考研英语阅读真题单词解析.doc

2004年考研英语阅读真题单词解析（考研1号读者原创） 2004年Text 1 Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled across CareerBuilder, a job database on the Internet. He searched it with no success but was attracted by the site’s “personal search agent.” It’s an interactive feature that lets visitors key in job criteria such as location, title, and salary, then E-mails them when a matching position is posted in the database. Redmon chose the keywords legal, intellectual property, and Washington, D.C. Three weeks later, he got his first notification of an opening. “I struck gold,” says Redmon, who E-mailed his resume to the employer and won a position as in-house counsel for a company. hunt for 寻找 搜寻 搜求 stumble v (across) 无意间碰到的 偶然发现 绊脚 跌倒 说话时大姐吧 n 绊脚 出错 stumble about，along,around,etc(朝某个方向)摇摇晃晃的移动或者步履蹒跚 database n 数据库 data n 数据 search agent 搜索代理 ~post 帖子 ~repeated visit 回访 ~matches 匹配项 interactive adj 互相作用的 互相影响的 interactivity n 相互作用 interact v 互相作用 互相影响 interaction n 相互作用 相互影响 criteria n 标准 条件 （criterion的复数） salary n 薪水 vt 给……加薪 给……薪水 matching adj 相配的 一致的 相称的 posted v 贴粗 通过（post的过去分词）布置 adj 有地位的 被通报的 intellectual n 知识分子 adj 智力的 聪明的 理智的 struck v 罢工 打击 （strike的过去式和过去分词） adj 受罢工影响的 strike gold （在地下）发现黄金 比喻发现重要东西 交好运 resume n 摘要 履历 建立 vt 重新开始 vi 重新开始 继续 in-house adj 存在（或起源）于机构中内部的 ，在机构内部进行的 ，有关机构内部事务的 in-depth 彻底的 深入详尽的 inland 内陆的 内地的 counsel n 讼务律师 针对个人问题（所作的）中国或者指导 v 提出建议 劝告 counselor n 顾问 律师 辅导员 take counsel together 共同商量 hold/take counsel with sb 与某人商量 keep one’s own counsel 将自己的意见 计划等保密 With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet, finding promising openings can be time-consuming and inefficient. Search agents reduce the need for repeated visits to the databases. But although a search agent worked for Redmon, career experts see drawbacks. Narrowing your criteria, for example, may work against you: “Every time you answer a question you eliminate a pos