Namrta
October 21, 2012, 8:31am
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Federer gave a ____ performance in the final; the spectators were treated to a display of his ____ abilities on the court.
A. stupendous - inconsolable
In recent decades the idea that Cezanna influenced Cubism has been caught in the … between art historians who credit Braque with its invention and those who … Picasso.
3 Although scientists claim that the seemingly … language of their reports is more precise than the figurative language of the fiction, the language of science, like all language, is inherently …
Namrta
October 22, 2012, 7:37am
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Luschen:
Namrta:
Federer gave a ____ performance in the final; the spectators were treated to a display of his ____ abilities on the court.
A. stupendous - inconsolable
For this one, the blanks need to have the same connotations - either good and good or bad and bad.
A is good and bad
so I would go with B
In recent decades the idea that Cezanna influenced Cubism has been caught in the … between art historians who credit Braque with its invention and those who … Picasso.
Hmm, so some historians think Brauqe created Cubism and some think Picasso did. Then we have this wildcard Cezanna, who is screwing up the existing theories. Looking at the second blank, you don’t “attribute Picasso” we would say “attribute it to Picasso”, so D doesn’t really work. I don’t think you would “substitute Picasso” either, so I would not pick E. Looking at the first blank, it is not really a paradox between the art historians, it sounds like more of a debate. Honestly, I think A or B would both work - is this one of those questions with two answers? I guess if I had to choose only one, I would pick A because “caught in the crossfire” is a very common idiom in English.
3 Although scientists claim that the seemingly … language of their reports is more precise than the figurative language of the fiction, the language of science, like all language, is inherently …
For the first blank, we are looking for something apparently precise and not “figurative” - so I think “ornamental” is out. I don’t think “subjective” is good either - science is supposed to be objective, or symbolic - symbolic does not seem precise and symbolic writing would be odd in a scientific paper (they are not talking about x=y here). Saying all language is “unintelligible” does not make sense to me, so I would go with D, even though I am not sure what allusive means. I do know what “elusive” means though, maybe it is similar. — I looked it up and it means containing allusions, which I think works here - meaning it is not completely literal.
Wow!, again excellent explanations, thank you so much Luchen not "figurative "?
