SAT官方每日一题 2017年4月5日.

SAT考试试题类型:Critical Reading > Sentence Completions Please enter an answer. Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole. Confident that her own political platform would ------- at election time, the mayor considered her opponent&aposs sudden popularity less a threat than -------. Answer Choices (A) falter . . a boon (B) strengthen . . a calamity (C) prevail . . a distraction (D) alter . . an error (E) waver . . a diversion 答案:C 解析: Explanation Choice (C) is correct. The mayor was confident about her campaign, so it makes sense to suggest that she felt her political platform would “prevail,” or triumph. The phrase “less...than” indicates that as a result of her confidence, the mayor found her opponent&aposs popularity to be less than a threat; she considered it a mere “distraction.”