SAT官方每日一题：2011年7月28日

　　2011年7月28日

　　考试类型:Critical Reading > Sentence Completions

　　Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

　　He maintains that ethnic and cultural ------- are generalizations no more related to what an individual is actually like than are the ------- representations of constellations to the actual nature of a star.

　　A. traditions . . chemical

　　B. stereotypes . . pictorial

　　C. details . . figurative

　　D. heritages . . prophetic

　　E. specimens . . graphic

　　正确答案:B

　　解析:

　　The terms in choice (B) logically complete the sentence’s comparison between ethnic and cultural “generalizations” and certain “representations of constellations.” “Stereotypes” are oversimplified generalizations that do not necessarily describe what a particular person is actually like—just as “pictorial,” or picture-based, representations of constellations cannot accurately describe a star’s “actual nature.”