SAT语法练习题：句子填空-西泽读留学

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　　Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence,best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

　　The research is so ------- that it leaves no part of the issue unexamined.

　　comprehensive

　　rewarding

　　sporadic

　　economical

　　problematical

　　答案为A，这里的空格安排在so that因果结构里，that之后的半个分句是答案线索来源，这里自然是覆盖所有，详尽无余的意思。

　　Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence,best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

　　The accident left Tom not so much incapacitated as -------: he was left weak, but the doctors gave him reason to expect -------.

　　enfeebled . . progression

　　inconvenienced . . deterioration

　　frustrated . . enervation

　　vindicated . . complication

　　debilitated . . recovery

　　答案为E 这里有一个not so much结构，空格一的线索是weak，也就是这里找一个虚弱的词汇，而空格二则在but之后，是虚弱情况相反的词，这里选择好转，因此答案为E。这个题目出的不错的，但是选项有点弱，比较容易找到答案。

　　Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence,best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

　　When, in 1864, a factory established by Alfred Nobel to manufacture nitroglycerin blew up, the scientist discovered that the explosive was as ------- as it was powerful, ------- to detonate without warning.

　　dormant . . ready

　　fickle . . unlikely

　　volatile . . liable

　　unprecedented . . intended

　　inactive . . designed

　　答案为C，这里的空格一和空格二相成相通，意思基本上相同，而线索都来自前面的爆炸。

　　Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence,best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

　　Demographers and anthropologists have corrected the notion that European explorers in North America entered a ------- territory by showing that the land in some areas was already as densely ------- as parts of Europe.

　　fertile . . settled

　　colossal . . wooded

　　desolate . . populated

　　valuable . . exploited

　　hostile . . concentrated

　　答案为C，本题中有一个动词值得重视：correct，即纠正，可见第一空中的认识和第二空中的新发现，特点相反，由此得到答案C。并非荒凉，而是已经有很多人居住了。

　　Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence,best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

　　Because she has a great need for ------- , she loathes the public appearances demanded of her as a leading literary figure.

　　luxury

　　privacy

　　reward

　　devotion

　　distraction

　　答案为B，因果重复，会去做loathes the public appearances 的动作，看来是很看重privacy了，由此得到答案。

　　Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence,best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

　　The store manager was ------- when sales dropped for the third year in a row; that was why she ------- our department for its lack of effort.

　　indolent . . intimidated

　　indignant . . upbraided

　　insolent . . exonerated

　　indulgent . . castigated

　　intolerant . . condoned

　　答案为B，本题中的两个空格也是因果关系，这里是why在提示这里的因果关系

　　Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence,best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

　　Ignoring the growing accusations of ------- , Governor Anderson appointed yet another of his personal friends to a well-compensated government position.

　　propriety

　　indolence

　　cronyism

　　sensationalism

　　nepotism

　　答案为C，本题中的答案词意思为：“任人唯亲”，这个填空题目是为了考察这个词而设计，值得关注。空格的线索来自于把personal friends委派去重要职位

　　Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence,best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

　　Refuting the claim that the surest way to reduce anger is to express it, the author asserts that ------- anger can actually increase its ------- .#p#分页标题#e#

　　denying . . impact

　　understanding . . importance

　　overcoming . . likelihood

　　venting . . intensity

　　voicing . . benefits

　　答案为D，这里的increase 和上半句的reduce相成相反，空格一对应的是express

　　Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence,best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

　　Although the acreage involved in a national boundary dispute may seem insignificant, even the slightest ------- in a country's alleged border appears ------- to that nation, a threat to its security.

　　inconsistency . . felicitous

　　variation . . trivial

　　rigidity . . traumatic

　　change . . favorable

　　breach . . ominous

　　答案为E，先处理第二空格的话，是一个典型的分隔，提示在逗号之后的a threat to its security，而空格一则是对之前句子的一个概括。

　　Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence,best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

　　His inclination to succumb to flattery made him ------- to the ------- of people who wished to take advantage of him.

　　immune . . predilection

　　prejudicial . . intentions

　　susceptible . . cajolery

　　resistant . . blandishments