SAT语法练习题（十五）含答案及解析

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71. The original building and loan associations were organized as limited

life funds, whose members made monthly payments on their share subscriptions,

then taking turns drawing on the funds for home mortgages.

(A) subscriptions, then taking turns drawing

(B) subscriptions, and then taking turns drawing

(C) subscriptions and then took turns drawing

(D) subscriptions and then took turns, they drew

(E) subscriptions and then drew, taking turns

72. The number of undergraduate degrees in engineering awarded by colleges

and universities in the United States increased by more than twice from 1978 to

1985.

(A) increased by more than twice

(B) increased more than two times

(C) more than doubled

(D) was more than doubled

(E) had more than doubled

73. The British Admiralty and the War Office met in March 1892 to consider a

possible Russian attempt to seize Constantinople and how they would have to act

militarily to deal with them.

(A) how they would have to act militarily to deal with them

(B) how to deal with them if military action would be necessary

(C) what would be necessary militarily for dealing with such an event

(D) what military action would be necessary in order to deal with such an

event

(E) the necessity of what kind of military action in order to take for

dealing with it

74. Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the

rules in favor of clients; auditors may, for instance, allow a questionable loan

to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank's profits on paper.

(A) clients; auditors may, for instance, allow

(B) clients, as an instance, to allow

(C) clients, like to allow

(D) clients, such as to be allowing

(E) clients; which might, as an instance, be the allowing of

75. If the proposed expenditures for gathering information abroad are reduced

even further, international news reports have been and will continue to diminish

in number and quality.

(A) have been and will continue to diminish

(B) have and will continue to diminish

(C) will continue to diminish, as they already did,

(D) will continue to diminish, as they have already,

(E) will continue to diminish

Answer to Question 71

The sentence speaks of a sequence of actions in the past:

shareholders made their monthly payments and subsequently took turns drawing

on the funds. Choice C, the best answer, uses parallel past-tense verb forms to

express this sequence. Choices A and B violate parallelism by using taking where

took is required. The wording in D results in a run-on sentence and does not

specify what the members took turns doing. Similarly, E does not specify what

the members drew, and taking turns produces nonsense when combined with the rest

of the sentence.

Answer to Question 72

Choice A is faulty because an adverb such as twice cannot function as an

object of the preposition by. B distorts

the sentence's meaning, stating that the number of engineering degrees

conferred increased on more than two

distinct occasions. D's passive verb was ... doubled suggests without warrant

that some unnamed agent

increased the number of engineering degrees. The past perfect tense in E,

had... doubled, is inappropriate

unless the increase in engineering degrees is specifically being viewed as

having occurred further back in the

past than some subsequent event. Choice C is best.

Answer to Question 73

In choices A and B, the pronoun them has no antecedent; furthermore, the

(/clause in B must take should rather than would. In C, necessary militarily is

awkward and vague. E is wordy and garbles the meaning with incorrect word order.

Choice D is best: its phrasing is clear, grammatical, and idiomatic. Moreover, D

is the choice that most closely parallels the construction of the nonunderlined

portion of the sentence. The sentence states that the Admiralty and the War

Office met to consider x and y, where x is the noun phrase a possible Russian

attempt. D provides a noun phrase, military action, that matches the structure

of x more closely than do the corresponding noun elements in the other

choices.

Answer to Question 74

The first independent clause of the sentence describes a general situation;

in A, the best choice, a second independent clause clearly and grammatically

presents an example of this circumstance. Choice B uses as an instance

ungrammatically: as an instance requires o/to form such idiomatic constructions

as "She cited x as an instance of y." Also, this construction cannot link

infinitives such as to bend and to allow. The infinitive is again incorrect in C

and D. C misuses like, a comparative preposition, to introduce an example. D

requires by in place of to be. E, aside from being wordy and imprecise, uses the

pronoun which to refer vaguely to the whole preceding clause rather than to a

specific noun referent.

Answer to Question 75

Choices A and B fail because the logic of the sentence demands that the verb

in the main clause be wholly in the future tense: if x happens, y will happen.

To compound the problem, the auxiliary verbs have been in A and have in B cannot

properly be completed by to diminish. C, D, and E supply the correct verb form,

but C and D conclude with faulty as clauses that are awkward and unnecessary,

because will continue describes an action begun in the past. E is the best

choice.