【官方】SAT写作每日一题附答案和解析(2018年2月8日)

Writing & Language

In recent years, several urban US airports haveconverted some of the unused land past theirrunways to provide habitats for honeybees. Whileairports may seem unlikely locations forbeekeeping, many of them, in fact, have thepotential to offer ideal conditions for an apiary (agroup of beehives). The Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, for instance, hosts an apiaryon a 400-square-foot area of land just north of one of its runways. This area is rich in Dutchclover, a preferred food source for honeybees. The honeybees may thrive there in partbecause they aren't exposed to the agricultural pesticides suspected of contributingto Colony Collapse Disorder. Though unorthodox, airport-based honeybee habitats can helpto ensure that local regions have healthy populations of honeybees.

The writer is considering deleting the underlined sentence. Should the sentence bekept or deleted?

A.Kept, because it provides support for the paragraph's claim about airports being able to offersuitable habitats for honeybees.

B.Kept, because it acknowledges a counterargument to the paragraph's claim about thebenefits of apiaries.

C.Deleted, because it blurs the paragraph's focus on airport apiaries by introducing anirrelevant detail about Colony Collapse Disorder.

D.Deleted, because it disrupts the logical sequence of steps outlined in the paragraph'sexplanation of how to set up an airport apiary.

答案：A

解析：

Choice A is the best answer because it retains arelevant sentence and offers a sound reason fordoing so: because the sentence explains anotherfeature of the urban airport locations -- that they'redistant from areas that use agricultural pesticides -- and provides support for the paragraph'sclaim that airports may offer suitable habitats for honeybees.