SAT语法句子改错题含详细答案（11）.

2017-08-05 作者： 170阅读

　　SAT考试（Scholastic Assessment Test）是美国高中生进入美国大学的标准入学考试，它对录取与否及奖学金多少的影响非常大。下面是SAT语法练习句子改错题，第二页含有详细答案，请参看。

　　101. Even though the direct costs of malpractice disputes amounts to a sum lower than one percent of the $541 billion the nation spent on health care last year, doctors say fear of lawsuits plays a major role in health-care inflation.

　　(A) amounts to a sum lower

　　(B) amounts to less

　　(D) amounted to lower

　　(E) amounted to a lower sum

　　102. Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged in 1911, Scott Joplin&aposs ragtime opera Treemonisha was not produced until 1972, sixty-one years after its completion.

　　(A) Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged

　　(B) Except for a concert performance with the composer himself staging it

　　(D) Excepting a concert performance that the composer himself staged

　　(E) With the exception of a concert performance with the staging done by the composer himself

　　103. Students in the metropolitan school district lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming ever more dependent on information-based industries.

　　(A) lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming

　　(B) lack math skills to a large enough degree that they will be difficult to absorb into a city&aposs economy that becomes

　　(D) are lacking so much in math skills as to be difficult to absorb into a city&aposs economy becoming

　　(E) are so lacking in math skills that it will be difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming

　　104. The diet of the ordinary Greek in classical times was largely vegetarian--vegetables, fresh cheese, oatmeal, and meal cakes, and meat rarely.

　　(A) and meat rarely

　　(B) and meat was rare

　　(D) meat a rarity

　　(E) with meat as a rarity

　　105. An inventory equal to 90 days sales is as much as even the strongest businesses carry, and then only as a way to anticipate higher prices or ensure against shortages.

　　(A) as much as even

　　(B) so much as even

　　(D) even as much that

　　(E) even so much that

　　106. The decision by one of the nation&aposs largest banks to admit to $3 billion in potential losses on foreign loans could mean less lending by commercial banks to developing countries and increasing the pressure on multigovernment lenders to supply the funds.

　　(A) increasing the pressure

　　(B) the increasing pressure

　　(D) the pressure increased

　　(E) the pressure increasing

　　107. Downzoning, zoning that typically results in the reduction of housing density, allows for more open space in areas where little water or services exist.

　　(A) little water or services exist

　　(B) little water or services exists

　　(D) there is little water or services available

　　(E) there are few services and little available water

　　108. Reporting that one of its many problems had been the recent extended sales slump in women&aposs apparel, the seven-store retailer said it would start a three-month liquidation sale in all of its stores.

　　(A) its many problems had been the recent

　　(B) its many problems has been the recently

　　(D) their many problems is the recent

　　(E) their many problems had been the recent

　　109. Legislation in the Canadian province of Ontario requires of both public and private employers that pay be the same for jobs historically held by women as for jobs requiring comparable skill that are usually held by men.

　　(A) that pay be the same for jobs historically held by women as for jobs requiring comparable skill that are

　　(B) that pay for jobs historically held by women should be the same as for a job requiring comparable skills

　　(D) to pay the same regardless of whether a job was historically held by women or is one demanding comparable skills

　　(E) to pay as much for jobs historically held by women as for a job demanding comparable skills

　　110. It has been estimated that the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy in lost industrial output and tax revenues is at least $20 billion a year.

　　(A) the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy in lost industrial output and tax revenues is at least $20 billion a year

　　(B) the annual cost of illiteracy to the United States is at least $20 billion a year because of lost industrial output and tax revenues

　　(D) $20 billion a year in lost industrial output and tax revenues is the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy

　　(E) lost industrial output and tax revenues cost the United States at least $20 billion a year because of illiteracy

参考答案及解析

　　Answer to Question 101

　　The correct choice must feature a verb that agrees with the plural noun costs and rers to an action completed last year (past tense). The verb amounts in A and B fulfills neither condition, and amounts to a sum in A is redundant. The same redundancy occurs in E, and the construction a lower sum than is awkward and imprecise in the context of the sentence. In D, the adjective lower is erroneously used in place of the noun less as object of the preposition to. Choice C is best.

　　Answer to Question 102

　　Choice A is best. In B, the participle staging inappropriately expresses ongoing rather than completed action, and the prepositional phrase containing this participle (with... it) is unidiomatic. Likewise, C uses the participle being inappropriately. In D, the use of Excepting in place of the preposition Except for is unidiomatic. Choice E is awkward and wordy.

　　Answer to Question 103

　　In A, lack is modified by a wordy and awkward construction, to such a large degree as to make it difficult to. B is similarly flawed, and to a large enough degree that is unidiomatic. C is ungrammatical because it uses lack as a noun rather than as a verb: the phrase beginning Students... becomes a dangling element, and them rers illogically to skills rather than students. Additionally, A, B, and C fail to use one or both of the "-ing" forms are lacking and becoming; these forms are prerable to lack and becomes in describing progressive and

　　ongoing conditions. D uses the "-ing" forms, but so much... as to be difficult to absorb is an awkward and unidiomatic verbal modifier. Choice E is best.

　　Answer to Question 104

　　The best answer here must qualify the statement made in the main clause. The diet... was largely vegetarian: it cannot be treated as part of the list of vegetarian foods. In other words, the best answer must logically and grammatically attach to the main clause when the list is omitted. Choice A fails this test: The diet. . . was largely vegetarian, and meat rarely. D fails also, because it lacks a function word such as with to link it to the main clause. The wording of choice B is imprecise and ambiguous--for example, it could mean that meat was scarce, or that it was not well done or medium. Choice C is unidiomatic. Clearly phrased, grammatically linked, and idiomatically sound, choice E is best.

　　Answer to Question 105

　　The idiomatic form for this type of comparison is as much as. Thus, choice A is best. The phrase so much as is used unidiomatically in choices B and C; so much as is considered idiomatic if it is preceded by a negative, as in "She lt not so much as a trace." In choices C, D, and E, even is misplaced so that it no longer clearly modifies the strongest businesses. Moreover, the use of that rather than as is unidiomatic in choices D and E.

　　Answer to Question 106

　　The best answer will complete the phrase could mean less lending with a construction that is parallel to less lending. Here less is an adjective modifying lending, which functions as a noun in naming a banking activity. C, the best choice, parallels this adjective + noun construction with increased [adjective] pressure [noun]. Choice A violates parallelism by introducing a phrase in place of the adjective + noun construction. Choices D and E also fail to parallel the adjective + noun construction. In choice B, the dinite article the needlessly suggests that some previously mentioned type of pressure is being rerred to, and increasing implies without warrant that the increase has been continuing for some indinite period of time, not that it occurs as a consequence of the bank&aposs decision.

　　Answer to Question 107

　　The adjective little modifies "mass nouns" (e.g., water), which rer to some undifferentiated quantity; the adjective few modifies "count nouns" (e.g., services), which rer to groups made up of distinct members that can be considered individually. Hence, choices A, B, and D are incorrect because little cannot properly modify services. Also, since water and services are being discussed as a pair, they should logically be treated as a compound subject requiring a plural verb; thus, the singular verbs exists (in B and C) and is (in D) are wrong. Choice E is best: the plural verb are is used, and few correctly modifies services.

　　Answer to Question 108

　　Choice A is best: the singular pronoun its agrees in number with the singular noun rerent retailer; the past perfect verb form had been is used appropriately to rer to action completed prior to the action of the simple past tense said&apos, and the adjective recent correctly modifies the noun phrase extended sales slump. The adverb recently in choices B and C distorts the meaning of the sentence by illogically suggesting that what was recent was only the extension of the slump, and not the slump itself. In choices D and E, the plural pronoun their does not agree with the singular noun retailer.

　　Answer to Question 109

　　Choice A is best. In choice B, should is illogical after requires, or at least unnecessary, and so is better omitted; in choices B and E, job does not agree in number with jobs; and in choices B, D, and E, the wording illogically describes the comparable skills rather than the jobs as being "usually held by men." Choices C, D, and E produce the ungrammatical construction requires of... employers to pay, in which of makes the phrase incorrect. In C, the use of in rather than for is unidiomatic, and jobs of comparable skill confusedly suggests that the jobs rather than the workers possess the skills. In D, the phrase beginning regardless ... is awkward and wordy in addition to being illogical.

　　Answer to Question 110

　　In choices A, B, and D, the combined use of annual and a year is redundant. Choices A, D, and E are awkward and confused because other constructions intrude within the phrase cost... of illiteracy: for greatest clarity, cost should be followed immediately by a phrase (e.g., of illiteracy ) that identifies the nature of the cost. Choice E is particularly garbled in reversing cause and fect, saying that it is lost output and revenues rather than illiteracy that costs the United States over $20 billion a year. Choice B is wordy and awkward, and idiom requires in rather than because of to introduce a phrase identifying the constituents of the $20 billion loss. Concise, logically worded, and idiomatic, choice C is best.

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