SAT语法练习题（五）含答案及解析

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21. Defense attorneys have occasionally argued that their clients' misconduct stemmed from a reaction to

something ingested, but in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy, the perpetrators

are in effect told that they are not responsible for their actions.

(A) in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy

(B) if criminal or delinquent behavior is attributed to an allergy to some food

(C) in attributing behavior that is criminal or delinquent to an allergy to some food

(D) if some food allergy is attributed as the cause of criminal or delinquent behavior

(E) in attributing a food allergy as the cause of criminal or delinquent behavior

22. The voluminous personal papers of Thomas Alva Edison reveal that his inventions typically sprang to life

not in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly from previous works.

(A) (A) sprang to life not in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly

(B) sprang to life not in a flash of inspiration but were slowly evolved

(C) did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly

(D) did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but had slowly evolved

(E) did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but they were slowly evolved

23. A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more

than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the

total growth in the civilian work force.

(A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase

(B) numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent

(C) numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent

(D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent

(E) number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase

24. The first decision for most tenants living in a building undergoing being converted to cooperative ownership

is if to sign a no-buy pledge with the other tenants.

(A) being converted to cooperative ownership is if to sign

(B) being converted to cooperative ownership is whether they should be signing

(C) being converted to cooperative ownership is whether or not they sign

(D) conversion to cooperative ownership is if to sign

(E) conversion to cooperative ownership is whether to sign

25. The end of the eighteenth century saw the emergence of prize-stock breeding, with individual bulls and

cows receiving awards, fetching unprecedented prices, and excited enormous interest whenever they were

put on show.

(A) excited

(B) it excited

(C) exciting

(D) would excite

(E) it had excited

Answer to Question 21

In choices A, C, and E, in attributing ... behavior modifies the perpetrators, producing the illogical statement

that the perpetrators rather than the defense attorneys are attributing behavior to food allergies. Choice C is also

wordy, and attributing ... as is unidiomatic in E. In the correct form of the expression, one attributes x, an effect,

to y, a cause; or, if a passive construction is used, x is attributed to y. D avoids the initial modification error by

using a passive construction (in which the attributors are not identified), but attributed x as the cause of y is

unidiomatic. Choice B is best.

Answer to Question 22

C, the best choice, places not and but in such a way that the distinction between springing to life in a flash of

inspiration and evolving slowly is logically and idiomatically expressed. A and B are faulty because, for

grammatical parallelism, not in a flash... must be followed by but in..., not by a conjugated form of the verb.

Moreover, were slowly evolved is incorrect in B because evolve, in this sense of the word, cannot be made

passive. Choices C, D, and E all correctly place not before spring. D, however, contains inconsistent verb

tenses; E contains the faulty passive and an intrusive they.

Answer to Question 23

Because a count of women employed outside the home at any given time will be expressed by a single number,

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the use of the plural noun numbers in choices A, B, and C is illogical. In A, the phrase grew by more than a

thirty-five percent increase is redundant and wordy, since the sense of increase is implicit in the verb grew. In

C and E, the passive verb forms were raised and was raised are inappropriate because there is no identifiable

agent responsible for the raising of the number of women employed. In choice E, was raised by ... increase is

redundant. Choice D, which presents the comparison logically and idiomatically, is the best answer.

Answer to Question 24

In A, B, and C, the phrase being converted is awkward and redundant, since the sense of process indicated by

being has already been conveyed by undergoing. A and D can be faulted for saying if rather than whether,

since the sentence poses alternative possibilities, to sign or not to sign. Only E, the best choice, idiomatically

completes whether with an infinitive, to sign, that functions as a noun equivalent of decision. Choice E also

uses the noun conversion, which grammatically completes the phrase begun by undergoing.

Answer to Question 25

Choice C is best. The third verb phrase in the series describing bulls and cows should have the same

grammatical form as the first two. Only choice C has a present participle (or "-ing" form) that is parallel with the

two preceding verbs, receiving and fetching. Instead of the present participle, choices A and B use the past

tense (excited), choice D uses an auxiliary verb (would excite), and choice E uses the past perfect tense (had

excited). Additionally, the incorrect verb tenses in B and E are introduced by a pronoun, it, that lacks a logical

noun referent.