2014年6月19日SAT真题

　　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.

　　Many forests in the southern region of the continent are ------- plant and animal diversity, partly because they never suffered the onslaught of glaciers that wiped out flora and fauna in northern forests long ago.

　　(A) rich in

　　(B) devoid of

　　(C) dependent on

　　(D) protected from

　　(E) conflicted about

2014年6月19日SAT考试官方每日一题答案：A

解析：The sentence indicates that “an onslaught of glaciers” once changed things in “northern forests” but not in “forests in the southern region of the continent.” It makes sense to suggest that the forests that did not have their “flora and fauna,” or plants and animals, wiped out by glaciers would be “rich in plant and animal diversity,” or would contain a vast amount of different plants and animals.

2014年6月20日SAT真题

　　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.

　　They determine the color and flavor of honey by the flowers from which the nectar is taken.

　　(A) They determine the color and flavor of honey by the

　　(B) Honey’s color and flavor is determined by which

　　(C) Honey’s color and flavor determined by those

　　(D) The color of honey, and its flavor, determined by the

　　(E) The color and flavor of honey are determined by the

2014年6月20日SAT考试官方每日一题答案：E

解析：Choice (E) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by removing the unnecessary pronoun “They,” and by using a well-constructed phrase, “The color and flavor … are …