始まりと終わり.

使ってみる — 4問

おぼえたかどうかではなく、文に合う語を選べるかを試します。 選択肢はすべて、このテーマの語です。意味の遠い語は混ぜていません。 だから「よい意味か、わるい意味か」と「どのくらい強いか」で絞るのが、そのまま解き方になります。

1. 01

   In 1962, photographic conservation was       as a specialty: the first program to train anyone in it had opened only two years before. Its early practitioners were not improvising, however. They worked from a written protocol and a vocabulary borrowed intact from paper conservation, so the field's procedures were settled well before its reputation was.

   AinchoateBnascentCpenultimateDseminal

2. 02

   Marguerite Ellery's first article, on the exchange of nutrients between roots and soil bacteria, appeared in 1927 in a journal read mostly by agronomists. Within two decades every laboratory in microbial ecology traced its own methods back to those fourteen pages; the discipline as it is now practiced did not exist before them. Historians of science therefore call the article      .

   AconcomitantBinchoateCnascentDseminal

3. 03

   The interstate interchanges built across the Midwest in the 1950s were justified almost entirely by the cost of moving freight. Once in place, though, they began to       a pattern of settlement that no planner had forecast: warehouses appeared first at the exits, then housing, then schools, and by 1975 several of these clusters held more people than the towns the highways had been routed to serve.

   AabortBconsummateCengenderDentail

4. 04

   Hilda Ferrant painted the same stretch of tidal marsh from 1948 to 1971, each canvas larger and less literal than the one before. Visitors who met the room-sized final panel on its own often called it forbidding. Those who had worked through the sequence in order saw instead that every earlier canvas had been a rehearsal for this one, and read the panel as the       of the entire project.

   AchaosBculminationCdemarcationDjuxtaposition

Beginnings, Endings & Order — 16語16 words

このテーマの全語です。定義を隠して、 よい意味・わるい意味・中立の三つに分けてみるのが、いちばん効く使い方です。 分け間違えた語が、そのまま自分の弱点になります。

Every word in this theme. The best use of it is to cover the meanings and sort the list into positive, negative and neutral. Whichever ones you put in the wrong pile are exactly your weak spots.

内訳：よい意味 2語 ／ わるい意味 3語 ／ 中立 11語。 強さはこのテーマの中での相対です。テーマをまたいで比べる数字ではありません。

2 positive, 3 negative, 11 neutral. Strength is ranked within this theme only — the numbers are not comparable across themes.