【冲刺10月SAT考试】SAT语法备考练习题（5）

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21. Defense attorneys have occasionally argued that their clients' misconduct

stemmed from a reaction to

something ingested, but in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to

some food allergy, the perpetrators

are in effect told that they are not responsible for their actions.

(A) in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy

(B) if criminal or delinquent behavior is attributed to an allergy to some

food

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(C) in attributing behavior that is criminal or delinquent to an allergy to

some food

(D) if some food allergy is attributed as the cause of criminal or delinquent

behavior

(E) in attributing a food allergy as the cause of criminal or delinquent

behavior

22. The voluminous personal papers of Thomas Alva Edison reveal that his

inventions typically sprang to life

not in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly from previous works.

(A) (A) sprang to life not in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly

(B) sprang to life not in a flash of inspiration but were slowly evolved

(C) did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly

(D) did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but had slowly

evolved

(E) did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but they were slowly

evolved

23. A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed

outside the home grew by more

than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more

than sixty-two percent of the

total growth in the civilian work force.

(A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a

thirty-five percent increase

(B) numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five

percent

(C) numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than

thirty-five percent

(D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than

thirty-five percent

(E) number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a

thirty-five percent increase

24. The first decision for most tenants living in a building undergoing being

converted to cooperative ownership

is if to sign a no-buy pledge with the other tenants.

(A) being converted to cooperative ownership is if to sign

(B) being converted to cooperative ownership is whether they should be

signing

(C) being converted to cooperative ownership is whether or not they sign

(D) conversion to cooperative ownership is if to sign

(E) conversion to cooperative ownership is whether to sign

25. The end of the eighteenth century saw the emergence of prize-stock

breeding, with individual bulls and

cows receiving awards, fetching unprecedented prices, and excited enormous

interest whenever they were

put on show.

(A) excited

(B) it excited

(C) exciting

(D) would excite

(E) it had excited

Answer to Question 21

In choices A, C, and E, in attributing ... behavior modifies the

perpetrators, producing the illogical statement that the perpetrators rather

than the defense attorneys are attributing behavior to food allergies. Choice C

is also wordy, and attributing ... as is unidiomatic in E. In the correct form

of the expression, one attributes x, an effect,to y, a cause; or, if a passive

construction is used, x is attributed to y. D avoids the initial modification

error by using a passive construction (in which the attributors are not

identified), but attributed x as the cause of y is unidiomatic. Choice B is

best.

Answer to Question 22

C, the best choice, places not and but in such a way that the distinction

between springing to life in a flash of inspiration and evolving slowly is

logically and idiomatically expressed. A and B are faulty because, for

grammatical parallelism, not in a flash... must be followed by but in..., not by

a conjugated form of the verb.Moreover, were slowly evolved is incorrect in B

because evolve, in this sense of the word, cannot be made passive. Choices C, D,

and E all correctly place not before spring. D, however, contains inconsistent

verbtenses; E contains the faulty passive and an intrusive they.

Answer to Question 23

Because a count of women employed outside the home at any given time will be

expressed by a single number,the use of the plural noun numbers in choices A, B,

and C is illogical. In A, the phrase grew by more than a thirty-five percent

increase is redundant and wordy, since the sense of increase is implicit in the

verb grew. In C and E, the passive verb forms were raised and was raised are

inappropriate because there is no identifiable agent responsible for the raising

of the number of women employed. In choice E, was raised by ... increase is

redundant. Choice D, which presents the comparison logically and idiomatically,

is the best answer.

Answer to Question 24

In A, B, and C, the phrase being converted is awkward and redundant, since

the sense of process indicated by being has already been conveyed by undergoing.

A and D can be faulted for saying if rather than whether,since the sentence

poses alternative possibilities, to sign or not to sign. Only E, the best

choice, idiomatically completes whether with an infinitive, to sign, that

functions as a noun equivalent of decision. Choice E also uses the noun

conversion, which grammatically completes the phrase begun by undergoing.

Answer to Question 25

Choice C is best. The third verb phrase in the series describing bulls and

cows should have the same grammatical form as the first two. Only choice C has a

present participle (or "-ing" form) that is parallel with the two preceding

verbs, receiving and fetching. Instead of the present participle, choices A and

B use the past tense (excited), choice D uses an auxiliary verb (would excite),

and choice E uses the past perfect tense (had excited). Additionally, the

incorrect verb tenses in B and E are introduced by a pronoun, it, that lacks a

logical noun referent.