2013年11月28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.

　　Mr. Warmington considered himself a connoisseur of fine wines, claiming he could ------- variations in taste and quality among any range of vintages he was served.

　　(A) purvey

　　(B) discern

　　(C) efface

　　(D) mollify

　　(E) debate

2013年11月28日SAT考试官方每日一题答案：B

解析：Choice (B) is correct. If this term were inserted into the sentence, the sentence would read “Mr. Warmington considered himself a connoisseur of fine wines, claiming he could discern variations in taste and quality among any range of vintages he was served.” A “connoisseur” has a sophisticated ability to appreciate and assess subtleties. If Mr. Warmington considered himself a connoisseur of wine, he would claim an ability to “discern,” or detect, variations in the taste and quality of different wines.

2013年11月29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.

　　New analyses of a fossil suggest winged insects having possibly emerged as early as 400 million years ago.

　　(A) suggest winged insects having possibly

　　(B) suggest that winged insects may have

　　(C) suggesting that winged insects, they may have

　　(D) that suggests winged insects as having possibly

　　(E) that suggest winged insects to have possibly

解析：Choice (B) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by replacing the awkward and wordy “suggest winged insects having possibly” with the more precise and idiomatic “suggest that winged insects may have.”