SSAT为美国中学入学考试，适用于美国、加拿大私立中学的入学，是申请美国中学所必须具备的一个考试成绩。越来越多的中国学生报考SSAT考试。

　　在备考SSAT考试的过程中，SSAT的训练是必不可少的，针对参加SSAT考试考生的需求，楷维留学小编整理了SSAT考试几道自测练习题，希望能够帮助广大的SSAT中国考生更充分的备考。

　　1.No word must ever leak out about this military action! It has to be a clandestine operation in order to succeed.

　　Which word is a synonym of "clandestine"?

　　a. family

　　b. useful

　　c. dangerous

　　d. secret

　　2. Put this medicine on your arm and rub it into your skin until it's invisible.

　　It will inhibit the infection's attempt to spread.

　　What does “inhibit” mean?

　　a. live in a certain place

　　b. block or slow down

　　c. itch or burn

　　d. help to do something important

　　答案【D,B】

　　3.　Said a Melrose, Massachusetts, housing engineer in 1980, "Every politician is the same, regardless of whether he's in Boston or Washington. That's why a lot of us may choose not to vote this November." As a result, people are focusing efforts on the local level. There, one sees not apathy but intense political activity.

　　There has been a gradual but pronounced shift of power out of the hands of elected officials to direct ballot voting through local initiatives and referenda where people, not officials, decide by a majority vote a certain course of action. Politicians matter less and less. So there is a declining interest in national political elections. It is a natural consequence of the shift from a representative to a participatory democracy.

　　Political commentators and the media, of course, see this as anything but natural. We are constantly upbraided for apathy and for taking democracy for granted. And by now we all feel even guilty about it.

　　We should not. Low voter turnout does not automatically signal trouble in democracy.In any event, exceptionally high turnout is not necessarily the wonderful thing the commentators would have us believe it is. Worldwide, the highest turnouts occur in totalitarian states. For example, only one voter failed to turn out in Albania's 1978 general election; North Korea counts on a full 100-percent turnout; and in Romania and East Germany the vote hovers at around 99 percent.

　　Political analysis used to associate low turnout with apathy or ignorance. But as the electorate becomes better educated, more informed, and more assertive, that rationalization is becoming increasingly difficult to substantiate. Analysts are finally beginning to understand that voters are making a conscious decision not to participate.

　　We have pulled the essence of political power out of the hands of our elected representatives and reinvested it into two main areas: (1) the direct ballot vote of initiatives and referenda and (2) grassroots political activity. In both cases citizens, not politicians, decide on a course of action and live with it.

　　(1)As used in the passage, pronounced most nearly means

　　A. marked.

　　B. outspoken.

　　C. recited.

　　D. uttered.

　　(2) Which of the following best describes the author's attitude toward low voter turnout?

　　A. alarmed

　　B. undisturbed

　　C. guilty

　　D. worried

　　(3)The underlined word upbraided means

　　A. criticized.

　　B. punished.

　　C. recognized.

　　D. rewarded.

　　(4)The author mentions the voter turnout in some other countries to show that

　　A. high turnout is not necessarily a sign of democracy.

　　B. voter turnout in the U.S. is low.

　　C. the U.S. is less democratic than some other countries.

　　D. we take democracy for granted by not voting.

　　(5) According to the passage, which of the following is the main reason for low voter turnout in national elections?

　　A. ignorance of the issues

　　B. lack of education

　　C. lack of interest in politics

　　D. shift in political focus

　　答案【A,B,A,A,D】

　　以上就是楷维留学小编整理的SSAT考试自测练习题，希望能够帮助广大的SSAT中国考生更充分的备考。同学们在备考过程中，一定要加强习题练习和考场状态的练习，这样才能在考场上发挥出色。