Answer of Section 3, Question 2

The geologist suggested that as the most productive oil reservoirs begin to dry up, the high costs and potential risks of drilling in more marginal locations will come to seem less ______ and more acceptable.

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(A) efficacious
(B) onerous
(C) paltry
(D) redundant
(E) auspicious

官方解說:

The words "less" and "more" as they are used in the sentence signal that the word that fills the blank will contrast with "acceptable." Both "effcacious" and "auspicious" fail to contrast with "acceptable," thus eliminating those two choices. Of the remaining choices, we need to pick the word that describes how "the high costs and potential risks" appear under optimal conditions. At the same time, the word (in conjunction with "less") must describe how "the high costs and potential risks" will come to seem as the most productive oil reservoirs begin to dry up. Only "onerous" satisfies both criteria.

Thus the correct answer is onerous.

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