高考高頻詞匯:update、upstairs、urgent、absent、

update[??p?de?t]

【詞頻】★★★☆☆

v. 更新

【例】v. 更新

（2011江蘇）Teachers have to constantly update their knowledge in order to maintain their professional _______.

A.consequence

B.independence

C.competence

D.intelligence

【譯】為了保持專業(yè)_______，老師們必須不斷更新他們的知識。

A.后果

B.獨立

C.競爭力

D.智力

upstairs[?p?ste?(r)z]

【詞頻】★★★☆☆

adv. 在樓上；往樓上；上樓

n. 樓層

urgent[???(r)d?(?)nt]

【詞頻】★★★☆☆

adj. 緊迫的；緊急的；急切的

【例】adj. 緊急的

（2014安徽）To support these worthy causes, Ashoka provides money for the world’s most promising “changemakers” seeking to solve urgent problems and would like to create a world in which every citizen is a changemaker.

【譯】為了支持這些有價值的事業(yè)，愛創(chuàng)家協會出資支持全球最有前景的、致力于解決緊急問題的“變革者”，這一協會還想要創(chuàng)建一個所有公民都是變革者的世界。

absent[??bs(?)nt]

【詞頻】★★★☆☆

adj. 缺席的；心不在焉的

【例】adj. 缺席的

（2014湖南）What I failed to expect was that several students were absent, which threw off my estimate.

【譯】我沒有想到一些同學會缺席，這超出了我的預期。

【詞組】throw off：擺脫；拋掉(束縛，煩惱)；(向空中)釋放，散發(fā)出

【派】absence [??bs?ns] n. 缺席；不在場

【例】n. 缺席

（2013江西）It's the conscientious worker who helps newcomers or updates people who return after an absence, who gets to work on time and never abuses sick leaves, who always gets things done on deadline.

【譯】這些勤勤懇懇的員工協助新手，為缺席后又回歸的人跟進工作進程，他們按時上班，從不濫用病假，總能在截止時間前完成工作。