1.demolish demolishereg: Australian sports teams win more than their fair share of titles, demolishing rivals with semming ease.→destroyeg: The heavy rain destroyed all hope of a picnic.→shattereg: The outcome of the conflict shattered our dreams of peace and prosperity.→wreckeg: No one can wreck the friendship between us.2.extensive extensively adv. extensiveness n.eg: A big part of the secret is an extensive and expensive network of sporting academies underpinned by science and medicine.3.underpin underpinning n.eg: A big part of the secret is an extensive and expensive network of sporting academies underpinned by science and medicine.4.youngstereg: Hundreds of younsters and pros live and train under the eyes of coaches.→minoreg: They said their insurance doesn’t cover minors.→youtheg: a youth of twenty5.intensive intensively adv. intensiveness n.eg: Both provide intensive coaching, training facilities and nutritinal advice.6.collaborate collaborator/collaboration n. collaborative adj.eg: The AIS employs more than 100 sports scientists and doctors, and collaborates with scores of others in universities and research centers.→cooperateeg: I advise you not to cooperate with that deceitful businessman.7.instrumenteg: They are baced up by technicians who design instruments to collect data from athletes.→tooleg: The computer is now an indispensable tool in many businesses.→deviceeg: The device will be in production by the end of the year.→apparatuseg: There are some electrical apparatus in the room.→applianceeg: A manual containing operating instructions, as for an appliance or a machine.8.focus focuser n.eg: They all focus on one aim: winning.→concentrateeg: The threat of going bankrupt is very unpleasant but it certainly concentrates the mind.9.slight slighter n. slightish adj. slightness n.eg: No gain is too slight to bother with.→tinyeg: She has a tiny mole on her cheek.10.gradual gradually adv. gradualness n.eg: It's the tiny, gradual improvements that add up to world-beating results.→little by little11.demonstrate demonstratedly adv.eg: To demonstrate how the system works, Bruce Mason at AIS shows off the prototype of a 3D analysis tool for arms moving in slow motion.→showeg: Her laziness showed in her exam results.→clarifyeg: The teacher's explanation clarify the puzzling problem.→proveeg: The old methods proved best after all.12.impact impaction n.eg: With the Cooperative Research Center for Micro Technology in Melbourne, they are developing unobtrusive sensors that will be embedded in an athlete’s clothes or running shoes to monitor heart rate, sweating, heat production or any other factor that might have an impat on an athlete’s ability to run.→affecteg: The climate affected his health.13.remarkably remarkability n. remarkableness n.eg: Since the tests were introduced, AIS athletes in all sports have been remarkably successful at staying healthy.→unusuallyeg: It won't have escaped your notice that I've been unusually busy recently.plex complexly adv. complexness n.eg: Using data is a complex business.→complicatedeg: The tax laws are so complicated that only an expert can provide enlightenment.15.overalleg: All the training is then geared towards making the athlete hit those targets, both overall and for each segment of the race.→totaleg: Add this numbers together and give me the total.→wholeeg: The whole country was anxious for peace.16.transformeg: Techniques like these have transformed Australia into arguably the world’s most sucessful sporting nation.→altereg: The weather alters almost daily.→changeeg: changed the yard into a garden.eg: The solar cell can convert the energy of sunlight into electric energy.17.fixeg: But Australia’s success story is about more than easily copied technological fixes, and up to now no nation has replicated its all-encompassing system.→mendingeg: He had three tries at mending the lock and gave up.18.vast vastly adv. vastness n.eg: The vast expansion in international trade owes much to a revolution in the business of mocing freigt.→enormouseg: They overlooked the enormous risks involved.→giganticeg: The company has made gigantic losses this year, and will probably be out of business.→hugeeg: The atomic explosion is always accompanied by huge fireball.19.expand expandable adj. expander n.eg: While global economy has been expanding at a bit over 3% a year, the volume of of trade has been resing at a compound annual rate of about twice that.→extendeg: My garden extends as far as the river.merceeg: What lies behind this explosion in international commerce?→businesseg: They've done some business together.→tradeeg: China does a lot of trade with many countries.21.declineeg: The general worldwide decline in trade barriers, such as customs and import quotas, is surely one explanation.→descenteg: There was a descent of temperature after rain.→falleg: A fall of rocks blocked the road.22.boomeg: But one force behind the import-export boom has passed all but unnoticed.→groweg: The coat is too big for him now, but he will grow into it.→increaseeg: The government is alarmed by the dramatic increase in violent crime.→thriveeg: A business cannot thrive without good management.23.instantlyeg: Goods, once they have been made, are assumed to move instantly and at no cost from place to→immemdiatelyeg: He began to look for another position immediately.24.dominateeg: International commerce was therefore dominated by raw materials, such as wheat, wood and iron ore, or processed commodities, such as meat and steel.→commandeg: The army is under the king's direct command.→controleg: The government has imposed strict controls over the import of luxury goods.25.requireeg: As a result, less transportation is required for every dollar’s worth of imports or exports.→commandeg: The army is under the king's direct command.→demandeg: This work demands your immediate attention.→ordereg: The chairman ordered silence.26.concentrateeg: Most of the world’s disk-drive manufacturing is concentrated in south-east Asia.→focuseg: Bring the object into focus if you want a sharp photograph.27.purchaseeg: Computer manufactures in Japan or Texas will not face hugely bigger greight bils if they import dreves from Singapore rather than purchasing them on the domestic market.→buyeg: Money can't buy happiness.28.transmiteg: Computer software can be “exported”without ever loading it onto a ship, simply by transmitting it over telephone lines from one country to antoher, so freight rates and cargo-handing schedules become insignificant factors in deciding where to make the product.→dispatcheg: A messenger was dispatched to take the news to the soldiers at the front.→transfereg: He was soon transferred to another post.29.insignificanteg: Computer software can be “exported”without ever loading it onto a ship, simply by transmitting it over telephone lines from one country to antoher, so freight rates and cargo-handing schedules become insignificant factors in deciding where to make the product.→littleeg: He is little known as an artist.→meaninglesseg: His promises were just so much meaningless talk.→slightlyeg: My interest in music has languished slightly.→eg: The damage to my car is negligible.30.swifteg: But, behind the scenes, a series of technological innovations known broadly as containerisation and internodal transportation has led to swift productivity improvement in cargo-handling.→fasteg: They run faster and faster.→hastyeg: She made a hasty lunch.→quickeg: He gave a quick answer to the teacher's question.31.incidenteg: Unusual incidents are being reported across the arctic.→eventeg: This article discussed the events that led to her suicide.→occurrenceeg: It is more a made-up story than a real occurrence.32.isolateeg: There are reports of igloos losing their insulating properties as the snow drips and refreezes, of lakes draining into the sea as permafrost melts, and sea ice bresking up earlier than usual, carring seels beyond the reach of hunters.→isolateeg: Scientists have isolated the virus causing the epidemic.→separateeg: The war separated many families.33.presenteg: Climate change may still be a rather abstract idea to most of us, but in the arctic it is already hacing gramatic effects-if summertime ice continues to shrink at its present rate, the arctic ocean could become vietually ice-free in summer.→currenteg: This word is no longer in current use.34.urgenteg: For the Inuit the problem is urgent.→crucialeg: A crucial problem.→vitaleg: It is vital that we move quickly.35.precariouseg: They live in precarious balance with one of the toughest environments on earth.→unstableeg: Most of the countries in the region have unstable economies.36. tougheg: They live in precarious balance with one of the toughest environments on earth.→hardeg: That was a hard time.→difficulteg: The child is going through a difficult phase.bineeg: They believe their best hope of survival in this changing environment lies in combining their ancestral knowledge with the best of modern science.→blendeg: The poem blends the separate ingredients into a unity.→connecteg: I was surprised to hear them mentioned together: I've never connected them before.→uniteeg: The more of the masses we unite with, the better.38.vasteg: The Canadian arctic is a vast, tressless polar desert that’s convered with snow for most of the year.→largeeg: He has a large number of reference books at his disposal.→hugeeg: The destructive force of the storm is huge.→enormouseg: Long ago enormous animals lived on the earth.39.vanisheg: Somestimes the colonists were successful, sometimes they failed and vanished.→disppeareg: Many beautiful fish are fast disappearing because of the severe pollution.→fadeeg: The closing music fades out when the hero rides off into the sunset.40.emergeeg: But around a thousand years age, one group emerged that was uniquely well adapted to cope with the arctic environment.→appeareg: Mr. Green had to appear before the committee to explain his behavior .41.harsheg: Life for the descendants of the Thule people is still harsh.→rougheg: They complained rough handling by the police.42.abandoneg: Over the past 40 years, most have abandoned their nomadic ways and settled in the territory’s 28 isolated communities, but they still rely heavily on nature to provide food and clothing.→ceaseeg: As suddenly as it began, the rain ceased.→departeg: Jane is filled with sympathy for the misanthropic Rochester. Nevertheless, she realizes shemust now depart.→evacuateeg: The region near the erupting volcano was evacuated rapidly.43.obtaineg: It would cost a family around 7000 pounds a year to replace meat they obtained themselves through hunting with imported meat.→geteg: I've got a cold.→gaineg: He has gained rich experience in these years.→earneg: His skill in negotiating earned him a reputation as a shrewd tactician.→acquireeg: The collector has acquired a fine collection of impressionist paintings.44.scarceeg: Economic opportunities are scarce, and for many prople state benefits are their only income. →rareeg: It's very rare for him to be so late.→sparceeg: The television coverage of the event was rather sparse.45.curtaileg: While the Inuit may not actually starce if hunting and trapping are curtailed by climate change, there has certainly been an impact on people’s health.→compresseg: It is impossible to compress the story of the First World War into a few pages.→condenseeg: Condense this paragraph into a few sentences.46.vitaleg: Having survived there for centuries, they believe their wealth of traditional knowledge is vital to the task..→essentialeg: Food is essential to life.→fundamentaleg: A knowledge of economics is fundamental to any understanding of this problem.47.figureeg: They just figured these people don’t know very much so we won’t ask them.→reckoneg: I reckon this will be a hot summer.→estimateeg: My estimate of the length of the room was 10 feet.48.agendaeg: In fact it is now a requirement for anyone hoping to get premission to do rearch that they consult the communities,who are helping to set the researvh agenda to reflect their most important concerns.eg: His busy schedule made him completely inaccessible to his students.49.turn downeg: They can turn down applications from scientists they believe will work against their interests,or research projects that will impinge too much on their daily lives and traditional activities.→rejecteg: I absolutely reject the management's line on this.→refuseeg: I refuse to be dictated to by you.50.resolveeg: IQ could help to bridge the gap and resolve the tremendous uncertainty about how much of what we’re seeing is natural capriciousness and how much is the consequence of human activity.→settleeg: The two companies settled out of court.→solveeg: Something is bound to happen one way or another to end the conflict or solve the problem. 51.conducteg: A new study conducted for the world bank by murdoch university’s institute for science and technology policy has demonstrated that public transport is more efficient than cars.→manageeg: In spite of these insults, she managed not to get angry.52.demonstrateeg: Technology policy has demonstrated that publiv transport is more efficient than cars.→clarifyeg: A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning.→displayeg: There will be a display of bronze statuary in this museum next week.→illustrateeg: He pointed at the diagram to illustrate his point.53.maintaineg: This included both the public and private costs of building, maintaining and using a transport system.→sustaineg: The foundations were not strong enough to sustain the weight of the house.→holdeg: Hold yourself still for a moment while I take your photograph.54.demandeg: The explosion in demand for accommodation in the inner suburbs of melbourne suggestes a recent cahnge in many people’s preferences as to where they live.→requireeg: All passengers are required to show their tickets.55.issueeg: Newan says this is a new, broader way of considering public transport issues.eg: The problem is when to get the money we need.→quesitoneg: A new bicycle is out of the question we can't afford it.→caseeg: In your case, we are prepared to be lenient.56.grosslyeg: The auto-dependent city model is inefficient and grossly inadequate in economic as well as environmental terms.→veryeg: She likes Beethoven very much.→quiteeg: It was quite wonderful.57.particulareg: It is common for supporters of road networks to reject the models of cities with good public transport by arguing than such systems would not work in their particular city.→specialeg: This is a special case, deserving special treatment.→peculiareg: There was this peculiar man sitting opposite me in the train.58.featureeg: When it comes to physical features, road lobbies are on stronger ground.→characteristiceg: Her predominant characteristic is honesty.59.favoreg: The more democratic the process, the more public transport is favored.→approveeg: We can't approve of this sort of thing/these sorts of things/things of this sort.→prefereg: He chose Germany, but personally I'd prefer to go to Spain.60.initiallyeg:Trains and cars initally allowed people to live at greater distances without taking longer to reach their destination.→beginningeg: Did democracy have its beginnings in Athens?→primarilyeg: This building was primarily intended to be a dinning hall.61.massiveeg: However, public infrastructure did not keep pace with urban sprawl, causing massive congestion pronlems which now make commuting times far higher.→bigeg: New Y ork is a big commercial city.→hugeeg: The atomic explosion is always accompanied by huge fireball.eg: He has a large number of reference books at his disposal.62.viableeg: There is a widespread belief that increasing wealth encourages people to live farther out where cars are the only viable transport.→practicableeg: The mountain route is practicable only in summer.→feasibleeg: The plan did not seem feasible.63.generateeg: They are often wealthier than their American counterparts but have not generated the same level of car use.→causeeg: What caused his illness?→createeg: We've created a beautiful new building from out of an old ruin.→produceeg: He hopes to find the money to produce a film about Japan.64.starklyeg: A new study makes this point even more starkly.→completelyeg: The plan of the ground floor is completely symmetrical.→entirelyeg: Nowadays with the help of modern instruments fishing is no longer entirely dependent on the weather.→fullyeg: The civil war lasted fully four years.65.approacheg: It found that pushing everyone into the city centre was not the best approach.→accesseg: Citizens may have free accessto the library.66.revealeg: The results of a 14-year study to beannounced later this month reveal that the diseases associated with old age are afflecting fewer and fewer people and when they do strike, it is much later in life.→demonstrateeg: How do you demonstrate that the earth is round?→displayeg: The bottles of whisky on display are all dummies.→exposeeg: He exposed the plan to the newspapers.67.gathereg: In the last 14 years, the national long-term health care survey has gathered data on the health and lifestyles of more than 20000 men and women over 65.→assembleeg: The students assembled in the school garden.→collecteg: Before you begin to make a speech, you should collect your thoughts and ideas.→clustereg: She held out her hand, a small tight cluster of fingers.68.factoreg: But there may be other contributing factors.→elementeg: There is not the least element of truth in his account of what happened.→ingredienteg: Honeysuckle is often an ingredient of some herbal medicine.69.strikingeg: The survey also assessed how independent people over 65 were, and again found a striking trend.→attractiveeg: I think she is a very attractive girl.→outstandingeg: He is a an outstanding writer→noticeableeg: The scar on her forehead is hardly noticeable.→obviouseg: an obvious advantage70.representeg: That represents a significant drop in the number of disabled old people in the population.→symbolizeeg: The poet has symbolized his lover with a flower.→characterizeeg: This kind of behaviour characterizes the criminal mind.71.drawbackeg: But independence can have drawbacks.→disadvantageeg: The school labors under the disadvantage of not having enough textbooks.→flaweg: a flaw in an otherwise perfect character→shortcomingeg: Not being punctual is his greatest shortcoming.→obstacleeg: Her father's opposition remained only their obstacle.72.feateg: One of the first great feast of a young child is learning how to talk, closely followed by learning how to count.→accomplishmenteg: Developing the supersonic jet was quite an accomplishment.→achievementeg: Flying across the Atlantic for the first time was a great achievement.73.facilityeg: From earliest childhood we are so bound up with our system of numeration that it is a feat of immagination to consider the problem faced by early humans who had not yet eveloped this facility.→installationeg: The price of these product will just compensate the cost of equipment and installation of the line.74.sufficienteg: Even the earliest of tribes had a system of numeration that, if not adcanced, was suffient for the tasks that they had to perform.→adequateeg: The town is now counting the cost of its failure to provide adequate flood protection.→enougheg: There is enough food for everybody.→plentyeg: We have plenty of time to finish the job.75.indigenouseg: The indigenous peoples of Tasmania were only able to count one, two, many.→nativeeg: The kangaroo is a native of Australia.→originaleg: The original owner of the house moved out.76.ancienteg: The ancient gothic word for ten, tachund, id used to express the number 100 as tachund tachund.→oldeg: Don’t play the old tricks.→agedeg: Aged people are always envious of young people's energy.→elderlyeg: He was rather elderly with grey hair and clear blue eyes.77.averageeg: The average person in the seventh century in Europe was not as familiar with numbers as we are today.→ordinaryeg: An ordinary subway train, approaching the station, can be twice as loud as the loudest jet.→mediumeg: This cloth is of medium quality.78.fundamentaleg: Perhaps the most fundamental step in developing a sense of number is not the ability to count, but rather to see that a number is really an abstract idea instead of a simple attachment to a group of particular objects.→basiceg: In this course, students receive instruction in basic engineering.→elementaryeg: This elementary school is affiliated to a university.→essentialeg: Her most essential quality is kindness.→primaryeg: He only accepted the primary education off and on in his childhood.79.conceiveeg: It must have been within the grasp of the earliest humans to conceive that four birds are distinct from two birds, however, it is not an elementary step to associate the number 4, as connected with four birds, to the number 4, as connected with four rocks.→thinkeg: If you want to make money you've got to think money.→believeeg: We believe in his ability.→considereg: In judging him you should consider his youth.80.ultimatelyeg: All counting ultimately involves refernce to something other than the things being counted.→finallyeg: Finally the team from Argentina won the championship.→at lasteg: The big moment has come at last!。
