填空模拟题

69. Because she had mistakenly assumed that the disputes between the parties could be successfully ______ ; the attorney had not prepared herself for the ______ of a long, drawn-out public trial.
A. mediated, eventuality
B. eased, probability
C. exacerbated, contingency
D. manipulated, particularity
E. foreseen, inevitability

70.Anthropology was much more than ______ for the novelist Zora Neale Hurston: she studied at Bamard College with Franz Boas, who is often called the "Father of American Anthropology."
A. an obsession
B. a career
C. an avocation
D. an encumbrance
E. a commiment

题意解析及中文释义

题意解析及中文释义：

69.
题意解析：
由successfully可知，空格填入褒义词，选择A。很多同学都会考虑B，但是B中ease表示缓和，不能和“成功地”连用，因为缓和归缓和，总归还是问题，故B错。
中文释义：
因为她错误地认为两党之间的争议可以成功得到调停，因此律师本人没有为长期公开的公共审判这一不测事件做准备。

70.
题意解析：
小说家和人类学家一起在Bamard学院学习，后者是美国人类学之父， 所以小说家对人类学也有研究，这和汉语的“近朱者赤，近墨者黑”是一个道理，选择C。
中文释义：
人类学家对小说家佐拉·尼尔·休斯顿来说不只是消遣，她和弗朗兹·博阿斯一起在巴纳德学院学习，后者被称作“美国人类学之父”。