15 In American Indian art, the supposed distinction between modern and traditional was fabricated by critics, and when artists have control over interpretation of their own work, the distinction appears, happily, to have been ______.

　　A. eliminated 消滅

　　B. reinforced 增強(qiáng)

　　C. put to rest 消除

　　D. intensified 增強(qiáng)

　　E. recognized 承認(rèn)

　　F. established 建立

　　分類：直接重復(fù)

　　解析：when提示了近似的因果，則前后兩個(gè)分句的句意為同意重復(fù)。前半句稱評(píng)論家捏造了一種界限，則這種界限并不存在。故后半句藝術(shù)家解釋自己作品時(shí)，這種界限同樣不存在。選項(xiàng)AC正確。

　　翻譯：在美國(guó)印第安藝術(shù)中，假定存在的現(xiàn)代和傳統(tǒng)的界限不過(guò)是評(píng)論家捏造的結(jié)果。而令人高興的是，藝術(shù)家在解釋他們自己的作品時(shí)，這種界限看起來(lái)消失了。

　　16 Notwithstanding their ______ regarding other issues, township residents have consistently passed the board of education’s annual budget.

　　A. accord

　　B. indecision

　　C. consensus

　　D. disagreement

　　E. divergence

　　F. enthusiasm

　　分類：轉(zhuǎn)折

　　解析：notwithstanding提示轉(zhuǎn)折，則從句表達(dá)了“意見(jiàn)一致”的反義。選項(xiàng)DE正確。

　　翻譯：盡管在其他問(wèn)題上存在分歧，本鎮(zhèn)的居民還是一致通過(guò)了教育委員會(huì)的年度預(yù)算案。

　　17 Some of the company’s supporters charged that the negative report had been motivated by a broader political assault on the company that was designed to help market rivals who would like to see the company ______.

　　A. reined in

　　B. bolstered

　　C. indemnified

　　D. propped up

　　E. manacled

　　F. lionized

　　分類：手段-目的對(duì)應(yīng)

　　解析：前半句和解題沒(méi)有必然關(guān)系，只要找到“競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手”的解題線索即可。競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手當(dāng)然希望這家公司受到負(fù)面影響。則只有A和E兩選項(xiàng)合乎要求。B和D兩項(xiàng)雖然也是同義詞，但在感情色彩上不符合要求。

　　翻譯：一些公司的支持者指責(zé)稱該負(fù)面報(bào)告是被針對(duì)公司的廣泛的政治抨擊所推動(dòng)，其目的在于幫助那些樂(lè)于看到本公司受到制約的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手。

　　18 Skeptics contend that any scheme for charging visitors to Web sites that rewards the vendor adequately would require steep prices, ______ the kind of frequent, casual use of Web sites that surfers now take for granted.

　　A. bridling

　　B. exciting

　　C. forbidding

　　D. inhibiting

　　E. provoking

　　F. reversing

　　分類：伴隨狀語(yǔ)提示的語(yǔ)法重復(fù)

　　解析：空格所填內(nèi)容為現(xiàn)在分詞，引導(dǎo)伴隨狀語(yǔ)，和主句同義重復(fù)。skeptics表明這些人對(duì)句中的收費(fèi)計(jì)劃持反對(duì)態(tài)度，“高昂費(fèi)用”作為同義重復(fù)，則意味著對(duì)網(wǎng)民起到打擊、削弱的作用，故A和D兩選項(xiàng)為正確答案。C選項(xiàng)感情色彩正確但意味過(guò)重。B和E是一對(duì)同義詞但不符合句意。

　　翻譯：持懷疑態(tài)度者認(rèn)為對(duì)于登錄充分獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)銷售商的網(wǎng)站的網(wǎng)民征收費(fèi)用的任何計(jì)劃都將需要高額費(fèi)用，從而限制了網(wǎng)民習(xí)以為常的對(duì)網(wǎng)絡(luò)的日常使用。

　　19 It seems obvious that Miles Davis’ ______ the Juilliard School, which resulted in his decision to drop out, was based on the school’s training of musicians for a kind of music that he did not want to play.

　　A. disaffection with

　　B. dislocation of

　　C. disentanglement from

　　D. subversion of

　　E. displacement of

　　F. estrangement from

　　分類：因果

　　解析：resulted in提示MD的退學(xué)和他的態(tài)度之間存在因果關(guān)聯(lián)，而且后文的based on進(jìn)一步說(shuō)明他對(duì)學(xué)校的負(fù)面態(tài)度。因此選項(xiàng)所填內(nèi)容必須與負(fù)面態(tài)度有關(guān)。故A和F是正確答案。選項(xiàng)D雖然也是負(fù)面態(tài)度，但沒(méi)有其他選項(xiàng)與之對(duì)應(yīng)。B和C也是同義詞，但不符合句意。

　　翻譯：Miles Davis對(duì)Juilliard School的不滿最終導(dǎo)致他的退學(xué)，這種不滿情緒顯然是他不愿演奏該學(xué)校訓(xùn)練體系中所用的樂(lè)曲所致。

　　section 4

　　1 The unexplained digressions into the finer points of quantum electrodynamics are so ______ that even readers with a physics degree would be wise to keep a textbook handy to make sense of them.

　　解析：so...that...提示前后兩句話存在近似的因果。前半句中關(guān)于物理學(xué)的某種背景知識(shí)產(chǎn)生了一種效果，使得后句中的物理學(xué)專業(yè)讀者需要讀教科書(shū)以便明確理解，那么這種效果必然是阻礙讀者理解其真實(shí)含義的。那么很顯然C選項(xiàng)恰好與這種效果相反。其余幾個(gè)選項(xiàng)中只有D項(xiàng)frustrating有“阻止人達(dá)到目的”之意;A、B、E三個(gè)選項(xiàng)均無(wú)接近的含義，則根據(jù)排除法也可選出D項(xiàng)。

　　翻譯：這些無(wú)緣無(wú)故的、朝向量子電動(dòng)力學(xué)的細(xì)微論點(diǎn)的跑題如此令人感到挫敗以至于即便物理學(xué)的專業(yè)讀者也需要參閱教科書(shū)以便明確其含義。