填空模拟题

405. The paucity of autobiographical documents left by the royal attendants has compelled historian Raul Salazar to ______ the motives of these countries from their ______ rather than from any diaries or correspondence.
A. stipulate, accomplishments
B. contemplate, journals
C. surmise, deeds
D. allege, assertions
E. elicit, missive

406. The painter lamented the evanescence of beauty, even though she seemed in several of her works to have ______ it as it passed and so ______ it for posterity.
A. seized, absolved
B. vanquished, perpetuated
C. arrested, preserved
D. neglectd, established
E. dispelled, enshrined

题意解析及中文释义

题意解析及中文释义：

405.
题意解析：
空格二处于由rather than引导的反义小链接之中，候选A，C和D。再考虑空格一，A中的“规定”是荒谬的，后人是不可能规定前人的动机，C中“推测”符合题意，D中的“断言”不符合，因为后面毕竟还有些证据，断言是建立在无证据基础上讲的话。
中文释义：
皇室廷臣留下的自传式记录很少，迫使历史学家Raul Salazar通过他们的所作所为而非日志或者信函去推测这些廷臣的动机。

406.
题意解析：
两个空格用and连接，主语一样，宾语一样，所以填入一组同义词即可，选择C。
中文释义：
画家对美的消逝深表痛惜，尽管她在好多作品中试图去抓住这消逝之美，并为后人保留。