考试类型: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
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正确答案:D 解析: “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.
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