多选题 Questions 1-6 (Sentence Equivalent)
Directions: For each of the following sentences, select the two answers of the six choices given that, when substituted in the sentence, both logically complete the sentence as a whole and create sentences that are equivalent to one another in meaning.
多选题 Many of us attempt to rewrite our personal stories to present ourselves in the best light; indeed, we are almost universally to do so.
  • A. reluctant
  • B. illuminated
  • C. apt
  • D. prone
  • E. intimidated
  • F. comprehensive
【正确答案】 C、D
【答案解析】Both apt and prone have several meanings. Apt, for example, can mean appropriate, as in an apt remark, or it can mean unusually quick and intelligent, as in an apt pupil. Prone can mean prostrate; it can also mean having a downward slope. Here both apt and prone are used in the sense of inclined or liable. Note the use of indeed to both confirm and emphasize the preceding statement. Not only do many of us try to rewrite our lives, but we are almost universally inclined to do so.
多选题 Far from condemning Warhol for his apparent superficiality and commercialism, critics today ______ him for these very qualities, contending that in these superficial, commercial artworks he had captured the essence of American culture in the 1970s.
  • A. belittle
  • B. chastise
  • C. tolerate
  • D. extol
  • E. flaunt
  • F. hail
【正确答案】 D、F
【答案解析】Far from is a contrast signal. It indicates that you are looking for an antonym for condemn. The critics do not condemn Warhol for what seems to be superficiality and commercialism. Instead, they extol or hail him for having captured the superficial, commercial nature of American culture during the 1970s. Note that hail in this context is synonymous with acclaim or approve enthusiastically (secondary meaning).
多选题 A born trickster, he was as inclined to ______ as an embezzler is inclined to fraud.
  • A. bravado
  • B. chicanery
  • C. cowardice
  • D. candor
  • E. ingenuousness
  • F. artifice
【正确答案】 B、F
【答案解析】By definition, embezzlers are inclined to fraud. By definition, tricksters are inclined to trickery, that is, to chicanery or artifice. Here artifice means subtle but base deception, not skill or ingenuity.
多选题 Paradoxically, the very admonitions intended to reform the prodigal served only to ______ his wicked ways.
  • A. turn him from
  • B. confirm him in
  • C. distress him about
  • D. absolve him of
  • E. reinforce
  • F. transform
【正确答案】 B、E
【答案解析】Paradoxically inherently signals a contrast. It indicates that something unexpected and unwanted has occurred. An admonition or warning intended to reform a spendthrift failed to have the desired result. Instead, it reinforced his profligate behavior, confirming or strengthening him in his wasteful habits.
多选题 Although no two siblings could have disagreed more in nature—where she was gregar ious, he was introverted; where she was outspoken, he was ______—the twins nev. ertheless got on amazingly well.
  • A. reserved
  • B. discreet
  • C. garrulous
  • D. insensitive
  • E. imprudent
  • F. fluent
【正确答案】 A、B
【答案解析】You are looking for an antonym for outspoken (frank and unreserved in speech). To be reserved is to be restrained or reticent in manner. To be discreet is to be judicious in conduct or speech.
多选题 Amusingly enough, lawyers sometimes drive their sport cars in the same fashion that they construct their cases: a lawyer noted for the ______ of his arguments, for example, may also be known for the circuitousness of his routes.
  • A. brevity
  • B. pertinacity
  • C. judiciousness
  • D. deviousness
  • E. conciseness
  • F. indirectness
【正确答案】 D、F
【答案解析】The key word here is circuitousness. The writer here is developing an analogy between the way lawyers drive their cars and the way they build or construct their legal arguments. Thus, someone known for choosing circuitous (roundabout; twisty) routes might also be known for coming up with devious (tricky; oblique) or indirect (roundabout; not direct) arguments.