Parts of seventeenth-century Chinese pleasure gardens were not necessarily intended to look __; they were designed expressly to evoke the agreeable melancholy resulting from a sense of the __ of natural beauty and human glory.

　　(A) beautiful ... immutability

　　(B) luxuriant ... simplicity

　　(C) cheerful ... transitoriness

　　(D) colorful ... abstractness

　　(E) conventional ... wildness

　　〖解答〗

　　空格Ⅰ：截取名词短语pleasure gardens中的pleasure这一线索，作词性转换后变成pleasant或pleasurable代入，可求得(C) cheerful为其唯一的同义词。空格Ⅱ需陈述melancholy(伤感)的起因，这无疑是transitoriness所致。

　　〖词汇〗

　　expressly: 特意地，专诚地

　　immutability: 永恒不定

　　luxuriant: 茂盛的，富饶的，奢华的

　　〖中译〗

　　十七世纪，中国的部分游乐花园并非必定意欲使其予人以愉悦的景象;它们被特意设计出来，旨在唤起某种令人愉快的感伤情调，因为人们意识到，无论是自然界之秀美或是人类之荣耀，都乃一现的昙花，片刻须臾而已。