SAT官方每日一题：2012年4月22日

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　　SAT官方每日一题---完成句子

　　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.

　　Ms. Fergusson’s main criticism of the artist’s rendering of the ancient mammal’s physical appearance is that, unsupported by even a ------- of fossil evidence, the image is bound to be ------- .

　　Answer Choices

　　(A) modicum . . speculative

　　(B) particle . . supplemented

　　(C) perusal . . substantiated

　　(D) fabrication . . obsolete

　　(E) recapitulation . . exhausted

　　The correct answer is A

　　Explanation

　　A “modicum” is a small amount. Since the artist did not have even a small amount of evidence, the image must have been “speculative”.

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　　The radical ideas in Henderson's speech were ------- to those assembled, inciting many in the crowd to anger and some to open rebellion.

　　A. exhilarating

　　B. sympathetic

　　C. gratifying

　　D. inflammatory

　　E. tiresome

　　The correct answer is D

　　Explanation

　　The correct answer is (D). “Inflammatory” means arousing passion or strong emotion. The structure of the sentence indicates that the part of the sentence after the comma will explain or elaborate on the information in the first part of the sentence. Because Henderson’s radical, or revolutionary, ideas aroused enough emotion to make some people angry and to make others openly rebellious, it makes sense to say that Henderson’s ideas were inflammatory.