1. Having had her as a professor and adviser, I can tell you that she is an ______ force who pushes her students to excel far beyond their own expectations.

A. inspirational

B. educational

C. excessive

D. instantaneous




2. About one-third of the adult homeless are ________mentally ill, and about half are alcoholic or abuse drugs.

A. chronically

B. sparsely

C. adequately

D. individually




【长难句英译汉】

1. On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying.




【华慧考博】考博英语每日一练（10.22）参考答案

1.A

【句意】在让她当教授和指导老师后，我能告诉你，她是一种鼓舞人心的力量，该力量驱使她的学生远远超过他们自己的期望。

【解析】形容词词义辨析。inspirational“鼓舞人心的；给予灵感的”；educational“教育的；有教育意义的”；excessive“过多的，极度的；过分的”；instantaneous“瞬间的；即时的；猝发的”。由关键词“pushes her students to excel far beyond their own expectations驱使她的学生远远超过他们自己的期望”的对应知“鼓舞人心的”符合语境，由此知A项正确。




2.A

【句意】大约三分之一的无家可归的成年人都长期地患有精神疾病，并且大约有一半人酗酒或滥用药物。

【解析】副词词义辨析。chronically“长期地；慢性地”；sparsely“稀疏地；贫乏地”；adequately“充分地；足够地；适当地”；individually“个别地，单独地”。由句中关键词“the adult homeless无家可归的成年人”与“mentally ill患有精神疾病”的对应知“长期地”符合语境，故A项正确。




【长难句英译汉参考答案】

1、【参考译文】在另一个层面上，很多医疗界的人承认，引发协助自杀讨论的部分原因是病人的绝望情绪，对病人来说，现代医学延长了死亡的身体痛苦。