【冲刺10月SAT考试】SAT阅读备考练习题（5）

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1、Critical Reading Sentence Completions

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best

fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Exotics and indigenous weeds include some of the most ------- species: their

visual impact often eclipses that of nearby plants.

(A) lethal

(B) diffuse

(C) varied

(D) striking

(E) resilient

正确答案：D

Explanation

A “striking,” or showy, weed could indeed be said to “eclipse,” or

overshadow, other plants that have more typical appearances.

2、　Critical Reading Sentence Completions

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best

fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Demographers and anthropologists have corrected the notion that European

explorers in North America entered a ------- territory by showing that the land

in some areas was already as densely ------- as parts of Europe.

(A) fertile . . settled

(B) colossal . . wooded

(C) desolate . . populated

(D) valuable . . exploited

(E) hostile . . concentrated

正确答案：C

Explanation

Only “desolate...populated” presents the contrast required by the sentence.

The words “corrected the notion” signal that the first word in the correct

answer must contrast with the second word because that second word corrects the

mistaken notion.

3、Critical Reading Sentence Completions

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best

fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Barbara McClintock’s systematic examination of corn demonstrated the

transposition of genes, a finding that overturned entrenched beliefs and proved

that ------- study may produce brilliant insights and ------- change.

(A) haphazard . . radical

(B) inherent . . controversial

(C) improvised . . startling

(D) methodical . . revolutionary

(E) derivative . . gradual

正确答案：D

Explanation

Only “methodical study”

” and “revolutionary change” match the ideas of “systematic examination” and

“overturned entrenched beliefs.”

4、　Critical Reading Sentence Completions

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best

fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

To believe that social reforms can ------- evil altogether is to forget that

evil is a protean creature, forever assuming a new ------- when deprived of an

old one.

(A) rejuvenate . . allegiance

(B) eradicate . . shape

(C) mitigate . . providence

(D) sustain . . episode

(E) dissolve . . abstraction

正确答案：B

Explanation

The phrase “is to forget” implies that the belief described in the first part

of the sentence is misguided or na瘀攀. It makes sense to argue that the

assumption that reforms can “eradicate,” or eliminate, all societal evils is

overly idealistic because evil is “protean,” or capable of taking on a new

“shape.”

5、Critical Reading Sentence Completions

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best

fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

The scientist ascribed the ------- of the park’s remaining trees to the

------- of the same termite species that had damaged homes throughout the

city.

(A) decimation . . prevalence

(B) survival . . presence

(C) growth . . mutation

(D) reduction . . disappearance

(E) study . . hatching

正确答案：A

Explanation

Choice (A) is correct. It is logical to connect the “decimation,” or harm

done to, a park’s trees to the “prevalence,” or dominance, of a harmful species

of termites.