2013-08-29 晴 82度
天朝的英語教學其實很牛的。不謙虛的說，比美帝的牛，尤其是語法，絕對比美帝的娃學得紮實！但，天朝的娃，在英語上的重大缺陷是詞匯量不夠。這往往造成了理解上的重大困難。
下麵是9道SAT考試中心提供的練習題。您試試看？
1. 難度：難
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. 難度：難
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. 難度：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. 難度：簡單
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. 難度：難
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. 難度：簡單
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. 難度：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. 難度：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. 難度：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道題做完了。備受鼓勵，還是備受打擊呢？
各位考過4、6、8級和GRE的同學， 尤其是人在北美的，號稱英語大牛的，你們都做對了嗎？（你用了幾分鍾做對了這幾道高考題？）
答案：1. D, 2. E, 3. D, 4. C, 5. E, 6. E, 7. A, 8. E, 9. A
