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  標題範例:Critical Reading > Sentence Completions

  Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

  Enrique did not take Marisol seriously when she told him she was going to bed to sleep for a week: he knew she was prone to -------.

  (A) earnestness

  (B) belligerence

  (C) simile

  (D) hyperbole

  (E) understatement

  謎底:D

  【剖析】

  “Hyperbole” is extravagant exaggeration, often not intended to be taken literally. If Marisol is prone, or has a tendency or inclination, to greatly exaggerate things or make extravagantly exaggerated statements, Enrique would know not to take seriously her statement that she was going to sleep for a week.