Although grandiose urban railroad stations are often viewed as glorious monuments to their cities, they in fact ______ the cities by enabling the migration of city dwellers to the suburbs.
(A) invigorate
(B) enlarge
(C) enfeeble
(D) delineate
(E) overshadow
答案C啊。。。可个人感觉E很对呀:能让城市失色。而且跟前面“ glorious monuments”构成反义。 为什么overshadow就不对呢?
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Critics charge that the regulatory agency, having never defined what constitutes an untenable risk, has grown (i) ______ outside influences on that issue: several experts have (ii) ______ it recently for allowing one power plant to delay an inspection for more than six weeks despite compelling safety concerns.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
(A) susceptible to (D) complimented
(B) unaware of (E) panned
(C) irritated at (F) overlooked
答案 AE啊
疑问 既然“。。。 despite compelling safety concerns”,那么应该对outside influences不理的,那第一个空就该选B。。
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Though somewhat less (i) ______ than previous chapters and suffering from a minor rash of academic jargon, the final chapter of the book is nonetheless (ii) ______ laypeople.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
(A) arcane (D) largely ignored by
(B) coherent (E) accessible to
(C) subjective (F) impenetrable to
答案BE啊
可感觉,如果反过来(AF)也对:尽管神秘性少了,术语也比较少,但最后一章还是不能让门外汉领悟。这不也很通么?作者: Smillence 时间: 2013-9-7 08:04:46
第二题我的理解是,it recently for allowing,反映出agency已经屈从于outside influence,所以是susceptible to,而不是没有意识到。作者: gkso 时间: 2014-8-6 21:29:41
gkso 发表于 2014-8-6 21:28
第二题我的理解是,it recently for allowing,反映出agency已经屈从于outside influence,所以是susceptib ...
另外,可以说unaware of the risk,而不能说unaware of the influence作者: Dragonheel 时间: 2014-9-10 19:06:27
第二题,susceptible在美国传统词典里还有一个意思是“capable of accepting”,我觉得这里应该是取的这个意思,即agency做事没有自己的原则(never define 。。。),从而变的接受外部影响来处理自己的内务。作者: lihangxuan1026 时间: 2015-8-28 19:46:28
第二题先分析一下句子。that从句做charge的宾语。注意,having never defined 和 has grown____outside 两句话是同位并列从句(好像是这么说的在杨鹏长难句上面看过一次)也就是说这两句话共同的主语是regulatory agency,主语相同,说明这两句话指的是一回事。前半句的意思是说regulatory agency没有明确危险的门槛,是不好的事情。后半句regulatory agency has grown (i) ______ outside influences on that issue。肯定也是说不好的事情。B是一个中性词,可以排除。
冒号后 several experts have (ii) ______ it 。这里it指的regulatory agency。就是说专家怎么了机构,experts和critics对应,charge 和二空对应。选E
在看第一空,冒号后面是说最近有许多专家严厉指责了这间机构,因为即便有明显的安全疑虑,它却拖延电厂的检查超过六周。说明专家开始关注这个机构了,experts的指责就是ouside influences。A明显更符合意思