专八词汇及练习题(10)

Exercise:
__1__is an imaginary island invented by Sir Thomas More.
We cannot see our way in the __2__dark.
The beggar only asks a __3__ sum of money but is refused disdainfully by the gentleman.
__4__ is the science that studies the effects of forces on the motion of a body or system of bodies, especially of forces that do not originate within the system itself.
You__5__ the smell of greasy food when you are seasick.
John Dennis traveled across the __6__ Alps in 1688.
Most plants __7__ by seed.
答案：1.Utopia 2. pitch 3. fiddling 4. Dynamics 5. loathe 6.perilous 7. propagate
1. strata n. level or class in society, pl. of stratum （社会的）阶层
e.g.: a gathering of people from a variety of social strata
2. reconciliation n. the reestablishing of cordial relations or getting two things to correspond 和解，调和，一致
e.g.: the reconciliation of ideas, opinions, etc.
派生词汇 reconcile v. （使）和好 reconcilement n. 和好 reconciler n. 和解人
reconciliatory adj. 调和的