标题: SAT词汇填空:秒杀or被秒杀? [打印本页] 作者: karasile 时间: 2011-11-23 16:08 标题: SAT词汇填空:秒杀or被秒杀? SAT词汇填空:秒杀or被秒杀?
(作者/上海新航道 张登)
平均一道SAT词汇填空题需要多长时间?
问题不在多长,而在多短。以总长时间除以每次reading section的题目个数后,理论上说每道题应为1分钟。然则,篇章阅读自然所需时间较长:阅读文章时间 + 定位原句并精读原句时间 + 判断时间 = 1分钟-1分20秒左右。此消彼长,可见词汇填空题只能以30-40秒选择答案。
胜负只在转瞬之间。这不只是一个深度考试,美国人一向对速度的要求很苛刻 —— 他们社会发展的建立之本就在于以最小的社会必要劳动时间获取最大的价值量。
面对一道如此快速的词汇题,我们是秒杀它,还是被秒杀?
一,解析范例
The young man possessed -------- disposition, abjectly submissive to the will of others.
A, an amiable
B, an inscrutable
C, a servile
D, a jocular
E, a melancholy
被秒杀很简单:一看5个词基本都不认识,黑线了,一时有种在做希腊语题的错觉。
Although the women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who undertook botanical illustration were primarily -------- , their contribution as naturalists and cataloguers actually helped ---------- the field as an academic discipline.
A certain additive put in gasoline to reduce air pollution is actually -------- ground water, a finding that shows that even the most well-intentioned fixes can sometimes ---------- .
A, liquefying .. founder
B, contaminating .. backfire
C, purifying .. boomerang
D, saturating .. reciprocate
E, polluting .. prevail
例:
No longer considered --------- , the belief that all of Puerto Rico's indigenous Taino people perished centuries ago appears to be a ----------- now that modern Taino descendants have come forward.
A, conclusive .. reality
B, tenable .. misconception
C, mythical .. possibility
D, erroneous .. delusion
E, hypothetical .. digression
The ambassador argues that, in diplomacy, there is a subtle but important difference between a country's showing a willingness to --------- and a too-obvious readiness to make --------------- .
A, negotiate .. concessions
B, antagonize .. friends
C, surrender .. enemies
D, dominate .. inquiries
E, equivocate .. denunciations