In line 48, “translation” most nearly means (A) substitution (B) explanation (C) representation (D) transportation (E) correction
SAMPLE 10 (OG 542-18) 结构线索-修饰
But in 1997 a blue-ribbon panel of archaeologists visited a site in Chile called Monte Verde and agreed that people had lived there at least 14,500 years ago, about 1,000 years before the first sign of Clovis people. In line 33, “sign” most nearly means (A) omen (B) symbol (C) gesture (D) indication (E) figure
SAMPLE 11 (OC 3-2-20) 结构线索-修饰
This crude assortment of materials allowed a reasonable representation of what was known 40 years ago about the nine planet: … In line 33, “crude” most nearly means (A) natural and unaltered (B) rough and inexpert (C) obvious (D) vulgar (E) nonspecific
SAMPLE 12 (OC 1-5-8) 结构线索-宾语
Her favorite class was biology and she entertained thoughts of becoming a scientist.
In line 11, the word “entertained” most nearly means (A) regaled (B) hosted (C) flaunted (D) harbored (E) welcomed
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SAMPLE 13 (OC2-3-19) 结构线索-主语
In the United States, the traditional view embraced by society is that fences are European, out of place in the American landscape. In line 1, “embraced” most nearly means (A) caressed (B) adopted (C) enfolded (D) included (E) encircled
SAMPLE 14(0601-21-12) 词汇题
The following passage is an excerpt from a 1909 novel, Georgia, the main character, is a reporter in an otherwise all-male newsroom.
…- if they care to risk another girl, and whether the other poor girl would slave through the years she should have been frivolous, only to have some man step in at the end and induce her to surrender the things she had gained through sacrifice and toil.
In line 27, “poor” most nearly means (A) pitiable (B) indigent (C) inferior (D) humble (E) petty
SAMPLE 15长句分解练习2
(G)A low number of algal cells in the presence of a high number of grazers suggested, but did not prove, that the grazers had removed most of the algae.
(G)The methods that a community devises to perpetuate itself come into being to preserve aspects of the cultural legacy that that community perceives as essential.
(G)Historians such as Le Roy Ladurie have used the documents to extract case histories, which have illuminated the attitudes of different social groups (these attitudes include, but are not confined to, attitudes toward crime and the law)and have revealed how the authorities administered justice.
(G)It is one of nature’s great ironies that the availability of nitrogen in the soil frequently sets an upper limit on plant growth even though the plants’ leaves are
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bathed in a sea of nitrogen gas.
(G)Most striking among the many asymmetries evident in an adult flatfish is eye placement: before maturity one eye migrates, so that in an adult flatfish both eyes are on the same side of the head.
(G)More probable is bird transport, either externally, by accidental attachment of the seeds to feathers,or internally,by the swallowing of fruit and subsequent excretion of the seeds.
(G)They are called virtual particles in order to distinguish them from real particles, whose lifetimes are not constrained in the same way, and which can be detected.
(G)Friedrich Engels, however, predicted that women would be liberated from the “social, legal, and economic subordination” of the family by technological developments that made possible the recruitment of “the whole female sex into public industry”.
(G)Inheritors of some of the viewpoints of early twentieth-century Progressive historians such as Beard and Becker, these recent historians have put forward arguments that deserve evaluation.
(G)This declaration, which was echoed in the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, was designed primarily to counter the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford that Black people in the United States could be denied citizenship.
(G)With the conclusion of a burst activity , the lactic acid level is high in the body fluids , leaving the large animal vulnerable to attack until the acid is reconverted , via oxidative metabolism , by the liver into glucos , which is then sent (in part )back to the muscles for glycogen resynthesis.
(G)Gutman argues convincingly that the stability of the Black family encouraged the transmission of-and so was crucial in sustaining-the Black heritage of folklore, music, and religious expression from one generation to another, a heritage that slaves were continually fashioning out of their African and American experiences.
(G)His thesis works relatively well when applied to discrimination against Blacks in the United States,but his definition of racial prejudice as \negative prejudgments against a group generally accepted as a race in any given region of ethnic competition,\can be interpreted as also including hostility toward such ethnic groups as the Chinese in California and the Jews in medieval Europe.
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(G)Other experiments revealed slight variations in the size, number, arrangement, and interconnection of the nerve cells, but as far as psycho neural correlations were concerned, the obvious similarities of these sensory fields to each other seemed much more remarkable than any of the minute differences.
(G)Although some experiments show that, as an object becomes familiar, its internal representation becomes more holistic and the recognition process correspondingly more parallel, the weight of evidence seems to support the serial hypothesis, at least for objects that are not notably simple and familiar.
3.2 资料页 3.3 参考文献
杨鹏,《GRE&GMAT阅读难句教程》,新东方大愚英语学习丛书 SAT 官方指南(OG) SAT 网上教程(OC) SAT 真题 3.4 笔记页
题目 词汇题: 标志:mean, refer to 解法:“Even if you don‘t know the meaning of the word, try to figure it out form the passage and the choices. Examine the context in which the word is used.(OGp70)” 一切答案来自原文 词性影响看什么 如何利用词典
文章 从结构线索猜测词汇义: 对比、转折 平行、递进 同指 解释、举例 修饰关系 主语宾 34
搭配是王道
读懂释义:不、近、限 词义的扩大与缩小
在阅读中积累单词
见多识广 Read! Read! Read! 少翻译 Less Translation 多比较 More Comparison
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