原文：In justifying this absolute singularity, Cavendish repeatedly invoked the model of the absolute monarch, a figure that became a metaphor for the self-enclosed, autonomous nature of the individual person.
E选项：the metaphorical figure of the absolute monarch
关键词：隐喻
绝对君权的隐喻是个体的自我封闭，自治的天性，与a satellite orbiting a dominant male planet表达意思相反
premise：Recent studies have found that, in the United States, people who own computers watch, on average, significantly less television than people who do not own computers.
DE是在否认前提
这个里面是speeds的比较:an alliance...would enable customers to receive ...at speeds much higher than are currently possible.
--> an alliance...would enable customers to receive ...at speeds much higher than [speeds( that are) currently possible].
省略了speeds that,只保留了are
类似的，prices are higher than we expected.
--> prices are higher than (prices that) we expected
so...as to..." in general, you don't use so ADJ as to VERB unless the VERB describes some sort of state/condition. (i.e., if the verb is an action verb, this construction generally isn't used.)
....so as to...." there should be no change of subject, and so there's an implication that the subject is the same as the subject of the previous clause/action.
so that..." the construction is placed in front of a clause that describes the intention or goal of some action. ("X ... so that Y..."就理解为Y是X这个action的intention or goal!)
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