Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Answers of text completion dril 2: 2 blank
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1. B, A
His writing in the New York Times provoked a lot of feedback, much of it suggesting that he had been far too____(i)________ that while the situation may be grim, it's not ____(ii)________ and that the last thing scientists should do is to stop looking for ways to keep recalcitrant weed alive.
"that while the situation may be grim" from this part we can predict that 2nd blank is something positive but there is word "not". So it should be something negative; Pessimistic means "seeing only the bad side, tending to expect the worst ". So it works here. For the first we can predict that he was too pessimistic. Dire works here.
2.B, B
Bradbury is ___________: that we're a year closer to the demise of one of more diverse and vibrant ecosystems the Earth has seen. Yet his prescience is rejected by most experts, but they haven't had much reason to be ___________, either.
After reading the whole sentence, we can say that Bradbury is foretelling(pivot word is prescience) something. Prophetic matches here for the first blank. For the 2nd blank, experts rejected him, but there is a transitional word "but". That means they have no reason to be truthful either. There prediction is unchallenged . Unimpeachable means "impossible to question; beyond reproach; not blemished"; it works!
3. C, B
The strategy to employ surrogate for assessing the efficiency of the new HIV medicine is clever, but also ____________: the surrogate's body system is quite _____________ dynamic human body consisting of unique DNA.
1st blank should be something negative. "quite challenging" works here. For the 2nd blank we can predict that human system should be different from the surrogates.Here, "dissimilar to'' matched!
4. B, A
Serendipity is usually not embraced heartedly by people, yet it was determinant for Bouvis success in film industry: the more __________he became, the more______________his life became.
We can predict that 1st blank is " serendipitous" and second blank is " succeed". "probabilistic" and "prerogative" matched! ; prerogative means privilege.
5.C, B
Although new species of insects and amphibians are discovered fairly regularly, new mammals are ___________, and new carnivorous mammals especially are___________.
Pivot word is :although. New species of amphibian and insects discovered in high amount but mammals are not.
Our predicted words for both blanks are rare. "Inconspicuous",and "diluted" matched!
6.C, A
Helgen continued his project with a paradoxical nature: the more he ___________ the world's Olingo specimens to determine whether samples from a different species might be hidden among them, the less ___________ the result of his dogged experiment.
Key words is "paradoxical" . So both should be opposite. So the more he seriously worked the less visible his results. "Meticulously examined", and "ostensible" matched!
7.B, B
____________ is nothing new in sciences: Competing theories sometimes coexist until one drives the other out, or until both are discarded in favor of yet another theory which is yet __________ by more dominant theory.
Our prediction for first blank should be "renovation". ''Refurbishment" matched that, and for second blank we can predict that it should be 'discarded'. Only emasculated works. Emasculate means weaken. So new theories weakens older one.
8.C, C
Born in 1475 to an impoverished but ______________ family in Caprese, a hillside town near Florence, Michelangelo Buonarroti grew up with an innate _______________, which as he aged, would feed his volatile temperament in the midst of surroundings full of bureaucracy.
Clue for 1st blank is 'impoverished'. So 2nd blank should be positive. "Aristocratic'' works!
As he is born in aristocratic family, we can predict that, he is grown with some positive characteristic. Only ''sense of pride '' works.
9.A, A
As much as the newbie entrepreneur, with fastidious insights , _____________ the unsounded complexity arisen in dealing with many more experienced monetary businessmen, he is easily confounded when facing complexity, which requires too much_____________ thinking to unravel.
Signal word here is 'as much as'. So as second part is negative, as first part is positive . Our prediction for first blank is ''solves' , and circumvent means ''by-pass, outmaneuver''. Only it works here. For the second blank clue is "fastidious insights". So delicate works, and delicate has several meaning. Here delicate is meant: "marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique"
10.B, B
A major goad for the recent ____________ of scientism has been the application of neuroscience to human affairs. Certainly many of these applications are foibles , yet it’s _____________ for intellectuals who are innocent of science to advance the ideas that sciences are glib or wrong, and it is a mistake to use a few unwarranted illustration as an excuse to quarantine the sciences of human nature from our attempt to understand the human condition.
Second blank is easier to answer. Intellectuals who are innocent in science don't deserve to underestimate science; this is a kind of sense we get from the sentence. So for the second blank we can predict that: "unexpected". "Unheard of " means unprecedented ; it works!
For the first blank, our prediction should be ''criticism".So, "Denunciation" matched!
