PART ONE
（UNIT 1——UNIT 7）
考研英语（英语一、英语二）历年真题词组446个
UNIT 1
A
1. a collection of
【释义】一些，一批
【真题】The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier. 20世纪后半叶见证了一群天才，战士，商人和远见卓识的人，他们竭力创造了难以置信的机器，这个机器可以当作打字机，印刷机，录音室，剧院，画笔，画廊，钢琴，收音机，邮件和邮差。（2012-新题型）
He appears as a character, or a collection of American personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of G.I. Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Ernie Pyle. 他作为一个角色，或是美国性格集合体的形象在1945年的一部以战地记者Ernie Pyle的生命最后时光为原型的电影《G.I. Joe的故事》中出现。（英语二 2012-完型）
Supporters of the theory viewed culture as a collection of integrated parts that work together to keep a society functioning.这一观点的支持者们将其视为所有各部分的一体化，而这个一体化共同使得社会在不停的运转。（2009-新题型）
There is the so-called big deal, where institutional subscribers pay for access to a collection of online journal titles through site-licensing agreements.有所谓的“一揽子协议”，机构订户通过协议付费可阅读一系列电子期刊。（2008-阅读-2）
2. a couple of
【释义】一对，两三个
【真题】Basic computer skills take -- at the very longest -- a couple of months to learn.计算机的基本技能最多两三个月就能掌握。(1999-阅读-3)
3. a form of
【释义】一种…的表现形式
【真题】“Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege,” writes historian and professor Richard Hofstadter in Anti-Intellectualism in American life, a Pulitzer Prize winning book on the roots of anti-intellectualism in US politics, religion, and education. 历史学家Richard Hofstadter教师在名为《美国人生活中的反知识主义》的书中写道：“知识被看作权利或特权的表现，因而受到憎恶。”，该书获得普利策奖，讨论了在美国政治、宗教和教育中的反知识主义。（2004-阅读-4）
4. a great many
【释义】很多的
【真题】There are a great many careers in which the increasing emphasis is on specialization. 大量职业在越来越多地强调专业化。(1986-阅读-1)
5. a host of
【释义】大量的
【真题】Rosenberg, the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, offers a host of examples of the social cure in action: In South Carolina, a state-sponsored antismoking program called Rage Against the Haze sets out to make cigarettes uncool.普利策奖获得者Rosenberg提供了在实际行动中一系列的交际治疗的例子：在南加利福尼亚，一项政府资助的名为“愤怒反对烟雾”的反对吸烟的活动开展起来目的是让吸烟成为一点都不酷的行为。（2012-阅读-1）
Newton’s laws of motion and Darwinian evolution each bind a host of different phenomena into a single explicatory framework. 牛顿的运动定律和达尔文的进化论各自将大量的现象联系起来成为一个单独的解释性的工程框架。（2012-翻译）
6. a lack of
【释义】…的缺乏
【真题】Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell. 几乎每个受访者对于这个特别的报道的看法是当前最大的问题不是缺乏需求而是缺乏优秀的拍品。（英语二 2010-阅读-1）
A lack of formal education, however, doesn’t constrain the ability of the developing world’s workforce to substantially improve productivity for the foreseeable future. 然而，正式教育的缺乏不会束缚世界劳动力的发展，结果可以在本质上提高未来的生产力。（2009-阅读-3）
7. a majority of
【释义】大部分
【真题】But it’s obvious that a majority of the president’s advisers still don’t take global warming seriously.但是，显然总统的大部分顾问没有严肃对待全球变暖的问题。（2005-阅读-2）
The 1990 Census revealed that “a majority of immigrants from each of the fifteen most common countries of origin spoke English ‘well’ or ‘very well’ after ten years of residence.”1990年的统计数据表明“来自最常移民的15国的大多数移民在美国居住十年后，英语说得“好”或“很好”。（2006-阅读-1）
8. a matter of
【释义】只是…的问题
【真题】We have no land ethic yet, but we have at least drawn nearer the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right, regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us. 我们还没有陆地伦理标准，但是我们至少几乎已承认不管鸟类相对于我们人类是否有经济价值，它们都应该因其自身内在的权利而继续存在。 (2010-翻译)
