(OGAuthentic GRE Practice Test Section 3, Q15)
Thenovelist devotes so much time to avoid descriptions of his characters’ clothes that such ______ concerns,although worthy of attention, have superseded any more directly literary aims.
(A) didactic
(B) syntactical
(C) irrelevant
(D) sartorial
(E) frivolous
KEY:D
1.关键字:so … that …表示同义关系
2.空格里面应该填入一个形容词,用来修饰形容concerns。本题中前后两个部分通过“so … that … ”结构连接,表示“非常……所以……”,因此说前后两个部分是同义关系。前面说小说家尽可能地避免描述角色的衣饰,后面也要说这个人不愿意去对其衣饰进行描述。而devote time to avoid的否定,与supersede literary aim都体现出来这种描述不是关于文学的描述,因而为了保证对应,还剩下对于“衣物”的描述,这里description与concern都表示“对……的描述”,因而其修饰限定成分一样,都是“关于衣服的”。
3.词语解释:
[1].(A) didactic:(说教的)designed or intended toteach
[2].(B) syntactical:(依据语法的)of, relating to, oraccording to the rules of syntax or syntactics
[3].(C) irrelevant:(不相关的)not relevant : INAPPLICABLE
[4].(D) sartorial:(关乎衣服的)of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes broadly :of or relating to clothes
[5].(E) frivolous:(轻浮的)lacking in seriousness