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我的美国日记 2013-08-29 美国的高考题(SAT)阅读篇

我的美国日记 2013-08-29 美国的高考题(SAT)阅读篇

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2013-08-29 晴 82度
 
天朝的英语教学其实很牛的。不谦虚的说,比美帝的牛,尤其是语法,绝对比美帝的娃学得扎实!但,天朝的娃,在英语上的重大缺陷是词汇量不够。这往往造成了理解上的重大困难。
下面是9道SAT考试中心提供的练习题。您试试看?
1.      难度:难

Because King Philip's desire to make Spain the dominant power in sixteenth-century Europe ran counter to Queen Elizabeth's insistence on autonomy for England, ------- was -------.

            Answer Choices 
(A) reconciliation . . assured 
(B) warfare . . avoidable 
(C) ruination . . impossible 
(D) conflict . . inevitable 
(E) diplomacy . . simple

2.      难度:难

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

(A) braggart
(B) dilettante
(C) pilferer
(D) prevaricator
(E) raconteur

3.      难度:中
            A discerning publishing agent can ------- promising material from a mass of submissions, separating the good from 
            the bad.
           Answer Choices 
           (A) supplant
           (B) dramatize
           (C) finagle
           (D) winnow
           (E) overhaul
4.      难度:简单
 
Although some think the terms "bug" and "insect" are ------- , the former term actually refers to ------- group of insects.

Answer Choices 
 
(A) parallel . . an identical
(B) precise . . an exact
(C) interchangeable . . a particular
(D) exclusive . . a separate
(E) useful . . a useless

5.      难度:难

The novel's protagonist, a pearl diver, naïvely expects that the buyers will compete among themselves to pay him the best price for his pearl, but instead they ------- to ------- him.

Answer Choices 

(A) venture . . reward
(B) pretend . . praise
(C) conspire . . reimburse
(D) refuse . . cheat
(E) collude . . swindle

6.      难度:简单

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

Answer Choices 

(A) invalidate
(B) objectify
(C) incite
(D) celebrate
(E) enrich

7.    难度:中
       Ramona had never visited Niagara Falls, but she could appreciate their splendor ------- through the descriptions of 
       others.
       Answer Choices 
      (A) vicariously
      (B) heedlessly
      (C) innocuously
      (D) mystically
      (E) voluminously
8.     难度:中
       Members of the research team were initially so adversarial that ------- seemed impossible; the project's inauspicious
       start made its final success all the more ------- .
       Answer Choices 
       (A) concentration . . incidental 
       (B) disagreement . . incongruous
       (C) collaboration . . predictable
       (D) hostility . . dazzling
       (E) cooperation . . remarkable

9.     难度:中
      Joshua's radical ideas were frowned on by most of his coworkers, who found them too ------- for their conservative
      tastes.
      Answer Choices 
      (A) heretical 
      (B) meticulous
      (C) precise
      (D) incoherent
      (E) sagacious

好了,9道题做完了。备受鼓励,还是备受打击呢?
各位考过4、6、8级和GRE的同学,  尤其是人在北美的,号称英语大牛的,你们都做对了吗?(你用了几分钟做对了这几道高考题?)


 


答案:1. D, 2. E, 3. D, 4. C, 5. E, 6. E, 7. A, 8. E, 9. A




 


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