DAY 14 外媒眼中的中国高考-备战2020年高考英语之热点话题外刊精读（第一辑）

DAY 14 Trying: China’s university-entrance exams 自主学习文本 自我思考问题 自行查阅资料 I. 写出下列词汇的汉语释义 （1）第一组形容词4个（adj.）： 1. gruelling 2. relentless 3. rigid 4. sanitary （2）第二组动词8个（v.）： 1. determine 2. attend 3. cram 4. decry 5. acknowledge 6. mitigate 7. boost 8. finagle （3）第三组名词8个（n.）： 1. employment 2. prospect 3. critic 4. emphasis 5. authority 6. flaw 7. ordeal 8. epidemic II. 词汇拓展积累 1. sanitary adj. 卫生的，环境卫生的→ n. 卫生设备，卫生设施体系 2. determine v. 决定，形成，支配→ n. （对事实、现实、存在的）承认；感谢，谢礼 3. acknowledge n. 承认（属实） → n. 实用的，便利的 4. employment n. 工作，职业，受雇 → v. 雇用；应用，运用，使用 5. critic n. 批评家，评论家，评论员→ adj. 批评的，批判性的，挑剔的 6. mitigate v. 减轻，缓和→ n. 减轻，缓解 III. 重点短语英译汉 1. national university-entrance exams 2. employment prospects 3. creative thinking 4. collaborative learning 5. sanitary and epidemic prevention 6. heatstroke prevention 7. crack down on 8. so-called 9. regional quotas 10. focus on IV. 翻译下列句子 1. Around 10m Chinese pupils believe Friday and Saturday will be among the most important days of their lives, and they may be right. They will spend those days at gruelling national university-entrance exams, called . 翻译： 2. The results—and little else besides—will determine which universities they may attend and thus their employment prospects. Before these stressful days came stressful years of relentlessly focused cramming. 翻译：