2013年10月23日SAT真题

SAT真题类型：Critical Reading > Sentence Completions 完成句子

　　Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

　　There has been little ------- criticism written about de la Mare; indeed, that which has been written is at the two extremes, either appallingly ------- or bitterly antagonistic.

　　(A) hostile . . ambiguous

　　(B) recent . . illogical

　　(C) fervent . . complimentary

　　(D) objective . . sycophantic

　　(E) temperate . . censorious

解析：While both “complimentary” and “sycophantic” are opposed to “antagonistic,” only “objective” fits logically in the first blank.

2013年10月24日SAT真题

SAT真题类型：Writing > Improving Sentences 改进句子

　　Part or all of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A.

　　A renowned French American artist who worked in New York until her death at age 98, Louise Bourgeois’s sculptures often resembled giant spiders, earning her the nickname “the Spiderwoman.”

　　(A) Louise Bourgeois’s sculptures often resembled giant spiders

　　(B) Louise Bourgeois created sculptures that often resembled giant spiders

　　(C) Louise Bourgeois’s sculptures had often resembled giant spiders

　　(D) the sculptures of Louise Bourgeois, they often resembled giant spiders

　　(E) Louise Bourgeois created sculptures they often resembled giant spiders

解析：Choice (B) is correct. It avoids the modification error of the original by providing the proper noun “Louise Bourgeois” to serve as the subject of the sentence. In the original sentence, the phrase “A renowned French American artist who worked in New York until her death at age 98” illogically modified Bourgeois’s sculptures instead of Bourgeois herself.