Manhattan第三套一道SE 求解答

Annabel冷冷UID: 3608813

Despite pressure from right-leaning board members to__________ leftist propaganda evident in the current editorial biases, the city’s newspaper has maintained some sense of neutrality because a majority of the board understood the conservative caucus to have sham intent in trying to galvanize public opinion against the paper.
选项：
vacillate
prevent
sanction
inoculate against
wallow in
waver


答案sanction/wallow in
答案给的解释是
This sentence is best understood from back to front. A majority of the board members know that the conservatives have “sham,” meaning “false, often having to do with a trick”, intent. Because the members understood that the conservative minority was trying to trick people, the majority was able to help the newspaper maintain “some sense of neutrality.” We can logically conclude that the conservatives were trying to cause the newspaper to be not neutral. Blocking “leftist propaganda” would drive the editorial biases to the center. Therefore, we must conclude that the conservative, or right-leaning, board members were supporting leftist propaganda. We are looking for a filler word such as “allow” or “support.”
不是右派应该block左派吗？为什么就变支持了？不太理解 拜托大家解释一下 谢谢

yuhaichao10UID: 3574819

我觉得不应该先入为主，虽然左派和右派经常是对立的，但GRE不能根据常识答题，看句子：

Despite ... , the city’s newspaper has maintained some sense of neutrality because a majority of the board understood the conservative caucus to have sham intent in trying to galvanize public opinion against the paper.

由转折容易看出Despite句讲的应该是non-neutrality，所以右派应该支持左倾后右倾。所以是sanction和wallow in。

如果右派block左倾，这个应该是偏向neutrality的。

RevrieRiverUID: 3470313

解析很清楚啊，关键词sham

RevrieRiverUID: 3470313

右派董事会成员是想假意挑唆公众来反对报纸，而董事会其他大多数成员看破了这点，所以报纸得以保持了中立姿态。
既然是假意挑唆，右派当然不是真的不是支持左倾，只是欲擒故纵。
Despite后因此必须是填纵容的选项

Annabel冷冷UID: 3608813

懂意思了 谢谢OTZ