新SAT语法官方题型解析-句法题 (Syntax)例2

例题二:

材料：新OG TEST 2

部分：SECTION 2

题号：18

This exhibit showcases sixty-eight miniature rooms inserted into a wall at eye level. Each furnished room consists of three walls; the fourth wall is a glass pane through which museumgoers observe. The rooms and their furnishings were painstakingly created to scale at 1/12th their actual size, so that one inch in the exhibit correlates with one foot in real life. A couch, for example, is seven inches long, and that is based on a seven-foot-long couch. Each room represents a distinctive style of European, American, or Asian interior design from the thirteenth to twentieth centuries.

The plainer rooms are more sparsely furnished. Their architectural features, furnishings, and decorations are just as true to the periods they represent. One of my favorite rooms in the whole exhibit, in fact, is an 1885 summer kitchen. The room is simple but spacious, with a small sink and counter along one wall, a cast-iron wood stove and some hanging pots and pans against another wall, and a small table under a window of the third

wall. Aside from a few simple wooden chairs placed near the edges of the room, the floor is open and obviously well worn.

Which choice most effectively combines the sentences at the underlined portion?

A) furnished by their

B) furnished, but their

C) furnished: their

D) furnished, whereas

答案：B

答案解析：与例一不同，这道句法题主要考察的是逻辑关联。划线部分的两个句子都是有着完整主谓结构的句子了，所以我们要选的是合适的连词来进行连接。这类题目在分析时务必要结合上下文的大意，在理解的基础上进行选择。根据原文，本句的意思应该是“虽然越朴素的房间越装修简陋，但是他们的装修风格，家具以及装饰品都完全忠于他们所代表的时代”。

然后分析选项：

A选项中，by是一个介词，后面只能接短语不能接句子，所以排除;

C选项中冒号是解释说明的作用，用在这里与原文表意不符，排除;

D选项中使用了连词whereas，虽然也有表转折的作用，但是少加了代词their会使句子表意不清，另外，whereas更多的用于对比和比较，比如 You treat the matter lightly, whereas I myself was never more serious. 你掉以轻心，而我从来没有比这更严重。表示两种情况的对比。

因此，这道题选B。