SAT og 5阅读真题解析 - 图文

解析：E，我们在第一篇都了解到士兵在写信的时候不能够完全写出战争的试试，如果被军官发现那么这些信件是不能够发出的，而第二篇着重讲解女性在战争中的地位，发展，都没有集中在战争的事实上。 24. Which of the following statements about the effect of the First World War is supported by both passages? (A) Officers resented the government's complacency. (B) Women gained independence in postwar Britain. (C) Soldiers felt isolated from pans of civilian society. (D) Writers failed in their attempts to describe the atrocities of war.

(E) War proved an undesirable way to resolve the European conflict.

解析：C，该题考察的是对两篇文章主旨的把握，都表现了士兵被社会群体孤立的特点。

1. As sea urchins are becoming scarcer, divers are ___________ to

more dangerous depths to retrieve them, __________ the potential for diving injuries.

(A) swimming v. 游泳...lessening v. 减少 (B) descending v. 下降...increasing v. 增加 (C) removing v. 去除...avoiding v. 避免 (D) returning v. 返回...seeing v. 看见

(E) climbing v. 攀登...creating v. 创造

解析：B，随着海胆数量的减少，潜水员----去更深的海域捕捉猎物，----潜水受伤的概率。因为要去更深的海域捕捉所以要下降，后面是增加受伤几率了。 2. Anne mentioned John's habitual boasting about his wardrobe as an example of his __________ ways. (A) erratic adj. 古怪的 (B) egotistical adj. 自我的

(C) flexible adj. 灵活的 (D) tactful adj. 老练的

(E) inconspicuous adj. 不显眼的

解析：B，安娜说约翰用他很常有的---方式去吹嘘自己的衣柜。这里的habitual是习惯的，常用的也就是他自我的一种方式，与boasting同义。

3.His peers respected him because he was both __________ and

__________: steadfast in his beliefs and tactful in his negotiations. (A) resourceful adj. 资源丰富的...courteous adj. 谦恭的 (B) tenacious adj. 固执的...manipulative adj. 操纵的 (C) determined adj. 坚决的...demonstrative adj. 说明的 (D) resolute adj. 坚决的, 果断的...diplomatic adj. 外交的

(E) outspoken adj. 坦率的...indiscriminate adj. 无差别的

解析：D，他的同事很尊敬他因为他即---也---他信念坚强和沟通机智果断。前面的and与后面and连接的意思是一致的。

4.Considering that many women had little control over their own lives in medieval England, Margery Kempe's fifteenth-century autobiography demonstrates a remarkable degrees of __________. (A) consecration n. 奉献 (B) rationalism n. 理性主义 (C) autonomy n. 自治 (D) effacement n. 抹杀

(E) simplicity n. 简易

解析：C，在中世纪英国女性对于自己的生活很少有主宰的权利，但是MK在15世纪的自传中表明了一种典型的---。从后面的remarkabledegree可以看出与前面的意思是相反的。

5. Following the decree banning ___________ acts, suspected

___________ could be forcibly without the filing of formal charges.

(A) rebellious adj. 反叛的...conformists n. 墨守成规的 (B) apolitical adj. 与政治无关的...loyalists n. 忠实拥护者 (C) seditious adj. 煽动...insurrectionists n. 起义者 (D) subversive adj. 颠覆性的...nonpartisans n. 无党派

(E) supportive adj. 支持的...opponents n. 对手

解析：C遵循法令禁止---条例，怀疑---有可能被强制性的留住即使没有正式的控告。

6. By portraying a wide spectrum of characters in his one-man show, John Leguizamo provides a ___________ to the theater's tendency to offer a limited range of roles to Latino actors. (A) corrective n. 改善法 (B) tribute n. 致敬，礼物 (C) corollary n. 推论 (D) stimulus n. 刺激 (E) precursor n. 前导

解析：A，通过在他的个人秀里面展示出多样化的性格，约翰里辉赞提倡去---戏院的倾向于不给拉丁演员很多角色选择。

She'd met lots of crazy musicians, but no one like Clayton. He was as obsessed as the others, but he had a quirky sense of humor, a slow ironic counterpoint to his own beliefs. And he didn't look quite like anyone else. 5 He wore his hair parted dangerously near the middle and combed it in little ripples like Cab Calloway(1), though sometimes he let it fly up a bit at the ends in deference to the campus pressure for Afros. His 50 soup back al the fraternity house, if you don 't mind the walk.\ The walk was twenty minutes of agonizing bliss, with the wind off the lake whipping her blue, and Clayton too involved with analyzing the orchestra's horn section to 55 notice. When they reached the house, a brick building with a crumbling porch and weeds cracking the fronl path, she was nearly frozen through. He heated up a can of soup, and caramel-colored skin darkened to toffee under fluorescent light but sometimes 10 took on a golden sheen. especially in the vertical shafts of sunlight that poured into his favorite practice room where. she'd often peek in on him-an uncanny complexion, as if the shades swirled just under the surface. Virginia's friends gave her advice on how to get him. 15 \together,\ As it turned out, she didn't have to plan a thing. She was reading one afternoon outside the Fine Ans Building when the day suddenly turned cold. If she went back to the dorm for a sweater. she'd be late for orchestra rehearsal. So she 20 stuck it out until a few minutes before rehearsal at four. By that time, her fingers were so stiff she had to run them under hot water to loosen them up. Then she hurried to the cello room. where alt the instruments were lined up like Novitiates(2); she felt a strange reverence every time she 25 stepped across the threshold into its cool serenity. There they stood. obedient yet voluptuous in their molded cases. In the dim light their plump forms looked sadly human, as if they were waiting for something better to come along but knew it wouldn’t. 30 Virginia grabbed her cello and was halfway down the plunked the cheese down in the center of the dinette table. \she was thinking 60 A loaf of bread, a jug of wine(4), and felt sated before lifting the firsl spoonfuL The house was rented to Alpha Phi Alpha, one of three Black fraternities on campus, It had a musty tennis-shoes-and-ripe-laundry smell. Books and jackets were strewn everywhere. dishes piled in Ihe sink. 65 \shc asked. \replied. \ But I felt at home immediately. With the music, I mean. The instrument took a little longer. Everyone said I was too tall to be a celli st.\ 70 Virginia watched him as he talked. He was the same golden brown as the instrument, and his mustache followed the lines of the cello's scroll. \ \would say, 'Remember 75 the bumblebee.' .. \cellos?\ \speaking, is too large for flight. But the bee has never heard of aerodynamics, so it flies in spite of the laws of gravity. I merely wrapped my 80 legs and arms around the cello and kept playing.\ Music was the only landscape in which he seemed at ease.