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1.negligible 可以忽略的 negligent 疏忽的
（1）She was taxed with negligence/with having been negligent.
（2）The damage to my car is negligible.
2.snob （snobbish） 勢利（的） smug 自滿的
Snob: one who blatantly imitates, fawningly admires, or vulgarly seeks association with those regarded as social superiors, 勢利的小人。。。。中國太多了
(1) One academic who has studied and written extensively about Plato and television suggests that Plato, rather than being anti-arts, was merely an elitist. Plato wanted to ban poetry readings and live theater, the argument goes, because, being free and accessible and raucous and extremely popular, they were the mass entertainment of that era.
Question: The “academic” indicates that Plato was primarily characterized by his
(A) insight
(B) artistry
(C) cynicism
(D) irreverence
(E) snobbishness
（2）Political figures who appear to be stanch supporters of the interests of the general public may not always be the__ they purport to be, but rather__ who favor selected groups that provide significant campaign benefactions.
A. demagogues, mavericks
B. conservatives, anarchists
C. populists, elitists
D. moderates, reactionaries
E. partisans, snobs
Smug：marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction 相當的自以為是。。。
EG: It was interesting to be in the quite old town once more, and it was not disagreeable to be hare and there suddenly recognized and stared after. One or two of the tradespeople even darted out of their shops, and went a little way down the street before me, that they might turn, as if they had forgotten something, and pass me face to face—on which occasions I don't know whether they or I made the worse pretence; they of not doing it, or I of not seeing it. Still, my position was a distinguished one, and I was not at all dissatisfied with it, until Fate threw me in the way of that unlimited miscreant, Trabb's boy.
Question: The first paragraph of the passage implies that the narrator felt
A. apathetic and helpless at being a stranger in town
B. distanced and smug toward the townspeople
C. bored and unimportant in a provincial town
D. confused and disoriented on a busy street
E. nostalgic and proud on returning to his hometown
通過這個題目體會一下，什么叫“衣錦還鄉”，其實是在諷刺。。
3. salvage 救撈 salvation 拯救
（1）After all of the passengers were safely aboard lifeboats, the crew of the King Cruiser made every attempt to__ what scuba diving equipment they could off of the__ dive boat before it sank.
(A) qualify, obsolete
(B) salvage, floundering
(C) exacerbate, defunct
(D) revitalize, prosperous
(E) commandeer, lucrative
（2）Was not Europe in its groping era of discovery in the fifteenth century in fact in search of salvation, as its morbid sonnets said, or of that regeneration which new lands and new peoples and of course new riches would be presumed to provide?
難道充滿發現與探索的15世紀的歐洲不是在尋求自救，就像那首垂死的十四行詩所說的那樣？或者難道歐洲不是在尋求重生，在那個新大陸上人們會被假設去提供新的財富？
（這是SAT閱讀考試里的一道長難句，仔細體會一下句子結構，你能不能理解呢？）
4. momentous significant paramount 都表示重要的
Momentous 重要的，重大的 paramount極為重要的
Momentary 瞬間的 surmount 克服，越過
