【慢速VOA一周回顾】第三期 （10.20---10.26）
1. The group is calling for the expanded use of what is known as ___1___ ready-to-use food to treat severely ___2___ children.
该组织希望推广“即食食品”疗法的使用来治疗那些患有严重营养不良的儿童。
2. ___3___ flour or a mixture of corn and soy are commonly used to improve children's diets.
强化营养的面粉、玉米与大豆的混合粉经常被用来改善儿童的膳食。
3. They discovered how to ___4___, or knock out, single genes in laboratory animals.
他们可以使做实验用的动物体内的个体特定基因如何不活跃，如何失去作用。
4. They will receive what is officially called the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at a ___5___ in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10th.
他们将于12月10日，在瑞典的斯德哥尔摩举办的颁奖仪式上正式接受“诺贝尔生理学或医学奖”。
5. He is director of the School of ___6___ at (Cardiff) University in Wales.
他现在是威尔士卡迪夫大学生物科学学院院长。
6. He flies a motor ___7___ and small airplanes.
他现在可以驾驶电动滑翔机和小型飞机。
7. Many things perform ___8___ but not ___9___.
许多事情都能有效地完成，但效率却不高。
8. It shows why an ___10___ is generally the most efficient way to sell many kinds of goods.
它可以表明为什么拍卖通常是销售许多种物品最有效率的方式。
9. For this year's World Food Day ___11___ last week, VOA reporters examined the current causes of hunger.
上周在庆祝今年世界粮食日的仪式上，VOA记者仔细调查了当前引起饥饿的原因。
10. He says countries closest to the ___12___ will be hardest hit.
他称紧临赤道的国家所受的损害也最严重。
11. Governments concerned about global warming and dependence on oil are investing in ___13___ from corn and other plants.
关注全球变暖、依赖石油供应的许多政府加大了对生物燃料的投资，生物燃料大都来自于谷物及其他一些植物。
12. The official name of the economic award is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences ___14___ Alfred Nobel.
诺贝尔经济学奖的正式名称是“瑞典银行纪念Alfred Nobel经济科学奖”。
我的答案：
1. therapeutic
2. malnourished
3. Enriched
4. inactivate
5. ceremony
6. Bioseciences
7. glider
8. effectively
9. efficiently
10. auction
11. observance
12. equo** equator
13. biofuels
14. memoried in Memory of
标准答案：
1. therapeutic n.
(1) designed to help treat an illness,
(2) helping you to relax eg. Painting can be very therapeutic.
2. malnourished adj. in bad health because of a lack
of food or a lack of the right type of food
malnutrition n.
3. Enriched
enrich v.
(1) to improve the quality of sth, often by adding sth to it,
(2) to make sb/sth rich or richer
4. inactivate v. 使不活泼, 阻止活动, 钝化
5. ceremony n.
(1) a public or religious occasion that includes a series of formal or traditional actions eg. a wedding ceremony 结婚典礼
(2) formal behaviour; traditional actions and words used on particular formal occasions eg. The royal guests were welcomed with pomp and ceremony.
6. Biosciences n. sciences concerned with studying humans, animals or plants 生物科学
7. glider n. a light aircraft that flies without an engine
8. effectively adv.
(1) in a way that produces the intended result or a successful result. eg. Can the Internet be effectively used to generate revenue? 因特网能有效地用来创收吗？
(2) used when you are saying what the facts of a situation are. eg. Effectively , their response was a refusal. 实际上,他们的答复是一种拒绝.
9. efficiently adv. 有效率地, 高效率地
eg. They rigged up the ship efficiently. 他们手脚利索地安装好了船上的帆缆和索具.
10. auction
n. a public event at which things are sold to the person who offers the most money for them.
v. to sell sth at an auction
11. observance n.
(1) the practice of obeying a law, celebrating a festival or behaving according to a particular custom
(2) pl. an act performed as part of a religious or traditional ceremony
12. equator n. an imaginary line around the earth at an equal distance from the North and South Poles.
13. biofuels n. 生物燃料(指曾经为活质的燃料,如煤)
14. in Memory of
in memory of sb. 纪念, 追念
They will build a monument In memory of the national hero. 他们将建造一座纪念碑来纪念这位民族英雄.
posted on 2007-10-27 10:09
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