【李剑08考研英语相似易混单词】第23天（2）

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1. By far the worst form of competition in schools is the disproportionate emphasis on examinations. (NETEM 1995, Passage 4, Paragraph 3)
学校里最糟糕的竞争形式就是不恰当的强调考试。

2. That means a higher proportion of what is in the sea is being caught, so the real difference between present and past is likely to be worse than the one recorded by changes in catch sizes. (NETEM 2006, Text 3, Paragraph 3)
这意味着，海洋中更多的生物在被捕捞，因此，今昔的真实差异可能比所记录的捕捞大小差异大。

1. An education that aims at getting a student a certain kind of job is a technical education, justified for reasons radically different from why education is universally required by law. (NETEM 1999, Passage 3, Paragraph 2)
旨在使学生胜任某种工作的教育是职业教育，它存在的理由与法律所规定的普及教育之间有很大差别。

2.For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to use anything that comes from or is tested in animals - no meat, no fur, no medicines.(NETEM 2003, Text 2, Paragraph 2)
例如，在近期的一次集市上，一位老奶奶站在动物权利宣传点前散发小册子，规劝人们不要使用动物制品和动物实验制品--肉类，毛皮，药物。

3. English names are fairly evenly spread between the halves of the alphabet. (NETEM 2004, Text 2, Paragraph 2)
英语的姓名在字母表的前后两半部分的分布相当平均。

1. "Some of us have known for many, many years that the freedoms under the First Amendment are not totally unlimited," says Luce. (NETEM 1997, Passage 4, Paragraph 5)
"我们中的一些人多年来就知道宪法第一修正案所说的自由并非毫无限制，"鲁斯说。

2. His group is pushing for an amendment to Sher's bill that would prevent the export of e-waste. (CET-6, 2005.1, Passage 2, Paragraph 11)
这个团体正推动一项希法尔法案的修正案以阻止电子废弃物的出口。

3. Hallucinogens have their primary effect on perception, distorting and altering it in a variety of ways including producing hallucinations. (NETEM 1997, Passage 3, Paragraph 3)
幻觉剂主要影响人的感知，通过多种方式对感知加以扭曲或改变，其中包括产生幻觉。

4. The innovator will search for alternate courses, which may prove easier in the long run and are bound to be more interesting and challenging even if they lead to dead ends. (NETEM 1994, Passage 5, Paragraph 4)
创新者则会探寻另外不同的道路，而这样的道路将会最终被证实更简单、也一定更有趣、更富挑战性，即使它们通向绝境。

1. It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phone directories. (NETEM 2004, Text 2, Paragraph 2)
人们早已知道在客户翻阅电话簿时，名叫AAAA的出租汽车公司要比Zodiac出租汽车公司有很大的优越性。

2. It is not possible to determine whether both continents are moving in opposite directions or whether one continent is stationary and the other is drifting away from it. (NETEM 1998, Passage 5, Paragraph 2)
人们不能确定两个大陆是在朝相反的方向运动，还是一个大陆停止不动而另一个从它身边漂移开去。

1. "Important information can get buried in a sea of trivialities," says a law professor at Cornell Law School who helped draft the new guidelines. (NETEM 1999, Passage 1, Paragraph 4)
康奈尔大学法学院一位参与起草新纲要的教授说，"重要的信息会淹没在细枝末节的汪洋之中"。

2. All that is needed for the triumph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing. (NETEM 2003, Text 2, Paragraph 1)
一个被误导的事业如果要成功，它惟一需要的是好人无所作为。

In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger and that they would someday be meat for worms. (NETEM 2006, Text 3, Paragraph 5)
在西方，在大众通讯和读书识字出现之前，最有影响的大众传媒是教会，教会提醒崇拜者，他们的灵魂处于危险之中，他们迟早会成为蛆虫的食粮。

It is perfectly all right, now and then, for a human to be possessed by the urge to speak, and to speak while others remain silent.  (CET-6, 2003.6, Passage 2, Paragraph 3)
一个人时常有想说话的冲动，并且说话的时候，别人保持沉默，这很正常。

Instead, the best strategy is to use the agent as a kind of tip service to keep abreast of jobs in a particular database. (NETEM 2004, Text 1, Paragraph 3)
相反，最佳的策略是把代理当作一种提示服务来及时跟踪某一资料库里的工作岗位信息。