Amongst Irish-American playwrights of the early 20th Century, her work stood out as a(n)_____, not so much because of its striking originality but because other contemporaneous works tended to be ____________ on the most social issues. Her plays, by contrast, allowed the audience to come to its own conclusions, a technique that foreshadowed much of the 20th century theatre.
Blank i Blank ii
exemplar unyielding
precursor dogmatic
anomaly reticent
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not so much because….issues这句其实为第一个blank提供了解释。如果但看blank i的三个选项意思似乎都合适。暂且放下...
再看第二个空blank ii, 她的作品和同时代其它作家的作品相比是杰出的,那么blank ii相比之下一定是一个贬义词, 因此排除unyielding (坚强的,坚固的)。最后一句话解释blank ii:by contrast说明blank II 的意思应该是allowed the audience to come to its own conclusion的反义词。那么空2中三个选项和“doesn’t allow audience’s own thinking”意义最接近的就是dogmatic了。
再回头看空1:
Amongst ……stood out as a(n) ______,not so much because of its striking originality but because other contemporaneous works tended to be dogmatic on the most social issues.
从题干来看,她的作品与众不同,这里的stood out 和striking originality都似乎在说明她的作品与同时代其他作者的作品完全不同。用自己的话说,就是 “空1= one of a kind work”…这样看,就应该选anomaly了。
很多人觉得precursor(先驱) 也很合适,是因为看到最后一句 “a technique that foreshadowed 。。。 theatre”。我觉得这是个迷惑句。如果不看这句话,答案似乎和precursor没什么关系,既然这句话存在,那么就分析一下吧:
如果仔细分析第一句题干,会发现只有not so much because….issues这句话为空1呈严格的因果关系。而似乎暗示空1应该选precursor的最后一句和空1所在的句子并不存在任何严密的逻辑关系,因此并不能成为参考。
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