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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

   When Hirsch first surveyed the Vallen Glacier in 1961, its snout stood almost a kilometer farther down the valley than it does today. Every summer since has taken nearly the same sliver of ice, and the gravel berms the village built have made no measurable difference to the rate. The ice refuses no one and defies no authority; it bears no grudge that could be soothed. It is simply      , continuing at the same pace whatever is set in its path.

   AadamantBimplacableCinexorableDrecalcitrant

2. 02

   For three decades the question of how a chain of amino acids arrives at its final folded shape defeated every method biochemists brought to it. Models that predicted the folding of short peptides collapsed at the length of a working protein, and additional computing time only made the failure more expensive: the number of shapes a full-length chain can take is larger than any search could ever cover. Nothing in the work resisted being handled — the instruments behaved, every simulation the team started ran to the end, and no step of the procedure had to be forced. The researchers themselves were flexible, quick to abandon an approach that stalled and generous with one another's data; the difficulty lay entirely in the problem, which was not merely hard but      .

   AincorrigibleBintractableCobstinateDrecalcitrant

3. 03

   In the winter of 1847 the overseer of the Marbury workhouse received a petition signed by ninety families asking that the coal ration for children under ten be restored. He read it, read the physician's note describing the ward's frostbitten hands, and returned both without comment. Nothing was being negotiated — the families had no terms to offer and asked for none — and the overseer was under no one's authority but his own. What reached him was an appeal to pity, and to pity he had long been      .

   AintransigentBobdurateCpertinaciousDrestive

4. 04

   For twenty years Lehmann taught that every alpine lake overturns exactly twice a year, and he taught it as established fact: his textbooks admitted no exceptions, and students who asked which measurements supported the claim were told the matter was closed. When Vogt's temperature series appeared in 1931 and showed three overturns in the deeper basins, Lehmann read it, accepted it, and rewrote the chapter within the year. His failing had never been an unwillingness to yield; it was a habit of       certainty about what he had not yet shown.

   AadamantBdogmaticCobstinateDpertinacious

Stubbornness & Defiance — 12語12 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 0語 ／ わるい意味 8語 ／ 中立 4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。

0 positive, 8 negative, 4 neutral. Strength is ranked within this theme only — the numbers are not comparable across themes.