SAT官方每日一题：2012年4月20日

　　下面是是2012年4月20日的SAT官方每日一题的内容，是关于写作方面的，题型是改进句子。

　　SAT官方每日一题之写作---改进句子：

　　Writing > Improving Sentences

　　Part or all of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A.

　　Mexican painter Frida Kahlo drew inspiration from her Mexican heritage, where she incorporated native and religious symbols into her work.

　　Answer Choices

　　(A) where she incorporated

　　(B) in which she incorporated

　　(C) incorporated

　　(D) incorporating

　　(E) therefore, she incorporated

　　The correct answer is D

　　Explanation

　　Choice (D) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by eliminating the relative pronoun “where,” which does not logically refer to anything else in the sentence, and by reducing the needlessly wordy “she incorporated” to “incorporating.”

　　下面是一道和SAT官方每日一题相似的题目，供大家练习：

　　Chilean novelist and short-story writer María Luisa Bombal wrote innovative and influential stories featuring heroines which create fantasy worlds in order to escape from unfulfilling love relationships and restricted social roles.

　　A. heroines which create

　　B. heroines, they create

　　C. heroines, they created

　　D. heroines who create

　　E. heroines that were creating

　　The correct answer is E

　　Explanation

　　Choice (D) is correct. It avoids the pronoun error of the original by using an appropriate relative pronoun (“who”) to refer to people (“heroines”).