SAT阅读Sentence Completion练习题7

　　SAT阅读SC完成句子练习题7

　　1. The candidate _____ when asked why he had left his last job; he did not want to admit that he had been ____ .

　　A. demurred - promoted

　　B. confided - banned

　　C. dissembled - dismissed

　　D. rejoiced - wrong

　　E. hesitated - lauded

　　2. Tennyson was a well-loved poet; no other poet since has been so ____ .

　　A. lionized

　　B. attacked

　　C. decried

　　D. poetical

　　E. abhorred

　　3. The parliamentary session degenerated into ____ with politicians hurling ____ at each other and refusing to come to order.

　　A. mayhem - banter

　　B. disarray - pleasantries

　　C. tranquillity - invectives

　　D. chaos - aphorisms

　　E. anarchy - insults

　　4. The admiral ____ his order to attack when he saw the white flag raised by the enemy sailors; he was relieved that he could bring an end to the ____ .

　　A. reiterated - hostilities

　　B. countermanded - fighting

　　C. commandeered - truce

　　D. renounced - hiatus

　　E. confirmed - aggression

　　5. In a fit of ____ she threw out the valuable statue simply because it had belonged to her ex-husband.sat

　　A. pique

　　B. goodwill

　　C. contrition

　　D. pedantry

　　E. prudence

　　6. Many 17th century buildings that are still in existence have been so ____ by successive owners that the original layout is no longer ____ .

　　A. preserved - visible

　　B. modified - apparent

　　C. decimated - enshrouded

　　D. salvaged - required

　　E. neglected - appropriate

　　7. Since ancient times sculpture has been considered the ____ of men; women sculptors have, until recently, consistently met with ____.

　　A. right - acceptance

　　B. domain - approbation

　　C. domicile - ridicule

　　D. realm - condolence

　　E. prerogative - opposition

　　8. ____ action at this time would be inadvisable; we have not yet accumulated sufficient expertise to warrant anything other than a ____ approach.

　　A. precipitate - cautious

　　B. hesitant - wary

　　C. vacillating - circuitous

　　D. decisive - firm

　　E. ponderous - direct

　　9. Many biologists have attempted to ____ the conditions on earth before life evolved in order to answer questions about the ____ of biological molecules.

　　A. mimic - fitness

　　B. standardize - shapes

　　C. replicate - reactions

　　D. simulate - origin

　　E. ameliorate - evolution

　　10. Harding was unable to ____ the results of the survey; although entirely unexpected, the figures were obtained by a market research firm with an ____ reputation.

　　A. accept - peerless

　　B. discount - impeccable

　　C. fault - mediocre

　　D. counter - unenviable

　　E. believe - fine

　　11. The quantum theory was initially regarded as absurd, unnatural and ____ with common sense.

　　A. consanguineous

　　B. discernible

　　C. incompatible

　　D. decipherable

　　E. consistent

　　12. Do not be fooled by her ____ manner; her superficial ____ belies her worldliness.

　　A. ingenuous - proficiency

　　B. worldly - simplicity

　　C. unsophisticated - naivet

　　D. gregarious - isolation

　　E. off-hand - serious