1. The design of this auditorium shows a great deal of ______. We have never seen such a building before.
A. invention
B. illusion
C. originality
D. orientation
2. Mary became______ homesick and critical of the United States, so she fled from her home in west Bloomfield to her hometown in Austria.
A. completely
B. sincerely
C. absolutely
D. increasingly
【考博英语长难句翻译】
Building on the basic truth about interpersonal influence, the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations, manipulating a number of variables relating to people’s ability to influence others and their tendency to be influenced.



考博英语每日一练（9.28）参考答案
1.C
【句意】这个礼堂的设计表现出许多独创性，我们以前从未见过这样的建筑物。
【解析】名词词义辨析。invention“发明”；illusion“幻想；错觉”；originality“创意；独创性”；orientation“方向；目标”。由句中关键词“The design of this auditorium这个礼堂的设计”的对应知“独创性”符合语境，故C项正确。
2.D
【句意】玛丽变得越来越想家，对美国也越来越感到不满，因此她从西布卢姆菲尔德的家逃到了奥地利的家乡。
【解析】副词词义辨析。completely“完全地；彻底地；完整地”；sincerely“真诚地；由衷地”；absolutely“绝对地；完全地”；increasingly“越来越多地；渐增地”。由关键词“homesick”知“越来越多地”符合，由此知D项正确。
【考博英语长难句翻译参考译文】
基于人际间相互影响的基本事实，研究人员通过对人群数以千计的计算机模拟、操作一些与人们影响他人的能力和受他人影响的倾向有关的变量研究了社会影响的动力因素。