● popular: 1.流行的；2.大众的；Eg.“popular speech”是“大众话语”而非“流行演讲”
● practice：1.练习；2.做法；Eg.“teaching practice”是“教学方法”或“教学行为”而非“教学练习”
● reference：1.参考书目；2.提到；Eg.“reference to a possible link”是“提到了一个可能存在的联系”
● coin:1.硬币(名词)；2.创造(动词)；Eg. “coin a term”是“新创了一个术语”
● subject：1.科目；2.主体；3.实验对象；Eg. “teacher-subject”是“教师实验对象”
● objective：1.客观的；2.目标；Eg.“Objective 3”是“目标3”
● literature：1.文学；2.文件、资料；Eg.“company literature”是“公司资料”
● knowledge：1.知识；2.知情；Eg.“without the knowledge of something”是“对某事不知情”而非“没有某事的知识”
● over：1.超过；2.during；Eg. “The New Zealand Ministry has found from research carried out over two decades that …”此处的over是during的意思
● novel：1.小说；2.新奇的，与众不同的，名词形式novelty；Eg. “Novelty releases the perceptual process from the chains of past experience and forces the brain to make new judgments.”
● social：1.社会的；2.社交的。比如social skill需要理解为“社交技能也就是interacting with others”；再比如social intelligence理解为“社交情商”更合适。
● back：1.后背(名词)；2.支持(动词)；Eg. “which is backed by EPRI”是“由EPRI所支持”
● term：1.学期(是大多数同学知道的意思，但这个意思在雅思阅读中的出镜率极其之低)；2.术语(这个意思的出镜率极其之高)
● apply：1.申请；2.应用，运用。后者的出镜率更高些，但具体使用哪个意思还是要看上下文的。
● demanding：这个词的难度在于大家都认识demand动词，于是就想当然地以为自己也认识它的ing形式了。其实这个词的意思更接近于difficult而非“要求”。
● in question：目前正在说到的。Eg.“The auditory function deficits in question”是“我们目前提到的听力功能缺陷”
● in itself：自身、本身。Eg.“Saving languages from extinction is not in itself a satisfactory goal”是“拯救语言不灭绝这件事本身并不是一个令人满意的目标”
● to date：到目前为止。= so far = as yet
● life expectancy：寿命，而非“生活期待”
● medical complaint = illness = disease
仅这一批显然是不够的，若继续总结下去，最终的结果便会是一本字典。若是不能背完一本字典再去参加考试，最好的办法就是根据文章上下文来大致推测这些熟词生义之词在此处的意思了。以下列举一些真题句子中的单词非常见用法，供大家先来试试手：
● In some hill-regions, this has led to a serious decline in farm output and a change in the local diet, because there is insufficient labour to maintain terraces and irrigation systems and tend to crops. （此处意为“照看”、“照顾”）
● When fragments were analysed by experts at the giant glass manufacturer Pilkington, which had made the pane, they found that minute crystals of nickel sulphide trapped inside the glass had almost certainly caused the failure. (此处意为minute“微小的”；failure“问题”)
● For example, residual from the distillation process is heated to over 900°F until it ‘cracks’ into heavy oil, gasoline and naphtha, and the residue from this process is sold as pure carbon, coke. (此处意为“焦炭”)
● This has reduced the demand for mains water by about 90 per cent. （此处意为“自来水”）
● The best way to see things differently to other people is to bombard the brain with things it has never encountered before. Novelty releases the perceptual process from the chains of past experience and forces the brain to make new judgments. (此处意为“新奇性”)
● While the early transit timings were as precise as instruments would allow, the measurements were dogged by the ‘black drop’ effect. （此处意为“称为”）
● If tide, wind and wave power are all developed, Britain would be able to close gas, coal and nuclear power plants and export renewable power to other parts of Europe. （此处意为“工厂”）
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