1. Don’t run ______ the idea that Scotsmen are mean. They just don’t like wasting money.
A. in for
B. into
C. away from
D. away with

2. The police stopped several______ on the election night.
A. campaigns
B. riots
C. ripples
D. rituals

【长难句翻译】
You have all heard it repeated that men of science work by means of induction (归纳法）and deduction, that by the help of these operations, they, in a sort of sense, manage to extract from Nature certain natural laws, and that out of these, by some special skill of their own, they build up their theories.


考博英语每日一练（7.16）参考答案
1.D
【句意】不要轻率主观地下结论说苏格兰人很吝啬。他们只是不喜欢浪费钱。
【解析】固定搭配。由句中关键词“They just don’t like wasting money他们只是不喜欢浪费钱”的对应知可构成固定搭配“run away with the idea轻率主观地下结论”的D项正确。run into“遇上；撞上”；run away from“逃跑；从……逃出”。

2.B
【句意】警方在竞选之夜制止了几处骚乱。
【解析】名词词义辨析。campaign“运动；活动；战役”；riot“暴乱；骚乱”；ripple“波纹；涟漪”；ritual“仪式；惯例；礼制”。由关键词“The police stopped警方制止”知“骚乱”符合，由此知B项正确。

【翻译参考答案】
你们都多次听说过这样的事情，即科学家借助归纳法和演绎法来工作，从某种意义上来说，他们设法借助这些方法去从自然界中归纳出某些自然规律，然后他们利用自己的一些特定技能从这些规律中建立起自己的理论。