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2014年7月16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.

　　Although her parents believed that everything their daughter did was -------, Suzette's teachers generally considered her work to be -------.

　　(A) disappointing . . unsatisfactory

　　(B) brilliant . . unremarkable

　　(C) amusing . . entertaining

　　(D) delightful . . outstanding

　　(E) average . . mediocre

2014年7月16日SAT考试官方每日一题答案：B

解析：The key to the sentence is the word "Although," which suggests a contrast of some sort between what Suzette's parents believed and what her teachers thought. Choice (B) is the only pair of contrasting terms. In this context, "brilliant" means defined by striking and unusual mental keenness, and "unremarkable" means ordinary and unimpressive. The sentence indicates that the teachers did not share the parents' opinion: Suzette's parents believed everything their daughter produced was striking and unusually smart, but her teachers thought her work was ordinary and not deserving of special notice.

2014年7月17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.

　　Upon winning her third gold medal at the competition, the young athlete learned that her accomplishments had surpassed her coach’s, a former track star.

　　(A) her coach's

　　(B) her coach

　　(C) those of her coach

　　(D) those done by her coach

　　(E) those of her coach's

2014年7月17日SAT考试官方每日一题答案：C

解析：Choice (C) is correct.  This version of the sentence correctly compares the young athlete’s accomplishments with her coach’s accomplishments, not with her coach.  In addition, it uses the plural pronoun “those” to refer to the coach’s accomplishments, which allows the noun “coach” to be correctly modified by the noun phrase “a former track star.”  The possessive noun “coach’s” cannot be modified by a noun phrase.