GRE POWERPREPII TEST2 解析
VERBAL1:
partisanship n. 党派性；党派偏见；对党派的忠诚 precedence n.优先，居先
选precedence，和first great modern biographer对应。
Benign n.良性的，和蔼的，亲切的，吉利的 这题没理解好题目。
大多数飞船仍然几乎没有和宇宙垃圾相撞的危险。但是由于每年都会送上很多卫星上太空，将来的轨道环境就会不好了。
冒号表示前后句子意思一致。
前一句是说日常生活中的物品不再进入serious American art 后一句是说艺术家们放弃了commonplace的事物
Reticent 沉默的，有保留的，谨慎的
选undermine的原因是因为前面substantial body of writing和后面reluctant to articulate issues, more artistic posturing相反
Statuary 雕像的，雕像艺术的
文章的意思是雕像采取这种姿势有两种可能的解释，一种是mirror actual social behavior,另一种是borrow from classical statuaty. 后面说这两种解释都不对，因为既没有解释source,又没有解释reason。然后又说不知道为什么一定就采用这种姿势。 选项A说明了source, 是古代礼仪手册中说的
选项B是文章中已经否定了的解释，所以不能选。
选项C是说明了reason. A gentleman considers what stance to adopt when his portrait is painted.
Recently an unusual high number of dolphins have been found dead of infectious diseases, and most of these had abnormally high tissue concentrations on certain c0mp0unds that, even in low concentrations, reduce dolphins' resistance to infection. The only source of these c0mp0unds in the dolphins' environment is boat paint. Therefore, since dolphins rid their bodies of the c0mp0unds rapidly once exposure ceases, their mortality rate should decline rapidly if such boat paints are banned.
Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument? A. The levels of the c0mp0unds typically used in boat paints today are lower than they were in boat paints manufactured a decade ago. B. In high concentrations, the c0mp0unds are toxic to many types of marine animals. C. The c0mp0unds breaks down into harmless substances after a few months of exposure to water or air.
原因可能是如果the compounds break down into harmless substances after a few months of exposure to water or air. 那么就排除了是油漆直接在水中造成的影响，只有可能是船上涂了油漆，被海豚蹭上造成的。
Take issue 不同意，持异议 Protagonist 主角
Domestic 国内的，家庭的 Promulgate 公布，传播，发表
原文：That the envisioned “public” political ideal-passive obedience to the nation’s king- out to be mirrored in the private sphere, with family members wholly obedient to a male head of household. The structure of the private sphere should not replicate the hierachical order of the public sphere.
没有太看懂意思。但也应该能做题。原文说Behn question Dryden’s 而Dryden的意见是public应该mirror private。所以Behn应该认为private sphere should not replicate public sphere.