SAT语法练习中句子改善篇【3】

2022-05-26 17:53:00

  

  一、【The capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina 】 , Sarajevo's population on the eve of the First World War was 51,919.

  (A) Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo's population

  (B) Bosnia-Herzegovina is Sarajevo, whose population

  (C) Bosnia-Herzegovina is Sarajevo, 【with】 a population

  (D) Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo having a population that

  (E) Bosnia-Herzegovina, the population of Sarajevo

  分析:【The capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina 】 “…of+名词”的两种用法:1.作为句子主语使用;

  【with】 不能够引导句子。

  2.作为主语的同位语结构。

  如果这里把它看作是同位语,主语为population,因此capital不可能为主语的同位语。[排除AE]

  【with】

  二、The company is negotiating to sell its profitable credit card subsidiary, which it plans to use money from to acquire some of the mortgage-servicing operations that are being sold by troubled savings institutions.

  (A) subsidiary, which it plans to use money from

  (B) subsidiary, from which it plans to use money

  (C) subsidiary, and it plans the use of money from that

  (D) subsidiary and plans to use money from that sale

  (E) subsidiary and plans the use of money from that sale

  三、India is country with at least fifty major regional languages, 【of whom 】fourteen have official recognition.

  (A) of whom fourteen have official recognition

  (B) 【fourteen】 that have official recognition

  (C) fourteen of which are officially recognized

  (D) fourteen that are officially recognized

  (E) 【among whom】 fourteen have official recognition

  分析:【of whom 】先行词应是人才能用whom

  【fourteen】前后没有任何修饰。

  【among whom】词序不对。

  四、Astronomers at the Palomar Observatory have discovered a distant supernova explosion, one that they believe is a type previously unknown to science.

  (A) that they believe is

  (B) that they believe it to be

  (C) they believe that it is of

  (D) they believe that is

  (E) they believe 【to be of】

  分析:【to be of】后一般加抽象名词。

  五、 【While】 the owner of a condominium apartment has free and clear title to the dwelling, owners of cooperative apartments have shares in a corporation that owns a building and leases apartments to them.

  (A) While the owner of a condominium apartment has free and clear title to the dwelling,

  (B) The owner of a condominium apartment has free and clear title to the dwelling, but

  (C) Whereas owners of condominium apartments have free and clear title to their dwellings,

  (D) An owner of a condominium apartment has free and clear title to the dwelling, whereas

  (E) Condominium apartment owners have a title to their dwelling that is 【 free and clear】 , while

  分析:【While】前后句子的对比 → 两个句子的一致性。

  [ 排除 A B D E ]

  【free and clear】原句中是修饰title,而这里变为that从句修饰dwelling

  六、Doctors still know little about how the Listeria bacterium is spread and why the disease it causes, listeriosis, afflicts some people in a contaminated area though it 【spares】 many others.

  (A) though it spares

  (B) where it spares

  (C) despite sparing

  (D) when sparing

  (E) while sparing

  分析:【spares】表示“空出来”

  参考答案:1.B 2.D 3.C 4.E 5.C 6.E

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