仅仅一道态度判断题~thank you！！

AmyGMAT

Addison’s Cato, highlypraised in Johnson’s day for its “correctness,” is damned with faint praise byJohnson: “Cato affords a splendidexhibition of artificial and fictitious manners, and delivers just and noblesentiments, in diction easy, elevated, and harmonious, but its hopes and fearscommunicate no vibration to the heart.” Wordsworth could hardly demur.
      According to the passage, Johnson’s opinion of Addison’s Cato was
(A) roundly condemnatory

(B) somewhatself-contradictory
(C) ultimately negative
(D) effusively adulatory（C）
(E) uncharacteristicallybold
答案选C 我选的A
怎么看怎么分析我都觉得是roundly condemnatory啊，先表扬了，再批评，不是roundly吗？
我觉得比C更好啊 C只有说出来了最终是否定的...
有一点我不明白难道是condemn不适合这里的语境？谴责？不适合？
纠结啊~！！！

AmyGMAT

OMG roundly理解错了
⊙﹏⊙

songer_xj

杨继的《阅读精解》（Pg34）中对作者态度有关的词汇有一些总结，我觉得挺有道理的：“GMAT作者在行文中，较少体现出极端的感情色彩，赞扬，反对都比较温和。尤其是反驳别人时，往往从说理角度指出对方观点的误差，推理的失误，而不会进行泼妇骂街型的人身攻击”。

像选项A的“condemnatory”，明显具有语气有点过重，有攻击性。所以可以排除。

AmyGMAT

谢谢 songer_xj