求填空题哈

Astridcai90UID: 3132551

1. Rather than enhancing a country's security, the successful development of nuclear weapons could serve at first to increase that country's ____.a. boldness  
b. influence
c. fragility
d. responsibility
e. moderation
f. vulnerability
为什么选cf,脆弱性可以increase 么

2. Certainly Murray's preoccupation with the task of editing the Oxford English Dictionary begot a kind of monomania, but it must be regarded as a ___or at least an innocuous one.
a. tame
b. conducive
c. tendentious
d. meretricious
e. beneficent
f. sincere
答案是b,e,但是不知道这里的矛盾点到底在哪里

fionahappygirlUID: 3069406

第一题，有rather than  所以后半句找前半句的反义，increase 对 enhance， 所以 找security 的反义，这几个词的话就是vulnerability和fragility 了

第二题，or at least an innocuous one , 至少是无害的，那就是有益的呗  而且前面那个词monomania 是贬义的，but 转折之后就是褒义的了