第二道道普林斯顿的填空题

小枣神清气爽UID: 3101939

1. The question of when, if ever, history can be considered ______ is contentious, to say the least. One could argue, for example, that any evaluation of the 180-year-old presidency of Andrew Jackson would likely be ______ the controversies that define evaluations of more contemporaneous political leaders, and yet a plethora of passionately held views continues to polarize. The ____ of any one judgment is perhaps the one certainty surrounding the issue.

Blank(i)	Blank(ii)	Blank(iii)
A  apolitical	D  characteristic of	G  objectivity
B  tendentious	E  free from	H  mellifluousness
C  unexpurgated	F  mired in	I  subjectivity

key：ADG

苏梳眠UID: 2717864

这是一个典型的GRE阅读开头段。
首先作者介绍一种观点，然后说出反对的声音，最后阐述了一个折中的方法。
你可以耐心体会下。
第一空，由于One could argue存在，第一句和第二局表达观点相反。先整体看。
第三空，前面的yet转折后polarize说明观点的不确定，而后面又提到了certainty，必然是对前面观点的否定，取折中。
第二空，有一些干扰，但是解法和第一空相似。但是属于具体分析类型。

LZ可以适当注意积累填空词汇，这个对于解题也有莫大帮助。

小乐乐娘子UID: 3135273

第三空的正确答案是subjectivity  LZ。。你再次把答案看错了。。。

ep6h123UID: 2960051

第二个为什么不是 mire in

m7catsueUID: 3040890

LZ你答案看错了吧
是AEI哦

zhangwzhongUID: 3153453

好难的一道题啊 AEI 的确是最合理的选项~
___(point) is contentious，有争议的观点：
1. （+）180 free from controversies
2. （-）yet, passionately... polarize~
第二句前后对立，passionately~与 polarize~ 激进的想法 不断的引起分歧，这里和前面的controversies是一样的，而前后对立，因此free from合理~
第二句探讨是否political，因此作者观点是history能不能apolitical的评价，排除无关选项，A合理；
最后一句很简单，the one certainty around this issue，可见前面的内容基本都是uncertainty，争议~ passionately，controversies，polarize，这些都是subjective的表现~

Shepherd517UID: 3263525

This is a tricky passage. It talks about the controversies that surround history. It seems that even old history can still get people riled up and there are bound to be opposing views. As always, pay attention to trigger words. The second sentence says, and yet there are lots of different views. This is a change in direction, so one would think there would only be one view. So the second blank should say something like past or over. Free from works the best. Since everything is being argued, we need something negative or argumentative for the last blank. That knocks out mellifluousness and objectivity. The first blank speculates on whether or not historical arguments are ever over. Apolitical is the best stand-in for the end of arguments over history.

ohlyeonaUID: 3234699

这题选答案倒是没问题
只是 那个180-year-old presidency of Andrew Jackson 到底值得是什么啊
哪位给我扫扫盲啊 wiki 也不见有什么180 啊

humewangUID: 3362165

ohlyeona 发表于 2012-11-2 06:45
这题选答案倒是没问题
只是 那个180-year-old presidency of Andrew Jackson 到底值得是什么啊
哪位给我 ...

就是大名鼎鼎的杰克逊总统啊。http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson
当总统的时代，距今差不多是180年。Old不是年纪。

我也觉得只有AEI才讲得通。

silene0504UID: 3343591

答案是AEI 啊....亲你在哪里看到的？那书上的答案明明白白写着apolitical, free from & subjectivity啊...