SAT考试填空习题(一)

1. The critics were distressed that an essayist of such glowing_________ could descend to writing such dull, uninteresting prose.
(A) obscurity (B) ill-repute  (C) shallowness (D) promise (E) amiability
 
2. Famous in her time and then forgotten, the 17th-century Dutch painter Judith Leyster was _________obscurity when, in 1993, the Worcester Art Museum organized the first retrospective exhibition of her work.
(A) resigned to (B) rewarded with (C) rescued from (D)indifferent to (E) worthy of
 
3. The testimony of eyewitnesses is notoriously_________; emotion and excitement all too often cause our minds to distort what we see.
(A) judicious (B) interdependent (C) credible (D) unreliable (E) gratifying
 
4. Although Henry was not in general a sentimental man, occasionally he would feel a touch of_________ for the old days and would contemplate making a brief excursion to Boston to revisit his childhood friends.
(A) exasperation (B) chagrin  (C) nostalgia (D) lethargy  (E) anxiety
 
5. We had not realized how much people_________ the library's old borrowing policy until we received complaints once it had been_________ .
(A) enjoyed...continued
(B) disliked...administered
(C) respected...imitated
(D) ignored...lauded
(E) appreciated—superseded

参考答案:
1. D  2.C  3.D  4.C 5.E

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