强化练习五：常见前缀com-2 [词根词缀+思维导图·巧记妙用高考 3500 词汇]

练习五 常见前缀 com-2 - 13 - 练习五 常见前缀 com-2 一．地道短语理解：请将下列英文翻译成中文。 1. concrete advice 2. conduct an interview 3. contemporary culture 4. confirm an appointment 5. a management consultant 二．地道佳句理解：请体会下列句子的意思并将加粗部分翻译成中文。 1. Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good. [Richard Eyre] 2. A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing. [William Barclay] 3. They found that more on-demand entertainment viewing on tablets instead of TVs and desktop computers could cut energy consumption by 44%. [2018·全国卷Ⅰ] 4. Other cultures may use silence in other ways, particularly when dealing with conflicts among people or in relationships of people with different amounts of power. [2016·全国卷Ⅰ] 5. Who is responsible for the operation of such vehicles is not clear among car makers, consumers and lawyers. [2017·天津卷] 三．高考真题理解：请注意理解加粗部分的意思并完成相应练习。 （一）To construct a working still(蒸馏器)... Next, cover the hole with the plastic sheet, securing the edges of the plastic with dirt and weighting the sheet’s center down with a rock. The plastic should now form a cone(圆锥体) with 45-degree-angled sides. The low point of the sheet must be centered directly over, and no more than three inches above, the cup. [2017·全国卷Ⅰ] [问题]What’s the last step of constructing a working solar still? A. Dig a hole of a certain size. B. Put the cup in place. C. Weight the sheet’s center down. D. Cover the hole with the plastic sheet. （二）Researchers in Spain and England recently found that the worms of the greater wax moth can break down polyethylene, which accounts for 40% of plastics. The team left 100 wax worms on a commercial polyethylene shopping bag for 12 hours, and the 词根词缀+思维导图·巧记妙用高考 3500 词汇 - 14 - worms consumed and broke down about 92 milligrams, or almost 3% of it. To confirm that the worms’ chewing alone was not responsible for the polyethylene breakdown, the researchers made some worms into paste(糊状物) and applied it to plastic films. 14 hours later the films had lost 13% of