关于SAT阅读句子完成习题

SAT Sentence Completion Test 1

1. Today Wegeners theory is ___ ; however, he died an outsider treated with ___ by the scientific establishment.

A. unsupported - approval

B. dismissed - contempt

C. accepted - approbation

D. unchallenged - disdain

E. unrivalled - reverence

2. The revolution in art has not lost its steam; it ___ on as fiercely as ever.

A. trudges

B. meanders

C. edges

D. ambles

E. rages

3. Each occupation has its own ____ ; bankers, lawyers and computer professionals, for example, all use among themselves language which outsiders have difficulty following.

A. merits

B. disadvantages

C. rewards

D. jargon

E. problems

4. ____ by nature, Jones spoke very little even to his own family members.

A. garrulous

B. equivocal

C. taciturn

D. arrogant

E. gregarious

5. Biological clocks are of such ____ adaptive value to living organisms, that we would expect most organisms to ____ them.