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SAT OG Test 4,Section2

1. To avoid being ------, composer Stephen Sondheim

strives for an element of surprise in his songs.

(A) erratic 古怪的漂泊不定的人

(B)informal

(C) elaborate

(D) predictable

(E) idiosyncratic特质的

解析：D，作曲家史蒂芬为了避免作品过于通俗可见力求在他的作品中加入令人惊喜的元素。我们从后面的surprise可以看出前面是为了避免古语通俗。

2. Because the pandas had already been weakened by disease and drought. a harsh winter would have had----- consequences for them.

(A) preventive

(B) regressive 退化的

(C) catastrophic灾难性的

(D) unforeseen 未预见的

(E) moderate

解析：C，由于大熊猫已经受到疾病和干旱的袭击，如果要再经历一个严冬会给他们带来一长灾难性的结果。

3.For many of the villagers, marriage was a practical........ one not necessarily ------- of love but nevertheless grounded largely in economic advantage.

A) arrangement .. devoid安排， 缺乏

(B) entertainment .. disparaging娱乐，蔑视

(C) attitude .. consisting

(D) bargain .. worhy

(E) misfortune .. trusting

解析：A，对于一些村民来说，婚姻是一个更为实际的计划，一个婚姻并不是缺乏爱然而一定要有一定的经济优势。

4.Maggie is a procrastinator, naturally inclined to -----

and to ....... discussions.

(A) meddle .. scoff at管闲事，藐视

(B) temporize .. prolong拖延，延长

(C) misbehave . . disrupt行为不礼貌，打扰

(D) sneer .. terminate嘲笑，终止

(E) withdraw .. intrude in撤退，闯入

解析：B，马吉是一个有拖延症的人，经常会延长我们讨论的时间。

5. Just as glass windows offer buildings both light and insulation. certain atmospheric gases ....... incoming sunlight and ....... heat radiated from the ground. preventing warmth from escaping.

(A) conduct .. release管理，释放

(B) deflect .. transmit专项，传播

(C) admit .. contain容许，含有

(D) absorb .. dispense吸收，分发

(E) resist .. trap

解析：C就像建筑物上的玻璃既透明又绝缘，可以容许一些来自太阳的大气气体进入并保持来自地面的热量，不必流失热量。

6. The speaker.praised for her style yet ridiculed for her vacuity. often moved naive listeners with ------alone and led them to believe that her speech had -----.

A) reason .. dalliance原因，嬉戏

(B) infelicity .. conviction不幸，定罪

(C) rhetoric .. substance华丽的辞藻，主旨

(D) pragmatism .. futility实用主义，无用

(E) boorishness .. integrity粗鲁的，正直的

解析：C，这个演讲者，他的风格值得表扬但是他的内容空白，经常用一些华丽的辞藻打动听众，只能让他们相信他的演讲有内容。后面半句可以看出只能打动那些天真的听众，vacuity就与后面的是相反的意思。

7. The actor was noted for his ------behavior: he quickly became irritated if his every whim was not immediately satisfied.

(A) fastidious挑剔的

(B) sedulous勤勉的

(C) vindictive怀恨的

(D) petulant暴躁的

(E) mercenary唯利是图者

解析：演员指出了他的举止很随意：如果他的每一个想法没有得到满足他很快就会发怒。我们从后半句可以看他的脾气很暴躁，所以前面对应的是D暴躁的。

8. Hayley Mills's films have been called -----. Although most of them are not so sentimental as to deserve that description.

(A) treacly甜蜜的

(B) cursory粗略的

(C) prosaic平凡的，乏味的

(D) meticulous一丝不苟的小心翼翼的

(E) consecrated神圣的

解析：A，海利的电影通常是---，尽管大部分并不伤感配不上这样的描述。后面的sentimental可以看出是细腻的感情电影，although表示转折。

Questions 9-10 are based on the following passage.

That nineteenth-century French novelist Honore

de Ballae could be financially wise in his fiction while

losing all his money in life was an irony duplicated in

other matters. For instance, the vcry women who had

5 been drawn to him by the penetrating intuition of

the female heart that he showed in his. novels were

appalled to discover how insensitive and awkward the

real man could be. It seems the true source of creation

for Balzac was not sensitivity but imugillaliOlI. Balzac's

10 fiction originally sprang from an intui tion be first discovered

as a wretched little school boy locked in a dark

closet of his boarding school: life is a prison. and only

imagination can open its doors.

文章大意：19世纪法国小说家巴尔扎克在他的小说方面很有经济头脑而具有讽刺性的是在现实生活中却非常麻木，他的创作铃铎多来自与想象，而不是敏感。 长难词：duplicate复制品 appall 震惊intuition直觉 wretch可怜的人

9. The example in lines 4-8 primarily suggest that

(A) Balzac's work wa~ not especially popular

among female readers

(B) Bulzac could not write convincingly aboui

financial matters

(C) Balzac's insights into character were not

evident in his everyday life

(D) people who knew Balzac personally could

not respect him as an anist

(E) readers had unreasonable expectations

of Balzac lhe man

解析：C，我们看4-8行那些曾经被他作品里细腻的描述所吸引的女性非常震惊的发现他在现实生活中非常麻木和迟钝的。所以巴尔扎克对于人物的描写不是来自平时的生活中。

10. 10. The author mentions Balzac's experience asa schoolboy in order to

(A) explain why Balzac was unable to conduct

his financial affairs properly

(B) point out a possible source of Balzuc's

powerful imagination

(C) exonerate the boarding school for Balzac's

lackluster performance

(D) foster the impression that Balzac was an

unru ly student

(E) depict the conditions of boarding school

life during Balzac's youth

解析：B，我们找到这一句“Balzac's10 fiction originally sprang from an intui tion be first discovered as a wretched little school boy locked in a dark closet”，我们可以看出巴尔扎克最初的灵感来源是那个被锁在壁橱的可怜的小男孩，这里就是强调他的灵感来源。

Dr. Jane Wright insisted in Imer years thm her

father. surgeon Louis Wright, never pressured her

to study medicine: indeed he warned her how hard

becoming a doctor would be. His very fame, within

5 and beyond the African American community, made

her training harder in some ways. "His being so good

really makes it very difficult:' Wright tuld an interviewer

soon after she graduated from medical school

in 1945. "Everyone knows who Papa is."

文章大意：主要描述莱特.简医生在学医生涯中父亲所充当的角色，没有严格的要求他去从医，而是告诉他这条路会非常艰难，而事实证明在父亲的影响下他的确付出了很大的努力。

11. The passage suggests that Jane Wright's medicaltraining was made more difficult because

(A) her father warned her not to study medicine

(B) her falher flaunted his success

(C) she did not spend adequate time studying

(D) she shared her father's desire for fame

(E) she was inevitably compared to her father

解析：E，整篇文章考察的是父亲在她从医的过程中所带来的影响，因为父亲是美国黑人区非常著名的医生，所以必定会与他作对比，学医的路就会变的更艰难。

12. The passage is primarily concerned with Jane Wright's

(A) views of the medical profession

(B) childhood recollections

(C) perception of her father as a role model

(D) reluctance 10 collaborate with her father

(E) gratitude for her father's encouragement

解析：C，这篇文章主要讲的是莱特.简的父亲在他学医过程中所充当的角色，所

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