The current French bestseller lists are wonderfully eclectic. In (1)_____, there is everything (2)_____ blockbuster thrillers to

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问题     The current French bestseller lists are wonderfully eclectic. In (1)_____, there is everything (2)_____ blockbuster thrillers to Catherine Miller’s La Vie Sexuelle de Catherine M., a novel which has been (3)_____ praised as high art and (4)_____ as upmarket porn. Then there are novels (5)_____ the sticky questions of good and (6)_____ (Le Demon et Mademoiselle Prym) and faith versus science m the modern world (L’apparition). Philosophical (7)_____ continue in the non-fiction list. (8)_____ this week by Michel Onfray’s "Antimanuel de Philosophic". a witty talk (9)_____ some of philosophy’s perennial debates. Those who like their big issues in small chunks are also enjoying Frederic Beigbeder’s Dernier Inventaire avant Liquidation, a survey of France’s (10)_____ 20th-century books, (11)_____ with Mr. Beigbeder’s (12)_____ humor from the title on (The 50 books of the Century Chosen by You and Critiqued by Me),
    In Britain, meanwhile, there is olive oil all over the non-fiction list. It’s a major (13)_____ for Nigella Lawson, a domestic divinity and celebrity (14)_____, whose latest (15)_____ of recipes tops the list. Annie Hawes, in second (16)_____. took herself (17)_____ to the sun-drenched hills of Italy to grow her own olives and write a book about them as did Carol Drinkwater, just (18)_____ the border in France. Fiction-wise, it’s business as (19)_____, with the requisite holiday mix of thrillers, romance, fantasy and Harry Potter with The Goblet of Fire still burning (20)_____ at number three.


选项 A、approved
B、admired
C、derided
D、scolded

答案C

解析 本题测试点为上下文理解和同义辨析。approved"被认可";admired "被夸赞";derided"被讽刺";scolded"被斥责"。由后面的"色情文学"一词可知应该选表负面意义的动词,所以应在derided、scolded里选,又由upmarked可以推断这是讽刺说法,故选derided。
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