下面SAT思为大家整理了SAT阅读完成句子习题,供考生们参考,以下是详细内容。
Sat Sentence Completion Test 1
1. Today Wegeners theory is ____ ; however, he died an outsider treated with ____ by the scientific establishment.
A. unsupported - approval
B. dismissed - contempt
C. accepted - approbation
D. unchallenged - disdain
E. unrivalled - reverence
2. The revolution in art has not lost its steam; it ____ on as fiercely as ever.
A. trudges
B. meanders
C. edges
D. ambles
E. rages
3. Each occupation has its own ____ ; bankers, lawyers and computer professionals, for example, all use among themselves language which outsiders have difficulty following.
A. merits
B. disadvantages
C. rewards
D. jargon
E. problems
4. ____ by nature, Jones spoke very little even to his own family members.
A. garrulous
B. equivocal
C. taciturn
D. arrogant
E. gregarious
5. Biological clocks are of such ____ adaptive value to living organisms, that we would expect most organisms to ____ them.
A. clear - avoid
B. meager - evolve
C. significant - eschew
D. obvious - possess
E. ambivalent - develop
6. The peasants were the least ____ of all people, bound by tradition and ____ by superstitions.
A. free - fettered
B. enfranchised - rejected
C. enthralled - tied
D. pinioned - limited
E. conventional - encumbered
7. Many people at that time believed that spices help preserve food; however,Hall found that many marketed spices were ____ bacteria, moulds and yeasts.
A. devoid of
B. teeming with
C. improved by
D. destroyed by
E. active against
8. If there is nothing to absorb the energy of sound waves, they travel on ____ ,but their intensity ____ as they travel further from their source.
A. erratically - mitigates
B. eternally - alleviates
C. forever - increases
D. steadily - stabilizes
E. indefinitely - diminishes
9. The two artists differed markedly in their temperaments; Palmer was reserved and courteous, Frazer ____ and boastful.
A. phlegmatic
B. choleric
C. constrained
D. tractable
E. stoic
10. The intellectual flexibility inherent in a multicultural nation has been ____in classrooms where emphasis on British-American literature has not reflected the cultural ____ of our country.
A. eradicated - unanimity
B. encouraged - aspirations
C. stifled - diversity
D. thwarted - uniformity
E. inculcated - divide
11. The conclusion of his argument, while ____ , is far from ____ .
A. stimulating - interesting
B. worthwhile - valueless
C. esoteric - obscure
D. germane - relevant
E. abstruse - incomprehensible
12. In the Middle Ages, the ____ of the great cathedrals did not enter into the architects almost invariably a cathedral was positioned haphazardly in____ surroundings.
A. situation - incongruous
B. location - apt
C. ambience - salubrious
D. durability - convenient
E. majesty - grandiose
1.Correct Answer: D
Explanation:
Clue:however indicates a contradictory statement, and therefore we need opposite ideas in the two halves of the sentence.
So, Wegeners theory is unchallenged; however he was treated with disdain .
Also the word outsider in the sentence indicates that the second blank will have to be a negative word.
2.Correct Answer: E
Explanation:
Clue: as ever indicates that things have not changed, so the two halves of the sentence need to say similar things.
So, if the revolution has not lost its steam, it will be going on as strongly as before. Therefore rages is the best word.
Also the word fiercely indicates that we need a strong word.
3.Correct Answer: D
Explanation:
Clue: The second half of the sentence is talking about language, and it is amplifying what has been said before the semicolon. Therefore, the first blank needs to be about language and jargon is specialized language used in a profession.
4.Correct Answer: C
Explanation:
Clue: He spoke very little and so he uses few words.Therefore, taciturn is the best word.
5.Correct Answer: D
Explanation:
Clue: The sentence structure suggests that if biological clocks are a great advantage, then most organisms would possess them.
Therefore, the obvious value, leads us to expect that organisms possess the
6.Correct Answer: A
Explanation:
Clue: the part after the comma expands on what has been stated. Also note the word least, which here means not.
Therefore, the peasants were least free, because they were fettered by superstition.
7.Correct Answer: B
Explanation:
Clue: However indicates that the first part of the sentence is contradicted by the second.
Therefore, if people once believed that spices preserved food, then the person mentioned found that spices did not preserve food, and in fact the spices were teeming bacteria etc. that could destroy the food.
8.Correct Answer: E
Explanation:
Clue: but indicates something contradictory.
So, if the waves are not absorbed they travel on indefinitely , but the intensity gets less as they travel away.
Remember, the sentence has to make the best sense, so saying that sound intensity increases as the waves travel is counter to common sense.
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9.Correct Answer: B
Explanation:
Clue: Since both differ we need opposites.
So, since reserved and courteous are both good words, we need a bad word for the blank. Choleric means easily angered and so would be a good opposite to restrained.
10.Correct Answer: C
Explanation:
Clue: Try to understand the overall meaning here. The emphasis on one type of literature has not reflected the differences in our country, which is multicultural. And so the flexibility in our culture has been reduced or suppressed .
11.Correct Answer: E
Explanation:
Clue: far from indicates the need for an opposite.
So, while the conclusion is abstruse , it is not totally incomprehensible.
12.Correct Answer: A
Explanation:
Clue: The semicolon indicates that the second part of the sentence expands on the first part.
So, the second part tells us we are talking about the position, or situation of a cathedral. And since the first part tells us that architects did not pay attention to situation, the cathedral was positioned randomly in odd surroundings.
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