SAT Sentence Completion练习题

　　1.Hoping to ------- the dispute, negotiators proposed a compromise that they felt would be ------- to both labor and management.

　　 enforce . . useful

　　 end . . divisive

　　 overcome . . unattractive

　　 extend . . satisfactory

　　 resolve . . acceptable

　　2.Because King Philips desire to make Spain the dominant power in sixteenth-century Europe ran counter to Queen Elizabeths insistence on autonomy for England, ------- was -------.

　　 reconciliation . . assured

　　 warfare . . avoidable

　　 ruination . . impossible

　　 conflict . . inevitable

　　 diplomacy . . simple

　　3.There is no doubt that Larry is a genuine ------- : he excels at telling stories that fascinate his listeners.

　　 braggart

　　 dilettante

　　 pilferer

　　 prevaricator

　　 raconteur

　　4.A discerning publishing agent can ------- promising material from a mass of submissions, separating the good from the bad.

　　 supplant

　　 dramatize

　　 finagle

　　 winnow

　　 overhaul

　　5.Although some think the terms bug and insect are ------- , the former term actually refers to ------- group of insects.

　　 parallel . . an identical

　　 precise . . an exact

　　 interchangeable . . a particular

　　 exclusive . . a separate

　　 useful . . a useless

　　6.The novels protagonist, a pearl diver, na?vely expects that the buyers will compete among themselves to pay him the best price for his pearl, but instead they ------- to ------- him.

　　 venture . . reward

　　 pretend . . praise

　　 conspire . . reimburse

　　 refuse . . cheat

　　 collude . . swindle

　　7.The addition of descriptive details to the basic information serves to ------- the book by producing a fuller account.

　　 invalidate

　　 objectify

　　 incite

　　 celebrate

　　 enrich

　　8.Ramona had never visited Niagara Falls, but she could appreciate their splendor ------- through the descriptions of others.sat

　　 vicariously

　　 heedlessly

　　 innocuously

　　 mystically

　　 voluminously

　　9.Members of the research team were initially so adversarial that ---------- seemed impossible; the projects inauspicious start made its final success all the more ---------- .

　　 concentration . . incidental

　　 disagreement . . incongruous

　　 collaboration . . predictable

　　 hostility . . dazzling

　　 cooperation . . remarkable

　　10.Joshuas radical ideas were frowned on by most of his coworkers, who found them too ------- for their conservative tastes.

　　 heretical

　　 meticulous

　　 precise

　　 incoherent

　　 sagacious