Answer of Section 2, Question 4
Folk music, having remained (i)______ by reinforcing ethnic identities and advocating social change, has nevertheless (ii)______ the rural areas where it originally developed.
| Blank (i) | Blank (ii) |
|---|---|
| (A) traditional | (D) characterized |
| (B) dormant | (E) changed |
| (C) vital | (F) declined in |
官方解說：
The word "nevertheless" signals that there is some kind of opposition in this sentence which makes an assertion about folk music. Blank (i) must be filled with a word that expresses something about the cunent state of the music (how it has "remained"), while Blank (ii) must be filled with a word that describes what has happened to folk music in the areas where it first developed. If we look for such an opposition among the answer choices for the two blanks "vital" and "declined in" stand out as most nearly opposite, and they fit the content of the sentence: folk music has remained vital in some ways but has declined in the rural regions where it originated. Another pair of answer choices might seem to present an opposition: "traditional" and "changed." But "traditional" does not fit Blank (i), because music could not remain traditional by "advocating social change."
Thus the correct answer is vital and declined in.
難易度：4