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Words

  • aerostatic
  • inaugural
  • multitudinous

Expressions

  1. And ________(她的心狂跳不止) when she saw her man lying on his back in the mud, ________(奄奄一息) but still resisting ________(死神的致命一击) for one last minute so that she would have time to come to him.

  2. Soon after he had completed his course of specialized studies in France, Dr. Juvenal Urbino became known in his country for the drastic new methods he used to ________(防止/抵挡) the last cholera epidemic suffered by the province.

  3. With his immediate prestige and a ________(可观的) contribution from his own inheritance, he founded the Medical Society, the first and for many years the only one in the Caribbean provinces, of which he was ________(终身会长).

  4. It was the culmination of a spectacular civic campaign that involved every sector of the city in a ________(全民总动员) that many thought ________(堪称伟业).

  5. The same protocol ________(具有重大影响/这里是说盛行/影响广泛) at the great performances in Europe, and the ladies used the occasion to show off their long dresses and their fur coats in the dog days of the Caribbean summer.

  6. The season opened with a French opera company ________(新的发明是竖琴) in the orchestra and whose unforgettable glory was the impeccable voice and dramatic talent of a Turkish soprano who sang barefoot and wore rings set with precious stones on her toes.

  7. But it never reached the extremes Dr. Urbino had hoped for, which was to see Italianizers and Wagnerians ________(兵戎相见) during the intermissions.

  8. Although he was always considered a Liberal and was in the habit of voting for that party’s candidates, ________(这与传统相关，而无关信仰), and he was perhaps the last member of the great families who still knelt in the street when the Archbishop’s carriage drove by.

  9. His children were ________(一条直线平凡不过的两个端点).

  10. But although ________(阻止他的血脉流入历史的洪流) caused him pain, what worried Dr. Urbino most about dying was the solitary life Fermina Daza would lead without him.

  11. So that everyone would have the chance to see it, the painting was exhibited for a few months after the tragedy in the vast gallery of The Golden Wire, a shop that sold imported merchandise, and the entire city ________(鱼贯而入).

  12. Without a doubt it was Dr. Urbino’s most contagious initiative, for ________(戏剧热) infected the the most surprising ________(阶层/大团体或社会中的一组/一群) in the city and gave rise to a whole generation of Isoldes and Otellos and Aidas and Siegfrieds.