sat词汇填空题

•Because the pandas had already been weakened by disease and drought, a harsh winter would have had --- consequences for them.

•(A) preventive

•(B) regressive

•(C) catastrophic

•(D) unforeseen

•(E) moderate

•Johnson’s writing is considered ------- and ------- because it is filled with obscure references and baffling digressions.

•(A) deceiving ….ingenuous

•(B) arcane ….abstruse

•(C) spare ….didactic

•(D) lucid ….definitive

•(E) concise ….esoteric

• 3.A painter’s ability to render a likeness is both ___ a nd acquired; the artist blends natural abilities with worldly experience in the creation of his or her art.

• A anticipated

• B overt

• C aesthetic

• D ubiquitous

• E innate

• 4. A judicious biography must be ----- representation that depicts both the strengths and the weaknesses of the subject, avoiding the two extremes of ---- and indictment.

• A a polarized … vindication

• B an imaginative … discernment

• C a holistic … censure

• D a complimentary … animosity

• E an equitable … eulogy

•Because the congresswoman has been so openhanded with many of her constituents, it is difficult to reconcile this ------- with her private -------.

•(A) selfishness ….inattention

•(B) insolence ….virtue

•(C) magnanimity ….pettiness

•(D) opportunism ….ambition

•(E) solicitousness ….generosity

•His peers respected him because he was both ------- and -------：steadfast in his beliefs and tactful in his negotiations.

•(A) resourceful ….courteous

•(B) tenacious ….manipulative

•(C) determined ….demonstrative

•(D) resolute ….diplomatic

•(E) outspoken ….indiscriminate

•Cathedrals usually take decades , even centuries, to complete; thus no one expected the National Cathedral to be built with -------.

•(A) dispatch

•(B) presumption

•(C) durability

•(D) deliberation

•(E) reverence

•Although Eduora Welty and William Faulkner wrote in distinctively different styles, ------- between the two is ------- because they both lived in and wrote about Mississippi.

•(A) comparison ….inevitable

•(B) cooperation …..destructive

•(C) discord ….legendary

•(D) similarity ….unlikely

•(E) rivalry ….redundantly

•Rodolfo Gonzales was once describes as ------- in body and mind because of the flexibility and grace apparent in both his boxing and his writing of poetry and plays.

•(A) unyielding

•(B) tremulous

•(C) emphatic

•(D) lithe

•(E) fickle

•To reflect the ------- of that nation’s spoken languages, its writers often make us of a mixture of dialects.

•(A) articulation

•(B) intonation

•(C) spontaneity

•(D) profundity

•(E) heterogeneity

•heterogeneity

•The quality or state of being heterogeneous.

•heterogeneous:

•consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : MIXED •Merriam - Webster

•To avoid being -----, composer Stephen Sondheim strives for an element of surprise in his songs.

• A erratic B informal

• C elaborate D predictable

• E idiosyncratic

•By portraying a wide spectrum of characters in his one-man show, John Leguizamo provides a ------- to the theater’s tendency to offer a limited range of roles to Latino actors.

•(A) corrective

•(B) tribute

•(C) corollary

•(D) stimulus