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Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were n
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Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look (i) ______; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the (ii) ______ of natural beauty and human glory.
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| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
|---|---|
| cheerful | transitoriness |
| luxuriant | taciturnity |
| collusion | frivolity |
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30 Dec 2019, 19:51
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1. The Chinese pleasure gardens were designed to evoke melancholy - will be helpful to answer the first blank that they were not necessarily built to be cheerful. In the first blank we needed an opposite of melancholy, which is served only by "cheerful". The other two options do not serve the purpose.
2. What of natural beauty and human glory will result in melancholy? - transitoriness (short-life) is more appropriate. "taciturnity" is not in line with human glory, which is already glorified and so do "frivolity".
2. What of natural beauty and human glory will result in melancholy? - transitoriness (short-life) is more appropriate. "taciturnity" is not in line with human glory, which is already glorified and so do "frivolity".
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Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look (i) ______; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the (ii) ______ of natural beauty and human glory.
The Sentence consists of two parts:
1. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look (i) ______; We do not have sufficient information to know how they were intended to look. So we ignore this part now.
2. they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the (ii) ______ of natural beauty and human glory. Now the key phrase is "they were designed expressly to [color=#0000ff]evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting...". well, what can cause a feeling of agreeable melancholy? [/color]
Destruction is too strong a word, destruction of natural beauty and human glory can be melancholic but not agreeable. Impermanence is a good word. But since there are only three choices available, one may as well look at them and choose. Taciturnity does not make sense, frivolity will not lead to melancholy, so transitoriness is the perfect choice.
Now coming to the first blank, since they were pleasure gardens and their intention was to evoke "agreeable melancholy", the phrase "were not necessarily intended to look_______" should complete to support that intention. Thus the word should be the exact opposite of "agreeable melancholy" and thus cheerful is the best answer from the word list.
The correct answer choices are cheerful and transitoriness.
The Sentence consists of two parts:
1. Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look (i) ______; We do not have sufficient information to know how they were intended to look. So we ignore this part now.
2. they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the (ii) ______ of natural beauty and human glory. Now the key phrase is "they were designed expressly to [color=#0000ff]evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting...". well, what can cause a feeling of agreeable melancholy? [/color]
Destruction is too strong a word, destruction of natural beauty and human glory can be melancholic but not agreeable. Impermanence is a good word. But since there are only three choices available, one may as well look at them and choose. Taciturnity does not make sense, frivolity will not lead to melancholy, so transitoriness is the perfect choice.
Now coming to the first blank, since they were pleasure gardens and their intention was to evoke "agreeable melancholy", the phrase "were not necessarily intended to look_______" should complete to support that intention. Thus the word should be the exact opposite of "agreeable melancholy" and thus cheerful is the best answer from the word list.
The correct answer choices are cheerful and transitoriness.
