SAT句子改善经典题汇总1

2022-05-26 21:54:18

  1. Since 1986 enrollments of African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanic Americans in full-time engineering programs in the United States has steadily increased, while the number of other students who enter the field has fallen.

  (A) has steadily increased, while the number of other students who enter the field has fallen

  (B) has steadily increased, while other students entering the field have declined in number.

  (C) increased steadily, while there was a decline in the number of other students entering the field

  (D) have steadily increased, while the number of other students entering the field has fallen

  (E) have steadily increased, while that of other students who enter the field fell

  2.A report by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science has concluded that much of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed comes from the incineration of wastes.

  (A) much of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed comes

  (B) much of the currently uncontrolled dioxins that North Americans are exposed to come

  (C) much of the dioxins that are currently uncontrolled and that North Americans are exposed to comes

  (D) many of the dioxins that are currently uncontrolled and North Americans are exposed to come

  (E) many of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed come

  3.With its plan to develop seven and a half acres of shore land, Cleveland is but one of a large number of communities on the Great Lakes that is looking to its waterfront as a way to improve the quality of urban life and attract new businesses.

  (A) is looking to its waterfront as a way to improve the quality of urban life and attract

  (B) is looking at its waterfront to improve the quality of urban life and attract

  (C) are looking to their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract

  (D) are looking to its waterfront as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attracting

  (E) are looking at their waterfronts as a way they can improve the quality of urban life and attract

  4.Downzoning, zoning that typically results in the reduction of housing density, allows for more open space in areas where little water or services exist.

  (A) little water or services exist

  (B) little water or services exists

  (C) few services and little water exists

  (D) there is little water or services available

  (E) there are few services and little available water

  5.The study undertaken by the Department of the Interior will involve examination and tagging of the California condor in order to obtain information about their daily movements, foraging habits, and sites where they nest.

  (A) their daily movements, foraging habits, and sites where they nest

  (B) their daily movements, foraging habits, and their nesting sites

  (C) its daily movements, foraging habits, and nesting sites

  (D) its daily movements, foraging habits, and about nesting sites

  (E) daily movements,foraging habits,and sites in which there are nests

  6.Although the bite of brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its poison.

  (A) brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its

  (B) brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to their

  (C) the brown recluse spider is rarely fatal,it causes chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to their

  (D) the brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its

  (E) the brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, they cause chronic

  7.If additional deposits of oil are found, it will expand the amount that can be used as fuel and reduce the price of oil, even if the deposits are not immediately tapped.

  (A) it will expand the amount that can be used as fuel and reduce the price of oil

  (B) the amount that is able to be used as fuel will expand and the price of oil be reduced

  (C) it will cause an increase in the amount that is able to be used as fuel and a reduction in the price of oil

  (D) the amount that can be used as fuel will increase and the price of oil will drop

  (E) it will increase the amount of oil that can used as fuel and cause a drop in the price

  8.Plausible though it sounds, the weakness of the hypothesis is that it does not incorporate all relevant evidence.

  (A) Plausible though it sounds, the weakness of the hypothesis

  (B) Even though it sounds plausible, the weakness of the hypothesis

  (C) Though plausible, the hypothesis' weakness

  (D) Though the hypothesis sounds plausible, its weakness

  (E) The weakness of the hypothesis which sounds plausible

  9.As researchers continue to probe the highly expressive vocal and postural language of wolves, their close resemblance to dogs has become ever more striking.

  (A) their close resemblance to dogs has become

  (B) the closeness of their resemblance to dogs has become

  (C) the close resemblance between them and dogs has become

  (D) the close resemblance between wolves and dogs becomes

  (E) the close resemblance of wolves with dogs becomes

  10.The rules that govern political contributions are less stringent in local elections than they are in national elections because they typically involve smaller amounts of money and present less opportunity for abuse.

  (A) The rules that govern political contributions are less stringent in local elections than they are in national elections because they typically involve smaller amounts of money and present less opportunity for abuse.

  (B) Because they typically involve smaller amounts of money and present less opportunity for abuse, the rules that govern political contributions are less stringent in local elections than the rules are in national elections.

  (C) The rules that govern political contributions are less stringent in local elections than national elections because they typically involve smaller amounts of money and present less opportunity for abuse.

  (D) Because local elections typically involve smaller amounts of money and present less opportunity for abuse than national elections, the rules that govern local political contributions are less stringent than national contributions.

  (E) The rules that govern political contribution are less stringent in local elections than they are in national elections because local elections typically involve smaller amounts of money and present less opportunity for abuse.

  11.New Jersey's is one of the five highest number of reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States.

  (A) New Jersey's is one of the five highest number of reported

  (B) New Jersey's is one of the five highest numbers in reporting

  (C) New Jersey has a report of one of the five highest numbers of

  (D) New Jersey has one of the five highest numbers of reported

  (E) New Jersey reports one of the five highest number of

  12.After the Civil War, contemporaries of Harriet Tubman's maintained that she has all of the qualities of a great leader,coolness in the face of danger, an excellent sense of strategy, and an ability to plan in minute detail.

  (A) Tubman's maintained that she has

  (B) Tubman's maintain that she had

  (C) Tubman's have maintained that she had

  (D) Tubman maintained that she had

  (E) Tubman had maintained that she has

  13.In Egypt in the late Paleolithic period, the climate changed, pastures became deserts, and the inhabitants were forced to withdraw to the land bordering the Nile from their hunting grounds.

  (A) inhabitants were forced to withdraw to the land bordering the Nile from their hunting grounds

  (B) inhabitants had been forced to withdraw from their hunting grounds to the land that bordered the Nile

  (C) inhabitants were forced to withdraw from their hunting grounds to the land bordering the Nile

  (D) inhabitants having been forced to , withdraw from their hunting grounds to the land that bordered the Nile

  (E) inhabitants withdrew, because they were forced to, from their hunting grounds to the land bordering the Nile

  14.During the Great Depression , industrial output fell by nearly fifty percent from its peak in 1929 down to its nadir in 1933.

  (A) During the Great Depression , industrial output fell by nearly fifty percent from its peak in 1929 down to its nadir in 1933

  (B) During the Great Depression , industrial output fell by nearly fifty percent from its peak in 1929 to its nadir in 1933

  (C) At the time of the Great Depression, industrial output fell by almost fifty percent from its 1929 peak down to its 1933 nadir

  (D) At the time of the Great Depression, industrial output fell by almost fifty percent from it peak in 1929, by nearly fifty percent, to its nadir in 1933

  (E) During the Great Depression, industrial output fell from its peak in 1929 to its nadir in 1933 by nearly fifty percent

  15.The winds that howl across the Great Plains not only blow away valuable topsoil, thereby reducing the potential crop yield of a tract of land, and also damage or destroy young plants.

  (A) and also damage or destroy

  (B) as well as damaging or destroying

  (C) but they also cause damage or destroy

  (D) but also damage or destroy

  (E) but also causing damage or destroying

  16.The Federal Reserve Board’s reduction of interest rates on loans to financial institutions is both an acknowledgement of past economic trends and an effort to influence their future direction.

  (A) reduction of interest rates on loans to financial institutions is both an acknowledgement of past economic trends and an effort

  (B) reduction of interest rates on loans to financial institutions is an acknowledgement both of past economic trends as well as an effort

  (C) reduction of interest rates on loans to financial institutions both acknowledge past economic trends and attempt

  (D) reducing interest rates on loans to financial institutions is an acknowledgement both of past economic trends and an effort

  (E) reducing interest rates on loans to financial institutions both acknowledge past economic trends as well as attempt

  17.The Rorschzch test is gaining new repeat as a diagnostic tool because it takes only one hour to expose behavior and thought processes that may be unlikely to emerge in other procedures or weeks of ordinary interviewing.

  (A) that may be unlikely to emerge in other procedures or weeks of ordinary interviewing

  (B) whose emergence is unlikely in other procedures or weeks of ordinary interviews

  (C) that might not emerge in other procedures or in weeks of ordinary interviewing

  (D) that may not emerge under other procedures or weeks of ordinary interviewing

  (E) unlikely not to emerge during weeks of ordinary interviewing or in other procedures

  18.The demand for airplane mechanics is expected to grow about ten percent a year in the next decade,largely because new federal rules calling for major modifications to older planes and because the air-lines are adding hundreds of new jets

  (A) new federal rules calling for major modifications to older planes

  (B) new federal rules, which call for major modifications to older planes

  (C) new federal rules call for major modifications to older planes

  (D) major modifications to older planes called for by new federal rules

  (E) major modifications to older planes are called for according to new federal rules

  19.In the main, incidents of breakdowns in nuclear reactors have not resulted from lapses of high technology but commonplace inadequacies in plumbing and wiring.

  (A) not resulted from lapses of high technology but

  (B) resulted not from lapses of high technology but from

  (C) resulted from lapses not of high technology but

  (D) resulted from lapses not of high technology but have stemmed from

  (E) resulted not from lapses of high technology but have stemmed from

  答案:1.D 2.E 3.C 4.E 5.C 6.D 7.D 8.D 9.D 10.E 11.D 12.D 13.C 14.B 15.D 16.A 17.C 18.C 19.B

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