SAT语法:练习讲解(二).

1. When (A) recipes for iced tea appeared in (B) a few (C) late nineteenth century cookbooks, the drink did not become popular (D) until the 1904 World’s Fair. No error (E) (08-5, S6, 23)

2. Among birds that forage (A) in tree trunks, nuthatches are the only ones that regularly feed (B) with their heads facing downward, when they often find (C) food in bark crevices overlooked in (D) their upward search. No error

(Online Course 5, section 6, 25)

3. Not many (A) authors have described (B) the fects of environmental pollution as fective as (C)Rachel Carson, whose work is still a model for (D) nature writers. No error (E) (06.1,21)

4. Some experts say that of all (A) the musical forms that constituted African music in the second half of the (B) twentieth century, Congolese rumba and its rambunctious offspring, soukous, were (C) the more (D) influential. No error (E)

(09-1-S6-19)

5. It was (A) a Chinese American grower who finally succeeded with adapting (B) the now familiar (C) orange tree to(D) the American climate. No error (E)

(06.1, 22)

6. Five years in the writing (A), her new book is both a response (B) to her critics’ mistrust with (C) her earlier findings and an elaboration (D) of her original thesis. No error (E) (06.1, 28)

7. Opposite to (A) most people I know, Annie, a good photographer herself (B), actually enjoys seeing (C) the photographs that her friends take on their (D) vacations. No error (E) (06.5, 26)

8. When the village elders present (A) recommendations, there is (B) hardly ever (C) any opposition against (D) their proposals. No error (E)

( Online Course 3，Section 4, 29)

9. At (A) the reception were (B) the chattering (C) guests, the three-tiered cake, and the lively music that have become characteristic of (D) many wedding celebrations. No error (E) (06.5, 29)

10. Not very particular in (A) nesting sites (B), house wrens may nest (C) in birdhouses, mailboxes, building crevices—even in the pockets of (D) hanging laundry. No error (E) (06.5, 28)

11. Mediators were standing by, prepared to intervene in (A) the labor dispute even though (B) both sides had rused (C) earlier offers for (D) assistance. No error (E) (07.1, 26)

12. At a time when (A) interest in twentieth-century classical music seems (B) on the verge to disappear (C), the avant-garde compositions of the 1960s and 1970s manage (D) to retain their popularity. No error (E) (07.10, 25)

13. A powerful advocate to (A) equal rights, Belva Lockwood was (B) twice a candidate for President long bore the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution (C) allowed women to (D) vote. No error (E) (07.10, 26)

14. Annual visitors to (A) New York City’s Central Park number (B) almost (C) ten times that of Mount Rushmore (D). No error (E) (07.10, 28)

15. To insist that a poem means whatever one (A) wants it (B) to mean is often ignoring (C) the intention and even (D) the words of the poets. No error (E) (07.10, 29)

16. To stand in (A) Persepolis in modern Iran and look out, as Darius the First must have done (B), at the immense sweep of fields and mountains (C) is to grasp (D) the vastness of the ancient Persian Empire. No error (E) (08-10-S5-25)

17. The seven-month-old baby was considered precocious to her family (A) because she was already able (B) to grasp tiny items delicately (C) between her thumb (D) and foringer. No error (E) (08.1, 28)

18. Chess players find that playing against a computer is helpful to improve (A) their (B) skills, even though (C) no chess-playing computer has yet won (D) a championship. No error

( Online Course 1，Section 7, 20)

19. By (A) the early 1920s, Louis Armstrong recorded his first (B) solos as a member of King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band in such pieces as (C) “Chimes Blues” and “Tears”, which (D) he composed with pianist Lil Hardin. No error (E)

( Online Course 5，Section 6, 29)

20. A gray owl flying low (A) across a forest clearing, its wings beating (B) quietly and its ultrasensitive ears turned to the faint sounds (C) made by small creatures concealed (D) under leaves. No error (E)

( 09-5-S4-24)

21. Built from 1609 to 1617 to rival (A) the Hagia Sophia, Isanbul’s Sultanahmet Mosque was celebrated (B) not so much for its architecture but because of (C) the exquisite blue tiles that adorned its (D) interior. No error (E)

( 09-5-S4-27)

22. In 1991 Burmese military officials arrested dissident political leader Aung San Suu Kyi, thereby(A) preventing (B) her from leaving (C) Burma for accepting (D) the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. No error (E)

(09-01-S6-20)