61. It was a dream come true for Ashley Burns when the lithe 14-year-old with the

blue-ribboned?ponytail and squeaky voice learned in July that she’d landed a

cherished spot on the varsity cheerleading squad at Medford Vocational-Technical

High School in Masschusetts.

對(duì)阿什利.伯恩斯來說，這是夢想成真的時(shí)刻——7 月份她獲悉自己已經(jīng)入選了

渴望已久的馬薩諸塞州梅德福德職業(yè)技術(shù)中學(xué)體育運(yùn)動(dòng)隊(duì)代表隊(duì)的拉拉隊(duì)。

62. Bleary-eyed, Dulcy rolls out of bed and joins me on the porch.

杜希睡眼惺忪，翻身下床，和我一起到了門廊。

63. Boris opened a bleary eye. 鮑里斯睜開了一只惺忪的睡眼。

64. It could be the people at the reception desk who are relentlessly (不間斷的) good-

natured no matter how awkward the patient is—what drives them?

醫(yī)院接待處可能就有這樣的人，不論患者多難伺候，他們總是那么和藹可親——是

什么在激勵(lì)他們？

65. Sadly, that trust could be short-lived. 令人遺憾的是，這種信任可能是短命的。

66. A broad-based antibiotic such as Cipro acts like a neutron bomb on this

ecosystem, wiping out billions of microbes.

像西普爾這樣廣泛運(yùn)用的抗生素對(duì)于這個(gè)生態(tài)系統(tǒng)的作用就像中子彈，它能殺死

數(shù)以 10億計(jì)的細(xì)菌。

67. It's official. Pluto is not a red-blooded planet.

據(jù)官方消息，冥王星并不是一顆充滿活力的行星。

68. The airline scraped the deal last year because of complaints of discrimination by

more normal-sized people, club spokesman Paul van Sprundel said.

俱樂部發(fā)言人保羅范司普蘭德爾說，由于更多的正常體型的人投訴這種歧視行為，

航空公司取消了這筆交易。

69. As soon it spots a distant hare or rat on the run, the sharp-eyed bird will swoop

down on its prey for life-sustaining food.

它目力敏銳，遙遠(yuǎn)處一只奔跑的兔或鼠，一旦落入他的視線，它飛速降落，猛地

一撲，便獲取了生命的糧食。

70. a short-handled whip. 一條短把鞭子。

71. an evil-tempered lion. 一頭脾氣暴躁的獅子。

72. The rest of the class was slack-jawed. 班里其他同學(xué)都被驚得張口結(jié)舌。

73. high-heeled, narrow-toed shoes. 高跟尖頭皮鞋。

74. They are one-sided and abstract. 片面的，抽象的。

75. One beats a small drum, another plucks a wooden stringed instrument, and the

other three have smaller, cello-like pieces, they play with a bow.

一位敲著小鼓，另一個(gè)彈著木質(zhì)的弦樂器，另外三個(gè)人的樂器要小一點(diǎn)，是用

琴弓拉的，樣子像大提琴。

詞 匯 積 累

1.?hardening?n 硬化

hardening of the arteries. 動(dòng)脈硬化。

2.?hardship?n 困苦；苦難；艱難險(xiǎn)阻

technical hardship. 技術(shù)問題。

3.?harmony?n 協(xié)調(diào)；和睦；融洽；調(diào)和

racial harmony. 種族和睦。

4.?harvest?n 收獲；產(chǎn)量；結(jié)果

It was a harvest season for him. 對(duì)他來說是一個(gè)收獲的季節(jié)。

5.?hat?n 帽子

a. Who wears the hat in the family? 誰在家里說了算

b. When we got our determinist hats on,…。

當(dāng)我們用決定論的觀點(diǎn)去分析這個(gè)問題時(shí)，…。

c. He wears a number of hats. 是幾個(gè)機(jī)構(gòu)的成員。