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To readers of V.S. Naipaul--especially those who are familiar with the latter half of his oeuvre--the author’s claim that he started off as a comic writer will in itself seem comical – so ____ is the tone of most of his novels.

despairing
acerbic
ambivalent
sanguine
nuanced
pessimistic

光看选项只有一组同义词，不过句子实在读不懂

eraechoinUID: 3467663

despairing 和 pessimistic ？
感觉选的就是comical的反义词

the author’s claim that he started off as a comic writer will in itself seem comical 这个句子破题关键，will in itself seem comical，所以这个author其实不是comic

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对于奈保尔的读者而言——特别是那些熟悉他后期作品的读者而言——作者说他是写喜剧出生的这个论断显得特别搞笑——（倒装）他多数小说的基调都太____了。

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eraechoin 发表于 2013-9-28 20:54
despairing 和 pessimistic ？
感觉选的就是comical的反义词

对的，谢谢

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Leon-Wang 发表于 2013-9-28 20:58
对于奈保尔的读者而言——特别是那些熟悉他后期作品的读者而言——作者说他是写喜剧出生的这个论断显得特别 ...

谢谢。。再问一道

The computer modeling of weather has, since its inception, been fraught with difficulties, yet considering that it has only had to improve on what, to some, amounts to nothing more than voodoo science made its ______________  all but assured.

ascendancy
demise
inclusion
primacy
dismissal
retraction

yet后面没有看懂

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(considering that it has only had to improve on what, to some, amounts to nothing more than voodoo) science made its ______________  all but assured.
考虑到它（science）只需要在相当于voodoo的基础上进步一点，science使得它的_____几乎是板上钉钉的。
all but，几乎
amount to相当于，等同于
voodoo我理解大概是一种类似占卜一类的迷信
总之说尽管这些模型很粗糙，但是他们只需要比那些迷信高出一点就算胜利了，所以它们的____难度不大。

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Leon-Wang 发表于 2013-9-28 21:51
(considering that it has only had to improve on what, to some, amounts to nothing more than voodoo)  ...

就发现ascendancy和primacy是同义词，其他的你找到了没

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HardyNibor 发表于 2013-9-28 22:09
就发现ascendancy和primacy是同义词，其他的你找到了没

正向的词也就这两个，选项还是比较简单的。

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Leon-Wang 发表于 2013-9-28 22:15
正向的词也就这两个，选项还是比较简单的。

往里填“主导”？

还是inclusion这样的靠谱吧

Leon-WangUID: 2772364

HardyNibor 发表于 2013-9-28 22:52
往里填“主导”？

还是inclusion这样的靠谱吧

inclusion填进去make no sense。inclusion就是个中性的词。