2010考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读:SWIFTER, HIGHER, STRONGER

strive[straiv] v.奋斗，努力
　　
[真题例句] Private businessmen, striving to make profits, produce these goods and services in competition with other businessmen; and the profit motive, operating under competitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produced.[1994年阅读1]
　　
[例句精译] 为了获取利润，私有企业主在与他人竞争中生产这些产品，提供这些服务。在竞争的压力下追求利润的动机以及如何运作在很大程度上决定生产商品和提供服务的方式。
　　
participate  v.①(in)参与，参加;②分享，分担

[真题例句] Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others, they cannot fully participate (①) in our democracy.[2004年阅读4]
　
[例句精译] 如果不能批判地思考、不能维护自己的主张、不能理解他人的思想，他们就不能充分地参与民主社会。
　　
revive  v.①使苏醒;②复苏，复兴
　　
[真题例句] 41. The emergence of the Net has.[2003年阅读1]
[D] revived (②) spying as a profession
[例句精译] 41. 网络的出现已经。
[D] 使间谍职业复兴
　　
promote  v.①促进，发扬;②提升，提拔;③增进，助长;④宣传，推销
　　
[真题例句] The standardized educational or psychological test that are widely used to aid in selecting, classifying, assigning, or promoting (②) students, employees, and military personnel have been the target of recent attacks in books, magazines, the daily press, and even in congress.[1995年翻译]
　　
[例句精译] 标准化教育测试或心理测试目前广泛应用于协助选拔、分类、委派或提升学生、雇员和军事人员：这些测试一直是某些人近些年来在书籍、杂志、日报乃至国会中抨击的目标。
　　
[真题例句] Apart from the fact that twentyseven acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote (④) a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements.[1995年阅读1]
　　
[例句精译] 除了国会制定的二十七项法案对广告词加以约束之外，没有任何正规广告商胆敢推销与广告承诺不符的产品。
　　
parade  n.游行，检阅;v.(使)列队行进，游行
　　
cease  v./n. 停止，中止

[真题例句] If we do not confront and overcome these internal fears and doubts, if we protect ourselves too much, then we cease to grow.[1995年阅读2]
[例句精译] 如果我们不能去正视并克服这些内在的恐惧和疑虑，如果我们过于自我保护，那么我们就会停止成长。