以下是gre填空最新1100真题解析节选内容：
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) ___ .
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
A. narrow in scope
D. utilitarianism
B. susceptible to fads
E. parochialism
C. averse to empiricism
F. historicism
选AE
翻译：作者认为，一直以来社会学界的视野都过于狭窄，部分原因是很多学者认为社会领域不能超越国别。然而在加速全球化的今天，社会学面临一个前所未有的机会，克服以往的局限。
susceptible to fads 受流行时尚的影响
averse to empiricism 反对经验主义
be presented with something 被赋予某事物，被授予某事物，它是从 present somebody with something / present something to somebody 变形来的。
utilitarianism 功利主义，实用主义，效用最大化
parochial 牧区的，归属于某一教堂区域的，偏狭的，狭隘的
parochialism 狭隘
historicism 历史主义。(不懂不过看名字就决定排除了)
所以，到了这个级别，单词题也有种武装到牙齿的感觉，各种 -cism 拼命往选项里塞。