7. Which of the following words could best be substituted for "relaxed" (line19) without substantiallly changing the author's meaning?
A. informal
B. confined
C. risky
D. wordy
E. metaphoric
原文定位句是：“A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might give way abruptly to the desire on the part of what we might consider a novelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely the structure and texture of a flower. In this instance, the new impulse was at least an energetic one, and thus its indulgence did not result in a relaxed style.”
做这种题你怎么能像做类反题那样查词典呢？In this instance, the new impulse was at least an energetic one, and thus its indulgence did not result in a relaxed style. impulse的意思是冲动之类的吧，那么你想想它的反面特征是啥，当然是confined被限制作者: solv6868 时间: 2010-8-29 11:27:57
Sorry, something is wrong with my PC so that I cannot type in Chinese. Actually, the word "impulse" is all over the context. Thus, in my opinion, it is not the appropriate key. But thank you for your time and advice anyway. :)作者: seazcy 时间: 2010-8-29 12:13:26
Sorry, something is wrong with my PC so that I cannot type in Chinese. It is the 5th excercise in the XDF reading excerise book. Sorry for asking help without giving the context :( will try to find the passage online next time. Thanks anyway.作者: seazcy 时间: 2010-8-29 12:17:03
Here is the whole passage including the foregoing details.
Thomas Hardy’ s impulses as a writer, all of which he indulged in his novels, were numerous and divergent, and they did not always work together in harmony. Hardy was to some degree interested in exploring his characters’ psychologies, through impelled less by curiosity than by sympathy. Occasionally he felt the impulse to comedy (in all its detached coldness) as well as the impulse to farce, but he was more often inclined to see tragedy and record it. He was also inclined to literary realism in the several senses of that phrase. He wanted to describe ordinary human beings; he wanted to speculate on their dilemmas rationally (and, unfortunately, even schematically); and he wanted to record precisely the material universe. Finally, he wanted to be more than a realist. He wanted to transcend what he considered to be the banality of solely recording things exactly and to express as well his awareness of the occult and the strange.
In his novels these various impulses were sacrificed to each other inevitably and often. Inevitably, because Hardy did not care in the way that novelists such as Flaubert or James cared, and therefore took paths of least resistance. Thus, one impulse often surrendered to a fresher one and, unfortunately, instead of exacting a compromise, simply disappeared. A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might give way abruptly to the desire on the part of what we might consider a novelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely the structure and texture of a flower. In this instance, the new impulse was at least an energetic one, and thus its indulgence did not result in a relaxed style. But on other occasions Hardy abandoned a perilous, risky, and highly energizing impulse in favor of what was for him the fatally relaxing impulse to classify and schematize abstractly. When a relaxing impulse was indulged, the style—that sure index of an author’ s literary worth—was certain to become verbose. Hardy’ s weakness derived from his apparent inability to control the comings and goings of these divergent impulses and from his unwillingness to cultivate and sustain the energetic and risky ones. He submitted to first one and then another, and the spirit blew where it listed; hence the unevenness of any one of his novels. His most controlled novel, Under the Greenwood Tree, prominently exhibits two different but reconcilable impulses—a desire to be a realist-historian and a desire to be a psychologist of love—but the slight interlockings of plot are not enough to bind the two completely together. Thus even this book splits into two distinct parts.作者: MotoRoker 时间: 2010-8-29 13:53:26
定位下the new impulse是the desire on the part of what we might consider a novelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely the structure and texture of a flower。作者接着叙述到: the new impulse was at least an energetic one, and thus its indulgence did not result... 从逻辑上来看relaxed是对应the new impluse的关键点exacly and concretely。从选项来看，只有confined最为合适作者: seazcy 时间: 2010-8-29 20:37:36