【GRE英文筆記】The question of forgery in photography has lately become nontrivial－熱血背包客莊ㄟ

The question of forgery in photography has lately become nontrivial. Prices for vintage prints(those make by a photographer soon after he or she made the negative) so drastically ballooned in the 1990s that one of these photographs might fetch a hundred times as much as a nonvintage print of the same image. It was perhaps only a matter of time before someone took advantage of the discrepancy to peddle newly created “vintage”prints for profit.

造假相片的問題近來便猖獗了。vintage prints(一種沖洗照片的術語，在照完像至後力馬用負片沖洗出來的原汁照片)的價錢在90年代是如此被瘋狂炒作以至於一張這種的照片可能是non-vintage print所照出來的照片還貴上好幾百倍。早晚會有人利用這種價差的優勢去販售全新創造的仿“vintage”prints牟利

來源：GRE考古題

句子分析：

only a matter of time before--只不過是時間的問題，英英對照：if it is (only) a matter of time untile something happens, it is certain to happen but you do not know when it will happen.

vintage prints：這是攝影術語，他其實就是以前還在用底片的年代，攝影師在拍攝完之後，回到暗房"親自"把照片"第一次"洗出來的那一張照片，就是vintage prints，強調的是原汁(攝影師親自洗)，原味(第一次洗出來的) 但其實當今還有一種照片類別叫做modern print，所以現在做了另外的定義，當這張照片是拍完當下到五年之間被洗出來的，而且還要距今超過30年，有些機構還規定要50年，才有資格叫做vintage prints，那modern print就只有拍完當下到五年之間被洗出來的要求沒有並且怎樣的附帶條件，也沒特別定義是否為自己所洗出，至於價錢上vintage prints 超過30萬美金的價位沒什麼問題

原題：

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) so drastically (ii) _____ in the 1990s that one of these photographs might fetch a hundred times as much as a 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”prints for profit.

Blank(i)	Blank(ii)	Blank(iii)
(A) forgery	(D) ballooned	(G) discrepency
(B) influence	(E) weakened	(H) ambiguouity
(C) style	(F) varied	(I) duplicity

解題方式：

邏輯線：有問題→價格炒作→造假牟利

(ii) _____最快解出，中間有個so...that 這是一個表示因果的結構，所以他的邏輯是不會轉折的，取邏輯同向，因此 fetch a hundred times去對應 (D) ballooned 都有形容價格高的嚇人的感覺，(F) varied 和價格的語意不通
再來到了(iii)_____ 最後一句話，他說到took advantage of the (iii)_____，中間有個『the』定冠詞不要小看她，他一定是表示前面已經提過的人事物，後面再用一個統稱代替，所以剛剛解空格二時的那句話就是再說vintage prints / nonvintage print 差了好幾百倍，所以(G) discrepency
最後一句話中有newly created，那第一句就有譜了，(A)，(B)，(C)中找個跟創造有關的，那只剩(A) forgery