职称英语考试基础词汇重点解析59

2. The other three walls are normally (normal + ly/通常地)decorated in light colors, giving an impression(impress + ion/印象) of cleanliness (cleanli + ness /清洁and brightness(bright + ness/明亮).

综合类(from A thirsty World)

3. Today, in most large cities, water is used only once and it eventually (eventual + ly/最终)returns to the sea or runs into underground (under + ground/地下的) storage (stor(e)+ age/存储)tanks.

4. All we'd have to do to make use of the vast amount of sea-water(sea + water/海水) is --- remove the salt. This salt-removing(salt +remov(e) + ing/去除盐的) process is already in use in many parts of the world.

综合类(from Home Schooling)

5. There are about 300,000 home-schoolers (home + school + er + s/在家接受教育的人) in the United States.

2. Translate the following underlined words into Chinese.

1. A red traffic light means "stop" and a green light means "go". （灯）

2. I have had the stove lighted.（点燃）

3. We lit the candle and the candle lit the room. （点燃；照亮）

4. Let's have some light music. （柔和的）

5. The conversation is light and gay.（轻松愉快的）

6. He wants the light blue hat.（浅色的）

7. Many hand make light work. （轻易的，容易做到的）

8. The thesis is about three hundred pages long.（长）

9. You can see him again before long.（不久）

10. The child is longing for home.（渴望）

11. There is no smoke without fire. （火）

12. The house is on fire.（着火）

13. The enemy fired on the town. （开炮）

14. At the end of a month he was fired for incompetence. （解雇）