英语高手请进~有几道比较难的英语题

英语高手请进~有几道比较难的英语题
每一个句子对应一个单词.一共9个题,每题答案就是一个单词.
你能答出几个就答几个吧~~
1.Some people take no interest in country things:
for them, happiness lies in the town, with its cinemas, shops, dance halls and restaurants.
2.Shy people are anxious and self-conscious, excessively (过度) concerned with their own appearance and actions.
3.Karsh was praised as a master portraitist, often working in black and white, influenced by great
patient painters of the past.
4.If you decided to learn a new language, you would have to dedicate yourself wholeheartedly to the cause.
5.Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in powerful or moving words.
6.Even young people with little money do not want to buy cheap furniture that they may soon dislike.
7.Economists study the way a society uses scarce resources such as land, labor and raw materials.
8.A great many changes have taken place in China since the policy of reform and opening to the outside world.
9.A characteristic of American culture is to respect the self-made man – the man who has made it through his own efforts.