1. inaccuracy [in'ækjurəsi]
n. 错误；不精确
【2001·真题例句】The astonishing distrust of the news media isn’t rooted in inaccuracy or poor reportorial skills but in the daily clash of world views between reporters and their readers.读者对新闻媒介令人震惊的不信任，其根源并非是报道失实或低下的报道技巧，而是记者与读者的世界观每天都发生着碰撞。
2. lengthy ['leŋθɪ]
adj. 漫长的，冗长的；啰唆的
【真题例句】At the same time, the American Law Institute—a group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight—issued new guidelines for tort law stating that companies need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones.与此同时，美国法学会——一群说话举足轻重的法官、律师、学者——发布了新的侵权法指导原则，宣布公司不必警示顾客那些显而易见的危险，或者给顾客列出一份冗长的可能遇到的危险的清单。
3. arise [ə'raɪz]
vi. 出现；上升；起立
【真题例句】New forms of thought as well as new subjects for thought must arise in the future as they have in the past, giving rise to new standards of elegance. 同过去一样，将来必然出现新的思维方式和新的思维对象，给完美以新的标准。
4. coincidence [kəu'insidəns]
n. 巧合；一致；同时发生
【2015·真题例句】Koehn pointed out that this new era of corporate vocabulary is very “team”—oriented—and not by coincidence.科恩指出，新时代的企业词汇“团队”导向明显——这绝非偶然。
5. determine [di'tə:min]
v. 决定；判决；使…下定决心
【2004·真题例句】Being interested in the relationship of language and thought, Whorf developed the idea that the structure of language determines the structure of habitual thought in a society.沃尔夫对语言和思维的关系很感兴趣，结果他得出这样的观点：语言的结构决定一个社会习惯思维的结构。
6. nonsense ['nɔnsəns]
n. 胡说；废话adj. 荒谬的int. 胡说！
【2005·真题例句】Lots of Americans bought that nonsense, and over three decades, some 10 million smokers went to early graves.许多美国人相信了这些胡言乱语，在三十多年中，差不多有一千万烟民早早的进了坟墓。
7. booming [buːmɪŋ]
adj. 兴旺的，繁荣的v. 兴旺（boom的ing形式）
【真题例句】As industrial giants like General Motors and IBM struggle to survive by reducing the number of employees, Manpower, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is booming.当通用汽车公司和IBM等工业巨头靠减员而勉强支撑时，坐落于威斯康星州麦尔乌柯市的劳务公司却在蓬勃地发展。
8. sociologist [,səusi'ɔlədʒist]
n. 社会学家
【2010·真题例句】Sociologist Catherine Kohler Riessman reports in her new book "Divorce Talk" that most of the women she interviewed—but only a few of the men—gave lack of communication as the reason for their divorces.社会学家凯瑟琳·科勒·雷斯曼在其新书《离婚漫谈》离提到，她访问的人当中，绝大多数女性表示“缺乏沟通”是他们离婚的原因，但只有少数几个男性这么认为。
9. endeavor [in'devə]
n. 努力；尽力（等于endeavour）v. 努力；尽力
【2003·真题例句】Social science is that branch of intellectual enquiry which seeks to study humans and their endeavors in the same reasoned, orderly, systematic, and dispassioned manner that natural scientists use for the study of natural phenomena.社会科学是知识探索的一个分支，它力图像自然科学家研究自然现象那样，用理性的、有序的、系统的和冷静的方式去研究人类及其行为。
10. biologist [baɪ'ɒlədʒɪst]
n. 生物学家
【2015·真题例句】Professional scientists are expected to know how to analyze data , but statistical errors are alarmingly common in published research , according to David Vaux , a cell biologist.人们都期望职业科学家知道如何分析数据，但是在已发布的研究中统计错误却很普遍，这令人担忧，细胞生物学家戴维·沃克斯如是说。
