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Section 5
1. Her ______ should not be confused with miserliness; as long as I have known her, she has always been willing to assist those who are in need.
(A) intemperance
(B) intolerance
(C) apprehension
(D) diffidence
(E) frugality
解析:填入的词要跟miserliness很像又不是miserliness,这个人还是很乐于助人的。因此,选择E选项frugality表示的是节俭的意思。
注意C选项apprehension表示害怕的意思,这个词还经常跟trepidation考察同义词。apprehend动词原形,有三个意思(1)害怕(2)逮捕(3)理解,考试的时候随便试。
答案:E
2. Natural selection tends to eliminate genes that cause inherited diseases, acting most strongly against the most severe diseases; consequently, hereditary diseases that are ______ would be expected to be very ______, but, surprisingly, they are not.
(A) lethal.. rare
(B) untreated.. dangerous
(C) unusual.. refractory
(D) new.. perplexing
(E) widespread.. acute
解析:前后两句因果关系。注意inherited diseases和hereditary disease说的是一回事儿,都表示的是遗传病。前面的句子说,自然选择会干掉那些引起遗传病的基因,越是强烈的疾病就干的越猛(不要想歪了)。所以怎样的遗传病应该是怎样的呢?那疾病越严重,干的越彻底,所以第一个空格应该填severe的同义词,第二个空格应该填干掉后的结果。所以选择A选项。
答案:A
3. Unfortunately, his damaging attacks on the ramifications of the economic policy have been ______ by his wholehearted acceptance of that policy's underlying assumptions.
(A) supplemented
(B) undermined
(C) wasted
(D) diverted
(E) redeemed
解析:注意一上来奠定了整个句子的基调,这里面一定有一些事情时不愉快的。空格填入谓语,所以需要判断主语和宾语的方向。前面说的是他对于这些政策的攻击,后面说的是他对于这个政策背后一些假设的全盘接受,所以前后是矛盾的,应该用负向动词。再判断前后的关系不难看出后面的内容让他前面的攻击没有那么有信服力,所以是削弱了他的attack。选择B
注意要区分supple supplement supplicate 这几个词,请自行查一下这几个单词的意思。
divert这个单词考试的时候除了表示转移之外,还表示使愉悦的意思(Draw the attention of (someone) away from tedious or serious concerns; entertain or amuse),因此有一个形容词diverting表示有趣的。
答案:B
4. During the opera's most famous aria the tempo chosen by the orchestra's conductor seemed ______, without necessary relation to what had gone before.
(A) tedious
(B) melodious
(C) capricious
(D) compelling
(E) cautious
解析:空格的信息是把后面的话复制一下。没有必要的联系,一定是一个负向评价,因此BDE不能选了。注意到说的是与之前没有什么联系,因此选择C选项表示变化多端。
melodious表示旋律优美的,有这个意思的词还经常考察mellifluous, mellifluent, euphonious。
capricious表示变化多端,来自于caprice表示突发奇想,表示这种怪念头突发奇想的词还有whim/ vagary。所以英语中,我们经常说on a whim,表示一时兴起。
例句:He opened the door on a whim, expecting nothing, but instead, he was faced with four sets of eyes.
考试中表示变化多端的词,还经常考察fickle, inconstant, mercurial, volatile, fitful, whimsical, arbitrary.
答案:C
5. In the machinelike world of classical physics, the human intellect appears ______, since the mechanical nature of classical physics does not ______ creative reasoning, the very ability that had made the formulation of classical principles possible.
(A) anomalous.. allow for
(B) abstract.. speak to
(C) anachronistic.. deny
(D) enduring.. value
(E) contradictory.. exclude
解析:这里面要明白creative reasoning和human intellect是一个概念,我们简写为C。mechanical nature of classical physics 和machinelike world of classical physics 还有classical principles 是一个概念,我们简写为M。那么这句话就是在M的世界里C是怎么样的,因为M不允许怎么样C,C让M变成了可能。所以搭配后合适的只有A选项。其他的选项两个空格的关系都不合适。
这道题目是一道非常好的寻找语意对应关系的题目,如果没有读出来的同学说明你对于同义重复的寻找能力还较为薄弱。
C选项anachronistic这个词表示(1)时代错乱的(used to describe something that is placed, for example in a book or play, in the wrong period of history)(2)不合时宜的(used to describe a person, a custom or an idea that seems old-fashioned and does not belong to the present),是考试中的高频词汇。
练习:判断anachronistic在下面句子中是什么意思。
(1) The daily publication of print media seems anachronistic today.
(2) The costumes were anachronistic for a Victorian play.
(3) She is rebelling against the anachronistic morality of her parents.
答案:A
6. During the 1960's assessments of the family shifted remarkably, from general endorsement of it as a worthwhile, stable institution to widespread ______ it as an oppressive and bankrupt one whose ______ was both imminent and welcome.
(A) flight from.. restitution
(B) fascination with.. corruption
(C) rejection of.. vogue
(D) censure of.. dissolution
(E) relinquishment of.. ascent
解析:注意 during the 1960’s是时间状语,很多同学容易断句成 during the 1960’s assessments,这是不对的。说的是家庭的评价shift from A to B,因此空格应该跟endorsement 相反,填入浮想的词汇,第二个空格也因该是负向词汇,因此符合题意的只有D选项。
注意dissolution来自于dissolve 表示溶解、瓦解。
当我们说变化的时候就可以用这个句型shift from general ______ of it as A to widespread _____ of it as B. 从支持变成反对,态度上发生变化。
答案:D
7. Documenting science’s ______ philosophy would be ______, since it is almost axiomatic that many philosophers use scientific concepts as the foundations for their speculations.
(A) distrust of.. elementary
(B) influence on.. superfluous
(C) reliance on.. inappropriate
(D) dependence on.. difficult
(E) differences from.. impossible
解析:因果关系题目,这里面document表示证明(to prove)的意思,前面已经提到过。axiomatic这个单词的意思表示毋庸置疑self-evident or unquestionable。因此后面这个是对的,很多哲学家都适用科学的概念作为他们推理的基础。因此科学对哲学有影响力,因此选择B选项。证明这件事情是多余的,因为这件事情就是对的。注意D选项的dependence方向用反了,应该是philosphy’s dependence on science。
这个句子it is almost axiomatic that ……可以用于写一些显而易见的道理。
题干中的speculation表示推测,这个词经常跟conjectural考六选二。
答案:B
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