2013-08-29 晴 82度
天朝的英语教学其实很牛的。不谦虚的说，比美帝的牛，尤其是语法，绝对比美帝的娃学得扎实！但，天朝的娃，在英语上的重大缺陷是词汇量不够。这往往造成了理解上的重大困难。
下面是9道SAT考试中心提供的练习题。您试试看？
1. 难度：难
Because King Philip's desire to make Spain the dominant power in sixteenth-century Europe ran counter to Queen Elizabeth's insistence on autonomy for England, ------- was -------.
Answer Choices
(A) reconciliation . . assured
(B) warfare . . avoidable
(C) ruination . . impossible
(D) conflict . . inevitable
(E) diplomacy . . simple
2. 难度：难
There is no doubt that Larry is a genuine ------- : he excels at telling stories that fascinate his listeners.
Answer Choices
(A) braggart
(B) dilettante
(C) pilferer
(D) prevaricator
(E) raconteur
3. 难度：中
A discerning publishing agent can ------- promising material from a mass of submissions, separating the good from
the bad.
the bad.
Answer Choices
(A) supplant
(B) dramatize
(C) finagle
(D) winnow
(E) overhaul
(B) dramatize
(C) finagle
(D) winnow
(E) overhaul
4. 难度：简单
Although some think the terms "bug" and "insect" are ------- , the former term actually refers to ------- group of insects.
Answer Choices
(A) parallel . . an identical
(B) precise . . an exact
(C) interchangeable . . a particular
(D) exclusive . . a separate
(E) useful . . a useless
5. 难度：难
The novel's protagonist, a pearl diver, naïvely expects that the buyers will compete among themselves to pay him the best price for his pearl, but instead they ------- to ------- him.
Answer Choices
(A) venture . . reward
(B) pretend . . praise
(C) conspire . . reimburse
(D) refuse . . cheat
(E) collude . . swindle
6. 难度：简单
The addition of descriptive details to the basic information serves to ------- the book by producing a fuller account.
Answer Choices
(A) invalidate
(B) objectify
(C) incite
(D) celebrate
(E) enrich
7. 难度：中
Ramona had never visited Niagara Falls, but she could appreciate their splendor ------- through the descriptions of
others.
others.
Answer Choices
(A) vicariously
(B) heedlessly
(C) innocuously
(D) mystically
(E) voluminously
(B) heedlessly
(C) innocuously
(D) mystically
(E) voluminously
8. 难度：中
Members of the research team were initially so adversarial that ------- seemed impossible; the project's inauspicious
start made its final success all the more ------- .
start made its final success all the more ------- .
Answer Choices
(A) concentration . . incidental
(B) disagreement . . incongruous
(C) collaboration . . predictable
(D) hostility . . dazzling
(E) cooperation . . remarkable
(B) disagreement . . incongruous
(C) collaboration . . predictable
(D) hostility . . dazzling
(E) cooperation . . remarkable
9. 难度：中
Joshua's radical ideas were frowned on by most of his coworkers, who found them too ------- for their conservative
tastes.
tastes.
Answer Choices
(A) heretical
(B) meticulous
(C) precise
(D) incoherent
(E) sagacious
(B) meticulous
(C) precise
(D) incoherent
(E) sagacious
好了，9道题做完了。备受鼓励，还是备受打击呢？
各位考过4、6、8级和GRE的同学， 尤其是人在北美的，号称英语大牛的，你们都做对了吗？（你用了几分钟做对了这几道高考题？）
答案：1. D, 2. E, 3. D, 4. C, 5. E, 6. E, 7. A, 8. E, 9. A
