SAT阅读题Sentence Completion Test 6

　　SAT阅读Sentence Completion习题 6

　　1. The crew of the air balloon ____ the sand bags to help the balloon rise over the hill.

　　A. capsized

　　B. jettisoned

　　C. salvaged

　　D. augmented

　　E. enumerated

　　2. We were not fooled by his ____ arguments; his plan was obviously ____ .

　　A. cogent - brilliant

　　B. hackneyed - banal

　　C. convoluted - labyrinthine

　　D. specious - untenable

　　E. lucid - intelligible

　　3. Hawkins is ____ in his field; no other contemporary scientist commands the same respect.

　　A. disparaged

　　B. ignominious

　　C. obsolete

　　D. anachronistic

　　E. preeminent

　　4. The model paraded in front of the celebrities with ____ ; it was impossible to tell that this was her first assignment.

　　A. panache

　　B. opprobrium

　　C. shame

　　D. trepidation

　　E. terror

　　5. The term lead pencil is a ____ ; pencils are filled with graphite not lead.

　　A. misnomer

　　B. misdemeanor

　　C. peccadillo

　　D. euphemism

　　E. metaphor

　　6. The ____ weather forced us to stay indoors.

　　A. enticing

　　B. glorious

　　C. restorative

　　D. inclement

　　E. congenial

　　7. It will be hard to ____ Leonid now that you have so ____ him.sat

　　A. pacify - soothed

　　B. mollify - incensed

　　C. antagonize - irritated

　　D. anger - ruffled

　　E. subdue - subjugated

　　8. The lectures on quantum physics were invariably ____ ; the lecturer ____ his ill-prepared material in a manner guaranteed to send even the most ardent student to sleep.

　　A. stimulating - delivered

　　B. pedestrian - enthused about

　　C. soporific - droned

　　D. scintillating - intoned

　　E. stimulating - delivered

　　9. Edward was understandably upset that he had lost the position, but he was ____ by the conviction that he had done nothing to ____ the dismissal.

　　A. consoled - merit

　　B. warmed - avoid

　　C. comforted - mar

　　D. miffed - delay

　　E. saddened - earn

　　10. Elinor ____ to counteract her negative feelings, but only succeeded in ____ them.

　　A. tried - allaying

　　B. hoped - mitigating

　　C. desired - ameliorating

　　D. hesitated - deprecating

　　E. endeavoured - intensifying

　　11. She was roundly condemned for her ____ ; she betrayed the woman to whom she owed her success.

　　A. truculence

　　B. perfidy

　　C. serendipity

　　D. pragmatism

　　E. discernment

　　12. The progress of the disease is ____ ; it spreads stealthily without any symptoms in the early stages.

　　A. dramatic

　　B. acute

　　C. blatant

　　D. insidious

　　E. inexorable