有不會背的ＧＲＥ單字嗎？照過來！我教你！

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2. In his unexpurgated autobiography, Mark Twain commented freely on
the flaws and foibles of his country, making some observations so ______
that his heirs and editors feared they would damage Twain’s reputation if
not withheld.

(A) buoyant
(B) acerbic
(C) premonitory
(D) laudatory
(E) temperate

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在他未經刪除的自傳中，馬克•吐溫隨意評論自己國家的缺陷和弱點，使得他的繼承人，編輯擔心他們會破壞吐溫的聲譽(如果沒有把書扣住不發)->很顯然空格要填的字是個負面的字。5個選項中只有acerbic符合，選！

unexpurgated未經刪除的
(A) buoyant蓬勃的/浮力的
(B) acerbic尖刻的

(C) premonitory預告的，前兆的
a disease with few premonitory symptoms 幾乎沒有甚麼先兆的疾病

(D) laudatory讚美的
(E) temperate溫和的
withhold扣留；隱瞞；阻擋

翻譯
在他未經刪除的自傳中，馬克吐溫隨意評論自己國家的缺陷和弱點，作了一些尖刻的觀察，
使得他的繼承人、編輯們擔心他們會破壞馬克吐溫的聲譽(如果沒有把書扣住不發)。

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3. That the artist chose to remain in his hometown does not mean that he
remained (i)______; on the contrary, he (ii)______the international artistic
movements of his day.

Blank(i) Blank(ii)
(A) provincial (D) knew nothing about
(B) capricious (E) made light of
(C) obstinate (F) kept abreast of

Spank解說

藝術家選擇留在家鄉，通常都是表示心態偏狹、守舊的，選provincial，負面意涵。
 on the contrary，第二空變成正面意涵
->D、E、F中只有kept abreast of是正面意涵，選！

翻譯
藝術家選擇留在家鄉並不意味著他心態偏狹、守舊；相反的，他與時俱進了解他那個時代的國際藝術運動。

（A）〔態度〕偏狹的﹐守舊的（D）一無所知（B）善變的（E）輕視（C）頑固的（F）及時了解，與...並駕齊驅

provincial ：a.
1.a provincial attitude shows that you are unwilling to accept new ideas or to think about things in new ways 〔態度〕偏狹的﹐守舊的

2.connected with the parts of a country that are not near the capital city 外省的〔指首都以外的地區〕﹐地方的
a small provincial town 一座地方小城鎮

keep abreast with與...並駕齊驅
We must keep abreast with times . 我們必須跟上時代的步伐。
They always keep abreast with what is going on by reading the newspaper . 他們總是通過讀報紙及時了解情形。

make light of輕視; 對...不在乎
He makes light of his illness . 他對自己的病不在乎。

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4. An innovation of the eighteenth-century cookbook writer Mary Cole
was that in her work she (i)______the earlier books from which her recipes
were drawn, Even in those numerous instances in which she had collated
into a single version, which she could have called her own, the recipes of
several earlier writers, she (ii)______them.

Blank(i) Blank(ii)
(A) preserved (D) took pains to cite
(B) enhanced (E) sought to imitate
(C) acknowledged (F) could not surpass


Spank解說
初看這麼長的文章，可以知道幾件事情：
1. Mary Cole是個18世紀的cookbook writer，她對cookbook writer作了一些改革
2. 她的食譜有許多是抄自早期的作家(earlier writers)。她校對這些食譜並收集成冊(對外她大可以宣稱這是她自己寫的食譜書)
3. 文章主軸：整個文章說來說去都在講書的作者是Mary Cole或不是Mary Cole，不禁讓人想到智慧財產權的問題。


綜觀上述，兩個空格的選項中，能與文章文氣一致、與文章主軸有關的答案就只有CD，選！

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5. As the finances of the energy-trading firm began unraveling, what
eventually became (i)______ was that the company had been concocting
the “value” out of thin air, thanks not to the trading strategies it promoted
as visionary but to financial (ii)______ that turned a once-solid entity into
the most notorious (iii)______ in an era of corporate scandals.

Blank(i) Blank(ii) Blank(iii)
(A) vindicated (D) redemption (G) omission

(B) unmistakable (E) responsibilities (H) boon

(C) unverifiable (F) games (I) debacle

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6. Kept (i)______ by cloying commercial radio and clueless record
executives, the American popular music scene has frequently depended on
cities at the edges of the cultural map to provide a much- needed shot of
(ii)______. The momentary (iii)______ what the next big thing is seems to
come out of nowhere—as if someone blows a whistle only those in the
know can hear, and suddenly record executives and journalists are crawling
all over what had previous been an obscure locale.

Blank(i) Blank(ii) Blank(iii)
(A) hidebound (D) originality (G) consensus about

(B) liberated (E) truth (H) indifference to

(C) obligated (F) orthodoxy (I) guarantee of

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13. Family photos of the author suggest that she was ______ child: she
seemed to wear a permanent frown.

(A) a sullen
(B) an amiable
(C) a surly
(D) a beautiful
(E) a prudent
(F) a stunning

spank分析
wear a permanent frown皺眉->找負面字->sullen/surly符合

(A) a sullen陰沉的
(B) an amiable和藹可親的
(C) a surly乖戾的
(D) a beautiful美麗的
(E) a prudent謹慎的
(F) a stunning【口】極漂亮的，絕色的/驚人的

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14. Biologists agree that snakes descended from lizards, but exactly where
this first happened has been a matter of debate since the 1800s, when two
______ theories emerged.

(A) complex
(B) competing
(C) dubious
(D) conclusive
(E) contending
(F) irrefutable

spank解說

關鍵字debate：n/v 爭論->找其同義字，competing/contending符合要求，選。

翻譯：
生物學家認為，蛇是蜥蜴的後代，但究竟在何處蜥蜴首次演變為蛇，這件事在19
世紀一直是人們爭論的問題，當時有兩個競爭性的理論應運而生。

（A）複雜的
（B）競爭的
（C）懷疑的
（D）定論的
（E）競爭的
（F）無可辯駁的

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15. A particular bacterium that has never encountered a particular virus will
usually succumb to it, a ______ that may, surprisingly, be beneficial to the
colony in which the bacterium lives.

(A) susceptibility
(B) theory
(C) characteristic
(D) juxtaposition
(E) collision
(F) hypothesis

spank解說

關鍵句為：A particular bacterium that has never encountered a particular virus will
usually succumb to it. 有一種獨特的細菌，遇到一個之前從未遇過的特殊病毒時，通常會屈從該病毒。

句中無任何轉折詞，所以第一個逗號後的文句與第一個逗號前的句子是同義的(第一個逗號後的文句在說明
第一個逗號前的句子)，所以選個相關的同義字，應該不會錯。

5個裏怎麼選相關的同義字？

注意到關鍵字succumb嗎？字首是suc-，選項中就有一個字是同個字首的：susceptibility=易感性，
如果不知道字義，字首會洩露一些訊息，提供選擇參考。如果知道susceptibilit的字義，那就好選很多。

這種易感性是一種細菌的特性(注意：細菌與病毒不同，讓我們感冒的是病毒，讓我們長膿的是細菌)，
所以characteristic(特性)也算是同義字之一。

整句的翻譯如下：
有一種獨特的細菌，遇到一個之前從未遇過的特殊病毒時，通常會屈從該病毒。
令人驚奇的是，這種特性對菌落中的細菌生活有益。
（A）易感性（B）理論（C）特性（D）並列（E）碰撞（F）假設

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16. The remarkable thing about the mayoral race, in retrospect, is that so
many people wanted the job of managing a municipality so obviously about
to ______.

(A) materialize
(B) disintegrate
(C) crumble
(D) prosper
(E) flourish
(F) scuffle

spank說明

這題的關鍵字有二：in retrospect/ remarkable
1. in retrospect 是 "回顧"，和「未回顧」形成比較。

2. 在一般情況下，許多參選人只是單純選市長，心中想的只是為民服務、把市政建設好。(未回顧的情況下，多數人的想法)

3. 哪裏會想到，對選舉史稍作回顧、比較，竟然發現和2.很不一樣、很不平常、令人驚訝的(remarkable = unusual, surprising)現象：有許多市府的財政不佳，公務員的薪水無法按時發出、加班費在幾個月之內已用罄----(如未改制前的臺中縣)，選上後的新(縣)市長常常要面對窘困的財政以及礙手礙腳的施政空間---，當選人這才發覺他選到的工作根本不是一個好頭路。

4. 至此，可以看到in retrospect/remarkable ( = unusual, surprising)在 Is that之前的形成一個負面意義
(注意unusual的「un-」)。

5. 由於Is that之前和之後的句子是同義的。，所以Is that之後的空格也要填負面字義的字眼，有(B) (C) (F)可選，但只有 (B) (C)是同義字，故選。(A) (D) (E) 為正面字，不選。

字詞解釋
in retrospect回顧

municipality自治市/市政當局
The municipality has/have closed the swimming pool .
市政當局已關閉了那個游泳池。

about to 即將

(A) materialize使具體化、實現、物質化
(B) disintegrate瓦解
(C) crumble粉碎
(D) prosper繁榮
(E) flourish蓬勃發展
(F) scuffle扭打、拖著腳走路(shuffle的變形)

翻譯
回顧市長選舉，有一件很不平常、令人驚訝的的事情是：有這麼多人想要一份工作----管理一個明顯即將瓦解的城市。

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2014 ov1 mock test3 section2的10題填空題官方答案

1D 2B 3AF 4CD 5BFI 6ADG 13AC 14BE 15AC 16BC

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2014 ov1 mock test4 section1的10題填空題，答案在第10題之後

1. By recognizing commonalities among all the major political parties and
by promoting a collaborative decision making process, the prime minister
has made good on his promise to cultivate a leadership style that
emphasizes______。

(A) growth
(B) politics
(C) ideology
(D) cooperation
(E) differentiation

spank說明

關鍵字collaborative，合作的 [kəˋlæbərətɪv] ，找其同義字，得 cooperation，選！

翻譯：
藉著承認所有主要政黨之間都有共同之處和透過促進合作決策的過程，總理
已經承諾，培養強調合作的領導風格。

（A）增長
（B）政治
（C）意識形態
（D）合作
（E）差異

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2. The lizards snapped up insects that are so (i)______ that other
potential predators avoid them, Among the lizards’ prey were some beetles
that they initially (ii)______ because the insects were spraying their hot,
irritant defense chemical at the time. Yet even these produced no apparent
ill effects, since the lizards, having eaten, proceeded on their way
(iii)______ enough.

Blank(i) Blank(ii) Blank(iii)
(A) rare (D) sought (G) erratically
(B) nutritious (E) rejected (H) laboriously
(C) noxious (F) resembled (I) nonchalantly

spank解說

第一空
other potential predators avoid them->表示這些昆蟲有問題(負面意)，所以第一空要填負面意涵的字，選noxious

第二空spraying their hot, irritant defense chemical ->所以吃了該蟲會不舒服，以後就少吃或不吃->找負面意涵的字，得rejected

第三空produced no apparent ill effects->所以可以慢慢來，選nonchalantly冷淡地；滿不在乎地


nonchalance冷靜/漠不關心
發音記法：南夏冷思->冷靜

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3. When the normally (i)______film director was interviewed, it was only
the topic of her next movie that (ii)______her flow of words, Her
(iii)______on that subject suggested that it was an unwelcome one.

Blank(i) Blank(ii) Blank(iii)
(A) assiduous (D) diverted (G) taciturnity

(B) loquacious (E) stanched (H) alacrity

(C) diffident (F) accentuated (I) rhapsody

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4. Bureaucrats tend to (i)______. So it is surprising that the European
Commission is proposing to hand back some of its antitrust powers to
national governments. Such a willingness to (ii)______power is quite
(iii)______.Perhaps the commission, so often a byword for meddling,
bungling, and even corruption, is starting to put its house in order following
the forced resignation of the previous lot of commissioners last year.

Blank(i) Blank(ii) Blank(iii)
(A) value complex procedures (D) devolve (G)troubling

(B) guard their authority jealously (E) misuse (H) encouraging

(C) shirk many of their responsibilities (F) appropriate (I)predictable

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5. It may be that a kind of pendulum is built into United States politics: if a
particular interest group scores a major victory, its supporters (i)______ and
its adversaries (ii)______ their efforts, so that the victory is soon
(iii)______.

Blank(i) Blank(ii) Blank(iii)
(A) consider new possibilities (D) abandon (G) reversed

(B) grow complacent (E) redouble (H) augmented

(C) become even more focused (F) defend (I) institutionalized