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The question of (i) ______in photography has lately become nontrivial. Prices for vintage prints (those make by a photographer soon after he or she made the negative) sodrastically (ii) ______in the 1990s thatone of these photographs might fetch a hundred times as much asa nonvintage print of the same image. It was perhaps only a matter of time before someone took advantage of the (iii) ______to peddle newly created “vintage” printsfor profit.
BLANK (i) BLANK (ii) BLANK (iii)
(A) forgery (D) ballooned (G) discrepancy
(B) influence (E) weakened (H) ambiguity
(C) style (F) varied (I) duplicity
正确答案:ADG
解析：(一) 节选出第二空所在部分
1. Prices for vintage prints sodrastically (ii) ______in the 1990sthatone of these photographs might fetch a hundred timesas much as a nonvintage print of the same image.
2. Blank2中应填入一个动词，表示VP的价格在1990年代的变动，由于没有反义关联元素，且只有so… that… 结构存在，故分句之间是同一关系，且没有否定词，因此对应的单词之间是同义关系。
3. 前半句说到价格的增长，that引导的后半句中对于价格增长的描述只有fetch a hundred times，因而VP的价格在1990年代的10年间较NonVP来说增长了上百倍，因此这应该是一种短时间且迅速的增长。