SAT官方每日一题：2012年4月26日

　　下面是是2012年4月26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.

　　For both his shorter and longer works of fiction, Gabriel García Márquez achieves the rare feat of being accessible to the common reader while satisfying the most demanding of sophisticated critics.

　　Answer Choices

　　(A) For both his shorter and longer

　　(B) For both his shorter, and in his longer,

　　(C) In both his shorter and his longer

　　(D) Both in his shorter and his longer

　　(E) Both his shorter and longer

　　The correct answer is C

　　Explanation

　　Choice (C) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by following both parts of the “both … and” construction with the pronoun “his” (“In both his … and his … ”)

　　下面是一道和SAT官方每日一题相似的题目，供大家练习：

　　The first 10,000 United States patents, known to be the X-patents, were burned in a fire in 1836.

　　Answer Choices

　　(A) to be

　　(B) to have been

　　(C) as

　　(D) as they were

　　(E) as being

　　The correct answer is C

　　Explanation

　　Choice (C) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by using the idiomatic “known as” instead of the awkward and unidiomatic “known to be.”