【冲刺10月SAT考试】SAT阅读备考练习题（4）

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1、Writing Improving Sentences

Part or all of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are

five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces

the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence

than any of the alternatives, select choice A.

Lady Day, as Billie Holiday was usually called, was the finest jazz singer of

her generation, and it was the opinion of her fans, she was the greatest jazz

singer of the twentieth century.

(A) it was the opinion of her fans, she was

(B) the opinion of her fans was of her as

(C) her fans had this opinion, she was

(D) for her fans, the opinion was of her as

(E) in the opinion of her fans, she was

正确答案：C

Explanation

Choice (E) is correct. It avoids the sentence fragment error of the original

by replacing the awkward and unnecessary “it was” with the preposition “in” to

idiomatically state that Billie Holiday’s fans considered her “the greatest jazz

singer of the twentieth century.”

2、　Writing Improving Sentences

Part or all of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are

five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces

the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence

than any of the alternatives, select choice A.

Enrico Caruso sang opera in Italy before traveling to the United States, then

he gave his first performance at the Metropolitan Opera in November 1903.

(A) then

(B) when

(C) and which

(D) in that

(E) where

正确答案：E

Explanation

Choice (E) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by using the

appropriate pronoun “where” to indicate that the “United States” was where

Caruso gave “his first performance at the Metropolitan Opera.”

3、Part or all of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence

are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select th

he option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing

produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A.

Modern discus throwers use much the same technique of ancient Greece.

(A) of ancient Greece

(B) of ancient Greeks

(C) as ancient Greeks did

(D) as they did in ancient Greece

(E) like ancient Greeks

正确答案：C

Explanation

Choice (C) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by comparing what

“Modern discus throwers” do to what “ancient Greeks did” (not to “ancient

Greece,” a comparison that would not make logical sense).