2013年12月5日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.

　　Althea Gibson, the first African American tennis player to be recognized as a world champion, beginning to play amateur tennis in the 1940s.

　　(A) beginning to play

　　(B) began playing

　　(C) and she began playing

　　(D) she began to play

　　(E) she had begun playing

2013年12月5日SAT考试官方每日一题答案：B

解析：Choice (B) is correct. It avoids the sentence fragment error of the original by providing a main verb (“began”) for the subject of the sentence, “Althea Gibson.”

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　　The most famous case of scientific suppression remains that of Galileo, who in 1633 was forced by the Roman Catholic Church to disavow his finding that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

　　(A) remains that of Galileo, who in 1633 was forced by the Roman Catholic Church to disavow

　　(B) remained that of Galileo, who in 1633 was forced by the Roman Catholic Church to disavow

　　(C) remaining that of Galileo, forced by the Roman Catholic Church in 1633 to disavow

　　(D) will remain that of Galileo, who is forced by the Roman Catholic Church in 1633 to disavow

　　(E) has remained that of Galileo, who in 1633 is forced by the Roman Catholic Church to disavow

解析：Choice (A) is correct. It avoids the errors of the other options by providing the present tense verb "remains" to refer to a present-day statement of fact (Galileo's case is today the most well-known example of scientific suppression) and the past tense verb phrase "was forced" to refer to a past event (in 1633 Galileo was forced to disavow his scientific findings).