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76. The beaver chews down trees to get food and material with which to build its home.

海狸咀嚼树木倒下以吃到食物以及它筑巢的材料。

beaver，海狸。跟beach（海滩）一起记。海滩有海狸。

77. Poodles were once used as retrievers in duck hunting, but the American Kennel Club does not consider them sporting dogs because they are now primarily kept as pets.
贵宾犬曾被用作打野鸭时的猎犬，但美国育犬协会不认为它们是运动犬，因为它们现在主要被当作宠物。

poodle，贵宾犬，狮子狗。跟noodle（面条）一起记。吃面条的贵宾犬。

78. As a result of what is now known in physics and chemistry, scientists have been able to make important discoveries in biology and medicine.
作为现在所知的物理和化学的结果，科学家已经能够在生物和医学中作出重大的发现。

biology，生物，生物学。bio-表示生命。后缀logy表示学科。生命的学科是生物学。

79. The practice of making excellent films based on rather obscure novels has been going on so long in the United States as to constitute a tradition.

基于非常模糊的小说而制作优秀影片的实践，在美国已经如同传统的形成那么久远。

constitute，组成，构成，建立，任命。用串联法记：建立组成后才能任命。

80. Since the consumer considers the best fruit to be that which is the most attractive, the grower must provide products that satisfy the discerning eye.
由于顾客认为最好的水果看起来得非常有吸引力，所以栽培者必须提供满足眼光挑剔者的产品。

discerning，有辨识能力的，精明的。动词是discern，辨识。可跟concern（关心）一起记。关心辨识能力。

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81. Television, the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and growth, is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary sophistication and versatility, which promises to reshape our lives and our world.

82. Television is more than just an electronic system; it is a means of expression, as well as a vehicle for communication, and as such becomes a powerful tool for reaching other human beings.

83. Even more shocking is the fact that the number and rate of imprisonment have more than doubled over the past twenty years, and recidivism——that is the rate for re-arrest——is more than 60 percent.

84. His teaching began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but William Rainey Harper lured him to the new University of Chicago, where he remained officially for exactly a generation and where his students in advanced composition found him terrifyingly frigid in the classroom but sympathetic and understanding in their personal conferences.

85. The sloth pays such little attention to its personal hygiene that green algae grow on its coarse hair and communities of a parasitic moth live in the depths of its coat, producing caterpillars which graze on its moldy hair. Its muscles are such that it is quite incapable of moving at a speed of over a kilometer an hour even over the shortest distances, and the swiftest movement it can make is a sweep of its hooked arm.