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SAT Reading 3.2 Passage Comparison 176 Views
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SAT Reading: Passage Comparison Drill 3, Problem 2
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- 00:03
如果一个树在森林里没有听见。那么它有没有在发声呢？
- 00:21
In line 17 of Passage 2, "innocuous" most nearly means...什么?
- 00:30
因为我们在回答在上下文中猜单词的问题， 我们需要去寻找上下文和这个单词
- 00:37
去搞定吧
- 00:38
在这个问题中，第17行有一句说了有些科技在刚开始 看起来还行，但是最后会变得很差劲。
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- 00:49
所以我们知道我们在找一个词，
- 00:51
这个词要和电话 刚开始看起来没有危害性的这个意思一致。
- 00:56
好吧，基于我们刚才说的，"dangerous" 很容易去排除。
- 00:59
如果电话刚诞生的时候每一个人都认为电话是个威胁， 那也就没有后来电话这么流行了。
- 01:06
在"counterproductive"中的"counter" 让我们知道了这个词表示停止或者抑制生产力
- 01:13
因此我们知道这个词和我们看起来 无害的电话没有什么关系。
- 01:23
"Magical"表示… 我们根本都不用说。
- 01:26
我们全看过哈利波特吧。
- 01:30
我们还知道(D)很容易被排除。
- 01:33
哦，这里有一个很复杂的单词。
- 01:34
"Fallacious"表示一些基于"fallacy"和不真实的东西。
- 01:39
感觉有点假，是不是？
- 01:44
知道了这点，我们可以确定(E)是令人失望的。
- 01:47
它在尝试去误导我们它是正确的答案。
- 01:50
但是我们不会买账的！
- 01:52
接下来，"harmless"表示在任何方面都不具有威胁。
- 01:57
答案(C)和"innocuous"语意一致。
- 02:02
现在如果我们可以在这个机器人上发现 "innocuous"按键就好了。
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