The author thinks the present rush to put computers in the classroom is_____．

[D]radically reformatory (a.①) [1999年阅读]

[译文] 作者认为：目前匆忙将计算机引入课堂的做法_______。

[D]具有彻底的革命性

remold vt．改造

The emergence of the Net has_______．

[B]remolded (vt.) the intelligence services [2003年阅读]

[译文] 网络的出现已经_______．

[B]重塑了情报业

revere v．尊敬

While history once revered (v.) its affinity to literature and philosophy，the emerging social sciences seemed to afford greater opportunities for asking new questions and providing rewarding approaches to an understanding of the past．[1999年翻译]

[译文]当历史学曾经重视其与文学和哲学的密切关系时，新兴的社会科学似乎提供了更多探求新问题的机会，并且为了解过去提供了有价值的研究方法。

righteous a．正直的，正当的，正义的

Feelings of righteous (a.) indignation，it seems，are not the preserve of people alone．[2005年阅读]

[译文]看起来，义愤不仅仅是人类独有的。

scanty a．缺乏的，稀疏的

Examples of benefits or costs of the current concentration wave are scanty (a.).[2001年阅读]

[译文]目前证明这股合并浪潮是带来利还是弊的实例并不多。

scapegoat n．替罪羊

You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats (n.) like the Post Office or the telephone system．[2002年阅读]

[译文]如果你选择去评论邮局或电信局这样的替罪羊，那你就会处于比较安全的境地。

schism n．分裂

The schism (n.) between science and the humanities has，if anything，deepened in this century．[1998年阅读]

[译文]本世纪，(自然)科学与人文科学之间的分裂更深了。

sensory a．感觉的，感官的

“By linking directly to our nervous system，computers could pick up what we feel and，hopefully，simulate feeling too so that we can start to develop full sensory (a.) environments，rather like the holidays in Total Recall or the Star Trek holodeck” he says．[2001年翻译]

[译文]他说：“通过直接与我们的神经系统连接起来，计算机可以感知我们感觉到的东西，并且，它有希望模仿感觉，致使我们能够发展全方位感知环境，就像电影《全部回忆》中的假期或特列克星号上的全息舱面。”

shareholder n．股东

The “shareholders(n.)” as such had no knowledge of the lives，thoughts or needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares，and his influence on the relations of capital and labor was not good．[1996年阅读]

[译文]这类股东不了解他们所持股的公司里工人们的生活、思想和需求。他们对劳资关系也不会产生积极的影响。

shipper n．托运人，发货人，货主

Who’s going to pay for the rest of the bill? Many captive shippers(n.)fear that they will，as Norfolk Southern and CSX increase their grip on the market．[2003年阅读]

[译文]谁来支付其余的费用?许多“被控”客户担心他们会因为南诺弗克和CSX公司将增加对市场的控制。

shortlist n．最后候选人名单

Shortlists (n.) for job interviews，election ballot papers，lists of conference speakers and attendees：all tend to be drawn up alphabetically, and their recipients lose interest as they plough through them．[2004年阅读]

[译文]求职面试、选举投票、会议发言或参加会议等诸多名单，也是按字母表顺序排序的，当人们费劲地向下查看时，兴趣随之索然。

silt n．淤泥，泥沙；v．(使)淤塞，充塞

The Aswan Dam，for example，stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt (n.) that floods left--all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity．[1998年阅读]

[译文]以阿斯旺大坝为例，它阻止了尼罗河洪水泛滥，但也使埃及失去了洪水冲击过后留下的肥沃土壤,换回来的是这么一个有弊病的水库。现在这个水库积满了淤泥，几乎不能发电了。

sizable a．相当大的，大小相当的

A sizable (a.) portion of the world is only just emerging from economic decline．[2002年阅读]

[译文]世界上很多地区才刚刚走出经济衰落。

skepticism n．怀疑论

History and news become confused, and one's impressions tend to be a mixture of skepticism (n.) and optimism．[2005年翻译]

[译文]历史和新闻往往混为一谈，人们的这种印象往往也是怀疑和乐观的混合体。

skyrocket v．暴涨，猛涨

Quebec's Drug Insurance Fund has seen its costs skyrocket (v.) with annual increases from 14．3 percent to 26．8 per cent![2005年阅读]

[译文]A．魁北克省药品保险基金发现药品价格一年就从14．3％暴涨到26．8％!

smallpox n．天花

A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the anti-science tag has been attached to many other groups as well．from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox (n.) virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research．[1998年阅读]

[译文]1996年对新闻报道的调查表明，反科学的标签也贴在了许多其他群体上，这些人包括从提倡消灭所有现存的天花病毒的官方人士到倡议削减基础研究基金的共和党人。

sovereignty n．君主，主权，主权国家

Countries that still think foreign investment is an invasion of their sovereignty (n.) might well study the history of infrastructure (the basic structural foundations of a society)in the United States．[2001年阅读]

[译文]那些认为外国投资是对本国主权的侵犯的国家最好还是研究一下美国的基础设施(社会的基本结构基础)建设历史。

spatial a．空间的

They are both experts in spatial (a．)thinking．[1996年阅读]

[译文]他们都是空间(立体)思维的专家。

spontaneity n．自发性

In both oral and written English．talking is triumphing over speaking，spontaneity (n.) over craft．[2005年阅读]

[译文]无论作为口语还是书面语言的英语，侃侃而谈胜过了雅致的言辞，而自我发挥也经过了精心准备。

spook n．间谍，特务

The spooks (n.) call it “open-source intelligence”，and as the Net grows，it is becoming increasingly influential．[2003年阅读]

[译文]间谍们把它称为“公开渠道情报”，随着互联网的增长，这样的情报变得越来越有影响力。

spymaster n．超级间谍

Stratford president George Friedman says he sees the online world as a kind of mutually reinforcing tool for both information collection and distribution，a spymaster's (n.) dream．[2003年阅读]

[译文]该公司的总裁乔治•弗莱德曼说，他把网络世界视为情报收集和情报发布两方面相互增强的工具，这是超级间谍的梦想。

standstill n．静止，停顿

Population growth in the Northeast and Midwest reaches a near standstill(n.)．[1998年阅读]

[译文](美国)东北部和中西部的人口已接近零增长。

stark a．严酷的；苛刻的

The problem is simple and stark (a.①)：health-care costs have been，are，and will continue to increase faster than government revenues．[2005年阅读]

[译文]问题简单而又严酷，那就是，健康福利的支出过去、现在和将来都会比政府收入增加得快。

statistics　n．统计学，统计表

This alone demonstrates that the television business is not an easy world to survive in，a fact underlined by statistics(n.) that show that out of eighty European television networks，no less than 50％ took a loss in 1989．[2005年翻译]

[译文]这一点就足以证明，要在电视行业里生存下来并非易事，统计数字尤其说明了这一事实，在80个欧洲电视网中，多达一半在1989年亏损。

stepladder n．活梯