2014年1月SAT语法真题及答案解析

2005-031.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:We must seriously question the idea of majority rule. The majority grinned and jeered when Columbus said the world was round. The majority threw him into a dungeon for his discoveries. Where is the logic in the notion that the opinion held by a majority of people should have the power to influence our decisions?Adapted from James A. Reed, ―Majority Rule‖ASSIGNMENT: Is the opinion of the majority—in government or in anyother circumstances—a poor guide? Plan and write an essay in which youdevelop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoningand examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.2.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:Given the importance of human creativity, one would think it should have a high priority among our concerns. But if we look at the reality, we see a different picture. Basic scientific research is minimized in favor of immediate practical applications. The arts are increasingly seen as dispensable luxuries. Yet as competition heats up around the globe, exactly the opposite strategy is needed.ASSIGNMENT: Is creativity needed more than ever in the world today?Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue.Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.3.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:Even scientists know that absolute objectivity has yet to be attained. It's the same for absolute truth. But, as many news reporters have observed, the idea of objectivity as a guiding principle is too valuable to be abandoned. Without it, the pursuit of knowledge is hopelessly lost.Adapted from ―Focusing Our V alues‖, Nieman ReportsASSIGNMENT: Are people better at making observations, discoveries,and decisions if they remain neutral and impartial?Plan and write anessay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support yourposition with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.4.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:If you think that what you do is your own business, you are wrong. In this world your conduct affects not only you but the conduct of other people as well. If you behave in a way that is considered unacceptable and other people copy your behavior, you are the consequences.Adapted from Margaret Banni ng, ―Letter to Susan‖ASSIGNMENT: Is a person responsible, through the example he or shesets, for the behavior of other people? Plan and write an essay in which youdevelop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoningand examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.2005-051.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:It's easy to see why—aside from the income it provides—having a job is so desirable in our culture. Work works for us. It structures our time and imposes a rhythm on our lives. It gets us organized into various kinds of communities and social groups. And perhaps most important, work tells us what to do every day.Adapted from Joanne B. Ciulla, The Working LifeASSIGNMENT: Do people depend on work—whether it is a job, schoolwork, or volunteer work—to determine what their daily activitiesand interactions with others should be? Plan and write an essay in whichyou develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.2.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:There is no progress unless someone comes up with a new way of looking at things, of trying things that have never been done or thought of before. We cannot move forward by looking backward to old customs and past experience. There can be no advancement or improvement unless there are people who look forward in pursuit of the new and untried.ASSIGNMENT: Does progress depend on people with new ideas ratherthan on people whose ideas are based on the current way of doingthings? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on thisissue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.3.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:We are afraid that our cause is unjust, or that it is unclear, or that it is too insignificant to justify the horrors of a confrontation with Authority. We will endure almost any inconvenience before undertaking head-on, I'm-here-to-tell-you complaint.Adapted from William F. Buckley, Jr., ―Why Don't We Complain?‖ASSIGNMENT: Are people afraid to speak out against authority,whether the authority is an individual, a group, or a government? Planand write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue.Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.4.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:Alone we can afford to be wholly whatever we are and to feel whatever we feel absolutely. With others we are busy wondering what does my companion see or think of this, and what do I think of it? The original impact of our feelings gets lost or reduced.Adapted from May Sarton, The Rewards of Living a Solitary LifeASSIGNMENT: Does worrying too much about other people’s opinionsprevent us from seeing things clearly? Plan and write an essay in which youdevelop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoningand examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.2005-061.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:Many persons believe that to move up the ladder of success and achievement, they must forget the past, repress it, and relinquish it. But others have just the opposite view. They see old memories as a chance to reckon with the past and integrate past and present.Adapted from Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation ASSIGNMENT: Do memories hinder or help people in their effort tolearn from the past and succeed in the present? Plan and write an essay inwhich you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.2.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:I cannot comprehend those who emphasize or recognize only what is useful. I am concerned that learning for learning's sake is no longer considered desirable, that everything we do and think must be directed toward the solution of a practical problem. More and more we seem to try to teach how to make a good living and not how to live a good life.Adapted from Philip D. Jordan, ―The U sefulness of Useless Knowledge‖ASSIGNMENT: Do people put too much emphasis on learning practicalskills? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on thisissue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.3.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:Most of our schools are not facing up to their responsibilities. We must begin to ask ourselves whether educators should help students address the critical moral choices and social issues of our time. Schools have responsibilities beyond training people for jobs and getting students into college.Adapted from Svi ShapiroASSIGNMENT: Should schools help students understand moral choicesand social issues? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point ofview on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples takenfrom your reading, studies, experience, or observation.4.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:The media not only transmit information and culture, they also decide what information is important. In that way, they help to shape culture and values.Adapted from Alison Bernstein, ―Artists Thrive on Freedom a nd Freedom Thrives on the Arts‖ASSIGNMENT: Do newspapers, magazines, television, radio, movies,the Internet, and other media determine what is important to mostpeople? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on thisissue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.2005-101.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:1.Success in life is largely a matter of luck. It has little correlation with merit. And in all fields of life therehave always been people of great merit who did not succeed.Karl Popper, Popper Selections2.As Colin Powell said, ―there are no secrets to success. Don’t waste time looking for them. Success is theresult of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.‖Adapted from Barry Farber, ―Selling Points‖ASSIGNMENT: Is success in life earned or do people succeed becausethey are lucky? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point ofview on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples takenfrom your reading, studies, experience, or observations.2.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:1.Celebrities have the power to attract ―communities‖of like-minded followers; they provide an identitythat people can connect to and call their own. Celebrities are trusted; they stand for certain ideas and values to which followers can express allegiance.Adapted from William Greider, Who Will Tell the People?2.Admiration for celebrities is often accompanied by contempt for ―average‖ people. As we focus on thefamous, other people become less important to us. The world becomes populated with a few ―some bodies‖ and an excess of ―near-nobodies.‖Adapted from Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen, Wizards of Media OzASSIGNMENT: Is society’s admiration for famous people beneficial or harmful? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view onthis issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.3.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:This is a time for shallowness. Seriousness is so rare these days that we tend to make all kinds of allowances for those who only seem to possess it. In this way, shallow ideas are not recognized for what they are, and they are increasingly mistaken for deep thoughts.Adapted from Margaret Talbot, ―The Perfectionist‖ASSIGNMENT: Do we live in a time when people do not engage inserious thinking? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point ofview on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples takenfrom your reading, studies, experience, or observations.4.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:Nowadays nothing is private: our culture has become too confessional and self-expressive. People think that to hide one’s thoughts or feelings is to pretend not to have those thoughts or feelings. They assume that honesty requires one to express every inclination and impulse.Adapted from J. David V elleman, ―the Genesis of Shame‖ASSIGNMENT: Should people make more of an effort to keep somethings private? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point ofview on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples takenfrom your reading, studies, experience, or observations.2005-111.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:Beauty is not a quality in people or in objects themselves. It exists in the mind that perceives those objects, and each mind perceives beauty differently. To seek real beauty, in some absolute sense, is pointless. Where one person sees beauty, another may even see the opposite. For this reason, we all ought to accept our own perceptions of who or what is beautiful, and not be influenced by the perceptions of others.Adapted from David H ume, ―Of the Standard of Taste‖ASSIGNMENT: Should our perceptions of beauty be influenced by the perceptions of beauty of other people? Plan and write an essay in which youdevelop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoningand examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.2.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:There are situations where flattery is mandatory: The bride is always beautiful. If we look at someone's artwork, we are obliged to say something complimentary to the artist. If we visit someone with a new baby, we are required to say the infant is cute. In such situations, to say nothing is interpreted as rudeness. We compliment each other because we understand that flattery makes life run smoothly.Adapted from Richard Stengel, Y ou're Too Kind: A brief History of FlatteryASSIGNMENT: Is praising others, even if the praise is excessive or undeserved, a necessary part of life? Plan and write an essay in which youdevelop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoningand examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.3.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:Conflict is not necessarily bad, and it does not necessarily indicate a failed interaction. It is a signal, a message that says, "Things aren't working around here. We've got to do something different." Thus, conflict can be a catalyst-a motivating force-encouraging people to interact and communicate in ways that are more satisfying. Conflict can actually benefit people by pushing them to make necessary changes.Adapted from Beverly Potter, From Conflict to CooperationASSIGNMENT: Is conflict helpful? Plan and write an essay in which youdevelop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoningand examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.4.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:What explains our increasing obsession with money and the things it can buy? It seems as though the acquisition of money is gradually replacing real measures of success, such as integrity, honesty, skill, and hard work.Adapted from Alan Durning, ―Limiting Consumption: Toward a Sustainable Culture‖ASSIGNMENT: Has the acquisition of money and possessions replacedmore meaningful ways of measuring our achievements? Plan and writean essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support yourposition with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.2005-121.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:We like to think that if someone has "the right stuff," he or she will naturally rise to the top. But it isn't true. In that same way that acting talent doesn't guarantee stardom, the capacity for leadership doesn't guarantee that one will run a corporation or a government. In fact, at least in our time, genuine achievement is not highly valued, and those who are skilled at achieving greatness are not necessarily those who are ready to lead.Adapted from Warren Bennis, On Becoming a LeaderASSIGNMENT: Are leaders necessarily people who are most capable of leadership? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view onthis issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.2.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:How valuable is history for our generation? On the surface this question is not as easy as it once might have been, for there is a widespread belief that history may no longer be relevant to modern life. We live, after all, in an age that appears very different from the world that came before us.Adapted from Stephen Vaughn, ―History: Is It Relevant?‖ASSIGNMENT: Is knowledge of the past no longer useful for us today?Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue.Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.3.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:The free expression of thoughts and opinions is one of humanity's most precious rights. Every citizen must be able to speak, write, and publish freely, provided that he or she is held accountable for the abuse of this liberty in cases determined by the law.Adapted from Thomas Paine, Rights of ManASSIGNMENT: Is it necessary to limit or put restrictions on freedom ofthought and expression? Plan and write an essay in which you develop yourpoint of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examplestaken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.4.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:Progress is likely to slow down once science and technology have met our basic human needs. New developments in science and technology will not continue to produce more societal benefits. In fact, the promise that science and technology will continue to benefit us is increasingly doubtful when so many individuals find their lives changing in ways they cannot control and in directions they do not desire.Adapted from Daniel Sarewitz, ―So cial Change and Science Policy‖ASSIGNMENT: Do the benefits of scientific and technological developments come at the cost of undesirable changes to people's lives?Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue.Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.2006-011.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:A colleague of the great scientist James Watson remarked that Watson was always ―lounging around, arguing about problems instead of doing experiments.‖ He concluded that ―there is more than one way of doing good science.‖ It was Watson’s form of idleness, the scientist went on to say, that allowed him to solve ―the greatest of all biological problems: the discovery of the structure of DNA.‖It is a point worth remembering in a society overly concerned with efficiency.Adapted from John C. Polanyi, ―Understanding Discovery‖ASSIGNMENT: Do people accomplish more when they are allowed to dothings in their own way? Plan and write an essay in which you develop yourpoint of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examplestaken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.2.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:I do not feel terrible about my mistakes, though I grieve the pain they have sometimes caused others. Our lives are ―experiments with truth,‖ and in an experiment negative results are at least as important as successes. I have no idea how I would have learned the truth about myself and my calling without the mistakes I have made.Adapted from Parker Palmer, Let Y our Life SpeakASSIGNMENT: Is it necessary to make mistakes, even when doing sohas negative consequences for other people? Plan and write an essay inwhich you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.3.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:An actor, when his cue came, was unable to move onto the stage. He said, ―I can’t get in, the chair is in the way.‖And the producer said, ―Use the difficulty. If it’s a drama, pick the chair up and smash it. If it’s a comedy, fall over it.‖ From this experience the actor concluded that in any situation in life that is negative, there is something positive you can do with it.Adapted from Lawrence Eisenberg, ―Caine Scrutiny‖ASSIGNMENT: Can any obstacle or disadvantage be turned into something good? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point ofview on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples takenfrom your reading, studies, experience, or observations.4.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:Every important discovery results from patience, perseverance, and concentration--sometimes continuing for months or years--on one specific subject. A person who wants to discover a new truth must remain absorbed by that one subject, must pay no attention to any thought that is unrelated to the problem.Adapted from Santiago Ramon Cajal, Advice for a Y oung InvestigatorASSIGNMENT: Are all important discoveries the result of focusing onone subject? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of viewon this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken fromyour reading, studies, experience, or observation.2006-041.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:Inconsistency is commonly thought to be an undesirable personality trait, and inconsistent people are viewed as indecisive and weak willed. On the other hand, firm commitment to an idea or plan of action is associated with personal and intellectual strength, stability, and honesty. Thus, once we have made a choice or taken a stand, it is best not to change.Adapted from Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: How and Why People Agree to ThingsASSIGNMENT: Is it best not to change our ideas, opinions, or behaviors?Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue.Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.2.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:A teenager challenges everything and, by forming habits of intellectual and emotional independence, makes himself or herself into an adult. In a similar way, all people can learn the behaviors that they need to become the people they want to be. We can all change ourselves—our behaviors, our goals, our relationships—because our potential for change is unlimited.Adapted from Richard Stiller, HabitsASSIGNMENT: Is our ability to change ourselves unlimited, or are therelimits on our ability to make important changes in our lives? Plan andwrite an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Supportyour position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.3.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:It is widely believed that people do their best work when they are promised rewards for their achievements. Our schools and workplaces operate on the assumption that good work occurs when people are competing for grades, money, or recognition from others. In truth, the prospect of rewards provided by others can inhibit and limit people's drive and creativity. People do their best work when motivated from within by their enjoyment of a particular challenge and their satisfaction in doing something well.ASSIGNMENT: What do you think motivates people to do their best?Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue.Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.4.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:Young people should have the right to control and direct their own learning—that is, to decide what they want to learn, when, and where. If we take from someone his or her right to decide what to be curious about, we destroy that person's freedom of thought. We say, in effect, "You must think about what interests and concerns us, not you."Adapted from John Holt, ―The R ight to Control One's Learning‖ASSIGNMENT: Should each individual decide what and how to learn?Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue.Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.2006-051.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:Some people claim that each individual is solely responsible for what happens to him or her. But the claim that we ought to take absolute responsibility for the kinds of people we are and the kinds of lives we lead suggests that we have complete control over our lives. We do not. The circumstances of our lives can make it more or less impossible to make certain kinds of choices.Adapted form Gordon D. Marino, ―I think You Should Be Responsible; Me, I’m not so Sure‖ASSIGNMENT: Are we free to make our own decisions or are we limitedin the choices we can make? Plan and write an essay in which you developyour point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.2.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:Certainly anyone who insists on condemning all lies should think about what would happen if we could reliably tell when our family, friends, colleagues, and government leaders were deceiving us. It is tempting to think that the world would become a better place without the hand, perhaps there is such a thing as too much honesty.Adapted from Allison Kornet, ―The Truth About Lying‖ASSIGNMENT: Would the world be a better place if everyone alwaystold the complete truth? Plan and write an essay in which you develop yourpoint of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examplestaken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.3.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:It is not that people dislike being part of a community; it is just that they care about their individual freedoms more. People value neighborliness and social interaction—until being part of a group requires them to limit their freedom for the larger good of the group. But a community or group cannot function effectively unless people are willing to set aside their personal interests.Adapted from Warren Johnson, The Future Is Not What It Used To BeASSIGNMENT: Does the success of a community—whether it is a class,a team, a family, a nation, or any other group—depend upon people's willingness to limit their personal interests? Plan and write an essay inwhich you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.4.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt andassignment below:There is an old saying: "A person with one watch knows what time it is; a person with two watches isn't so sure." In other words, a person who looks at an object or event from two different angles sees something different from each position. Moreover, two or more people looking at the same thing may each perceive something different. In other words, truth, like beauty, may lie in the eye of the beholder.Adapted from, Gregory D. Foster, ―Eth ics: Time to Revisit the Basics‖ASSIGNMENT: Does the truth change depending on how people look atthings? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on thisissue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observation.2006-061.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and。

sat语法试题及答案SAT语法试题及答案1. 选择下列句子中语法正确的一项。

A) The book that I read yesterday was very interesting.B) The book that I read yesterday is very interesting.C) The book that I read yesterday were very interesting.D) The book that I read yesterday has been very interesting. 答案：A2. 下列句子中，哪个选项使用了正确的标点符号？A) The weather was hot, and humid, and sticky.B) The weather was hot and humid, and sticky.C) The weather was hot; and humid, and sticky.D) The weather was hot, and humid and sticky.答案：B3. 以下句子中，哪个选项的动词时态使用正确？A) I have been working on this project since last week.B) I was working on this project since last week.C) I had been working on this project since last week.D) I will have been working on this project since last week. 答案：A4. 选择下列句子中主谓一致正确的一项。

A) The team are playing well together.B) The team is playing well together.C) The players are playing well together.D) The players is playing well together.答案：B5. 下列句子中，哪个选项使用了正确的平行结构？A) She enjoys reading, to swim, and hiking.B) She enjoys reading, swimming, and hiking.C) She enjoys to read, to swim, and hiking.D) She enjoys reading, swimming, and to hike. 答案：B6. 选择下列句子中语法正确的一项。

2014年SAT语法(北美)解析从本次最新考题可以看出在新SAT出现之前的语法考试仍然非常重视基本功的运用。

不过值得重视的是，出题者心思很细密，有时故意将句式变复杂。

也就是说考生一旦粗心，即会步入陷阱。

可是只要脚踏实地，把句子的结构层层分析，把主谓宾的各自考点认识到位，答案也便拨云见雾。

具体见笔者对本次考试做的解析：Section 5Improving Sentence1. E. 根据playing确定逻辑主语，因此只有D,E符合动作发出者。

而D缺乏动词。

2. A. 原句的主语是Vitamin D, which the body needs in order to absorb calcium是定语从句修饰，动词是is produced.完全正确。

其余选项均缺乏动词。

3. E. 因为句子中understanding of 后面的对象有三个。

所以不需要用not only…but also，both 等词，因为这些是两个对象才用到的。

因此只有E正确。

4. E. 原句的inspired by是作为分词起到修饰作用的，因此原句是缺乏动词的。

因此只有E对，其余选项都没有动词。

5. D. 根据比较对象确定逻辑主语。

原句的比较对象是coniferous trees, (whose leaves are usually needlelike是定语从句作修饰成分)，因此只有trees能和它比较，所以只有D对。

6. C. 逻辑主语和分词的匹配问题。

句子的逻辑主语是the package, 所以不可能做choosing这个动作。

因此A,B,E都错。

D选项的表达方式错，正确表达应为had chosen,而不是had chose.7. A. 原句正确。

B选项逗号连接两个句子。

C把句子复杂化，D的of 和whose重复，E逗号连接两个句子，都错。

8. B. 句子结构。

Although we typically associate deserts with hot, dry weather, deserts can also be cold.已经是一句完整的句子，因此A 和C选项都为逗号连接两个完整句子。

7.广东省2014语法填空(共10小题；每小题l 5分．满分l5分)阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的相应位置上。

One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously ___16___ hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed ___17_______ (cover) up anyway; it just wasn't worth ___18____ to save the donkey.He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel（铲）and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized ___19___ was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone’s amazement, he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He _20_______ (astonish) at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt __21____ hit his back, the donkey was doing something _22______ (amaze). He would shake it off and take a step up.__23____ the farmer’s neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal; he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over __24____ edge of the well and happily ran off!Each of our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just ___25___ not giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.【参考答案】（13）16. for 17. covering/to be covered 18. it 19. what 20. was astonished21. that/which 22. amazing 23. As 24. the 25. by广东省2014语法填空(共10小题；每小题l 5分．满分l5分)阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的相应位置上。

SAT语法改错2014年上半年度考情回顾及备考指导尽管2014年10的香港考场并不能如期在当月第一周的周六举行SAT考试，却也并不影响考生们的报考热情，学生纷纷选择了新加坡、韩国、日本等考场。

准备考或者已经考过SAT的考生都知道，考试中语法部分的稳定乃至超常发挥是考生冲上2000分的关键。

本文将对过去一年的考试的语法题目(2014年1月与2014年5月的语法题目)做一个简单的回顾与剖析。

一.考试概况：SAT出题的难度整体秉承公平的原则。

尽管各次考试之间的难度略有出入，但是在两年之内，所有题目的难度应该是不会相差太大的。

且分数并不是根据对错直接得出的，而是要根据难度系数(体现在转换表里)重新换算的，所以更加使得每次的分数比较客观。

2014年的语法试题部分整体难度适中与去年不相上下。

唯一的不同的是比较细节的语法考点的侧重不同，其中可能会有两三道题考生们普遍想不到而容易做错。

2013年的SAT语法考点集中在动词问题、代词问题、平行结构及句式结构上。

2014年依然可以看出这些依然是考察重点。

下图展示了2014年SAT考试1月与5月的真题特点及考点趋势：(划线题号为本文选中的解析真题例题)由每个考点的出题频率可以看出，动词(时态的考察)以及相关的知识点(主谓一致、碎句与逻辑主语等)仍然为考察重点，需要考生们牢牢把握，尤其需要对句子里的动词变得敏感。

代词以每套题目4-6道的频率作为第二大考点当之无愧，考生要在代词数、人称和格方面的多加练习。

平行结构与比较问题此消彼长。

细碎的词类(固定搭配与形容词误用)的考察占的比例并不多，但是基本每套题都会有所涉及。

无错选项的个数属于正常范围，但是5月的ISE题中选E的题出现的比较有规律，好多考生举棋不定最终出现不该有的错误。

二.题型解析：本文在这部分中选择给考生详细剖析的几道题目并不是太难，它们的共同特点是需要两至三个考点知识才能将题目做对。

希望广大考生在阅读后多加练习的同时巩固考点，连点成线，穿线成网，不让自己的语法考试出现漏网之鱼。

高中英语真题:2014高考英语译林牛津一轮语法专题（3）（非谓语动词03）高考预练Ⅰ.单项填空1．(2012·山东省实验中学诊断)What was considered impolite years ago has become _____ _____ now.A．accessible B．adjustable C．unbelievable D．acceptable解析：选D。

考查形容词辨析。

accessible意为“易接近的，可理解的”；adjustable意为“可调整的”；unbelievable意为“难以相信的”；acceptable意为“可接受的”。

句意：多年前被认为不礼貌的事情现在已经开始逐渐被接受了。

根据句意可知，应选D项。

2．(2012·山东省实验中学一模)I’m afraid I’m not __________ to help with the show，for I am fully occupied with my own project.A．acceptable B．adaptableC．available D．accessible解析：选C。

考查形容词。

acceptable值得接受的，可接受的；adaptable可适应的，有适应能力的；available有空的，空闲的，有时间的；accessible容易取得的，可接近的。

句意：恐怕我不能在这次展览上帮忙了，因为我正忙于自己的项目。

故选C 项。

3．(2012·济南模拟)I keep on walking after supper because I can’t think of a ___ _______ way to keep fit.A．better B．bestC．worse D．worst解析：选A。

考查形容词比较级。

句意：我坚持晚饭后散步，因为我想不到比这更好的保持健康的方法了。

根据语境可知，A项正确。

section 51. Whileplaying in the park one morning，aloud argument was gotten into by several of the children over the use ofswings.(A) aloud argument was gotten into by several of the children(B) aloud argument between several of the children was gotten into(C) anda loud argument gotten into by several of the children(D) severalof the children getting into a loud argument(E) severalof the children got into a loud argument答案：E类型：逻辑主语。

解析：句子是doing形式的状语+主句的结构。

在语法中，前置doing做非谓语时，doing 动作的逻辑主语必须是句子主语，play这个动作的发出者应该是人，所以句子主语只能是人。

由此排除ABC三个选项。

D选项中，getting into不能做谓语动词，属于句子成分缺失。

2. Vitamin D，which the body needs in order to absorb calcium，is produced when skinis exposed to ultraviolet rays.(A) calcium，is produced(B) calcium，and is produced(C) calcium，producing it(D) calciumand produces(E) calciumand produces it答案：A类型：句子结构。

SAT语法真题详解-官方题库实录OG110. Greek yogurt contains slightly more protein per serving, thereby helping people stay satiatedfor longer periods of time.A. NO CHANGEB. fulfilledC. complacentD. sufficient解析：一般来说近义词的学习同学们可以查询英英词典，感受词语之间的细微差别，并且知道词汇的具体用法。

satiated 充分满足的a feelingor condition of being full after eating foodfulfilled to do what is required by (something, such as a promise or a contract)/ to succeed in doing orachieving sth一般是说fulfill a promise/dream/task.实现、达成complacent：satisfied with how things are and notwanting to change them 满足的sufficient: having or providingas much as is needed 足够的（分量）句子意思是：因为含有的蛋白质多，所以能够使人们的饱腹感维持时间更长。

这里意思应该是A。

13. Typically, the ice sheet begins to show evidence of thawing in late summer. Thisfollowsseveral weeks of higher temperatures.A. summer, followingB. summer, and this thawing followsC. summer, and such thawing followsD. summer and this evidence follows解析：从意思上来判断感觉四个都对。