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一，词汇 1. copycat （line 1，para.21） n.盲目模仿者 她只是个盲目模仿别人的人, 什么都跟她姐姐学。 She is just a copycat who follows her sister’s lead in everything. * 2. evacuate[??vakj?e?t]； （line3，para.21） v.撤离，疏散 They all evacuated when the enemy approached the city. 敌人逼近这个城市时他们已撤退了。 * 3 .turn away from 离开 对比：turn away from 对…感到厌恶 * 4.Casino [k??si:n?u]?; （line3，para22） n.赌场 a public room or building where gambling games are played. * Difficult sentences 1. And in Las Vegas , 30,000 people at the International Banking Expo were turned away from the city’s convention center after a bomb threat called in from a pay phone on the center’s premises. 在拉斯维加斯,由于接到来自国际银行汇展中心设施中的一个付费电话机打出的炸弹袭击威胁电话,三万人从市会议中心被撤离。 * 2. Maxine Boarts,71, a real-estate agent from Pittsburgh on a weeklong vacation in Las Vegas wasn’t planning to leave until Friday, but is worried about getting a flight home—“if we’re not afraid to” get on a plan then. 来自彼得堡的71岁的房地产代理马克西斯·波尔茨，正在拉斯维加斯度假，她打算星期五离开，但却担心坐飞机回家——“如果不害怕了”就坐飞机。 * Language Points 1. casino a building or room where people play gambling games 赌场 2. volume the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object 体积 3. recipient a person who gets something ; 容易接受的 容纳者 * 1. Merrill Lynch Co. pressed ahead with a media and entertainment conference for about 500 investors at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pasadena, Calif.,after heated argument in the lobby between those Merrill officials who wanted to cancel it and Jessica Reif Cohen, a Merrill first vice president, who didn’t. 经过那些想取消会议的美林公司高级员工和不想取消会议的美林公司第一总裁杰西卡·里夫·科恩在旅馆大堂的激烈争论后，美林公司坚持在加州帕萨登那的里兹——卡尔顿大酒店举行了大约500名投资者参加的媒体和娱乐业讨论会。 Difficult sentences * 2. So many volunteers showed up at a Rockville Center, N.Y.,blood bank that overwhelmed staffers began handing out numbers, then turning away donors with anything but O-negative blood, which is accepted by any recipient. 在纽约市罗克韦尔中心的血库门前来了大批的自愿者，人数太多，工作人员只好发号，只留下O型血的人，因为O型血适用于任何接受者. * * 世贸中心第二个塔楼倒塌后