2013湖北高考英语试卷词汇知识运用 1. To make members of a team perform better, the trainer first of all has to know their strengths and weaknesses.译文：为了让队员表现更好，教练首先得知道他们的长处和弱点2. Poetry written from the perspective of the urban youth tends to reveal their anxiety over a lack of sense of belonging.译文：诗从城市青年的角度来写会揭示他们的焦虑缺乏归属感3. Carbon dioxide, which makes a barrier between us and the sun, prevents heat from getting out of the atmosphere easily, so the earth is becoming warmer.译文：二氧化碳，是我们与太阳之间的一道屏障，易防止热逸出大气层，因此地球正在变暖。
4. While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.译文：聪明的人简化复杂，傻瓜把复杂变简单5. According to the law, all foreigners have to register with the local police within two weeks of arrival.译文：根据法律规定，所有的外国人不得不在两个星期内到当地警察局登记6. Butterflies feed on a sweet liquid produced by flowers，which bees and other insects collect.译文：蝴蝶吃的甜液体由花产生，这些花是蜜蜂和其他昆虫收集的7. In much of the animal world, night is the time set aside for sleep—pure and simple.译文：在大部分的动物世界，晚上的时间用于睡眠的单纯和简单。
8. People complain that decisions to approve or deny a permit are often arbitrary rather than based on fixed criteria.译文：有人抱怨，决定批准或拒绝许可证往往是任意的而不是基于既定的标准9. He didn’t selfishly keep for himself the money inherited from his uncle. Instead, he made a generous contribution to help the community.译文：他不自私地把他叔叔那里继承的钱据为己有相反，他慷慨的捐助来帮助社区10. Don’t defend him any more. It’s obvious that he deliberately destroyed the fence of the garden even without apology.译文：别在阻止他了很明显，他故意破坏花园的围墙甚至没有道歉11. An artist who was recently traveling on a ferry to the southern island discovered by chance a long lost antique Greek vase.译文：他最近乘坐渡船上在岛南部旅行，偶然发现了丢失了很久的古希腊花瓶。