2013年11月23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.

　　In Costa Rica, coffee, from the highlands, and bananas, produced mainly in the Caribbean lowlands, as the most important crops, they account for nearly half the total value of all exports.

　　(A) as the most important crops, they account

　　(B) as the most important crops, which account

　　(C) are the most important crops, accounting

　　(D) are the most important of their crops by accounting

　　(E) have been the most important crops, which accounts

2013年11月23日SAT考试官方每日一题答案：C

解析：Choice (C) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by providing a main verb (“are”) to agree with the subject of the sentence, “coffee … and bananas.”

2013年11月24日SAT真题

SAT真题类型：Mathematics > Standard Multiple Choice 数学选择

　　Read the following SAT test question and then click on a button to select your answer.

　　The bar graph above shows the number of people in attendance at each of the four meetings of the Maple Street Block Association that were held in. Only members of the Block Association can attend the meetings, and no members joined or left the Block Association during. Based on the bar graph, what is the least number of members the Maple Street Block Association could have had in?

　　(A)

　　(B)

　　(C)

　　(D)

　　(E)

解析：The highest attendance was at the spring meeting, which had people attending. Since only members can attend the meetings, these people must have been members of the Maple Street Block Association; thus, there must have been at least members of the Block Association. If the , and people who attended the winter, summer and autumn meetings, respectively, were all among the people who attended the spring meeting, then the Block Association could have had as few as members in all. Therefore, based on the bar graph, the least number of members the Maple Street Block Association could have had in is .