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ＬＡＮＧＵＡＧＥ　ＷＩＳＤＯＭ 　　[练习一] 　　1. John Howard has paid another secret trip to meet Australian soldiers serving in some of the most dangerous areas of Afghanistan. 　　单词关注点：pay a trip to...此处使用了pay, 而不是我们通常所说的make. 　　2. It was there that he met the mysterious operative Sajid Mir, who was given the maximum 10-year sentence in absentia on the same charges as Brigitte, but whose whereabouts remains unknown. 　　单词关注点：in absentia缺席。我们通常所说的缺席审判即可用这个短语。 　　whereabouts，原形为whereabout，表示行踪，下落，所在。 　　3．Brigitte was then directed to Australia where he was in close contact with Faheem Khalid Lodhi (aka Abu Hamza) who was last year sentenced to 20 years jail for a plot to blow up Sydney’s power grid. 　　单词关注点：be directed to... direct 在这里作为及物动词使用，大家可以举一反三，在实际学习中运用。be in close contact with... 与……保持密切关系 　　4. The expected deterioration of their film stock took most of the earliest films, and the fragile nature of their digital storage systems, which was apparently unanticipated, resulted in the loss of many of the rest. 　　 单词关注点：deterioration, deteriorate的名词形式，意思为“变坏, 退化, 堕落”。 　　result in意思为“导致”，注意同result from“由……产生”的区别。 　　5. The Australian Open champion pulled out minutes before his first round tee time at Bay Hill, unable to take his place because of a stomach ailment that also caused him to skip yesterday’s pro-am. 　　单词关注点：pull out, 渡过难关，恢复健康。大家可以顺便记住pull off（努力实现, 赢得），pull over（把……拉过来, 靠岸, 开到路边），pull for（朝……驶去, 力图到达……, 靠近）等固定搭配。pro-am，职业选手和业余选手混合赛，主要用于高尔夫球的比赛。 　　6. Ironically, global warming may provide a catalyst by forcing countries to work together to solve their mutual problem, he suggests. 　　单词关注点：ironically 讽刺地，具有讽刺意味的，这是写作中常常使用的单词，在各类考试中也常出现。 　　7. Interest rates and convenience are high, but so are security concerns. And 　　customers have to be especially vigilant. 　　单词关注点：vigilant，意思为“警惕的，警醒的”。我们来看一下近义词， argus-eyed，但是这个词除了有“警惕的”涵义之外，还有另一层意思就是“目光敏锐的”，大家可以根据具体的语言环境来使用；alert是比较常用的一个表示“警惕的”含义的单词，但是多用作动词或者名词。 　　8.That was before hurricane Katrina hit, and diesel prices