新SAT考试在亚洲的首考即将在5月进行,所以这个阶段的同学们不要慌张,平时该复习的还是要认真复习一遍,下面就是及解析,希望能够帮助大家更顺利的进行考试,期待这次的进步!
1. Although daydreaming is generally seen as counterproductive, it can be surprisingly-------, even helping us make progress toward long-term goals.
A. distracting
B. infrequent
C. difficult
D. useful
E. simple
解析:解释题,空格后为此题线索,helping 的同义词为useful,答案为D。
翻译:尽管白日梦被视为是适得其反的,但它可以是惊人的有用,甚至可以帮助我们朝着长期目标前进。
2. Some health professionals believe that ------- can be --------by limiting caloric intake: put simply , if you eat moderately, you may live longer.
A. stamina...... impaired
B. Endurance.......alleviated
C. immortality.......averted
D. longevity........promoted
E. maturity........established
解析:冒号解释或目的题,1. by 通过限制卡路里的摄入;2. 冒号后解释“吃的少,活的长”。 所以看到live longer,第一空基本可以确定了,故D为正确选项。
翻译:一些健康专家认为寿命可以通过限制卡路里的摄入来提高:简单点说就是吃的少,活的长。
3. Stinkbugs, as their name suggests, are capable of secreting a -------- chemical to ward off predators.
A. malignant
B. debilitating
C. malodorous
D. fragmentary
E. phosphorescent
解析:SAT中的典型题目:名字题。当题干中出现书名,地名或Nickname并题目让你注意这些名字时(as their name suggests),名字即为线索。Stinkbug臭虫,stink为恶臭的意思,故答案为C。可通过词根mal+odor来分析此词。E选项是新考词汇,意思是“发磷光的”
通过词根也可看出“-phos-=-phot-:光”,-phor- means “to carry”,所以这个词基本意思为“to carry light”,带着光的(尤指夜光)。
翻译:臭虫,正如它的名字所指,可以分泌出一种恶臭的化学物质来抵御捕食者。
4. Mae West bold disregard for popular conventions and norms during her film career earned her reputation for --------.
A. tenaciousness
B. audacity
C. voraciousness
D. amiability
E. complacency
解析:题干说M这个人通过什么获得的...名誉,所以前面的bold是线索词。答案选Bold同义词B选项。
翻译:Mae West在她的电影生涯中大胆地无视了流行的传统观念,帮助她赢得了胆大的称呼。
5. As a child, anthropologist Mireya Mayor was expected to practice piano regularly, a most ------- task for someone who preferred to play outdoors.
A. galvanizing
B. grueling
C. embarrassing
D. diverting
E. ingratiating
解析:题干说对于喜欢在户外活动的人来说,定期练习钢琴是一件什么任务,闲不住的人当然觉得练习很累了,所以空格选负向词grueling“繁重而累人的”。故答案为B。
翻译:还是一个孩子的时候,人类学家Mireya Mayor被期望能在家里定期练习钢琴,这对一个喜欢户外运动的人来说是一个繁重而累人的任务。
上面五道题目的分析很详细,希望能帮助大家更好的备考,将自己做错的题目重新分析一下,相信你会有很大的进步!
6. Janet's ------ was evident to everyone in the room because she glanced around at them ------.
A. guilt .. confidently
B. anxiety .. calmly
C. conviction .. uneasily
D. hopefulness .. gloomily
E. suspicion .. distrustfully
解析:
两空都是在修饰Janet的行为特征,中间由because连接因果关系,所以两空同义,选E选项suspicion“怀疑”distrustfully“不信任地”。
词汇扩充:
怀疑的,不轻信的:skeptical, suspicious, incredulous
7. Early twentieth-century writers Ernst Hemingway and Edna St. Vincent Millay owed much of their public visibility to self-promotion: both were adept at ------ their own literary works.
A. marketing
B. modernizing
C. duplicating
D. finalizing
E. editing
解析:
空格对应冒号前的self-promotion“自我推销”,所以选择A选项marketing“营销”。
8. Chemistry professor Mande Holford learned about the National Science Foundation fellowship program in ------ way: she happened across an advertisement for it in a magazine she read during jury duty.
A. an orthodox
B. an anachronistic
C. a fortuitous
D. a dilatory
E. a nefarious
解析:
空格对应冒号后的描述,通过happen“碰巧发生”可以判断空格填C选项fortuitous“偶然的,意外的”。
词汇扩充:
偶然的,意外的:accidental, unintentional, haphazard, incidental, serendipity (n.)
9. Many today would consider Phillis Wheatley to have been remarkably ------ : by age 12 she was studying Latin, and soon after, she was translating Ovid into English.
A. taciturn
B. rambunctious
C. garrulous
D. precocious
E. winsome
解析:
空格对应冒号后的描述---12岁学拉丁语并翻译Ovid, 所以选D选项precocious“早熟的”。注意,premature经常被误认为是“早熟的”意思,而实际上表示“不成熟的,草率的”。
10. The philosopher claimed that we humans are essentially ------, given to dissembling in order to further our interests.
A. altruistic
B. redoubtable
C. pugnacious
D. duplicitous
E. complacent
解析:
空格对应逗号后所说的为了扩大自己的利益去dissembling“掩饰,掩盖”,所以选D选项duplicitous“欺骗性的,两面三刀的”。
词汇扩充:
欺骗性的:deceptive, fraudulent, mendacious
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