1. Physicists rejected the innovative experimental technique because, although it _____ some problems, it also produced new _____.

(A) clarified.. data

(B) eased.. interpretations

(C) resolved.. complications

(D) caused.. hypotheses

(E) revealed.. inconsistencies

解析：第二个空格应该填入负方向词汇，因为结果说的是要拒绝，所以一定没干什么好事，而although要有个转折，所以应该是正方向，因此我们选择C选项。结局了问题，又创造了新的局面。

通过这道题，需要提醒大家在写作的时候主要观点的放置问题。在英语中我们有compound sentence和complex sentence的区别。说白了compound sentence叫做并列句，也就是说句子中的SVO是由并列连词连接在一起的，如SVO, and / but SVO. 而complex sentence叫做复杂句，句子中存在主从关系，如SVO， although SVO。

关于复杂句和复合句的强调要点大家一定要注意，复杂句后面的SVO要比前面的更加重要一些，例如S1V1O1, but S2V2O2. 那么第二套SVO则更佳重要。而复杂句，主句信息永远比从句重要，即使SVO， although SVO这样的写法，将从句写在后面也是要注意主句信息的表达重要性，只不过这样写作者也让你注意一下although这一部分的信息。

因此同学们在写让步从句的时候，一定要记住，要把重要信息放在主句，从句永远是让个步用的。很多同学特别容易写反。

答案： C

2. During a period of protracted illness, the sick can become infirm, ______ both the strength to work and many of the specific skills they once possessed.

(A) regaining

(B) denying

(C) pursuing

(D) insuring

(E) losing

解析：病人变的虚弱，所有后面那个好的东西一定没有了，选择E losing。

我们来看一下infirm这个词，这个词表示的是因为生病或变老而变的虚弱(Not physically or mentally strong, especially through age or illness:)不是不稳定的意思。

答案:E

3. The pressure of population on available resources is the key to understanding history; consequently, any historical writing that takes no cognizance of ____ facts is _____ flawed.

(A) demographic.. intrinsically

(B) ecological.. marginally

(C) cultural.. substantively

(D) psychological.. philosophically

(E) political.. demonstratively

解析：前面说的是人口对于可用资源的压力很重要，consequently体现前后因果关系，如果不注意什么样的事实是有问题的呢?就应该是人口方面的事实，所以只有A选项有这个意思。

学习一个短语，take cognizance of 或者也可以说take account of, attend to sth. 表示注意到某事。

例句：Supposing you are currently an important participant in a vital endeavor, you may gain a lot by taking cognizance of what is uttered by those on the sidelines.

这里我们再看一下C选项的substantive，同学们经常区分不开substantiate， substantial ， substantive，substance这四个词。

这四个词都来自于拉丁词根substantia 表示essence本质这样一个意思。所以substance 既有物质的意思也有重要性的意思。因此substantive 表示的是独立存在或实质的。substantiate表示证明，substantial表示的是大量的。

Filling in the blank with the four words

1. But in any case, it is worth a very ______ amount of money to our economy - certainly in the order of a billion dollars or more.

2. Journalists try to _________ allegations with other evidence, but this isn’t always possible.

3. Appearance should be balanced with content, style with ______, the medium with the message.

4. As far as possible, the essential meaning or ______ of each oath, and the formality and solemnity of the oaths, are retained.

5. Nothing has a ______ existence apart from everything else and exists only in the context of everything else.

6. Some students of the media have developed a notion of the game schema model, where tactics and strategy are now more important than ______ issues.

(参考答案：1. substantial 2. substantiate 3. substance 4. substance 5. substantive 6. substantive )

答案：A

4. It is puzzling to observe that Jones’s novel has recently been criticized for its _____ structure, since commentators have traditionally argued that its most obvious _____ is its relentlessly rigid, indeed schematic, framework.

(A) attention to.. preoccupation

(B) speculation about.. characteristic

(C) parody of.. disparity

(D) violation of.. contradiction

(E) lack of.. flaw

解析：puzzling体现出后面的句子有矛盾，那么他最近被批判的一个东西一定之前不被批判的，所以______ stricture和rigid and schematic framework一定相反。因此选择E选项，他最近被批评缺乏文章结构，之前人们说他最明显的错误时结构僵化。

注意区分rigid和rigorous。rigid的核心解释为inflexible，不愿意动或改变，而rigorous核心解释为strict或thorough。我们可以把rigid翻译成僵化，把rigorous翻译成严格或彻底

parody(An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect)这个词比较高级，表示的是夸张的模仿或者恶搞。比方说你们见过陈汉典模仿尔康么，都属于parody。

relentless这个词和unrelenting一样，这个词就表示的不减退的或无动于衷的(就是别人怎么说他的那种坚持都不会减退的意思)。比方说我们说大太阳一直晒着你：The sun was relentless. 形容人，来个例句：He was relentless, some said ruthless, and it made him one of the toughest prosecutors in the state.

答案： E

5. It comes as no surprise that societies have codes of behavior; the character of the codes, on the other hand, can often be _____ .

(A) predictable

(B) unexpected

(C) admirable

(D) explicit

(E) confusing

解析： on the other hand，和前面相反， 选择B。答案一目了然。

注意explicit / implicit - explicate / implicate 这两组词的对应。explicate表示的是明说，阐释清楚;implicate表示的是卷入，牵涉，也可以表示暗示。

例如：She is the walking example that being ‘physically challenged’ does not implicate that one cannot be successful.(这里有一个很有意思的用法，叫做walking example，类似于living proof，表示的是鲜活的证明)

英文中常说 be implicated in something, 表示一个人牵涉案件。 例如：Senior officials were implicated in the scandal.

答案：B

6. The characterization of historical analysis as a form of fiction is not likely to be received _____ by either historians or literary critics, who agree that history and fiction deal with _____ orders of experience.

(A) quietly.. significant

(B) enthusiastically.. shifting

(C) passively.. unusual

(D) sympathetically.. distinct

(E) contentiously.. realistic

解析：前后应该是相同的，前面如果说history可以被认为是fiction的一种形式，那么后面就应该说相同，前面如果说不同，后面也应该是不同，所以符合的只有D选项。

注意这里sympathetic不表示同情，表示的是支持赞同(Showing approval of or favour towards an idea or action)

例句：

At least one newspaper has editorialized in favor of political union and others are sympathetic to the proposal.

答案：D

7. For some time now, _____ has been presumed not to exist: the cynical conviction that everybody has an angle is considered wisdom.

(A) rationality

(B) flexibility

(C) diffidence

(D) disinterestedness

(E) insincerity

解析：这是一个比较难的问题，需要理解everybody has an angle的意思，表示的是每个人都有角度，就是每个人看问题都会带着自己的角度，从自己的想法出发。那什么样的人不存在呢?就是没有角度的人呗，那就是一个看问题客观公正的人。所以选择D

注意flexibility和suppleness考过六选二，diffidence和timid考过六选二。sincere这个词要跟serene这个单词区分开。

答案：D