【冲刺10月SAT考试】SAT语法备考练习题（9）

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41. Under a provision of the Constitution that was never applied. Congress

has been required to call a convention for considering possible amendments to

the document when formally asked to do it by the legislatures of two-thirds of

the states.

(A) was never applied, Congress has been required to call a convention for

considering possible

amendments to the document when formally asked to do it

(B) was never applied, there has been a requirement that Congress call a

convention for consideration of

possible amendments to the document when asked to do it formally

(C) was never applied, whereby Congress is required to call a convention for

considering possible

amendments to the document when asked to do it formally

(D) has never been applied, whereby Congress is required to call a convention

to consider possible

amendments to the document when formally asked to do so

(E) has never been applied. Congress is required to call a convention to

consider possible amendments to the document when formally asked to do so

42. The current administration, being worried over some foreign trade

barriers being removed and our exports failing to increase as a result of deep

cuts in the value of the dollar, has formed a group to study ways to sharpen our

competitiveness.

(A) being worried over some foreign trade barriers being removed and our

exports failing

(B) worrying over some foreign trade barriers being removed, also over the

failure of our exports

(C) worried about the removal of some foreign trade barriers and the failure

of our exports

(D) in that they were worried about the removal of some foreign trade

barriers and also about the failure of our exports

(E) because of its worry concerning the removal of some foreign trade

barriers, also concerning the failure of our exports

43. In the minds of many people living in England, before Australia was

Australia, it was the antipodes, the opposite pole to civilization, an obscure

and unimaginable place that was considered the end of the world.

(A) before Australia was Australia, it was the antipodes

(B) before there was Australia, it was the antipodes

(C) it was the antipodes that was Australia

(D) Australia was what was the antipodes

(E) Australia was what had been known as the antipodes

44. Using a Doppler ultrasound device, fetal heartbeats can be detected by

the twelfth week of pregnancy.

(A) Using a Doppler ultrasound device, fetal heart-beats can be detected by

the twelfth week of pregnancy.

(B) Fetal heartbeats can be detected by the twelfth week of pregnancy, using

a Doppler ultrasound device.

(C) Detecting fetal heartbeats by the twelfth week of pregnancy, a physician

can use a Doppler ultrasound

device.

(D) By the twelfth week of pregnancy, fetal heartbeats can be detected using

a Doppler ultrasound device

by a physician.

(E) Using a Doppler ultrasound device, a physician can detect fetal

heartbeats by the twelfth week of

pregnancy.

45. Delighted by the reported earnings for the first quarter of the fiscal

year, it was decided by the

company manager to give her staff a raise.

(A) it was decided by the company manager to give her staff a raise

(B) the decision of the company manager was to give her staff a raise

(C) the company manager decided to give her staff a raise

(D) the staff was given a raise by the company manager

(E) a raise was given to the staff by the company manager

Answer to Question 41

Choices A, B, C, and D contain tense errors (the use of was never applied

with has been required in A, forexample), unidiomatic expressions (call... for

considering), and uses of a pronoun (it) with no noun referent.By introducing

the subordinating conjunction whereby, C and D produce sentence fragments. Only

E, the best choice, corrects all of these problems. The predicate has never been

applied refers to a span of time, from the writing of the Constitution to the

present, rather than to a past event (as was does), and the phrase is required

indicates that the provision still applies. The phrase call... to consider is

idiomatic, and to do so can substitute grammatically for it.

Answer to Question 42

Choice C is best because its phrasing is parallel and concise. A, D, and E

begin with unnecessarily wordy phrases. Choice C also uses the idiomatic

expression worried about rather than worried over (as in A) or worrying over (as

in B); worried about is preferable when describing a condition rather than an

action. Whereas C uses compact and parallel noun phrases such as the removal...

and the failure ... , the other choices employ phrases that are wordy, awkward,

or nonparallel. D is also flawed in that the plural pronoun they does not agree

with the singular noun administration.

Answer to Question 43

Choice A is best, for A alone makes clear that the land now known as

Australia was considered the antipodes before it was developed. In B, it has no

logical referent, because the previous clause describes a time when there was no

Australia. Nor does it have a referent in C: substituting Australia for it

produces a nonsensical statement. D is wordy, with the unnecessary what was, and

imprecise in suggesting that Australia was considered the antipodes after it

became Australia. E similarly distorts the original meaning, and the past

perfect had been is inconsistent with the past tense used to establish a time

frame for the rest of the sentence.

Answer to Question 44

Choice A presents a dangling modifier. The phrase beginning the sentence has

no noun that it can logically modify and hence cannot fit anywhere in the

sentence and make sense. Coming first, it modifies heartbeats, the nearest free

noun in the main clause; that is, choice A says that the heartbeats are using

the Doppler ultrasound device. Choice B contains the same main clause and

dangling modifier, now at the end. Contrary to intent, the wording in choice C

suggests that physicians can use a Doppler ultrasound device after they detect

fetal heartbeats. In choice D the phrase using ... device should follow

physician, the noun it modifies. Choice E is best.

Answer to Question 45

Grammatically, the participial phrase beginning delighted must modify the

subject of the main clause. Because it is the manager who was delighted, choice

C, in which the company manager appears as the subject, is the best answer.

Choices A, B, D, and E create illogical statements by using it, the decision,

the staff, and a raise, respectively, as the sentence subject. Use of the

passive voice in A, D, and E produces unnecessary wordiness, as does the

construction the decision of the company manager was to in B.