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Answers 重点词汇： 1.assume? （v.假定；承担；呈现）。 2.lump （团块；使成团块）。 3.acceleration（加速；加速度）即ac+celer+ation，ac-加强前缀，celer词根“速度”，-ation名词后缀；反义词为deceleration（减速）←de向下+celer+ation。 4.rebound（v.n.反弹）←re反+bound跳。 5.evidence（证据，迹象）即e+vid+ence，e-（=ex-），vid词根“看”=vis（如visible→vis+ible→可见的），-ence名词后缀，“能看出来的东西”→证据。 6.treasury? （宝库，国库）即treasur（e）+y，treasure（n.财宝v.珍爱），-y表“地方”，于是“放财宝的地方”→宝库。 7.disjunction ?（n.分离，分裂）即dis+junction，dis-否定前缀，junction（n.连接，连接处）。 8.anecdote（趣闻，轶事） 9.profitability（收益率）即profit+ability，profit（v.n.收益），-ability名词后缀； 10.ineptly（不相宜地；无能地）即in+ept+ly，in-否定前缀，ept（=apt）适宜的，-ly副词后缀。 11.revenue（财政收入；税收）←re+venue，另可记avenue（林荫道；途径）←a+venue。 12.blunt ?率直的；钝的；使钝。 13.consultant? （顾问）即consult+ant，consult（v.商量；查询），-ant表“人”。 难句解析： ① What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that businessmen assume they are presiding over is for real. ② The trouble is that Part of the recent acceleration is due to the usual rebound that occurs at this point in a business cycle, and so is not conclusive evidence of a revival in the underlying trend. ③ There is, as Robert Rubin, the treasury secretary, says, a disjunction between the mass of business anecdote that points to a leap in productivity and the picture reflected by the statistics. ④ New ways of organizing the workplace — all that re-engineering and downsizing — are only one contribution to the overall productivity of an economy, which is driven by many other factors such as joint investment in equipment and machinery, new technology, and investment in education and training. ⑤His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many companies have applied re-engineering in a mechanistic fashion, chopping out costs without giving sufficient thought to long-term profitability. * *