12. New technologies often begin by _______ what has gone before, and they change the world later. Think how long it took power-using companies to recognize that with electricity they did not need to cluster their machinery around the power source, as in the days of steam. Instead, power could be _____ their processes. In that sense, many of today’s computer networks are still in the steam age. Their full potential remains unrealized.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
Uprooting transmitted to
dismissing consolidated around
mimicking incorporated into
答案: C D
问题:空2 如何判断。
31. In her later years, Bertha Pappenheim was an apostle of noble but already _____ notions, always respected for her integrity, her energy, and her resolve but increasingly out of step and ultimately ______ even her own organization.
Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A anachronistic D emulated by
B accepted E appreciated by
C exotic F alienated from
答案:A F
问题:空1,如何判断,是因为anachronistic有outdated 的意思吗?
34. Mathematicians have a distinctive sense of beauty: they strive to present their ideas and results in a clear and compelling fashion, dictated by _____ as well as by logic.
A caprice
B aesthetics
C obligation
D methodologies
E intellect
答案:C
问题:如何判断,是否因为是strive 所以答案是obligation 强制,责任。
44. Only by ignoring decades of mismanagement and inefficiency could investors conclude that a fresh infusion of cash would provide anything other than a _______ solution to the company’s financial woes.
A complete
B fleeting
C momentary
D premature
E trivial
F total
答案:B C
问题,我理解anything other than,应该是可以使任何东西,除了….., 所以根据糟糕的管理和低效,注入新的资金可以使任何解决方案,唯独不是全面的,完整的。如果按照答案理解,应该是nothing but才对。
56. The National Archives contain information so ____ that researchers have been known never to publish because they cannot bear to bring their studies to an end.
(A) divisive
(B) seductive
(C) selective
(D) repetitive
(E) resourceful
答案: B
问题:对句意理解不透彻,后面是不是说研究者已经被告知绝不会发表,因为研究者不能承担结束研究的责任。但是如果是这个意思,为什么不是selective
139. Originally, most intellectual criticism of mass culture was ____ in character, being based on the assumption that the wider the appeal, the more ____ the product.
(A) unpredictable ... undesirable
(B) ironic ... popular
(C) extreme ... outlandish
(D) frivolous ... superfluous
(E) negative ... shoddy
34. Mathematicians have a distinctive sense of beauty: they strive to present their ideas and results in a clear and compelling fashion, dictated by _____ as well as by logic.
冒号前具有考法特征的单词为: distinctive 和 beauty
strive to present their ideas and results in a clear and compelling fashion 等于distinctive,
后面的空填beauty的同义词。所以选B aesthetics 答案给错了。