辛普森善于于以做戏来表现自然而富有创造力，但在这骗术得背后，他对问题的解决方法