從以下選項(xiàng)挑出與句中斜體詞意思相近的詞：

　　Because this road is so tortuous, it is unwise to go faster than twenty miles an hour on it.

　　A.slippery B.coarse C.solid D. hazardou E. winding

　　參考答案：E. winding

　　解析：從這一句英文的意思來(lái)看，“車(chē)速超過(guò)20英里/小時(shí)并不是明智的”作為一個(gè)結(jié)果，那原因則是路的狀況會(huì)是怎么樣的?首先可以排除B(粗糙的)、C(堅(jiān)硬的)和D(危害的)，而silppery(滑溜的)和torturous(多彎的)中，與語(yǔ)境更為相符的則是tortuous，因?yàn)閺澏喽�要求駕駛員不能開(kāi)得太快，即“時(shí)速超過(guò)20英里”。當(dāng)路面很滑的情況，開(kāi)車(chē)時(shí)則要求抓穩(wěn)方向盤(pán)，不能急拐彎或是急剎車(chē)。winding與tortuous的意思相近。

　　請(qǐng)從以下選項(xiàng)中挑出與斜體詞意思相近的詞：

　　Some of his friends tried to account for this rudeness to strangers as the eccentricity of genius.

　　A. meritocracy B. ideology C. temperament D. idiosyncrasy E. cognition

　　參考答案：D. idiosyncrasy

　　解析：Eccentricity的意思是“古怪行為(或想法)”，“怪癖”。在柯林斯英語(yǔ)詞典里，其英文解釋是“Eccentricities are ways of behaving that people think are strange, or habits or opinions that are different from those of most people.”例如: We all have our eccentricty. 我們每個(gè)人都有自己的怪癖。在這五個(gè)選項(xiàng)里，idiosyncrasy與eccentricity的意思相近，即“ (個(gè)人特有的)癖好，嗜好”，其英文解釋是 If you talk about the idiosyncrasies of someone or something, you are referring to their rather unusual habits or characteristics. 例如：Everyone has a few little idiosyncrasies. 從構(gòu)詞法的角度來(lái)看，idio 源自idios，意思是“one's own”，而syncrasie則源自希臘語(yǔ)的synkrasis，即“temperament, mixture of personal characteristics”(有多種性格)。