SAT词汇题专练
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词 汇 题 专 练
晶磊威武
1. The word
“ignominious” in line 10 means_____
Attempt to
harmonize the imbalances in my character by means
of strict
discipline at a boarding school in
Styria (my people still regarded Austria as our
cultural homeland) nearly led to the same
ignominious end, and only my
pseudo-voluntary
departure from the institution in the nick of time
prevented
my final ostracism from the
privileged ranks of those for whom the path to
higher education was open.
A. dangerous
B. pitiless
C. unappreciated
D.
disgraceful
E. honorable
2. In
line 11, the word “ostracism” most likely
means_____
Attempt to harmonize the imbalances
in my character by means of strict
discipline
at a boarding school in Styria (my people still
regarded Austria as our
cultural homeland)
nearly led to the same ignominious end, and only
my
pseudo-voluntary departure from the
institution in the nick of time prevented
my
final ostracism from the privileged ranks of those
for whom the path to
higher education was
open.
A. praise
B. abuse
C.
appreciation
D. departure
E. banishment
3. In line 36, the word “bound” most
nearly means_____
I ask you, then, to decide
this case upon the facts as you have heard them,
in
light of the law as you understand it, in
light of the history of our country, whose
institutions you and I are bound to protect.
A. intellectually
B. personally determined
C. morally compelled
D. violently coerced
E. inevitably destined
4. In line
8, the word “pseudo-parents” means_____
The
cat treats them as pseudo-parents. The reason is
that they took over from
the real mother at a
sensitive stage of the kitten’s development and
went on
giving it milk, solid food, and
comfort as it grew up.
A. part-time parents
that are only partially involved with their young
B. individuals who act as parents of adults
C. parent that neglect their young
D.
parents that have both the characteristics of
humans and their pets
E. adoptive parents who
aren’t related to their young
5. In line 28, “much lauded” means_____
Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs. The
much-lauded “group loyalty”
phenomenon is
alien to both cats and cat-lovers.
A.
vehemently argued
B. overly discussed
C.
unnecessarily complicated
D. typically
controversial
E. commonly praised
6. The word “conceptions” as used in line
16 most nearly means_____
What irritated him
most——and it was this that was chiefly responsible
for his
dissatisfaction with his job——was to
hear of the conceptions formed about
him: how
he was always riding about through the tides with
his trident.
A. origins
B. opinions
C.
discussions
D. plans
E. explanations
7. the word “transmitted” as used in line
8 most nearly means_____
The wives of magnates
issued donations jointly with their husbands,
founded
monasteries, endowed churches,
cultivated interfamilial ties, transmitted clan
ideology to their children, supervised the
household, and administered the
family’s
estates when their husbands were away.
A.
announced
B. taught
C. enforced
D.
distributed
E. broadcast
8. The
word “upheld” as used in line 25 most nearly
means_____
Freed from the need to compete for
the attention of men, women in these
communities sustained each other in spiritual,
intellectual, scholarly, artistic,
and
charitable pursuits. Writings by early medieval
nuns reveal that female
ideals and modes of
conduct were upheld as the way to salvation and as
models
of sanctity in the monasteries led by
women.
A. delayed
B. endorsed
C.
suspended
D. enforced
E. announced
9. In line 3, the word “promulgated” most
nearly means_____
Though Democritus’ ideas
were in many ways strikingly modern and were
promulgated by his more celebrated successor
Epicurus, his theory never
gained wide
acceptance in Greek thought.
A. plagiarized
B. dismissed
C. protected
D. obscured
E. promoted
10. In line 34, the word
“striking” most nearly means_____
Jazz is
created from the synthesis of certain elements in
the style of its
precursors, its most striking
feature is its exotic sound, which is produced not
only by the kinds of instruments used in the
orchestra, but also from the manner
in which
intonation is used.
A. removing
B.
pounding
C. thoughtful
D. remarkable
E. believable
11. In line 36, the
word “pitches” most nearly means_____
Jazz is
created from the synthesis of certain elements in
the style of its
precursors, its most striking
feature is its exotic sound, which is produced not
only by the kinds of instruments used in the
orchestra, but also from the manner
in which
intonation is used. Instead of obtaining exact
pitches, the players glide
freely from one
note to another and frequently fluctuate the
pitches.
A. tosses
B. tones
C. volume
D. proposals
E. styles
12. In
line 1, the word “strains” most nearly means_____
Among the Plains Indians, two separate strains
of decorative art evolved: the
figurative,
representational art created by the men of the
tribe, and the
geometric, abstract art crafted
by the women.
A. tunes
B. pressures
C.
varieties
D. injuries
E. pressures
13. In line 20, the word “drafted” most
nearly means_____
These representational works
were generally drafted by a group of
men——
often the individuals who had performed
the deeds being recorded——who drew
on
untailored hide robes and tepee liners made of
skins.
A. selected
B. recruited
C.
endorsed
D. sketched
E. ventilated
14. In line 40, the word “overlooking”
most nearly means_____
“Are you afraid she
will be insipid? My dear brother, it is I who
supply the butter;
so you need not fear!” said
Mrs. Penniman, who had taken in hand the child’s
“accomplishments,” overlooking her at the
piano, where Catherine displayed a
certain
talent, and going with her to the dancing-class,
where it must be
confessed that she made but a
modest figure.
A. ignoring
B. slighting
C. forgiving
D. watching over
E.
towering above
15. In line 36, the
word “scale” most nearly means_____
The city’s
strengths and its ills are inextricably bound
together. The same
concentration that makes
the center efficient is the cause of its crowding
and
the destruction of its sun and its light
and its scale.
A. series of musical tones
B. measuring instrument
C. relative
dimensions
D. thin outer layer
E. means of
ascent
16. In line 14, the word “order”
most nearly means_____
Then, again, all things
in life were of a proud or cruel publicity. Lepers
sounded
their rattles and went about in
processions; beggars exhibited their deformity
and their misery in churches. Every order and
estate, every rank and
profession, was
distinguished by its costume.
A. command
B. harmony
C. sequence
D. physical
condition
E. social class
17. In
line 15, the word “scheme” most nearly means_____
Many years later there is something called
bilingual education——a scheme
proposed in the
late 1960s by Hispanic-American social
activists——later
endorsed by a congressional
vote.
A. conspiracy
B. diagram
C. plan
D. outline
E. goal
18.
In line 32, the word “telling” most nearly
means_____
They regarded the people at work,
the faces in crowds, very distant from us.
They were the others, los gringos. That term
was interchangeable in their
speech with
another, even more telling, los americanos.
A.
outspoken
B. interchangeable
C.
unutterable
D. embarrassing
E. revealing
19. In line 13, the word “ends” most
nearly means_____
Seeing this gradation and
diversity of structure in one small, intimately
related
group of birds, one might really fancy
that from an original paucity of birds in
this
archipelago, one species had been taken and
modified for different ends.
A. borders
B.
extremities
C. limits
D. purposes
E.
deaths
20. In line 38, the word
“hazard” most nearly means_____
The finches
evolved in isolation. So did everything else on
earth. With the
finches, you can see how it
happened. The Galapagos islands are near enough
to the mainland that some strays could hazard
there; they are far enough away
that those
strays could evolve in isolation from parent
species.
A. venture
B. speculate
C. be
imperiled
D. run aground
E. develop
21. In line 8, the word “translate” most
nearly means_____
It is sometimes said that
detective stories are read by respectable law-
abiding
citizens in order to gratify in
fantasy the violent or murderous wishes they dare
not, or are ashamed to, translate into action.
A. decipher
B. move
C. explain
D.
convey
E. convert
22. In line
48, the word “employed” most nearly means_____
As with all fine literature, history
philosophy, as with the written word wherever
employed creatively, it can lead us to
laughter in our frustration, to joy in our
experience, and to tolerance for our
complexities.
A. hired
B. used
C.
commissioned
D. remunerated
E. labored
23. In line 11, the word “reaches”
most nearly means_____
Dust, however fine and
powdery, is still heavier than water, and whenever
the
water becomes sufficiently still, it will
gradually sink to the bottom, not only in
lakes and seas but also in the sluggish lower
reaches of rivers and where flood
conditions
exist, in the form of silt.
A. grasps
B.
unbroken stretches
C. range of knowledge
D. promontories
E. justapositions
24. In line 8, the word “persuasion”
most nearly means_____
Modern thinkers who
have studied myths and fairy tales from a
philosophical or
psychological viewpoint
arrive at the same conclusion, regardless of their
original persuasion.
A. enticement
B.
convincing force
C. political party
D.
opinion
E. gullibility
25. In
line 33, the word “appeal” most nearly means_____
There is general agreement that myths and
fairy tales speak to us I the
language of
symbols representing unconscious content. Their
appeal is
simultaneously to our conscious mind
and to our need for ego-ideals as well.
A.
plea
B. wistfulness
C. prayer
D.
request
E. attraction
26.
In line 7, the word “consumption” most nearly
means_____
Perhaps the most damning argument
against rock and roll as a political catalyst
is suggested by John Berger in an essay on
advertising. Berger argues that
“publicity
turns consumption into a substitute for democracy.
The choice of
what one eats (or wears or
drives) takes the place of significant political
choice.”
A. supposition
B. beginning a
task
C. using up goods
D. advertising a
product
E. culmination
27. In
line 40, the word “maintain” most nearly
means_____
The politically motivated rock and
roll artist’s other option is to maintain his
political commitment without fooling himself
as to the ultimate impact his work
will have.
A. repair
B. contend
C. subsidize
D. brace
E. keep
28. In line
11, the word “held” most nearly means_____
I
could not go home again, yet here I was Africa was
so long ago the land of my
ancestors that it
held for my only a symbolic significance.
A.
grasped
B. believed
C. absorbed
D.
accommodated
E. possessed
29. In
line 29, the word “taxing” most nearly means_____
At the time, I’d been working as an arts
administrator in the
Writers-in-the-Schools
program, sending other writers to grade schools
and
high schools throughout Minnesota. It
wasn’t taxing, but it didn’t provide the
long
stretches needed to plunge into my own work.
A. imposing
B. obliging
C. demanding
D. accusatory
E. costly
30. In line 16, the word “raise” most nearly
means_____
I do not raise these issues to
imply that we would be better off as Polynesian
natives or medieval peasants. Nor am I arguing
that “progress” has made us
worse off.
A.
elevate
B. increase
C. nurture
D.
bring up
E. set upright
31. In
line 5, the word “civil” most nearly means_____
Some loose boards laid upon the sleepers
supporting the metals of the railway
supplied
a footing for him and his executioners——two
private soldiers of the
Federal army directed
by a sergeant, who in civil life may have been a
deputy
sheriff.
A. polite
B.
individual
C. legal
D. collective
E.
nonmilitary
32. In line 52, the word
“consistent” most nearly means_____
No service
was too humble for him to perform in aid of the
South, no adventure
too perilous for him to
undertake if consistent with the character of a
civilian
who was at heart a soldier, and who
in good faith and without too much
qualification assented to at least a part of
the frankly villainous dictum that all is
fair
in love and war.
A. unfailing
B. agreeable
C. dependable
D. constant
E.
compatible
33. In line 26, the word
“qualification” most nearly means_____
No
service was too humble for him to perform in aid
of the South, no adventure
too perilous for
him to undertake if consistent with the character
of a civilian
who was at heart a soldier, and
who in good faith and without too much
qualification assented to at least a part of
the frankly villainous dictum that all
is fair
in love and war.
A. competence
B.
eligibility
C. restriction
D. reason
E. liability
34. In line
39, the word “properties” most nearly means_____
Lightest of all were the first generation
quarks, up and down, which combined to
create
the basic protons and neutrons; somewhat heavier
were the second
generation quarks, strange and
charm, the building blocks of the more esoteric
particles produced in the physicists’ labs.
Then in 1977 a team headed by
Fermilab
physicist Leon Lederman uncovered the possibility
of a third
generation of quarks. Using new
accelerators with higher energies, they
produced a short-lived heavy particle, the
upsilon, whose properties
suggested it could
not be made of the four quarks then known. They
concluded
it must be made of a fifth quark,
which they named bottom, whereupon
scientists
throughout the world set off in hot pursuit of
bottom’s hypothetical
partner——top.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
lands
titles
investments
civilities
characteristics
35. In line 47, the word “hinged” most
nearly means_____
Indeed, they had to find it,
for the Standard Model of particle physics, the
theoretical synthesis that reduced the once-
maddening hordes of particles to
just a few
primary components, hinged upon its existence.
A. folded
B. vanished
C. remarked
D. depended
E. weighed
36.
In line 31, the word “compromising” most nearly
means_____
The system broke down, however,
after the French became convinced that the
Iroquois were compromising the system in favor
of the English and launched
a full-scale
attempt to establish French physical and juridical
presence in the
Ohio Valley——the heart of the
borderlands long claimed by the Iroquois.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
humiliation
jeopardizing
revealing
yielding
conceding
37. In line 9, the
word “scrapes” most nearly means_____
Sometimes I’ve tried to figure out why Mickey
appealed to the whole world.
Everybody’s tried
to figure it out. So far as I know, nobody has. He
is a pretty
nice fellow who never does anybody
any harm, who gets into scrapes through
no
fault of his own, but always manages to come up
grinning.
A. abrasions
B. harsh sounds
C. small economies
D. discarded fragments
E. predicaments
38. In line 34,
the word “take a bite out of our imaginations”
most nearly
means_____
To take a bite out
of our imaginations, an icon must be simple. The
ears, the
wiggly tail, the red short, give us
a Mickey.
A. injure our creativity
B.
reduce our innovative capacity
C. cut into our
inspiration
D. capture our fancies
E.
limit our visions
39. In line 5, the
word “acute” most nearly means_____
The
dolphin has, however, a remarkable range-finding
ability involving some
sort of echo-sounding.
Perhaps this acute sense——far more accurate than
any
that human ingenuity has been able to
devise artificially——brings him greater
knowledge of his watery surroundings than
might at first seem possible.
A. excruciating
B. severe
C. keen
D. sudden and
intense
E. brief in duration
40. In
line 3, the word “point” most nearly means_____
I am in Gothic world, the world of chivalry,
courtesy, and romance; a world in
which
serious things were done with a sense of
play——where even war and
theology could become
a sort of game; and when architecture reached a
point
of extravagance unequalled in history.
A. tip
B. component
C. message
D.
motive
E. degree
41. In line 3,
the word “mounted” most nearly means_____
The
African elephant——mythic symbol of a continent,
keystone of its ecology
and the largest land
animal remaining on earth——has become the object
of one
of the biggest, broadest international
efforts yet mounted to turn a threatened
species off the road to extinction.
A.
ascended
B. increased
C. launched
D.
attached
E. exhibited
42. In line 34,
the word “host” most nearly means_____
In such
situations, the rain forest becomes hospitable to
large plant-eating
mammals such as bongos,
bush pigs, duikers, forest hogs, swamp antelopes
forest buffaloes, okapis, sometimes gorillas
and always a host of smaller
animals that
thrive on secondary growth.
A. food source for
parasites
B. very large number
C. provider
of hospitality
D. military force
E.
angelic company
43. In line 13, the
word “answer” most nearly means_____
My early
instruction was all out of place. The crouching
servility, usually so
acceptable a quality in
a slave, did not answer when manifested toward
her.
Her favor was not gained by it; she
seemed to be disturbed by it. She did not
deem
it impudent or unmannerly for a slave to look her
in the face. The meanest
slave was put fully
at ease in her presence, and none left without
feeling better
for having seen her.
A.
acknowledge
B. retort
C. reply
D.
serve
E. atone
44. In line 13, the word
“answer” most nearly means_____
I set out with
high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost
of trouble, to
learn how to read. The very
decided manner with which my master spoke, and
strove to impress his wife with the evil
consequences of giving me instruction,
served
to convince me that he was deeply sensible of the
truths he was
uttering. It gave me the best
assurance that I might rely with the utmost
confidence on the results which, he said,
would flow from teaching me to read.
A.
logical
B. prudent
C. intelligent
D.
conscious
E. sensory
45. In line 23, the
word “striking” most nearly means_____
The
most striking difference between an American and a
European is the
difference in their attitudes
towards money.
A. attractive
B. marked
C. shocking
D. protesting
E.
commanding
46. In line 4, the word “spring”
most nearly means_____
American life, everyone
has heard, has extraordinary intensity; it goes at
a
great rate. This is not due, I should say,
to any particular urgency in the object
pursued. Other nations have more pressing
motives to bestir themselves than
American
has; and it is observable that not all the new
nations, in either
hemisphere, are energetic.
This energy can hardly spring either from
unusually
intolerable conditions which people
wish to overcome, nor from unusually
important
objects which they wish to attain.
A. leap
B. arise
C. extend
D. break E. blossom
做题思路
看到 “”和means
词汇题 平行结构 > 原义 > 文中义
attitude或者tone
态度题 排除indifferent 找adjadvv
nostalgic
resentful
optimistic
puzzlement
bafflement
bewilderment
passage（mainprimary） 主题题
每段读首句（不用找中心句）
最后做
line
定位题 逐字直译
永远选直接项不选推理项
难题没思路 解释结构 水母问爪子
水母问头
倒水母问爪子
水母问整体
碰到小技巧 平行结构
But题
推理题
类比题
身份题
Passage1、Passage2
P1P2题
问的是谁就只看谁
答案不是文章整体意思，是中心句的同义句
没有行号的题
不定位题 用上下题的行号去夹定位点
修辞题先看quote
用中心句定位
实在不会做蒙一个也不要放弃
修辞题（先看quote选项）
比较（compare &
contrast）：可以不同
比喻（metaphor）：一定相同；名词对应名词
类比（analogy）：一定相同；主谓宾对应主谓宾
批评：就事论事；比较严肃；越诚恳就越不生气
讽刺：针对人；比较逗；越诚恳就越生气
quote：一定要有引号，或从文中断开
cite：可以没有引号
allusion：暗指，没明说就知道在说谁
qualification：修改，限定（but）
文章论证方式
立论：informative：只有作者观点
驳论：argumentative：有别人观点；作者参与争论
辩论：debate：有别人观点；作者不参与争论
一个文章只能有一种，但是都可以跟evenhanded在一起用
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词 汇 题 专
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晶磊威武
1. The word “ignominious”
in line 10 means_____
Attempt to harmonize the
imbalances in my character by means of strict
discipline at a boarding school in Styria (my
people still regarded Austria as our
cultural
homeland) nearly led to the same ignominious end,
and only my
pseudo-voluntary departure from
the institution in the nick of time prevented
my final ostracism from the privileged ranks
of those for whom the path to
higher education
was open.
A. dangerous
B. pitiless
C.
unappreciated
D. disgraceful
E. honorable
2. In line 11, the word “ostracism”
most likely means_____
Attempt to harmonize
the imbalances in my character by means of strict
discipline at a boarding school in Styria (my
people still regarded Austria as our
cultural
homeland) nearly led to the same ignominious end,
and only my
pseudo-voluntary departure from
the institution in the nick of time prevented
my final ostracism from the privileged ranks
of those for whom the path to
higher education
was open.
A. praise
B. abuse
C.
appreciation
D. departure
E. banishment
3. In line 36, the word “bound” most
nearly means_____
I ask you, then, to decide
this case upon the facts as you have heard them,
in
light of the law as you understand it, in
light of the history of our country, whose
institutions you and I are bound to protect.
A. intellectually
B. personally determined
C. morally compelled
D. violently coerced
E. inevitably destined
4. In line
8, the word “pseudo-parents” means_____
The
cat treats them as pseudo-parents. The reason is
that they took over from
the real mother at a
sensitive stage of the kitten’s development and
went on
giving it milk, solid food, and
comfort as it grew up.
A. part-time parents
that are only partially involved with their young
B. individuals who act as parents of adults
C. parent that neglect their young
D.
parents that have both the characteristics of
humans and their pets
E. adoptive parents who
aren’t related to their young
5. In line 28, “much lauded” means_____
Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs. The
much-lauded “group loyalty”
phenomenon is
alien to both cats and cat-lovers.
A.
vehemently argued
B. overly discussed
C.
unnecessarily complicated
D. typically
controversial
E. commonly praised
6. The word “conceptions” as used in line
16 most nearly means_____
What irritated him
most——and it was this that was chiefly responsible
for his
dissatisfaction with his job——was to
hear of the conceptions formed about
him: how
he was always riding about through the tides with
his trident.
A. origins
B. opinions
C.
discussions
D. plans
E. explanations
7. the word “transmitted” as used in line
8 most nearly means_____
The wives of magnates
issued donations jointly with their husbands,
founded
monasteries, endowed churches,
cultivated interfamilial ties, transmitted clan
ideology to their children, supervised the
household, and administered the
family’s
estates when their husbands were away.
A.
announced
B. taught
C. enforced
D.
distributed
E. broadcast
8. The
word “upheld” as used in line 25 most nearly
means_____
Freed from the need to compete for
the attention of men, women in these
communities sustained each other in spiritual,
intellectual, scholarly, artistic,
and
charitable pursuits. Writings by early medieval
nuns reveal that female
ideals and modes of
conduct were upheld as the way to salvation and as
models
of sanctity in the monasteries led by
women.
A. delayed
B. endorsed
C.
suspended
D. enforced
E. announced
9. In line 3, the word “promulgated” most
nearly means_____
Though Democritus’ ideas
were in many ways strikingly modern and were
promulgated by his more celebrated successor
Epicurus, his theory never
gained wide
acceptance in Greek thought.
A. plagiarized
B. dismissed
C. protected
D. obscured
E. promoted
10. In line 34, the word
“striking” most nearly means_____
Jazz is
created from the synthesis of certain elements in
the style of its
precursors, its most striking
feature is its exotic sound, which is produced not
only by the kinds of instruments used in the
orchestra, but also from the manner
in which
intonation is used.
A. removing
B.
pounding
C. thoughtful
D. remarkable
E. believable
11. In line 36, the
word “pitches” most nearly means_____
Jazz is
created from the synthesis of certain elements in
the style of its
precursors, its most striking
feature is its exotic sound, which is produced not
only by the kinds of instruments used in the
orchestra, but also from the manner
in which
intonation is used. Instead of obtaining exact
pitches, the players glide
freely from one
note to another and frequently fluctuate the
pitches.
A. tosses
B. tones
C. volume
D. proposals
E. styles
12. In
line 1, the word “strains” most nearly means_____
Among the Plains Indians, two separate strains
of decorative art evolved: the
figurative,
representational art created by the men of the
tribe, and the
geometric, abstract art crafted
by the women.
A. tunes
B. pressures
C.
varieties
D. injuries
E. pressures
13. In line 20, the word “drafted” most
nearly means_____
These representational works
were generally drafted by a group of
men——
often the individuals who had performed
the deeds being recorded——who drew
on
untailored hide robes and tepee liners made of
skins.
A. selected
B. recruited
C.
endorsed
D. sketched
E. ventilated
14. In line 40, the word “overlooking”
most nearly means_____
“Are you afraid she
will be insipid? My dear brother, it is I who
supply the butter;
so you need not fear!” said
Mrs. Penniman, who had taken in hand the child’s
“accomplishments,” overlooking her at the
piano, where Catherine displayed a
certain
talent, and going with her to the dancing-class,
where it must be
confessed that she made but a
modest figure.
A. ignoring
B. slighting
C. forgiving
D. watching over
E.
towering above
15. In line 36, the
word “scale” most nearly means_____
The city’s
strengths and its ills are inextricably bound
together. The same
concentration that makes
the center efficient is the cause of its crowding
and
the destruction of its sun and its light
and its scale.
A. series of musical tones
B. measuring instrument
C. relative
dimensions
D. thin outer layer
E. means of
ascent
16. In line 14, the word “order”
most nearly means_____
Then, again, all things
in life were of a proud or cruel publicity. Lepers
sounded
their rattles and went about in
processions; beggars exhibited their deformity
and their misery in churches. Every order and
estate, every rank and
profession, was
distinguished by its costume.
A. command
B. harmony
C. sequence
D. physical
condition
E. social class
17. In
line 15, the word “scheme” most nearly means_____
Many years later there is something called
bilingual education——a scheme
proposed in the
late 1960s by Hispanic-American social
activists——later
endorsed by a congressional
vote.
A. conspiracy
B. diagram
C. plan
D. outline
E. goal
18.
In line 32, the word “telling” most nearly
means_____
They regarded the people at work,
the faces in crowds, very distant from us.
They were the others, los gringos. That term
was interchangeable in their
speech with
another, even more telling, los americanos.
A.
outspoken
B. interchangeable
C.
unutterable
D. embarrassing
E. revealing
19. In line 13, the word “ends” most
nearly means_____
Seeing this gradation and
diversity of structure in one small, intimately
related
group of birds, one might really fancy
that from an original paucity of birds in
this
archipelago, one species had been taken and
modified for different ends.
A. borders
B.
extremities
C. limits
D. purposes
E.
deaths
20. In line 38, the word
“hazard” most nearly means_____
The finches
evolved in isolation. So did everything else on
earth. With the
finches, you can see how it
happened. The Galapagos islands are near enough
to the mainland that some strays could hazard
there; they are far enough away
that those
strays could evolve in isolation from parent
species.
A. venture
B. speculate
C. be
imperiled
D. run aground
E. develop
21. In line 8, the word “translate” most
nearly means_____
It is sometimes said that
detective stories are read by respectable law-
abiding
citizens in order to gratify in
fantasy the violent or murderous wishes they dare
not, or are ashamed to, translate into action.
A. decipher
B. move
C. explain
D.
convey
E. convert
22. In line
48, the word “employed” most nearly means_____
As with all fine literature, history
philosophy, as with the written word wherever
employed creatively, it can lead us to
laughter in our frustration, to joy in our
experience, and to tolerance for our
complexities.
A. hired
B. used
C.
commissioned
D. remunerated
E. labored
23. In line 11, the word “reaches”
most nearly means_____
Dust, however fine and
powdery, is still heavier than water, and whenever
the
water becomes sufficiently still, it will
gradually sink to the bottom, not only in
lakes and seas but also in the sluggish lower
reaches of rivers and where flood
conditions
exist, in the form of silt.
A. grasps
B.
unbroken stretches
C. range of knowledge
D. promontories
E. justapositions
24. In line 8, the word “persuasion”
most nearly means_____
Modern thinkers who
have studied myths and fairy tales from a
philosophical or
psychological viewpoint
arrive at the same conclusion, regardless of their
original persuasion.
A. enticement
B.
convincing force
C. political party
D.
opinion
E. gullibility
25. In
line 33, the word “appeal” most nearly means_____
There is general agreement that myths and
fairy tales speak to us I the
language of
symbols representing unconscious content. Their
appeal is
simultaneously to our conscious mind
and to our need for ego-ideals as well.
A.
plea
B. wistfulness
C. prayer
D.
request
E. attraction
26.
In line 7, the word “consumption” most nearly
means_____
Perhaps the most damning argument
against rock and roll as a political catalyst
is suggested by John Berger in an essay on
advertising. Berger argues that
“publicity
turns consumption into a substitute for democracy.
The choice of
what one eats (or wears or
drives) takes the place of significant political
choice.”
A. supposition
B. beginning a
task
C. using up goods
D. advertising a
product
E. culmination
27. In
line 40, the word “maintain” most nearly
means_____
The politically motivated rock and
roll artist’s other option is to maintain his
political commitment without fooling himself
as to the ultimate impact his work
will have.
A. repair
B. contend
C. subsidize
D. brace
E. keep
28. In line
11, the word “held” most nearly means_____
I
could not go home again, yet here I was Africa was
so long ago the land of my
ancestors that it
held for my only a symbolic significance.
A.
grasped
B. believed
C. absorbed
D.
accommodated
E. possessed
29. In
line 29, the word “taxing” most nearly means_____
At the time, I’d been working as an arts
administrator in the
Writers-in-the-Schools
program, sending other writers to grade schools
and
high schools throughout Minnesota. It
wasn’t taxing, but it didn’t provide the
long
stretches needed to plunge into my own work.
A. imposing
B. obliging
C. demanding
D. accusatory
E. costly
30. In line 16, the word “raise” most nearly
means_____
I do not raise these issues to
imply that we would be better off as Polynesian
natives or medieval peasants. Nor am I arguing
that “progress” has made us
worse off.
A.
elevate
B. increase
C. nurture
D.
bring up
E. set upright
31. In
line 5, the word “civil” most nearly means_____
Some loose boards laid upon the sleepers
supporting the metals of the railway
supplied
a footing for him and his executioners——two
private soldiers of the
Federal army directed
by a sergeant, who in civil life may have been a
deputy
sheriff.
A. polite
B.
individual
C. legal
D. collective
E.
nonmilitary
32. In line 52, the word
“consistent” most nearly means_____
No service
was too humble for him to perform in aid of the
South, no adventure
too perilous for him to
undertake if consistent with the character of a
civilian
who was at heart a soldier, and who
in good faith and without too much
qualification assented to at least a part of
the frankly villainous dictum that all is
fair
in love and war.
A. unfailing
B. agreeable
C. dependable
D. constant
E.
compatible
33. In line 26, the word
“qualification” most nearly means_____
No
service was too humble for him to perform in aid
of the South, no adventure
too perilous for
him to undertake if consistent with the character
of a civilian
who was at heart a soldier, and
who in good faith and without too much
qualification assented to at least a part of
the frankly villainous dictum that all
is fair
in love and war.
A. competence
B.
eligibility
C. restriction
D. reason
E. liability
34. In line
39, the word “properties” most nearly means_____
Lightest of all were the first generation
quarks, up and down, which combined to
create
the basic protons and neutrons; somewhat heavier
were the second
generation quarks, strange and
charm, the building blocks of the more esoteric
particles produced in the physicists’ labs.
Then in 1977 a team headed by
Fermilab
physicist Leon Lederman uncovered the possibility
of a third
generation of quarks. Using new
accelerators with higher energies, they
produced a short-lived heavy particle, the
upsilon, whose properties
suggested it could
not be made of the four quarks then known. They
concluded
it must be made of a fifth quark,
which they named bottom, whereupon
scientists
throughout the world set off in hot pursuit of
bottom’s hypothetical
partner——top.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
lands
titles
investments
civilities
characteristics
35. In line 47, the word “hinged” most
nearly means_____
Indeed, they had to find it,
for the Standard Model of particle physics, the
theoretical synthesis that reduced the once-
maddening hordes of particles to
just a few
primary components, hinged upon its existence.
A. folded
B. vanished
C. remarked
D. depended
E. weighed
36.
In line 31, the word “compromising” most nearly
means_____
The system broke down, however,
after the French became convinced that the
Iroquois were compromising the system in favor
of the English and launched
a full-scale
attempt to establish French physical and juridical
presence in the
Ohio Valley——the heart of the
borderlands long claimed by the Iroquois.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
humiliation
jeopardizing
revealing
yielding
conceding
37. In line 9, the
word “scrapes” most nearly means_____
Sometimes I’ve tried to figure out why Mickey
appealed to the whole world.
Everybody’s tried
to figure it out. So far as I know, nobody has. He
is a pretty
nice fellow who never does anybody
any harm, who gets into scrapes through
no
fault of his own, but always manages to come up
grinning.
A. abrasions
B. harsh sounds
C. small economies
D. discarded fragments
E. predicaments
38. In line 34,
the word “take a bite out of our imaginations”
most nearly
means_____
To take a bite out
of our imaginations, an icon must be simple. The
ears, the
wiggly tail, the red short, give us
a Mickey.
A. injure our creativity
B.
reduce our innovative capacity
C. cut into our
inspiration
D. capture our fancies
E.
limit our visions
39. In line 5, the
word “acute” most nearly means_____
The
dolphin has, however, a remarkable range-finding
ability involving some
sort of echo-sounding.
Perhaps this acute sense——far more accurate than
any
that human ingenuity has been able to
devise artificially——brings him greater
knowledge of his watery surroundings than
might at first seem possible.
A. excruciating
B. severe
C. keen
D. sudden and
intense
E. brief in duration
40. In
line 3, the word “point” most nearly means_____
I am in Gothic world, the world of chivalry,
courtesy, and romance; a world in
which
serious things were done with a sense of
play——where even war and
theology could become
a sort of game; and when architecture reached a
point
of extravagance unequalled in history.
A. tip
B. component
C. message
D.
motive
E. degree
41. In line 3,
the word “mounted” most nearly means_____
The
African elephant——mythic symbol of a continent,
keystone of its ecology
and the largest land
animal remaining on earth——has become the object
of one
of the biggest, broadest international
efforts yet mounted to turn a threatened
species off the road to extinction.
A.
ascended
B. increased
C. launched
D.
attached
E. exhibited
42. In line 34,
the word “host” most nearly means_____
In such
situations, the rain forest becomes hospitable to
large plant-eating
mammals such as bongos,
bush pigs, duikers, forest hogs, swamp antelopes
forest buffaloes, okapis, sometimes gorillas
and always a host of smaller
animals that
thrive on secondary growth.
A. food source for
parasites
B. very large number
C. provider
of hospitality
D. military force
E.
angelic company
43. In line 13, the
word “answer” most nearly means_____
My early
instruction was all out of place. The crouching
servility, usually so
acceptable a quality in
a slave, did not answer when manifested toward
her.
Her favor was not gained by it; she
seemed to be disturbed by it. She did not
deem
it impudent or unmannerly for a slave to look her
in the face. The meanest
slave was put fully
at ease in her presence, and none left without
feeling better
for having seen her.
A.
acknowledge
B. retort
C. reply
D.
serve
E. atone
44. In line 13, the word
“answer” most nearly means_____
I set out with
high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost
of trouble, to
learn how to read. The very
decided manner with which my master spoke, and
strove to impress his wife with the evil
consequences of giving me instruction,
served
to convince me that he was deeply sensible of the
truths he was
uttering. It gave me the best
assurance that I might rely with the utmost
confidence on the results which, he said,
would flow from teaching me to read.
A.
logical
B. prudent
C. intelligent
D.
conscious
E. sensory
45. In line 23, the
word “striking” most nearly means_____
The
most striking difference between an American and a
European is the
difference in their attitudes
towards money.
A. attractive
B. marked
C. shocking
D. protesting
E.
commanding
46. In line 4, the word “spring”
most nearly means_____
American life, everyone
has heard, has extraordinary intensity; it goes at
a
great rate. This is not due, I should say,
to any particular urgency in the object
pursued. Other nations have more pressing
motives to bestir themselves than
American
has; and it is observable that not all the new
nations, in either
hemisphere, are energetic.
This energy can hardly spring either from
unusually
intolerable conditions which people
wish to overcome, nor from unusually
important
objects which they wish to attain.
A. leap
B. arise
C. extend
D. break E. blossom
做题思路
看到 “”和means
词汇题 平行结构 > 原义 > 文中义
attitude或者tone
态度题 排除indifferent 找adjadvv
nostalgic
resentful
optimistic
puzzlement
bafflement
bewilderment
passage（mainprimary） 主题题
每段读首句（不用找中心句）
最后做
line
定位题 逐字直译
永远选直接项不选推理项
难题没思路 解释结构 水母问爪子
水母问头
倒水母问爪子
水母问整体
碰到小技巧 平行结构
But题
推理题
类比题
身份题
Passage1、Passage2
P1P2题
问的是谁就只看谁
答案不是文章整体意思，是中心句的同义句
没有行号的题
不定位题 用上下题的行号去夹定位点
修辞题先看quote
用中心句定位
实在不会做蒙一个也不要放弃
修辞题（先看quote选项）
比较（compare &
contrast）：可以不同
比喻（metaphor）：一定相同；名词对应名词
类比（analogy）：一定相同；主谓宾对应主谓宾
批评：就事论事；比较严肃；越诚恳就越不生气
讽刺：针对人；比较逗；越诚恳就越生气
quote：一定要有引号，或从文中断开
cite：可以没有引号
allusion：暗指，没明说就知道在说谁
qualification：修改，限定（but）
文章论证方式
立论：informative：只有作者观点
驳论：argumentative：有别人观点；作者参与争论
辩论：debate：有别人观点；作者不参与争论
一个文章只能有一种，但是都可以跟evenhanded在一起用
考试必备物品：
指针手表，木杆铅笔，质量好的橡皮，卷笔刀，计算器，准考证，港澳通行证
（或护照），
水，巧克力，长袖上衣
考场禁带物品：
电子表，自动铅（考试专用涂卡笔），通讯类，字典类
我的建议：
1． 进考场之前做一个section的阅读
2．
一定要练习用指针手表计时的习惯（时间不整，时间跨整点等情况）
3． 一定不要喝带汽的饮料
4． 一定要吃早饭
5． 失眠了给我打电话
6．
阅读突然读不懂的时候逐字翻译
7． 考试前一天晚上不要吃得很嗨
8．
到香港后利用任何零碎的时间练读懂句子