A. vindicated - enhanced B. indicted - blemished C. betrayed - ruined D. exonerated - tarnished E. cleared - condoned
10. Many so-called social playwrights are distinctly ____ ; rather than allowing the members of the audience to form their own opinions, these writers force a viewpoint on the viewer.sat reading
A. conciliatory B. prolific C. iconoclastic D. didactic E. contumacious
11. The archaeologist, viewing the fragmentary remains of the ancient city, reflected on the ____ of human ____ .
A. impermanence - endeavour B. transience - thought C. dearth - aspirations D. futility - humility E. durability - constructs
12. He was normally entirely ____ , but in the embarrassing situation in which he found himself he felt compelled to ____.
A. equable - evade B. considerate - concede C. forthright - prevaricate D. mendacious - equivocate E. amenable - capitulate 1.Correct Answer: B Explanation:
Clue: He never thought the business would prosper (do well). Therefore, the success came as a surprise and contradicted (belied) his expectations.
(nullified = canceled; ratified = gave approval to) 2.Correct Answer: A Explanation:
Clue: ‘Strife continued’ tells us that there was no ‘peace’ or ‘amity’. Of these two choices we can choose peace since it is coupled with internecine, which means ‘mutually destructive’.
(intermittent = not continuous; malevolence = evil intentions; amity = friendliness; contrived = fabricated; feudal = belonging to a system in which all land belongs to an aristocratic landowner)
3.Correct Answer: D Explanation:
Clue: If the journalist claimed that the drug squad had caused the problem or made it worse, he would attack and not praise them. Hence, we can choose to say that he deprecated (criticized) the efforts and said that they exacerbated the problem (made it worse).
[Note that the sentence could have been positive, with the journalist praising the efforts if the squad cured the problem. But, no such pair of positives is among the choices.]
4.Correct Answer: C Explanation:
Clue: ‘Since’ indicates a consequence. Since they failed to ‘conquer’, ‘pacify’ or subjugate the tribes, they built a wall to keep out, or exclude the tribes.
(alienate = estrange, separate; intimidate = daunt; barricade = build a barrier) 5.Correct Answer: E Explanation:
Clue: The required word is signaled by the phrase ‘ flying into a rage’. Someone who is easily angered is described as irascible.
(taciturn = silent; voluble = talking a lot; subdued = quiet; contrite = sorry) 6.Correct Answer: E Explanation:
Clue: ‘Although’ indicates the need for opposites or contrasts. In contrast to the large number of animals near vents, the rest of the deep sea must have small numbers. Hence, the word sparse is appropriate, since it means thinly populated or meager.
(verdant = green and fertile = lush; pallid = pale) 7.Correct Answer: B Explanation:
Clue: You need to know that ‘bantering’ means ‘playful’. So, although the talk seemed playful, it actually masked bad feeling. Here we have a ‘good word’ followed by ‘bad word’ situation. Hence we choose amicable for the good word, and antagonism for the bad.
(antipathy = hatred = antagonism; amicable = friendly; jovial = jolly; exasperating = frustrating; geniality = friendliness)
8.Correct Answer: B Explanation:
Clue: The chemists preferred to go back to the older, shorter names. So, the new nomenclature (naming system) must have been ‘bad’. Of the negative words available, cumbersome is best because it fits with the idea of the new system involving longer names.
(Cumbersome = bulky or unwieldy; succinct = short and to the point; facile = oversimplified) 9.Correct Answer: D Explanation:
Clue: ‘Although’ indicates the need for opposites. This suggests that although he was cleared of the crime, his reputation was damaged by the allegations. For the second blank ‘tarnished’, ‘blemished’, or ‘ruined’ would fit. But we choose tarnished because it fits with exonerated, which means proved not guilty or cleared of the crime.
(vindicated = proved right; enhanced = improved; indicted = charged with a crime; blemished = damaged or marked; tarnished = rusted or spoiled; condoned = silently approved)
10.Correct Answer: D Explanation:
Clue: The word for the blank is explained after the semicolon. If they force their viewpoint on the viewer, then, of the choices given, they must be didactic, which means intending to preach or instruct.
(conciliatory = bringing disputing sides together; prolific = productive; iconoclastic = opposing orthodoxy; contumacious = stubborn)
11.Correct Answer: A Explanation:
Clue: The sense of the sentence tells us that since she is viewing fragmentary remains, there is nothing much left of the ancient city. The archaeologist is likely to reflect on the fact that human constructions do not last long. Hence, impermanence of human endeavor fits well.
(impermanence = short lived = transience; endeavor = effort; dearth = shortage; aspirations = hopes; futility = waste, uselessness; durability = able to last)
12.Correct Answer: C Explanation:
Clue: ‘But’ indicates a need for opposites. In the embarrassing situation he did the opposite of what he would do normally. Hence, he was normally forthright (truthful), but was compelled to prevaricate (lie, or avoid the truth).
(equable = even tempered; mendacious = telling lies; equivocate = speak ambiguously; amenable = flexible, docile; capitulate = give in to)
SAT阅读练习题:SAT Sentence Completion Test 10
1. The explorer was unable to ____ his thirst at the stream since an enraged Grizzly bear barred the way.
A. assuage B. parch C. savor D. describe E. attenuate
2. Iodine deficiency is ____ in these remote mountain regions; however, it is no longer ____ in the lowlands where iodized salt is available.
A. recorded - unusual B. rare - sporadic C. eradicated - common D. endemic - prevalent E. diagnosed - controlled
3. Unlike the ancient Greeks, we are interested in a person's ____ , the things that make each person different from the general.
A. qualities B. idiosyncracies C. failures D. stereotypes E. humanity
4. Johnson was such an outstanding orator, that his contempories were too dazzled by his ____ to question his fundamental philosophy.
A. persona B. guile C. enthusiasm D. thinking E. rhetoric
5. Moths are nocturnal pollinators, visiting scented flower during the hours of darkness, whereas the butterflies are ____ , attracted to bright flowers in the daytime.
A. diurnal B. quotidian C. colorful D. ephemeral E. brilliant
6. The Victorian middle class woman was ____ by restraints, obligations and ____ that prevented her from achieving economic independence.
A. hampered - aspirations B. emancipated - strictures C. fettered - responsibilities D. ensnared - possibilities E. surrounded - freedoms
7. Even after a century of ____ investigation, the relation of the solar cycle to terrestrial weather remains ____ .
A. meticulous - apparent
B. cursory - clear C. sedulous - pertinent D. extensive - enigmatic E. scientific - unobscured
8. There is great unevenness in his later plays; there are moments of the greatest ____ in the midst of great ____.
A. lucidity - enlightenment B. frivolity - triteness C. insight - banality D. obscurity - ambivalence E. profundity - wisdom
9. According to Hume, it is not logic that determines what we say and do; if we decide to help a person in need, we do so because of our ____ not our ____
A. consciousness - emotions B. duty - rights C. feelings - reason D. beliefs - convictions E. concern - kindness
10. In the earliest moments of the Universe conditions of almost inconceivable ____ raged through the swelling cosmos; yet this great ____ managed to produce only the simplest of atoms.sat
A. tumult - cataclysm B. tranquillity - upheaval C. violence - complexity D. turbulence - conglomeration E. chaos - inertia
11. The assumption that chlorofluorocarbons would be ____ in the environment because they were chemically inert, was challenged by the demonstration of a potential threat to the ozone layer.
A. deleterious B. innocuous C. persistent D. noxious E. durable
12. The Rio Gila is part of a ____ of rivers and cultures as significant as the ____ of the Tigris and the Euphrates.
A. disparity - conjunction B. intermingling - dichotomy