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Vocabulary exercise:
Read this text. Then use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the space.
I like history, but don't think I could ever have become a (1) HISTORY . I wouldn't have had the patience. From a (2) BEWILDER collection of facts, figures and often quite (3) SIGNIFY details, they work (4) STEADY towards a picture of an era or a famous historical character, on the (5) ASSUME that the picture will become clearer the more information they have.
In the past people often had to make (6) DEDUCE about their forefathers based (7) SOLE on a few written records together with perhaps a selection of relevant artefacts, if they survived!
Contemporary paintings of famous people have always been valuable historical documents. Unfortunately, there are not so many pictures of ordinary people in (8) ACT , as it were. But such pictures as we have are often prized as much for their value as social documents as for their value as art.
Answer: 1. historian 2. bewildering
3. insignificant 4. steadily
5. assumption 6. deductions
7. solely 8. action |
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发表于 2016-7-11 23:01:33