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1. Due to the extraordinary circumstances, British business owners found themselves in a (i)______ position during the second world war, forced to accept interference from the government and to acquiesce to (ii)______ role for labor unions in negotiating the terms and conditions of the employment.
A. defensive D. a traditional
B. dominant E. an enhanced
C. customary F. a diminished

2. The reclusive clergyman may have lived and died in melancholy, but this doesn’t seem to have (i)______ his genius in any way. On the contrary, we find ourselves wondering whether his genius wasn’t (ii)______ in some mysterious way by his mood.
A. influenced D. served
B. hampered E. controlled
C. triggered F. identified

3. Jackie Wullschlager’s biography of Mans Christian Andersen ______ the insipid sweetness with which Andersen coated his life and reveals a vulnerable gingerbread man with a bitter almond where his heart should be.
A. conjures up B. imagines C. strips away D. overlooks E. removes F. ignores

第一题II空为什么选enhanced，后面for labor unions不应该翻译成对labor来说British business owners的角色吗？怎么成了labor的角色？
第二题whether wasnt怎么理解？相当于whether？
第三题DF选项怎么排除？

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1.labor union是指工会，代替工人和资本家谈雇佣福利条件的，维护工人的利益，后面的negotiating the terms and conditions of the employment也解释了这一点。文中说British business owners的实力下降：一方面受到政府干预，一方面需要默认工会实力大增，所以第二空选enhanced。
2.这里的whether wasn't应该和whether一个意思吧
3.根据reveal取同义：既然是揭露了什么，那么肯定要有揭掉的动作：CE；文中并没有印证“忽略”的词语，所以DF不够贴切。