2017年GRE考试精选填空模拟试题及答案解析(4)
2017年GRE考试精选填空模拟试题及答案解析(4)GRE留学外语考试
Many more eighteenth-century novels were written by women than by men, but this dominance has, until very recently, been regarded merely as ____ fact, a bit of arcane knowledge noted only by bibliographers
A a controversial
B a statistical
C an analytical
D an explicit
E an unimpeachable
选B
翻译:出自女性作家之手的十八世纪小说远多于男性,但这件事一直被认为是只有统计学意义的晦涩知识(冷知识),也就只有目录学家知道,直到不久前……
开始的一大串内容(Many more eighteenth-century novels were written by women than by men),都被this dominance指代,作为句子的主语,与解题关系不大,掠过。
这种优势(this dominance)直到最近(才被人们发现,被重视等),以前它只是一件( )的事,也就目录学家才知道的冷僻信息。
解释一下目录学家bibliographer:这是一群研究书籍出版信息的专家。读者大概比较关心一本书的内容,而目录学家可能更关心某本书的版本,印数,排版,装订,生产工艺等信息。目录学家也会把书籍按照各种标准分类研究,比如根据出版年代,作者的种族,书的主题等。