"the increase in X" means that X itself has increased. therefore, "the increase in the previous year" doesn't make sense, because the implication would be that the previous year itself had increased (what would that possibly mean?).

1.Rising is just an adjective that's describing the interest rates.
High interest rates, low interest rates, rising interest rates, falling interest rates.
2.You can use "make it + adj. + to do" without a subject, but only if the statement is universally true -- i.e., for everyone who might find him-/herself in the situation.
3.try to find the MAJOR ERROR first

c是说不仅下雨，而且范围很大。

原来E是candidacy....

will exhibit是一般将来时，其需要改为一般现在时。这是因为，本题讨论的是一个一般性的事实，应该用一般现在时而非将来时。

Granted, Switzerland and the United States diverged in the degree to which the expansion of industry coincided with the degree of urbanization:的确瑞士和美国，在industrialization和urbanization成正比，不同。前面讲到了瑞士industrialization程度比美国高，后面又讲到瑞士urbanization程度低，所以推断出来美国的urbanization程度高。（找到原文定位的这句话是关键）

定位第一句话：Colonial historian David Allen's intensive study of five communities in seventeenth-century Massachusetts is a model of meticulous scholarship on the 【detailed】 microcosmic level, and is convincing up to a point【在一定程度上可信】.

（x，y）可以是（12,30）但不能是（30,12）！

The passive voice and the past participle suggest that something is done (or not done) to X. But the able/unable suggest that X does (or does not) do something.
The dancer is able to be led.
The dancer is able to follow a lead.
the second one is better

which they had begun to make as the species evolved a brain of increased size and mental capacity.

文中一开头提出了一个theory：economic development, particularly industrialization and urbanization, contributes to the growth of participatory democracy，接下来文中直接说However, the economic development theory is inadequate to explain certain historical facts about the implementation of women's suffrage.接下来分别讲了 industrialization和urbanization程度不一定和女性投票权成正比。这个中心题是直接定位的题目，注意discuss就是探讨（可能有问题的地方）而clarify是澄清，所以不应该做错！

过去时就是过去的动作，在过去就完成了；过去完成时表达的是过去的过去，所以需要与一个过去的时态作对比，也即如果句子里面没有特别明显表达过去的过去或者没有某个动词是过去时态，那么不会出现过去完成时。

sb help shape 指的是sb 去shape
sb help the shaping of 指的是 sb 去help others‘ shape

【记个笔记，感谢网友】从题目可得100a + 10b + c - (100c + 10b + a) = 99*(a - c) 要能被7整除——因为99不是7的倍数，所以只能是a-c是7的倍数即=7——注意！！题中规定abc都为非零数字，所以a,c只能是(9,2)和(8,1) ——所以P(abc)=2*9*1=18

primarily because it confuses the tragic condition with the tragic process

1）
no是“没有”，not是“不是”的意思，这里用没有，排除b/c/d的not。
or表示平行，no没必要再次出现，排除e
2）
Idiom: there were no X's or Y's.

值得再看！
排除最后纠结A和D，A错在by..容易引起歧义

如果x与6的最小公倍数是30，那么这3个数的最小公倍数就是30跟9的最小公倍数。

感觉A选项的解释很不好，什么春名词就比动名词好。太牵强了。
我觉得最明显的错误就是，makes it likelt to miss signs of incipient trouble里面it的错误，这里没有subject，这个it知道to do不定时不好。到底是likely miss?? 所以逻辑意思不完整。

我做错了，个人做题时选了A。现在试着“强行”解释一下为什么A错：
A项的一个重点词在于 prefer to：编辑是否更倾向于在不考虑书籍商业成功的可能的情况下，让书被评论？
A项对应的定位点（第三段句首）：If these were the only factors influencing editors, few books that stand little chance of selling well would ever be reviewed。原文意思是：如果以上的因素是影响编辑的仅有因素，那么那些商业上不可能成功的书籍将不会被评论。这句话暗示一个事实：有一些商业上不太会成功的书籍也是会被编辑选中，加之以评论的。
但A选项并没有正确地转述这一点，相反，A将一个编辑“存在的”行为转述成了编辑”偏好的”行为：编辑确实有把商业上成功性小的书籍加以评论，但这并不代表编辑就偏向对商业不成功的书加以评论。因此A错。
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