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Unit 2 基础练习04
一、根据句意及所给的首字母填单词
1. When Michael Jackson appeared on the stage, all the young fans cheered e___________, one of whom even fainted.
2. After Nagasaki and Hiroshima(长崎和广岛) were bombed with nuclear weapons, everything lay in r_______.
3. If you encounter some unimportant details during your reading, you may just s________ them so that you can read faster.
4. No other method is more m_________ for the workers than a raise in wages, which definitely will increase their proactivity and efficiency.
5. Nowadays degrees are devaluating drastically, the m_________ requirement of the big companies is a bachelor’s degree.
6. Grades during the school and university could only reflect your a_________ performance, but it won’t decide how successful you will be in the future.
7. Carbon-14 is a radioactive(放射性的) e________ widely used in archaeology(考古学) to decide how old an antique(古董) or a piece of fossil is.
8. It was so s_______ of him to keep the largest chunk of steak for himself and leave the small ones for his siblings.
9. We can hardly find land animals as e__________ as the prehistoric dinosaurs because the environment of the earth now cannot support such large bodies.
10. Mothers are great because they have made huge s_________ to give birth to babies: they gain weight and may even suffer from postpartum depression(产后抑郁).
11. The stone castles and fortresses(城堡和堡垒) were used as d_________ facilities until the invention of cannons.
12. The rising cost of labor makes it harder to h________ workers at a profitable price so a lot of manufacturers are moving the factories to cheaper places.
13. The internet offers a p________ where people can communicate efficiently regardless of time and place.
14. Every year this season, the c__________ army ants in the jungles of Africa formed a lethal path, because nothing can stop such a great number of meat-eating insects.
15. Under a standard atmosphere, water b________ at around 100 degrees Celsius and at 8