- 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
(8) cheerful. . transitoriness
(C) colorful. .abstractness
(D) luxuriant. .simplicity
(E) conventional… wildness
For first blank.
The gardens were designed to evoke sadness. The 'not necessary ’ suggests that the the look of garden was not intentional. They turned out to be opposite of what was required. So the blank should be opposite of melancholu. So cheerful.
I have no idea about second blank.
It’s B.
Using math method, you can see that it says that “Gardens were not necessarily intended to look ____” so this blank is asking “Not look _____”.
We do not know what to add here so we read ahead to see what the sentence says. Later you can see that the intention of the garden design was to invoke “Melancholy” which is a negative emotion akin to sadness.
So question here arises what does the garden NOT look like to invoke MELANCHOLY?
Answer is antonym of meloncholy, that is Cheerful.
Also Greg covered this question in TC & SE session 10 or 12 as far as I remember.