The setting in which the concert took place (i) _____ : the group’s performance was elegant and polished, but the sound, which seeped across the cold, unresonant high school auditorium, was oddly (ii) _____ , given the energy the players seemed to be putting into it.
Blank(i) Blank(ii)
A exacted a toll
B encouraged nervousness
C solved a dilemma
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D clangorous
E tepid
F inviting
选AE?
我的理解:
冒号前“The setting in which the concert took place (i) _____ ”想说明这场表演整体的感觉如何?是正态度amazing还是负态度totally disaster得看了冒号后面一句的补充说明才知道。第一空待定。
“the group’s performance was elegant and polished”这一句表明大家伙的表演还是非常出彩的,紧接着来了一个But转折,预想后半句一定是想说他们的表演或演出的其他方面存在非常不好的瑕疵,再接着看马上看到了sound,哦原来是想说sound音效这里出了问题,“but the sound, which seeped across the cold, unresonant high school auditorium”这一句里seep across the blah blah blah auditorium是想说演出的的音响效果回荡在一个“cold unresonant”的礼堂里,说明这个礼堂挺安静的,所以照理说音效应该是好的,不过关键的一个词"oddly"给了关键性的提示,在这里可以把Oddly理解成surprisingly,表示前后的态度的转折,音乐回荡在如此安静的礼堂却出乎意料的____?所以这个空可以备选的选项只能是tepid,不温不火的,没劲儿的,另外最后一小句话“given the energy the players seemed to be putting into it.”引证了tepid选项的正确,即便演奏者们似乎花了大力气去努力演奏。
最后回过头来看第一空,应该是负态度。C:如果说演员表演的好,但音效很差是dilemma的话可以理解,但是却没有根据原文推出“solve”这个词,所以C错。B:没看出来原文有那句话支撑了encourage nervousness。B错。A:exacted a toll,我的理解是 it is a disaster.引申了toll的“伤亡惨重”的含义。