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2013年7月19日SAT考试官方每日一题
SAT真题类型:Critical Reading > Sentence Completions
Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Confident that her own political platform would ------- at election time, the mayor considered her opponent's sudden popularity less a threat than -------.
A. falter . . a boon
B. strengthen . . a calamity
C. prevail . . a distraction
D. alter . . an error
E. waver . . a diversion
2013年7月19日SAT考试官方每日一题答案:C
解析:
Choice (C) is correct. The mayor was confident about her campaign, so it makes sense to suggest that she felt her political platform would “prevail,” or triumph. The phrase “less...than” indicates that as a result of her confidence, the mayor found her opponent's popularity to be less than a threat; she considered it a mere “distraction.”免责声明:本站注明稿件来源为互联网或其他媒体的文、图或视频等稿件均为转载稿,本站转载出于非商业性的教育和科研之目的,并不意味着赞同其观点或证实其内容的真实性。如转载稿涉及版权等问题,请作者在两周内速来电或来函联系。
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