SAT閱读SentenceCompletion练习10套（附答案）.docx

Sat Sentence Completion Test 11. Today Wegeners theory is ____ ; however, he died an outsider treated with ____ by the scientific establishment.A. unsupported - approvalB. dismissed - contemptC. accepted - approbationD. unchallenged - disdainE. unrivalled - reverence2. The revolution in art has not lost its steam; it ____ on as fiercely as ever.A. trudgesB. meandersC. edgesD. amblesE. rages3. Each occupation has its own ____ ; bankers, lawyers and computer professionals, for example, all use among themselves language which outsiders have difficulty following.A. meritsB. disadvantagesC. rewardsD. jargonE. problems4. ____ by nature, Jones spoke very little even to his own family members.A. garrulousB. equivocalC. taciturnD. arrogantE. gregarious5. Biological clocks are of such ____ adaptive value to living organisms, that we would expect most organisms to ____ them.A. clear - avoidB. meager - evolveC. significant - eschewD. obvious - possessE. ambivalent - develop6. The peasants were the least ____ of all people, bound by tradition and ____ by superstitions.A. free - fetteredB. enfranchised - rejectedC. enthralled - tiedD. pinioned - limitedE. conventional - encumbered7. Many people at that time believed that spices help preserve food; however,Hall found that many marketed spices were ____ bacteria, moulds and yeasts.A. devoid ofB. teeming withC. improved byD. destroyed byE. active against8. If there is nothing to absorb the energy of sound waves, they travel on ____ ,but their intensity ____ as they travel further from their source.A. erratically - mitigatesB. eternally - alleviatesC. forever - increasesD. steadily - stabilizesE. indefinitely - diminishes9. The two artists differed markedly in their temperaments; Palmer was reserved and courteous, Frazer ____ and boastful.A. phlegmaticB. cholericC. constrainedD. tractableE. stoic10. The intellectual flexibility inherent in a multicultural nation has been ____in classrooms where emphasis on British-American literature