GRE 填空

Our mass media are much more fascinated by bad ideas or the failure of good ones than by successes: we drown in bad news--tales of how things went wrong--but we have only the most ____ discussion on how they might go right.

 A. incisive
B. tantalizing
C. trenchant
D. cursory
E. illusory
F. perfunctory















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Our mass media are much more fascinated by bad ideas or the failure of good ones than by successes: we drown in bad(-) news--tales of how things went wrong--but we have only(-) the most ____(-) discussion on how they might go right.

 A. incisive (+)
B. tantalizing
C. trenchant (+)
D. cursory (-)
E. illusory
F. perfunctory (-)

我們的媒體更喜歡不好的事件或失敗的例子：我們沉浸於不好的新聞之中 - 敘述壞事如何發生 - 但(轉折)我們只有最 _____ 的討論在他們如何走向正確。

=> 專注討論壞事，但草率的討論壞事如何變好事

Ans: DF

 tale
/teɪl/
noun （尤指包含離奇內容的）故事，不實之詞

 incisive
/ɪnˈsaɪ.sɪv/
adjective 銳利的；深刻的

 trenchant
/ˈtren.tʃənt/
adjective （批評或意見）尖銳的，尖刻的，犀利的

 cursory
/ˈkɝː.sɚ.i/
adjective 倉促的；草草的；粗略的

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