2011年公共英語PEST一級閱讀:基礎(chǔ)篇10(2)

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    3. What was the Holmes’ idea about knowledge-learning?
    [A]Learning what every body learned.
    [B]Learning what was useful to you.
    [C]Learning whatever you came across.
    [D]Learning what was different to you.
    4. What did the article mentioned in the passage talk about?
    [A]One may master the way of reasoning through observation.
    [B]One may become rather critical through observation and analysis.
    [C]One may become rather sharp through observation and analysis.
    [D]One may become practical through observation and analysis.
    Vocabulary
    1. Thomas Carlyle 托馬斯·卡萊爾 1795-1881美國作家、歷史家、哲學(xué)家
    2. jumble (up) 搞亂,使混亂
    3. lay hand on (upon) sth. 抓住,找到
    4. at best 的情況下
    5. elbow out (off) 用胳膊肘擠出,推出
    6. deuce = devil
    what the deuce is it to me? 這里表示福爾摩斯的厭惡心理。義:這倒霉的詞兒與我有什么關(guān)系?
    7. while away the time 消磨/打發(fā)時間
    8. shrewdness 機敏,敏銳,犀利
    9. far-fetched 牽強附會,不自然
    10. fathom 看穿/透,推測,探索
    11. infallible 一貫正確
    12. uninitiated 對某事無知的
    13. Euclid 歐幾里德(古希臘數(shù)學(xué)家)
    14. necromancer 巫師