1.For a genre that’s supposed to be about the future, science fiction has certainly (i)_____ lately,
(ii)_____ is what sells best, with readers spending their money on sequels to long-running series.
A. become quite pessimistic D. suspense
B. been looking backward E. fantasy
C. anticipated technological developments F. nostalgia
答案:BF
不理解为什么第一空选B,哪里表示要取反了?第一句话说Sci-Fic应该是关于未来的,为啥第一空要填look backward?
2.The (i)______ current-generation solar cells are (ii)______: although experimental cells have
reached efficiencies greater than 40 percent, most commercially available cells in the early part of
the twenty-first century still struggle to get past about 20 percent.
A. attractions of D. clear
B. limitations of E. unmatched
C. improvements in F. misunderstood
答案:BD
虽然找到了原文也是BD http://discovermagazine.com/2010 ... e-cheaper-than-coal
但如果只看题的话,为什么current-generation就只指代commercially available cells呢?
我觉得current-generation应该是指both experimental & commercial cell啊,所以improvements in这两种电池是unmatched的。这也是make sense啊。
3. Unable to escape their own literary tradition, literary critics either become the ______ of that
tradition or, on the contrary, use their knowledge of it to reinterpret writers and trends from new
perspectives.
A. liberators
B. guardians
C. successors
D. antithesis
E. gadflies
答案:B
为什么不选C呢?我觉得如果选guardian的话,这道题应该要暗示这部分literary critics 是support tradition的,然而并没有。所以应该选C,不是么?
4.The notion’s ______ notwithstanding—it was first proposed by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist
—it was neglected for many years until some unexpected observations led to its revival.
A. pedigree
B. antecedents
C. precursors
D. origin
E. brilliance
F. novelty
答案: AD
请问这句话怎么理解? it指代什么?两个破折号又是什么意思?
1.For a genre that’s supposed to be about the future, science fiction has certainly (i)_____ lately,
(ii)_____ is what sells best, with readers spending their money on sequels to long-running series.
A. become quite pessimistic D. suspense
B. been looking backward E. fantasy
C. anticipated technological developments F. nostalgia
先看后面哈,fantasy is what sells best,意思是,作为genre(文学书籍类型),fantasy这类卖的最快,而sci fi现在绝对是在下滑(looking backwards)
这个逻辑在于对比,卖得好的fantasy,市场不咋地的sci fi
For a genre that’s about looking to the future, science fiction has sure been looking backwards lately. Nostalgia is what sells best, with readers spending their money on movie tie-in novels and sequels to long-running series.
翻译:Sci-Fic作为一种应该写未来的题材,近些年,却一直在往回看。那些怀旧体是卖的最好的,(因为)读者花了很多钱在小说改编的电影上和连载小说系列上。 我的问题是,这道题里,没有明确的反义提示词(But, However,Nonetheless,etc),那如何可以判断第一空要取反?
be supposed to有暗示取反的意思么??
e.g. 他应该XXX,暗示他并没有XXX。 (我自己脑补的...)
Successor的意思不是下一代,也不需要有所改变。意思是是继任者。
Webster定义:one that follows
问了几个native,说没见过successor of tradition/culture的讲法,即使你这么说也能明白。
一般用法是successor to sth, e.g. successor to the throne。
1.For a genre that’s supposed to be about the future, science fiction has certainly (i)_____ lately,(这里是句号!不是逗号)
(ii)_____ is what sells best, with readers spending their money on sequels to long-running series.
A. become quite pessimistic D. suspense
B. been looking backward E. fantasy
C. anticipated technological developments F. nostalgia
题目有没抄对哦? 原文有movie and sequeals.