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题目
1. The name of the Sloane Matthew Library has long been _____ ; even longtime city residents assume it is a run-of-the-mill library, never suspecting what art treasures it contains.
A. revered
B. proposed
C. misleading
D. elevated
E. intriguing
正确答案
C
题目解析
分号前后语气方向一致，其中never suspecting what art treasures it contains.说到大家认为博物馆里面没啥特别的。那么空就选负向词misleading
其它选项含义：A 尊敬 B 提议 D 提高，振奋 E 有趣的，令人着迷的
2. At their best, (i) _____ book reviews are written in defense of value and in the tacit hope that the author, having had his or her (ii) _____ pointed out, might secretly agree that the book could be improved.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A. abstruse D. strengths
B. adverse E. transgressions
C. hortatory F. assumptions
正确答案
B E
题目解析
首先，that后面的内容the author, having had his or her()pointed out, might secretly agree that the book could be improved. 这句话的意思是，在他的( )被指出来之后，作者才同意书能被修改。既然说书能被修改，说明存在不足之处，故空格2应该填写一个负评价的词语，表示作者的(负评价词语)被指出来。负评价的词只有transgressions。其次，that前面说：尽其所能，基于维护书的价值以及基于心照不宣的希望，( )的书评被写下来。在这里，书评被写下来的目的有两个：1.维护书的价值;2.有着心照不宣的希望。而that引导定语从句，先行词是hope，that定语从句的主干是the author might secretly agree that the book could be improved，故这个hope指的是作者同意书可以被修改。而作者同意书被修改，是在他的transgressions被指出来之后。因此，写书评的目的能够达到，就要指出作者的transgressions，而什么样书评才能指出作者的不足?当然只有负评价的书评才能指出不足。所以空格1要填写一个负评价的词汇，adverse。
题目翻译
往好的方面考虑，负面的书本评价可以是用来维护书的价值的，并且对于作者来说，他们也暗自(secretly)同意，当他们的transgression被指出的时候，他们的书可以获得进一步的提升。
3. In the nineteenth century the (i) _____ advanced mechanical printing techniques made it possible for newspaper owners to print newspapers cheaply and in mass quantities, but unlike many other mechanized industries, where machines (ii) _____ workers, the new printing machines required trained compositors to run them, thereby (iii) _____ the demand for skilled printing labor.
Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii)
A. wide application of D. marginalized G. ignoring
B. extensive resistance to E. intrigued H. anticipating
C. great expense of F. isolated I. increasing
正确答案
A D I
题目解析
第一空由题意易知选A，表示19世纪机器打印技术的广泛应用使报纸打印更便宜和更大数量。第三空，新机器需要训练新人去操作机器，，因此打印技工的需求会怎样，需要新人，那需求就是增加。第三空为increasing。第二空unlike和but都体现反义重复，新机器需要工人，旧机器_工人，应该是体现工人的不重要性。排除E. intrigued吸引人的，剩下两个的意思分别是：
isolate：set apart from others; select from among others; insulate隔离;区别;孤立
marginalized：to relegate to unimportant or powerless position within a society or group降到不重要的位置。
故第二空为D
4. A particular bacterium that has never encountered a particular virus will usually succumb to it, a _____ that may, surprisingly, be beneficial to the colony in which the bacterium lives.
A. susceptibility
B. theory
C. characteristic
D. juxtaposition
E. collision
F. hypothesis
正确答案
A C
题目解析
第一句：从未遭遇过特定病毒的细菌往往会屈服于它，令人惊奇的是，它的这一特性有益于细菌的繁殖生长。surprising 表前后矛盾/反义。前面说细菌容易屈服，为负评价，后面说这一特性也带来了好处，描述的是细菌的特性 所以选AC 表示特征 特性
补充： 前面说会前面说会抑制，后面说会有益于，然后中间要填的是一个过程colony in，这个过程必须包涵有病毒的特性，所以选A，关于C是因为susceptibility的上意词是characteristic。
5. Family photos of the author suggest that she was _____ child: she seemed to wear a permanent frown.
A. a sullen
B. an amiable
C. a surly
D. a beautiful
E. a prudent
F. a stunning
正确答案
A C
题目解析
这位作家的家庭合照表明了她从小就是个___的孩子：她看起来像是永远在皱眉。
frown提示选不开心，阴郁;sullen 不高兴的;amiable 令人愉悦的;surly 坏脾气;prudent 谨慎;stunning causing astonishment or disbelief
6. Biologists agree that snakes descended from lizards, but exactly where this first happened has been a matter of debate since the 1800s, when two _____ theories emerged.
A. complex
B. competing
C. dubious
D. conclusive
E. contending
F. irrefutable
正确答案
B E
题目解析
第一句话指出生物学家的共识，就是蛇的祖先来自蜥蜴。第二句话but转折，强调过去的争议。所以theories前面的形容词应填debate的同义字。
competing=contending都有提出相互竞逐的主张之义;irrefutable=conclusive则为debate的反义字;dubious是怀疑的意思，和complex不构成任何一组同义字。
