4. The many factors affecting a species' abundance seldom act in ------; on the contrary, interactions between factors are commonplace.
A. haste
B. principle
C. place
D. isolation
E. miniature
解析:
通过on the contrary可以判断空格与分号后的interactions“相互作用”取反,所以选D选项isolation“孤立”。
5. Her prose is ------ in all ways but one: it is often given to a ------ of descriptive detail that threatens to overwhelm every cogent observation.
A. minimalist .. paucity
B. immutable .. fulsomeness
C. irksome .. felicity
D. tenacious .. vacillation
E. exemplary .. superfluity
解析:
此题突破口在第二空,通过threatens“威胁到”可以看出第二空是会造成负向影响的词语,此时只能排除felicity“幸福,快乐”,再通过overwhelm“压倒,压制”可以判断第二空只能在fulsomeness“过度,过量”和superfluity“过量,多余”中选择。这时候可以看出冒号后的信息---大量的细节描写破坏了有说服力的观察结果---是负向评价;第一空是对prose“措辞风格”的描述,考虑到in all ways but one“各方面都很……除了一件事”这种欲抑先扬的表述,使第一空与冒号后信息取反,因此为正向评价,选E选项的exemplary“模范的”。全句大意是:她的写作风格在各方面都是模范除了一点 ,那就是她那大量的细节描写掩盖了真正有说服力的东西。
6. Derek's ------ nature worried his friends, who thought such fearlessness would one day lead him into danger.
A. callous
B. intrepid
C. circumspect
D. disingenuous
E. mercurial
解析:
空格对应逗号后的fearlessness“无所畏惧”,因此选B选项intrepid“无畏的”
词汇扩充:
勇敢的,无畏的:undaunted, dauntless, courageous, gallant, valiant
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