下面为大家整理的是2013年9月14日—9月20日的6道SAT阅读完成句子的练习题及答案解析。同学们可以利用周末检测一下自己的学习,查漏补缺。希望对大家有所帮助。
1.Designed to resist storms by virtue of their ------- weight, the oil platforms towed into the North Sea were the heaviest objects ever moved by human technology.
(A) inconsistent
(B) purported
(C) unstable
(D) random
(E) immense
2.He maintains that ethnic and cultural ------- are generalizations no more related to what an individual is actually like than are the ------- representations of constellations to the actual nature of a star.
(A) traditions . . chemical
(B) stereotypes . . pictorial
(C) details . . figurative
(D) heritages . . prophetic
(E) specimens . . graphic
3.Despite their ------- proportions, the murals of Diego Rivera give his Mexican compatriots the sense that their history is ------- and human in scale, not remote and larger than life.
(A) monumental . . accessible
(B) focused . . prolonged
(C) vast . . ancient
(D) realistic . . extraneous
(E) narrow . . overwhelming
4.A remarkably ------- plant, the soybean yields not only dairylike products, but also flour, cooking oil, and sprouts.
(A) imperishable
(B) resistant
(C) tedious
(D) incessant
(E) versatile
5.The rebel group has long enjoyed total -------: despite having ------- numerous violations, its members have never been punished.
(A) autonomy . . recognized
(B) impunity . . committed
(C) succession . . observed
(D) nepotism . . commended
(E) discrimination . . criticized
6.The scientist ascribed the ------- of the park’s remaining trees to the ------- of the same termite species that had damaged homes throughout the city.
(A) decimation . . prevalence
(B) survival . . presence
(C) growth . . mutation
(D) reduction . . disappearance
(E) study . . hatching
参考答案及解析:
1.The correct answer is E
Explanation
The sentence focuses on one aspect of the platforms—extreme heaviness. Therefore, “immense” makes a logically consistent sentence.
2.The correct answer is B
Explanation
The terms in choice (B) logically complete the sentence’s comparison between ethnic and cultural “generalizations” and certain “representations of constellations.” “Stereotypes” are oversimplified generalizations that do not necessarily describe what a particular person is actually like—just as “pictorial,” or picture-based, representations of constellations cannot accurately describe a star’s “actual nature.”
3.The correct answer is A
Explanation
The keys to this sentence are the word “Despite,” the words “human in scale,” and the words “not remote and larger than life.” The word filling the first blank has to be one that would relate closely to something that seems “larger than life.” The word filling the second blank has to fit with “human in scale.” If you focus on just one of the two blanks, you will be able to eliminate several choices before you even think about the other blank.
4.The correct answer is E
Explanation
The information after the first comma actually explains the missing word. The fact that such a variety of products can be made from one plant indicates that the soybean is very “versatile”: it has many uses.
5.The correct answer is B
Explanation
The structure of the sentence indicates that the idea after the colon elaborates on or explains the first part of the sentence. It is possible that the members of the “rebel group . . . have never been punished” even though they have “committed,” or carried out, numerous acts that break rules or laws. And the idea that the members have not been punished despite having committed violations does elaborate on the idea that the group has had “total impunity,” or has been completely exempt from punishment and harm.
6.The correct answer is A
Explanation
Choice (A) is correct. It is logical to connect the “decimation,” or harm done to, a park’s trees to the “prevalence,” or dominance, of a harmful species of termites.
以上就是6道SAT阅读完成句子练习题及答案。同学们在备考SAT阅读过程中,一定要结合一定的练习题,检测自己的学习成果。