1. A common misconception is that linguists are concerned only with the origin and development of languages, but these topics, though they constitute an important part of linguistics, do not ___ the subject.

　　A. frame

　　B. transcend

　　C. convey

　　D. exhaust

　　E. illuminate

　　2. Far from being a ___ portrait of the writer, the biographer’s life of Christina Stead is ___ many undigested and discursive excerpts from Stead’s fiction and private papers.

　　A. multifaceted .. enriched by

　　B. valuable .. enhanced by

　　C. succinct.. .padded with

　　D. disputatious.. discredited by

　　E. compendious .. studded with

　　3. Traditional Navajo concepts of government are ___; decisions are arrived at through consensus rather than ___ by a single authority.

　　A. aristocratic.. prescribed

　　B. egalitarian.. dictated

　　C. democratic.. censured

　　D. patriarchal.. legislated

　　解析：

　　1、“語言學(xué)家只關(guān)注語言的起源和演化，而這些主題盡管構(gòu)成了語言學(xué)的重要組成部分，卻沒有構(gòu)建(整個)這門學(xué)科。”這是一個普遍的誤解。

　　解析：此題主干看轉(zhuǎn)折有點困難，不過ETS仁慈地加了一個though they constitute an important part of linguistics，將它取非即可。顯然an important part of linguistics與空格后的the subject構(gòu)成了上下義詞的同義表達(dá)。本來應(yīng)該取非的由于空格前出現(xiàn)了not而改為取constitute的同義詞，沒有比frame更同義的啦。 (如果不用邏輯做，肯定會有人選BDE)

　　2、遠(yuǎn)不是該作者緊湊簡潔的描寫風(fēng)格，這個傳記作家的《life of Christina Stead》一書充斥著許多來自于Stead的小說和私人文檔中未經(jīng)整理的散漫的章節(jié)。

　　解析：Far from表示取非。關(guān)鍵是找到哪里和哪里取非。

　　第一空填形容詞，這個形容詞應(yīng)該和undigested and discursive有關(guān)，如果填undigested and discursive的同義詞，則第2空填負(fù)評價完成Far from的邏輯取非;如果填undigested and discursive的反義詞，則第2空填正評價完成Far from的邏輯取非。本題只有CE第一空選項是undigested and discursive的反義詞。從2個方面看C是答案。(1)succinct有緊湊的含義，直接對應(yīng)not discursive，(2)be padded with 是填充的意思，be studded with是點綴的意思，一般be studded with后面跟珠寶等美好的事物，而此處顯然是undigested and discursive excerpts不好的事物。

　　3、關(guān)于統(tǒng)治的傳統(tǒng)Navajo概念是平等主義的;通過意見一致達(dá)成決議而不是由獨裁來宣布。

　　解析：分號后面作者強(qiáng)調(diào)的是rather than前面的decisions are arrived at through consensus，它代表了分號后面的作者態(tài)度，所以第一空填進(jìn)去以后要使分號前面與它同義，先選出BC，再由第2空語意輕松排除C啦。