考试类型: Critical Reading > Sentence Completions

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Ms. Fergusson’s main criticism of the artist’s rendering of the ancient mammal’s physical appearance is that, unsupported by even a ------- of fossil evidence, the image is bound to be------- .

A. modicum . . speculative

B. particle . . supplemented

C. perusal . . substantiated

D. fabrication . . obsolete

E. recapitulation . . exhausted

正确答案:A

解析:

A “modicum” is a small amount. Since the artist did not have even a small amount of evidence, the image must have been “speculative”.