7. Upon realizing that the indicators of a stressful situation can be extremely _____, the
psychologist reconsidered her claim that a reliable way of reducing stress is to recognize stressful
situations and then avoid them.
A. acute
B. exiguous
C. persistent
D. overstated
E. tenuous
F. unrelenting
7. 解析:后文说reconsidered her claim that a reliable way of reducing stress is to recognize stressful situations and then avoid them说明这个situation的indicator是不明显的,才导致了reconsider这个词,所以正确答案选BE选项。exiguous细小的,tenuous微弱的。 翻译:在意识到压力情况的迹象可能是极其微弱的之后,这个心理学家重新考虑了之前的言论,那个言论说减少压力的有效方式是找出压力情景然后去避免它们。
reconsider her claim说明这个心理学家的发现(即realizing后面的内容)使得她原来的想法变得ineffective了, 注意that后面引导的是她之前的想法, 而不是她现在的想法. 因此她所发现的东西必然是与that后面的内容相左的. 接着that后面说她之前的想法是recognize stressful situations and then avoid them right? 那么那些新发现就使得这些旧想法难以实现, 也就是situations太过微弱, 无法recognize, let alone avoiding了. 可选的就只有B和E.