SAT试题类型 Critical Reading > Sentence Completions

Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Although the acreage involved in a national boundary dispute may seem insignificant, even the slightest ------- in a country’s alleged border appears ------- to that nation, a threat to its security.

(A) inconsistency . . felicitous
(B) variation . . trivial
(C) rigidity . . traumatic
(D) change . . favorable
(E) breach . . ominous

答案:E

Explanation

While “ominous” comes closest to conveying threat, “traumatic” makes some sense; only “breach,” however, fits logically in the first blank.