2015年6月SAT真题(北美)section 7

1.The entertainer was know for his------: he gave essentially the same solid performance night after night for twenty years.

(A)Bluntness

(B)Arrogance

(C)Obedience

(D)Generosity

(E)Consistency

2.Transoceanic navigation is so------coastal navigation that the development of the former from the latter required------new instruments rather than modifying older ones.

(A)contingent on .. perfecting

(B)different from .. inventing

(C)divorced from .. rejecting

(D)separate from .. repairing

(E)inferior to .. exploiting

3.It is widely------,almost to the point of being conventional wisdom, that movies have experienced and overall------in quality; exceptions are generally regarded as happy accidents.

(A)assumed .. decline

(B)denied .. drop

(C)known .. improvement

(D)overlooked .. lapse

(E)hoped .. rise

4.Once regarded as an accurate, or------, representation of reality, the well-known painting is now consideration to be an entirely------creation.

(A)faithful .. imaginative

(B)distorted .. confusing

(C)outdated .. fictional

(D)precise .. practical

(E)artificial .. sufficient

5.Many teachers------jargon: they avoid specialize terminology, explaining difficult concepts in term that students understand.

(A)manifest

(B)divulge

(C)propagate

(D)invoke

(E)eschew

Questions 6-9 are based on the following passage.

Passage 1

The destruction and excision of novelist Jane Austen’s

letters by her sister Cassandra leaves the impression,

according to Austen biographer Claire Tomalin, that Jane

was dedicated to trivia. As Tomalin says of the surviving

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letters, they “rattle on, sometimes almost like a comedian’s

patter. Not much feeling, warmth or sorrow has been

allowed through.” A more recent counterargument is that

the letters, rather than being disparaged by comparison with

the novels, should be attended to for what they do reveal.

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Or, perhaps, as Professor Kathryn Sutherland suggests,

there “was never a confiding correspondence to hold back.”

It’s just that biographers are suspicious of gaps and

silences.

Passage 2

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What is a biographer to make of the strange silences

created by the Austen family policy of censorship: blank

years, for which no letters exist? In her novel Mansfield

Park, Jane Austen herself comments on the joy with which

her character Fanny Price seizes upon a “scrap of paper”

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containing a brief message from Edmund Bertram. “Two

lines more prized had never fallen from the pen of the most

distinguished author--never more completely blessed the

researches of the fondest biographer.” The distinguished

author of these lines would understand the frustrations of

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a biographer who well knows that so many of his subject’s

most revealing letters have been deliberately destroyed.

6.Which best describes the relationship between the two passages?

(A)Passage 1 exposes a ruthless tactic that Passage 2 argues is a common trend.

(B)Passage 1 introduces several generalizations that Passage 2 explains in detail

(C)Passage 1 describes a hypothetical scenario that Passage 2 represents as unlikely

(D)Passage 1 presents background information for a revelation described in Passage 2

(E)Passage 1 provides alternative perspectives on the sentiment expressed in Passage 2

7.Claire Tomalin (line 3, Passage 1) would most likely claim that the “strange silences”(line 14,

Passage 2)

(A)strengthen the notion that fiction is a more worthy pursuit than biography

(B)heighten readers’ curiosity about the motives of Jane Austen’s family

(C)prevent people from knowing what Jane Austen truly felt

(D)perpetuate the idea that Cassandra dominated her sister Jane

(E)justify a biographer’s need to interpret information liberally

8.Which best describes the strategies used in lines 5-7, Passage 1 (“they rattle...through”), and lines