19. meddle 干预20. Capitol Hill 美国国会21. budge 使稍22. 微移动，23. 改变24. lucrative 有利可图的，25. 赚钱的26. block 制止27. fleet 舰队，28. 船队，29. 车队，30. 机队31. blanket 覆盖，32....
Passage Two (Europe’s Gypsies, Are They a Nation?)The striving of countries in Central Europe to enter the European Union may offer an unprecede...
23. highlight 强调24. persecution 迫害25. catch on 了解，26. 风行=to become popular27. pogrom 大屠杀，28. 集体迫害29. commissioner 委员，30. 调查团团员31. quota 定量，32. 配额，33. ...
Passage Three (Method of Scientific Inquiry)Why the inductive and mathematical sciences, after their first rapid development at the culmination of Gre...
22. doctrine 教义，23. 学说，24. 讲义25. correlative 相互关联的26. antithesis 对立面，27. 对偶（修辞学中），28. 对句29. coordinate 同30. 等的，31. 并列的32. subsist 生存，33. 维持生活34. attri...
Passage Four (It Is Bush)On the 36th day after they had voted, Americans finally learned Wednesday who would be their next president: Governor George ...
18. fracture 断裂，19. 折断20. taint 污点，21. 败坏，22. 感染23. dissent 不同24. 意，25. 异议26. provisionally 暂时的，27. 临时的28. aplomb 镇静，29. 沉着30. restraint 抑制，31. 克制，32....
Passage Five (Women’s Positions in the 17th Century)Social circumstances in Early Modern England mostly served to repress women’s voices. ...
Vocabulary1. repress 压制，2. 镇压，3. 约束4. patriarchy 族长制，5. 家长制6. chaste 贞洁的，7. 高雅的8. hierarchy 等级制9. monarch 君主，10. 最高统治11. image 象征，12. 反映13. overtly 公开...
Passage Six (The Present Is the Most Important)Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily ...