SAT句子填空题是阅读中的一个题型，我们在解题的根据逻辑关系和关键词，找到解题HINT(此线索就是空格部分对应的句子成分，或者是推断空格的逻辑关系4.根据线索，推测空格应该填的词汇。下面是9道SAT句子填空题，附有简单的答案。
1. Since the island soil has been barren for so many years, the natives must now_________ much of their food.
(A) deliver (B) import (C) produce (D) develop (E) utilize
2. Because Jenkins neither _________ nor defends either management or the striking workers, both sides admire his journalistic_________.
(A) criticizes. .acumen
(B) attacksneutrality
(C) confronts. .aptitude
(D) dismisses. .flair
(E) promotesintegrity
3. Some anthropologists claim that a few apes have been taught a rudimentary sign language, but skeptics argue that the apes are only_________ their trainers.
(A) imitating (B) condoning (C) instructing (D) acknowledging (E) belaboring
4. It is ironic that the_________ insights of the great thinkers are voiced so often that they have become mere_________.
(A) original. .clichés
(B) banal. .beliefs
(C) dubious. .habits
(D) philosophical. .questions
(E) abstract. .ideas
5. The most frustrating periods of any diet are the inevitable_________, when weight loss_________ if not stops.
(A) moods. .accelerates
(B) feasts. .halts
(C) holidays. .contracts
(D) plateaus. .slows
(E) meals. ceases