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五百基础词汇的使用和练习（5）
Words to Learn This Week
tradition
rural
burden
campus
majority
assemble
explore
topic
debate
evade
probe
reform
Read the following story to see how the new words are used in it.
Each summer at the Shaker Work Group, a special school in rural Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where teenagers learn by working, it has been a tradition to have the teenagers take on the burden of setting their own rules and living by them. Although there are some adults on the campus, teenagers are a majority.
One summer the group assembled to explore the topic of lights-out time. There was little debate until 10:30 P.M. was suggested. Why? Everyone at the Shaker Work Group works a minimum of several hours each morning on one project and several hours each afternoon on another. Since everyone has to get up early, no one wanted to stay up later at night anyway.
Few teenagers at the Shaker Work Group try to evade the rules. When one does, the entire group meets to probe the reasons for the "villain's" actions. Their aim is to reform the rule breaker. However, at Shaker Village, the theory is that teenagers who are busy working will have no time to break rules.
Place one of the new words in each of the blanks below.
01. I left the city for a peaceful ________ farm.
02. Professor Dixon liked the atmosphere of the university _________ .
03. He tried to ________ questions he didn't know how to answer.
04. The _______ of people wanted him to be president.
05. The guests began to ________ for Thanksgiving dinner.
06. Christmas trees are a popular _________ for many people.
07. Making a living for his family was too much of a __________ .
08. I want to all the cities I haven't visited. --------
09. If Gene doesn't ________ , he will get into serious trouble.
10. He had to do research on the _________ of biology for a school report.
11. Historians will the causes of the war in Bosnia. --------
12. Whether or not eighteen-year-olds should be allowed to vote was in ___________ for a long time.
"Better one living word than a hundred dead."
Exercise
Now make up your own sentences, one for each of the new words you have just been taught.五百基础词汇定义，造句，和练习答案（5）
W.G. Benham, Quotations
1. Tradition / tro'dijn / beliefs, opinions, and customs handed down from one generation to another
a. The father tried to persuade his son that the tradition of marriage was important.
b. All religions have different beliefs and traditions.
c. As time goes on, we will eliminate traditions which are meaningless.
2. Rural / 'ruaral / in the country
a. Tomatoes are less expensive at the rural farm stand.
b. Rural areas are not densely populated.
c. The rural life is much more peaceful than the city one.
3. Burden / 'bs.dn / what is carried; a load
a. The burden of the country's safety is in the hands of the President.
b. Irma found the enormous box too much of a burden.
c. Ricky carried the burden throughout his college career.
4. Campus / 'keernpos / grounds of a college, university, or school
a. The campus was designed to utilize all of the college's buildings.
b. Jeff moved off campus when he decided it was cheaper to live at home.
c. I chose to go to Penn State because it has a beautiful campus.
5. Majority / ma'd30rati / the larger number; greater part; more than half
a. A majority of votes was needed for the bill to pass.
b. The majority of people prefer to pay wholesale prices for meat.
c. In some countries, the government does not speak for the majority of the people.
6. Assemble / a'sembl / gather together; bring together
a. The rioters assembled outside the White House.
b. I am going to assemble a model of a spacecraft.
c. All the people who had assembled for the picnic vanished when the rain began to fall.
7. Explore / rk'splo.(r) / go over carefully; look into closely; examine
a. Lawyer Spence explored the essential reasons for the crime.
b. The Weather Bureau explored the effects of the rainy weather.
c. Sara wanted to know if all of the methods for solving the problem had been explored.
8. Topic / 'topik / subject that people think, write, or talk about
a. Predicting the weather is our favorite topic of conversation.
b. Valerie only discussed topics that she knew well.
c. The speaker's main topic was how to eliminate hunger in this world.
9. Debate / di'beit / a discussion in which reasons for and against something are brought out
a. The debate between the two candidates was heated.
b. Debate in the U.S. Senate lasted for five days.
c. Instead of shrieking at each other, the students decided to have a debate on the topic.
10. Evade / r'veid / get away from by trickery or cleverness
a. Juan tried to evade the topic by changing the subject.
b. In order to evade the police dragnet, Ernie grew a beard.
c. The prisoner of war evaded questioning by pretending to be sick.
11. Probe / praub / search into; examine thoroughly; investigate
a. The lawyer probed the man's mind to see if he was innocent.
b. After probing the scientist's theory, we proved it was correct.
c. King Henry's actions were carefully probed by the noblemen.
12. Reform / n'fo.rn / make better; improve by removing faults
a. After the prison riot, the council decided to reform the correctional system.
b. Brad reformed when he saw that breaking the law was hurting people other than himself.
c. Only laws that force companies to reform will clear the dangerous vapors from our air.
Answers:
1. rural 2. compus 3. evade 4. majority 5. assemble 6. tradition
7. burden 8. explore 9. reform 10. topic 11. probe 12. debate