2012年11月SAT模拟试题

ⅠSentence completion（每题两分，共30分）

1. Although its publicity has been------, the film itself is intelligent, well-acted, handsomely produced, and altogether------

A. tasteless---respectable

B. extensive---moderate

C. sophisticated---amateur

D. risqué---crude

E. perfect---spectacular

 

2. Dangerously high winds ------ attempts to

A. thwarted

B. forfeited

C. implemented

D. discharged

E. redoubled

 

3. More valuable and comprehensive than any previously proposed theory of phenomenon, Salazar’s research has ------ the basis for all subsequent ------ in her field

A. undermined…advancements

B. prepared…debacles

C. provided…investigations

D. dissolved…experiments

E. reinforced…misconceptions

 

4. Hoping to ------ the dispute, negotiators proposed a compromise that they felt would be ------ to both labor and management.

A. enforce…useful

B. end…divisive

C. overcome…unattractive

D. extend…satisfactory

E. resolve…acceptable

 

5. For many of the villagers, marriage was a practical ------, one not necessarily ------ of love but nevertheless grounded largely in economic advantage.

A. arrangement…devoid

B. entertainment…disparaging

C. attitude…consisting

D. bargain…worthy

E. misfortune…trusting

 

6. The research is so ------ that it leaves no part of the issue unexamined.

A. comprehensive

B. rewarding

C. sporadic

D. economical

E. problematic

 

7. It is sometimes customary to view rain as---sign; many believe that if it rains on the day of your wedding, you will enjoy financial prosperity.

A. an inopportune

B. a meager

C. an auspicious

D. an untimely

E. a modest

 

8. The scene was even---than Rebecca had ---; dead trees and patchy brown seemed to stretch on forever under a leaden sky

A. uglier…feigned

B. drearier…envisioned

C. lazier…divulged

D. scantier…desired

E. keener…perceived.

 

9. The name of the housing development is a---; although it is called “Forest Hills,” it is located in a---valley.

A. dilution…river

B. fallacy…neglected

C. misnomer…treeless

D. retelling…contented

E. fault…barren

 

10. A true ascetic, Jorge---luxuries and other worldly pleasures in an effort to ---his spiritual side

A. spurns…fortify

B. embraces…emulate

C. relishes…assist

D. condones…reclaim

E. lambastes…interpret

 

11. Scientific discoveries are often thought of as the result of ------- effort, but many discoveries have, in fact, arisen from ------- or a mistake.

(A) conscientious . . a method

(B) incidental . . a mishap

(C) collaborative . . a design

(D) persistent . . an extension

(E) systematic . . an accident

 

12. As ------ as the disintegration of the Roman Empire must have seemed, that disaster nevertheless presented some ------ aspect

A.     momentous…formidable

B.     decisive…unavoidable

C.     unexpected…ambiguous

D.    advantageous…beneficial

E.     catastrophic…constructive

 

13. For a long time, most doctors maintained that taking massive doses of vitamins was relatively harmless; now, however, some are warning that excessive dosages can be ------.

A.     healthy

B.     expensive

C.     wasteful

D.    toxic

E.     inane

 

14. Brachiopods, clamlike bivalves of prehistoric times, were one of the most ----- forms of life on the Earth: more than 30,000 species have been ------ from fossil record.

A. plentiful…subtracted

B. ornate…retrieved

C. multifarious…catalogued

D. scarce…extracted

E. anachronistic…extrapolated

 

15. Some interactive computer games are so elaborately contrived and require such ------ strategies that only the most ------ player can master them.

A. Byzantine…adroit

B. nefarious…conscientious

C. devious…lackadaisical

D. onerous…slipshod

E. predictable…compulsive

 

ⅡImproving Sentences & Identifying Sentence Errors（两部分共25分）

Improving Sentences (每题2分，共20分)

1. Some of the Smithsonian Institution’s most prized items, form Duke Ellington’s musical transcripts to First Ladies’ gowns, coming from unsolicited donations.

A. coming from

B. they come from

C. they have come from

D. came from

E. which came from

 

2. Lecturing at the university, read the poetry of Margaret Atwood was the advice Professor Clark gave her audience.

A. read the poetry of Margaret Atwood was the advice Professor Clark gave her audience

B. the poetry of Margaret Atwood was what Professor Clark advised her audience to read

C. her audience was advised by Professor Clark to read the poetry of Margaret Atwood

D. Margaret Atwood’s poetry, advised Professor Clark, was what her audience should read

E. Professor Clark advised her audience to read the poetry of Margaret Atwood

 

3. Evidence from surveys and interviews show friendships made in high school tend to last longer than those made in college

4. A. show friendships made in high school tend to last

B. show high school friendships that tend to last

C. is showing high school friendships tending to last

D. shows that friendships made in high school tend to last

E. shows friendships in high school tends to last

 

4. Conners, a publishing and media services company, is acquiring Dispatch Education, it manufactures school uniforms.

5. A. Dispatch Education, it manufactures

B. Dispatch Education, which manufactures

C. Dispatch Education, manufacturing

D. Dispatch Education; it is manufacturing

E. Dispatch Education; for the manufacturing of

 

5. The campus newspaper does not print as much world news as does my hometown.

A. as does my hometown

 

B. as does my hometown newspaper

C. compared to what my hometown does

D. like my hometown newspaper does

E. like the one in my hometown does

 

6. The poet Claude McKay was a native of Jamaica who spent most of his life in the United States but writing some of his poems in the Jamaican dialect.

(A) The poet Claude McKay was a native of Jamaica who spent most of his life in the United States but writing

(B) Being that he was a Jamaican who spent most of his life in the United States, the

poet Claude McKay writing

(C) Although a native of Jamaica, the poet Claude McKay spent most of his life in the United States, he wrote

(D) Although the poet Claude McKay spent most of his life in the United States, he

was a native of Jamaica and wrote

(E) Because he was a native of Jamaica who spent most of his life in the United States, the poet Claude McKay writing

 

7. Many ancient Eastern rulers favored drinking vessels made of celadon porcelain because of supposedly revealing the presence of poison by cracking.

(A) because of supposedly revealing the presence of poison

(B) for being supposed that it would reveal the presence of poison

(C) because of being supposed to reveal poison in it

(D) for it was supposed to reveal that there is poison

(E) because it was supposed to reveal the presence of poison

 

8. John believes that plants respond to human attention, which causes his talking to his African violets every night.

(A) attention, which causes his talking

(B) attention and talking is what is done

(C) attention and his talks

(D) attention; for this reason has been his talking

(E) attention; he therefore talks

 

9. All the demands on soprano Kathleen Battle for operatic performances, solo concerts, and special guest appearances, tempting her to sing too often and strainingher voice.

(A) appearances, tempting her to sing too often and straining

(B) appearances not only tempt her to sing too often plus they strain

(C) appearances tempts her not only into singing too often but then she strains

(D) appearances, tempting her into singing too often and she therefore strains

(E) appearances tempt her to sing too often and strain

 

10. One reason that an insect can walk on walls while a human cannot is that the mass of its tiny body is far lower than humans.

(A) far lower than humans

(B) far lower than that of a human’s body

(C) lower by far than humans

(D) far lower than a human

(E) far lower than is a human’s body

 

Identifying Sentence Errors（每题1分，共5分）

11. Fourteen years after the Galileo space probe was launched from the space shuttle

              A

Atlantis, the mission was purposed ended when the Galileo disintegrates in the dense

                                  B               C       D

 

atmosphere of the planet Jupiter. No error   

                             E

 

12. Many professional athletes aremotivated by either personal pride and love of their

                        A                            B    

sport, but some seem interested only in money. No error 

          C                D           E

 

13. Even though only parts of clay vessels may be recovered, these pottery shards are

    A                            B                                

invaluable to the archaeologist because it is virtually indestructible. No error

  C                          D                        E

 

14. Paule Marshall, whose Barbadian background has influenced her writing, describes

                A                       B                    C

many details of life in the Caribbean Islands vividly in her novels and short stories.

                                     D

No error

 E

 

15. It is far easier to ride a bicycle than explaining in words exactly how a bicycle  

       A                     B                 C

is ridden. No error

 D       E

 

ⅢPassage-based reading（每题3分，共45分）

The passages below are followed by questions based on their content; questions following a pair of related passages may also be based on the relationship between the paired passages. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passages and in any introductory material that may be provided.

 

 

Question 1-4 are based on the following passages.

 

Passage 1

 

  The eighteenth-century botanist Carolus Linnaeus’ enormous and essential contribution to natural history was to devise a system of classification whereby any plant or animal could identified and slotted into an overall plan. Yet Linnaeus himself would probably be the first to admit that classification is only a tool, and not the ultimate purpose, of biological inquiry. Unfortunately, this truth was not apparent to his immediate successors, who for the nest hundred years were to concern themselves almost exclusively with classification.

 

Passage 2

 

 I am a heretic about Linnaeus. I do not dispute the value of the tool he gave natural science, but I am wary about the change it has effected on human relationship to the world. From Linnaeus on, much of science has been devoted to sorting masses into individual entities and arranging the entities neatly. The cost of having so successfully itemized and pigeonholed nature is to limit certain possibilities of seeing and apprehending. For example, the modern man thinks that he or she can best understand a tree (or a species of tree) by examining a single tree. But trees are not intended to grow in isolation. They are social creatures, and their society in turn supports other species of plants, insects, birds, mammals, and micro-organisms, all of which make up the whole experience of the woods.

 

1.     Compared to the author of Passage 2, the author of Passage 1 regards Linnaeus with more

(A) cynicism

(B) bafflement

(C) appreciation

(D) nostalgia

(E)  resentment

 

2.     Unlike the author of Passage 1, the author of Passage 2 make use of

(A) scientific data

(B) literary allusion

(C) historical research

(D) personal voice

(E) direct citation

 

3.     Both passages emphasize which of the following aspects of Linnaeus’ work?

(A) The extent to which it contributed to natural science

(B) The way in which it limits present-day science

(C) The degree to which it revived interest in biology.

(D) The decisiveness with which it settled scientific disputes

(E)  The kinds of scientific discoveries on which it built.

 

4.     The author of Passage 1 would most likely respond to the opening of Passage 2 (Line 12-17) by arguing that the author of Passage 2 has

(A) demonstrated that Linnaeus should be better known as a scientist that he currently is

(B) minimized the achievements of those scientists who built on Linnaeus’ work

(C) refused to appreciate the importance of proper classification to scientific progress

(D) failed to distinguish the ideas of Linnaeus from those of his followers

(E)  misunderstood Linnaeus’ primary contribution to natural history

Question 5-10 are based on the following passage.

 

The following is an excerpt from a translation of a novel written in Spanish by an author from Colombia. In a fanciful manner, the novelist portrays the townspeople of an isolated village.

 

Dazzled by so many and such marvelous inventions, the people of Macondo did not know where their amazement began, They stayed up all night looking at the electric bulbs fed by the electric plant that Aureliano Triste had brought back when the train made its second trip, and it took time and effort for them to grow accustomed to its obsessive noise.

 They became indignant over the living images that the prosperous merchant Bruno Crespi projected on the screen in the theatre with the lion-head ticket windows, for the character who had died and was buried in one film, and for whose misfortune tears of affliction had been shed, would reappear alive and transformed into an Arab sheik in the next one. The audience, who paid tow cents apiece to share the difficulties of the actors, would not tolerate such an outlandish fraud and they broke up the seats. The major, at the urging of Bruno Crespi, explained in a proclamation that the cinema was a machine of illusions that did not merit the emotional outbursts of the audience. With that discouraging explanation many felt that they had been the victims of some new trickery and they decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings.

 Something similar happened with cylinder phonographs brought from France and intended as a substitute for the antiquated hand organs used by the band of musicians. For a time the phonograph records had serious effects on the livelihood of the musicians. At first curiosity increased the business on the street where they were sold and there was even word of respectable persons who disguised themselves as workers in order to observe the novelty of the phonograph at firsthand, but from so much and such close observation they soon reached the conclusion that it was not an enchanted mill as everyone had thought and as some had said, but a mechanical trick that could not be compared with something so moving, so human, and so full of everyday truth as a band of musicians, It was such a serious disappointment that when phonograph became so popular that there was one in every house they were not considered objects for amusement for adults but as something good for children to take part.

 On the other hand, when someone from the town had the opportunity to test the crude reality of the telephone installed in the railroad station, which was thought to be rudimentary version of the phonograph because of its crank, even the most incredulous were upset. It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alteration between excitement and disappointment, doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay.

 

 

5.     The word “obsessive” (line 5) most nearly means

(A) enthusiastic

(B) persistent

(C) obvious

(D) infatuated

(E)  hardworking

 

6.     The “fraud” (Line 11) that upset the citizens of Macondo was related to the

(A) excessive charge for admission.

(B) outlandish adventures of the characters on the screen

(C) fact that the events depicted on the screen did not actually occur

(D) types of difficulties the actors faced

(E)  implausible plots of the stories that were told

 

7.     The citizens lost interest in their phonographs because

(A) the machines lack the heart and soul of true musicians

(B) few people were able to operate them

(C) the machines were too difficult to observe firsthand

(D) many musicians lost their job because of them

(E)  the children were breaking them faster than they were made

 

8.     The citizens of Macondo were distressed by the arrival of telephone because they

(A) did not know where it come from

(B) had expected a more socially beneficial invention

(C) could envision the change it would bring to daily village life

(D) no longer felt able to make the usual assumptions about their world

(E)  were fearful that it would have serious affects on their continued employment

 

9.     The aspects of the new inventions that most disappointed the citizens was that these inventions

(A) were not all fashioned with crank

(B) did not have any real educational value

(C) were not at all what they seemed to be

(D) were meant purely for entertainment

(E)  were so intricate they ere difficult to operate

 

10. The major purpose of the passage is to

(A) illustrate the influence the distinguished residents of Macondo had on the other citizens

(B) describe the new scientific inventions that were introduced to Macondo

(C) depict a diverse crowd reacting in unison to a magical performance

(D) describe the people’s responses to the influx of technical advances

(E)  delineate old-fashioned ideas about the virtue of nature over technology

Questions 11-15 are based on the following passage.

 

This passage is from the preface to a 1997 book by a United States journalist detailing a disagreement between doctors and family members about a child’s medical treatment at a hospital in California.

 

Under my desk I keep a large carton of cassette tapes. Though they have all been transcribed, I still like to listen to them from time to time.

Some are quiet and easily understood. They are filled with the voices of American doctors, interrupted occasionally by the clink of a coffee cup or beep of a pager. The rest—more than half of them—are very noisy. They are filled with the voices of the Lees family, Hmong refugees from Laos who came to the United States in 1980. Against a background of babies crying, children playing, doors slamming, dishes clattering, a television yammering, and an air conditioner wheezing, I can hear the mother’s voice, by turns breathy, nasal, gargly, or humlike as it slides up and down the Hmong language’s eight tones; the father’s voice, louder, slower, more vehement; and my interpreter’s voice, mediating in Hmong and English, low and deferential in

each. The hubbub summons sense-memories: the coolness of the red metal folding chair, reserved for guests, that was always set up when I arrived in the apartment; the shadows cast by the amulet that hung from the ceiling and swung in

the breeze on its length of grocer’s twine; the tastes of Hmong food.

I sat on the Lees’ red chair for the first time on May 19, 1988. Earlier that spring I had come to Merced, California, because I had heard that there were some

misunderstandings at the county hospital between its Hmong patients and medical staff. One doctor called them“collisions,” which made it sound as if two different kinds of people had rammed into each other, head on, to the accompaniment of squealing brakes and breaking glass. As it turned out, the encounters were messy but rarely frontal. Both sides were wounded, but neither side seemed to know what had hit it or how to avoid another crash.

I have always felt that the action most worth watching occurs not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders.

These places have interesting frictions and incongruities, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one. This is especially true when the apposition is cultural. When I first came to Merced, I hoped that the culture of American medicine, about which I knew a little, and the culture of the Hmong, about which I knew nothing, would somehow illuminate each other if I could position myself between the two and manage not to get caught in the crossfire. But after getting to know the Lees family and their

daughter’s doctors and realizing how hard it was to blame anyone, I stopped analyzing the situation in such linear terms. Now, when I play the tapes late at night, I imagine what they would sound like if I could splice them together, so the voices of the Hmong and those of the American doctors could be heard on a single tape, speaking a common language.

 

11. In line 12,“summons” most nearly means

(A) sends for

(B) calls forth

(C) requests

(D) orders

(E) convenes

 

12. It can be inferred from lines the last five lines in the third paragraph that“collisions”was NOT an apt description because the

(A) clash between Hmong patients and medical staff was indirect and baffling

(B) Hmong patients and the medical staff were not significantly affected by the encounters

(C) medical staff was not responsible for the dissatisfaction of the Hmong patients

(D) misunderstandings between the Hmong patients and the medical staff were easy to resolve

(E) disagreement reached beyond particular individuals to the community at large

 

13. Which of the following views of conflict is best supported by lines 26-28 (“These . . . one”) in the last paragraph?

(A) Efforts to prevent conflicts are not always successful.

(B) Conflict can occur in many different guises.

(C) In most conflicts, both parties are to blame.

(D) You can understand two parties that have resolved their conflicts better than two parties that are currently in conflict.

(E) You can learn more about two parties in conflict as an observer than as an involved participant.

 

14. According to lines 28-32 (“When I . . . crossfire”), the author’s initial goal was to

(A) consider the perspectives of both the American doctors and the Lees family to see what insights might develop

(B) serve as a counselor to the county hospital’s Hmong patients in order to ease their anxieties

(C) work out a compromise between the American

doctors and the Lees family

(D) acquire a greater knowledge of how the American

medical culture serves patients

(E) try to reduce the misunderstandings between the American doctors and the Lees family and promote good will

 

15. At the end of the passage, the author suggests that it would be ideal if the

(A) differences between the Lees family and the American doctors could be resolved quickly

(B) concerns and opinions of the Lees family and the American doctors could be merged

(C) American doctors could take the time to learn more about their Hmong patients

(D) Hmong patients could become more vocal in

defense of their rights

(E) Hmong patients could get medical treatment consistent with their cultural beliefs