SAT阅读完成句子练习题(3)_SAT阅读

SAT阅读完成句子练习题(3)

　　7.Correct Answer: A

　　Explanation:

　　Clue : Though indicates the need for opposites in the two halves of the sentence. Also, life-like indicates realistic is the word needed.

　　The sentence means that, though there are no life-like meanderings, the work is presented as realistic fiction.

　　8.Correct Answer: D

　　Explanation:

　　Clue: and usually joins things of similar meaning or weight. This suggests that since ethics are declining, moral standards are also declining . Almost any word except optimism would have fit the first blank.

　　9.Correct Answer: D

　　Explanation:

　　Clue: The first blank requires something that conveys what man has done to the genetic code - the only two suitable words are discoverer or decipherer. But since a microbe is not a rodent, we can eliminate that pair.

　　10.Correct Answer: E

　　Explanation:

　　Clue: The sentence tells us that the thesis has been in obscurity but now it is being revived. We can say it is undergoing a renaissance .

　　11.Correct Answer: A

　　Explanation:

　　Clue: Far from indicates that an opposite point is being made. So, since there is a feeling of impending catastrophe the threat of war is far from getting less. This indicates that receding, diminishing, or subsiding might be suitable. We can eliminate these last two since their partner words contentedly and felicitously are inappropriate for a feeling of danger. So the villagers are only apparently behaving normally.