求问陈琦36套的一道题

orange28UID: 3571361

Paradoxically, with all of our natural, intuitive, commonsense capacity to grasp human relations, the science of human relations has been one of the last to develop. Different explanations of this paradox have been suggested. One is that science would destroy the vain and pleasing illusions people have about themselves; but we might ask why people have always loved to read pessimistic, debunking writings, from Ecclesiastes to Freud. It has also been proposed that just because we know so much about people intuitively, there has been less incentive for studying them scientifically; why should one develop a theory, carry out systematic observations, or make predictions about the obvious?

7. The author refers to people who are attracted to  "pessimistic, debunking writings" in order to support  which of the following ideas? (A) Interesting books about human relations are  typically pessimistic. (B) People tend to ignore scientific explanations of human relations. (C) People rarely hold pleasing illusions about  themselves. (D) A scientific approach human relations  would undermine the pleasing illusions people  hold of themselves. (E) It is doubtful that the science of human relations  developed slowly because of a desire  to maintain pleasing illusions.

8. In the context in which it appears, "paradox" most  nearly means  ○A diametrical opposition ○B unintended irony  ○C stark dichotomy  ○D exact counterpoint  ○E contradiction to common sense  


答案EE

第8题是因为一开始提了commonsense么？为什么unintended irony不可以。。
第7题我一开始选对了，后来觉得E里develop slowly不对…不是只说了起步晚吗没说慢啊！于是就选了C…有没有人能给我讲讲TuT

BarHarborUID: 3594541

第8题 irony意思指说一套做一套。或者计划向北结果却往南走了。在这里，只是大家凭常识觉得应该是这样，结果不是这样。所以不一样的。另外paradoxically有两个意思，一个是GRE词汇里的相互矛盾的意思，还有一个是not being the normal or usual kind（韦伯斯特词典）。这个题就是要你猜这第二个意思，所以答案是E。

第7题
起步晚就是慢啊。这个你太较真了。C明显是不对的。作者只是举了个反例而已。rarely这个词不合适，改成not always倒是可以的。而且最主要的是作者的意图就是反驳之前的那句话，所以明显是E

orange28UID: 3571361

BarHarbor 发表于 2015-2-12 11:38
第8题 irony意思指说一套做一套。或者计划向北结果却往南走了。在这里，只是大家凭常识觉得应该是这样，结果 ...

太感谢了！