The question of (i) ______in photography has lately become nontrivial. Prices for vintage prints (those make by a photographer soon after he or she made the negative) sodrastically (ii) ______in the 1990s thatone of these photographs might fetch a hundred times as much asa nonvintage print of the same image. It was perhaps only a matter of time before someone took advantage of the (iii) ______to peddle newly created “vintage” printsfor profit.
BLANK (i) BLANK (ii) BLANK (iii)
(A) forgery (D) ballooned (G) discrepancy
(B) influence (E) weakened (H) ambiguity
(C) style (F) varied (I) duplicity
KEY:ADG
(一) 節(jié)選出第二空所在部分
1. Prices for vintage prints sodrastically (ii) ______in the 1990sthatone of these photographs might fetch a hundred timesas much as a nonvintage print of the same image.
2. Blank2中應(yīng)填入一個動詞,表示VP的價格在1990年代的變動,由于沒有反義關(guān)聯(lián)元素,且只有so… that… 結(jié)構(gòu)存在,故分句之間是同一關(guān)系,且沒有否定詞,因此對應(yīng)的單詞之間是同義關(guān)系。
3. 前半句說到價格的增長,that引導(dǎo)的后半句中對于價格增長的描述只有fetch a hundred times,因而VP的價格在1990年代的10年間較NonVP來說增長了上百倍,因此這應(yīng)該是一種短時間且迅速的增長。
4. 選擇與自主判讀已知的詞匯填空:
[1]. ballooned:(迅速擴大)to swell or puff out : EXPAND
[2]. weakened:(削弱)to make weak : lessen the strength of
[3]. varied:(變化)DEVIATE, DEPART
(二) 選取第三空所在部分
It was perhaps only a matter of time before someone took advantage of the (iii) ______to peddle newly created “vintage” printsfor profit.
1. Blank3中應(yīng)該填入一個名詞或名詞性結(jié)構(gòu),作為人們獲利的依據(jù)。
2. 能夠獲利的根本在與成本與銷售價格之間的價格差,因而人們所利用的是上百倍的差價,所以在blank3中填入“差距”一詞的同義詞。
3. 選擇與自主判讀已知的詞匯填空:
[1]. discrepancy:(差異)the quality or state of being at variance
[2]. ambiguity:(歧義)the quality or state of being ambiguous especially in meaning
[3]. duplicity:(表里不一)the quality or state of being double or twofold
(三) 完成整個句子
1. The question of (i) ______in photography has lately become nontrivial. … It was perhaps only a matter of time before someonetook advantage of the (iii) ______to peddle newly created “vintage” printsfor profit.
2. 最后一句話中說到了”vintage” prints,加上引號以后表示反語,所以這中VP不是真實的,而是”created” ones,因此說,攝影界面臨的問題是造假成風。
3. 選擇與自主判讀已知的詞匯填空:
[1]. forgery:(作假)an act of forging; especially : the crime of falsely and fraudulently making or altering a document
[2]. influence:(影響)the power or capacity of causing an effect in indirect or intangible ways : SWAY
[3]. style:(風格)a distinctive manner of expression
(四) 理解句意,看是否邏輯與語義契合:
攝影界造假的問題在最近變得越來越嚴重了,Vintage Prints——指那些在攝影師在制作負片之后產(chǎn)生的相片——的價格在上世紀90年代暴漲,有時候某些攝影師會為一個Vintage Print要價超過非Vintage Print的百倍以上。在這種巨額差價存在的情況下,有人會為了這些利潤而四處兜售自己新創(chuàng)造的“Vintage Print”的事情的出現(xiàn)僅僅是個時間問題。