70篇阅读里的一道题求助

biaikaUID: 3617364

A critical consensus has emerged that Mary McCarthy will be remembered primarily as an
essayist rather than as a novelist. But despite her formidable gifts as a polemical and discursive writer, and for all her reputation as an intellectual who sacrificed feeling to intelligence, what powers McCarthy’s best essays are her fictional rather than strictly intellectual gifts. She makes her points by telling stories or by way of vivid description, arresting images and subtle characterization. And for all her exacting sense of fact, McCarthy’s greatest contribution was to blur the distinctions between different kinds of prose writing: to show how fiction could be opened up to the thinking mind and how
essays could profit from the techniques of fiction.

2. In the context in which it appears, “discursive” most nearly means
A. Prolific
B. Sophistic
C. Rambling
D. Analytical
E. Circuitous

答案是D，但是觉得这个意思完全无法从文章中推断出来呀，难道仅仅是看褒贬义来推断？
我选的C，虽然自己也觉得非常不靠谱。

gterlannUID: 3595027

呀,答案改了啊,陈琦老答案是C的,我当时自己做就是认为是D.这种题跟托福的词汇题一样的,首先你要知道哪几个词是discursive有的意思,只有CD,其他词都不在discursive的释义里,然后CD之间就是C带有强烈贬义,不被支持,polemical指的是purposed verbal attack,与analytical有一定对应的,加上后面intelligence什么的.

biaikaUID: 3617364

gterlann 发表于 2015-11-12 20:33
呀,答案改了啊,陈琦老答案是C的,我当时自己做就是认为是D.这种题跟托福的词汇题一样的,首先你要知道哪几个词 ...

多谢，我查了韦氏字典，确实有analytical的意思。
ets确实刁钻啊。
上次一个填空题考察realize的意思，居然是和achieve 做同义词的。

gterlannUID: 3595027

biaika 发表于 2015-11-12 21:26
多谢，我查了韦氏字典，确实有analytical的意思。
ets确实刁钻啊。
上次一个填空题考察realize的意思， ...

不要迷信三千,三千的长处就是选词精准,但是词义很多要么偏要么不足,我三千每个词都查了韦氏,查完想想这么多学生还在背这本书还是挺恼火的

Stan95UID: 3595164

But despite her formidable gifts as a polemical and discursive writer, and for all her reputation as an intellectual who sacrificed feeling to intelligence, what powers McCarthy’s best essays are her fictional rather than strictly intellectual gifts.
楼主你再仔细读读这句话  看看有没有什么发现。答案就在这里