陈琦七套多个题目求解~~

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        由于题目比较多，各位高手觉得哪个题目可以帮忙解答下的，尽管解答~~
在下感激不尽~~

第四套
3. Powerful as they are, the______songs the artist is best known for might sting more and have even greater emotional complexity if one felt that his criticisms were aimed at himself as well as at his unnamed foes.
A.    accusatory
B.    altruistic
C.    mournful
D.    simplistic
E.    humble
ps:这个题目没看明白，答案选的是A，求解释~~


7.  Chavez’ account of her supervisors’ ______ decision making belies the agency’s image as little more than______bureaucracy.
A    cautious…a staid
B    ill-informed…a disorganized
C   reckless…an incompetent
D   systematic…a methodical
E    headlong…a timorous
Ps: 答案是E, 从little more than 第二个空明显为贬义词，AD可以排除，但是我觉得BCE都说的通~~

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第五套
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
Ps: 答案是 obligation, 前面是a clear and compelling fashion, 那么后面应该是褒义词，logic 应该与______处并列，但是我查了词典，找不到obligation 和logic 的关系~~

36.  The novelist devotes so much time to avid descriptions of his characters’ clothes that the reader soon feels that such _______concerns, although worthy of attention, have superseded any more directly literary aims.
A didactic
B syntactical
C irrelevant
D sartorial
E frivolous
Ps :答案是D，根据题目，应该与worthy 反义，应该是贬义词，但是C irrelevant我一直排除不了，感觉也说的过去~

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第六套
24.  It is as if Woodward could not bear to leave anything out; if he had ______some of his material, the resulting increase in focus would have more than _______any loss in comprehensiveness.
A. elaborated…….justified
B. condensed………exaggerated
C. expanded………offset
D. edited……..pointed up
E. pruned……..compensated for
Ps: 答案是E，题目的意思不理解~~

26.  Contemporary lawmakers’ preoccupation with regulating the Internet is __________ the way lawmakers treated many young industries in the past; United States railroads, for instance, were in business for 60 years before the federal government _______ regulations.
A. antithetical to……….eased
B. faithful to……..levied
C. reminiscent of……..enforced
D. in conflict with ….lifted
E. at odds with…….introduced
PS：答案是E，但是我觉得第一空应该是填对立的，因为有contemporary, in the past，剩下ADE, 但是第二空就不知道怎么填了~不理解后面一句的意思~

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下面都是第七套的
20. The accusations we bring against others should be _______ ourselves; they should not______ complacency and easy judgments on our part concerning our own moral conduct.
(A) definitions of.. produce  
(B) instructions to.. equate  
(C) denigrations of.. exclude  
(D) warnings to.. justify   
(E) parodies of.. satirize
Ps:答案是D,但是句子的意思不理解~

41.  He had expected gratitude for his disclosure, but instead he encountered ________ bordering on hostility.
(A) patience  
(B) discretion  
(C) openness  
(D) ineptitude  
(E) indifference
Ps:答案是E，按照我的理解句子意思是：他期望感谢他的揭露/坦白，但是代替的是，他遇到了_____在敌对的边缘。不知道怎么选~



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
Ps: 答案是B, because 后面这句话不懂，难道还有啥隐含的意思。我的理解是他们不能容忍把他们的研究带向一个终点~~但是感觉没有答案可选~~

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81.  I am often impressed by my own _______ other people's idiocies: what is harder to ________ is that they, in their folly, are equally engaged in putting up with mine.
(A) analysis of.. justify   
(B) forbearance toward.. underestimate  
(C) exasperation with .. credit  
(D) involvement in .. allow  
(E) tolerance of .. appreciate
Ps:答案是E，第一个空根据impressed, idiocies可以选择褒义词，剩下BE，但是后面那句话就完全不理解了~~

83. Far from undermining the impression of permanent decline, the______statue seemed emblematic of its_____ surroundings.
(A) indecorous.. opulent  
(B) grandiose.. ramshackle  
(C) pretentious.. simple  
(D) ungainly.. elegant  
(E) tawdry.. blighted
Ps:答案是E，感觉意思不理解~

85.  What these people were waiting for would not have been apparent to others and was perhaps not very _______ their own minds.
(A) obscure to   
(B) intimate to   
(C) illusory to
(D) difficult for   
(E) definite in
Ps: 答案是E，也是意思不理解，~~

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90.  Ironically, the proper use of  figurative  language  must  be  based  on  the  denotative meaning of the words, because it is the failure to recognize this ______ meaning that leads to mixed metaphors and their attendant incongruity.
  (A) esoteric        
  (B) literal        
  (C) latent
  (D) allusive        
  (E) symbolic
Ps：答案是B,我的理解the denotative meaning 和this _____meaning,对称，_____处应该是denotative的近义词，感觉allusive应该也可以啊~~

94.  Nothing______his irresponsibility better than his _______delay in sending us the items he promised weeks ago.
  (A) justifies.. conspicuous
  (B) characterizes.. timely
  (C) epitomizes.. unnecessary
  (D) reveals.. conscientious
  (E) conceals.. inexplicable
Ps:答案是A，但是句子意思不理解~~

105. A unique clay disk found at the Minoan site of Phaistos is often _____as the earliest example of printing by scholars who have defended its claim to this status despite equivalent claims put forward for other printing artifacts.
  (A) questioned
  (B) overlooked
  (C) adduced
  (D) conceded
  (E) dismissed
Ps :答案是C,但是我觉得D也行，conceded :承认~也就是认同a unique clay是最早的例子~求解释~

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109. In contrast to the ________with which the acquisition of language by young children was once regarded, the process by which such learning occurs has now become the object of________.
  (A) intensity .. fascination
  (B) incuriosity .. scrutiny
  (C) anxiety .. criticism
  (D) reverence .. admiration
  (E) impatience .. training
Ps：答案是B，根据意思是前后时期的不同，那么应该填两个词性相反的单词，ACD可以排除，还有BE，但是排除不了~~

113. There is hardly a generalization that can be made about people’s social behavior and the values informing it that cannot be ________ from one or another point of view, or even_______as simplistic or vapid.
(A) accepted…praised
(B) intuited…exposed
(C) harangued…retracted
(D) defended…glorified
(E) challenged…dismissed
Ps :答案E，但是句子意思不理解~~

119. Robin’s words were not without emotion: they retained their level tone only by a careful________ imminent extremes.
(A) equipoise between  
(B) embrace of
(C) oscillation between
(D) limitation to  
(E) subjection to
Ps:答案是A，意思可以理解，但是不知道如何推理~~

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124. Although a change in management may appear to______ a shift in a company's fortunes, more often than not its impact is _______.
(A) hinder...measurable
(B) promote...demonstrable
(C) accelerate...profound
(D) betray...fundamental
(E) augur...inconsiderable
Ps:答案是E，但是第二句话意思不理解，所以无法推理答案~~


132. MacCrory’s conversation was______ : she could never tell a story, chiefly because she always forgot it, and she was never guilty of a witticism, unless by accident.
  (A) scintillating
  (B) unambiguous
  (C) perspicuous
  (D) stultifying
  (E) facetious
Ps:答案是A, 句子意思理解，但是答案不是很理解~~

136. Conceptually, it is hard to reconcile a defense attorney’s ______to ensure that false testimony is not knowingly put forward with the attorney's mandate to mount the most          ________defense conceivable for the client.
(A) efforts ... cautious
(B) duty ... powerful
(C) inability ... eloquent
(D) failure ... diversified
(E) promises ... informed
Ps 答案B，句子意思不理解，所以无法推理~

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
Ps:答案是B，句子意思无法理解，导致无法推理~~

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第四套3，第一空说的是artist以什么样的歌著称，后面又提到了criticism，然后就应该对应accusatory吧
第四套7，汇报上司的草率行为是勇敢的行为，以为一般下属要服从上司....据说是ETS的出题思路...
7套题我还没做...等我做完了再来看其他的 :)

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thronehz 发表于 2013-6-9 12:17
第四套3，第一空说的是artist以什么样的歌著称，后面又提到了criticism，然后就应该对应accusatory吧
第四 ...

你解释的第一个：给了我一个提醒，我明白了，the____songs （the artist is best known for) might sting,括号里面是插入语~~___处 造成了sting这个动作，同时也造成了have even这个动作~~感觉根据sting就可以判断了~~
第二个：你的解释感觉还是不能说服我~~

非常感谢你的回复~~看到你好像是16号考试，祝好运！！大胜归来了给写个经验指点指点~~

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把题目黏贴了在坛子里面搜搜，或者google搜搜，或者百度搜搜，答案解释一堆一堆的~~~这么多题目上来，看昏了头脑，不过，我看到你的题目，也是因为我正在搜解释，就搜到了你的帖子

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139 我搜的结果，分享下
第一空是由后面的伴随状态解释的，也就是基于后面的假设，推出这种criticism是__的，这个假设是：文化产物吸引力越广泛，越流行。这种假设作为intellectual（关键：理智的） criticism的基础是__的。
题干翻译
起初，对大量文化的理性批判是可笑的，基于一种假设：文化产物的吸引力越广泛，越流行。

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holydora 发表于 2013-6-23 16:30
139 我搜的结果，分享下
第一空是由后面的伴随状态解释的，也就是基于后面的假设，推出这种criticism是__的 ...

谢谢你的解释~~139题：其实可以有个技巧，第一个空当然不好填，看第二个，the more wider the appeal, the more___。由于前面是褒义词，那么后面一般来说应该也是积极的，也就是填褒义词~~其他四个就都排除了~

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:lol
你还有那道题没有解决？
今天考完了来帮你解答下

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crazyrobin 发表于 2013-6-23 16:49
你还有那道题没有解决？
今天考完了来帮你解答下

Youxi~~谢谢版主~~版主应该考的很不错~~在这里先恭喜了！！还剩倒数第二（136）没给解决~~