今天我们继续连载《厚朴GRE词汇笔记》之0024，请同学们先看题：

It is a paradox of the Victorians that they were both _______ and, through their empire, cosmopolitan.

A. capricious
B. insular
C. mercenary
D. idealistic
E. intransigent

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B

首先我们读题，可以得到大致的印象如下：

维多利亚人是自相矛盾的，他们既cosmopolitan，也___________。

所以我们可以推知空里要填入一个和cosmopolitan意思相反的单词。这里我们必须知道cosmopolitan的意思，才能做对这道题。

cosmopolitan adj. （游历四方而）见多识广的；见过世面的
having an exciting and glamorous character associated with travel and a mixture of cultures

💡例句：
Their designs became a byword for cosmopolitan chic.
他们的设计成为国际时尚的代名词。

insular adj. 思想狭隘的，仅关注本国文化（或民族）的
ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience

💡例句：
He is a stubbornly insular farmer.、
他是一个顽固、思想狭隘的农民。

然后我们附上补完整之后的句子（英汉对照）：

It is a paradox of the Victorians that they were both insular and, through their empire, cosmopolitan.

维多利亚时代的英国人有一点是有点矛盾的；他们既是思想狭隘的，又是见多识广的（通过他们的势力范围大的英帝国）。

GRE还会把insular和其他单词放在一起考，比如private。

In science, replicability comes with the idea that the pursuit of scientific truth should not be _____: researchers who make claims must allow others to test them empirically.

A.incomplete
B.settled
C.private
D.unfinished
E.insular
F.unerring

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CE

这道题里有一个干扰选项：

unerring adj. 一贯正确（或准确）的
always right or accurate

💡例句：
He had an unerring instinct for when people were lying to him.
他具有一种不会错的直觉，总是能判断出别人什么时候是在对他说谎。

这里我们同样附上补完整之后的句子（英汉对照）：

In science, replicability comes with the idea that the pursuit of scientific truth should not be private/insular: researchers who make claims must allow others to test them empirically.

可科学中，（实验的）“可重复性”（这一概念）是伴随着这样的理念而来的：追求科学真理不应该是仅限于私人的/与世隔绝的：提出观点的研究人员必须允许其他研究人员用实证方法来检验他提出的观点（对还是不对）。

在GRE中，最经常和insular一起出现的单词是parochial(这两个单词是经典近义词)，和经常一起出场的paucity与dearth一样经典，同学们必须掌握。

parochial adj. 目光褊狭的；地方观念的
having a limited or narrow outlook or scope

💡例句：
Their interests are too parochial.
他们的兴趣太局限于本地了。

请看下面这道题：

Catherine's _______ made it nearly impossible to discuss beliefs with her that she didn't already hold.

A) insularity
B) parochialism
C) ideology
D) openness
E) assertiveness
F) receptiveness

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AB

这里我们同样附上补完整之后的句子（英汉对照）：

Catherine's insularity/parochialism made it nearly impossible to discuss beliefs with her that she didn't already hold.

Catherine的狭隘使得想要和她讨论一些她并不持有的信念，几乎不可能。

最后，我们来看一道题单独考parochial的题。

The author argued that the field of sociology has been overly (i)           , partly because, for many scholars, the edges of the social universe are defined by national borders. In this era of increasing globalization, however, sociology is presented with a historically distinct opportunity to transcend its former (ii)            .

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AE

最后我们同样附上补完整之后的句子（英汉对照）：

The author argued that the field of sociology has been overly narrow in scope, partly because, for many scholars, the edges of the social universe are defined by national borders. In this era of increasing globalization, however, sociology is presented with a historically distinct opportunity to transcend its former parochialism.

作者主张社会学领域一直范围过于狭小，这部分是因为对很多学者来说，社会学领域的边界是由国境线界定的。但是，在当今这个加速全球化的时代，社会学（其实）获得了一个突出的历史机会，可以超越之前的目光狭隘观念。

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