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1. Shery1’s sister admitted that she had _______ the entire story, making up each detail as she went along.

(A) fabricated

(B) derided

(C) narrated

(D) imitated

(E) endured

2. All of the contestants behaved _______ throughout the pageant, displaying a natural _______ that made them easy for the judges to like.

(A) cautiously .. abruptness

(B) ineptly.. clumsiness

(C) astutely .. beneficence

(D) agreeably .. decisiveness

(E) amiably .. congeniality

3. Though Wilbur developed the proposal with the intention of _______ his upset clients, his arrogant presentation instead served to further _______ them.

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(A) convincing .. exasperate

(B) placating .. antagonize

(C) reassuring .. pacify

(D) dissuading .. indoctrinate

(E) alienating .. ingratiate

4. Harold Sorbie was known for his frequent _______ of groups with views opposed to his own, so it came as no surprise when he openly criticized the political caucus for failing to lobby for stricter regulations.

(A) contradiction

(B) dissolution

(C) discussion

(D) condemnation

(E) investigation

5. After receiving widespread _______ for producing its first set of bioengineering protocols, the company feared that it would not be able to repeat its initial successful performance.

(A) dominance

(B) disregard

(C) acclaim

(D) applause

(E) collusion

6. The museum had an _______ collection of well-preserved Assyrian artifacts spanning multiple centuries; its Babylonian holdings, by contrast, tended to be more _______ and limited to a single time period.

(A) evolved .. circumscribed

(B) antiquated .. venerable

(C) itinerant .. uniform

(D) unusual .. exotic

(E) eclectic .. homogenous

Questions 7-19 are based on the following passages.

The following passage is adapted from the autobiography of John Stuart Mill, published in the early 1900s. In this excerpt, Mill discusses how he met his wife.

It was the period of my mental progress which I have now reached that I formed the friendship which has been the honor and chief blessing of my existence, as well as the source of a great part of all that I have 139 美国高考SAT备考全注意事项

attempted to do, or hope to effect hereafter, for human improvement. My first introduction to the lady who, after a friendship of twenty years, consented to become my wife, was in 1830, when I was in my twenty-fifth and she in her twenty-third year. With her husband’s family it was the renewal of an old acquaintanceship. His grandfather lived in the next house to my father’s in Newington Green, and I had sometimes when a boy been invited to play in the old gentleman’s garden. He was a fine specimen of the old Scotch puritan; stern, severe, and powerful, but very kind to children, on whom such men make a lasting impression.

Although it was years after my introduction to Mrs. Taylor before my acquaintance with her became at all intimate or confidential, I very soon felt her to be the most admirable person I had ever known. It is not to be supposed that she was, or that anyone, at the age at which I first saw her, could be, all that she afterwards became. Least of all could this be true of her, with whom self-improvement, progress in the highest and in all senses, was a law of her nature. For Mrs. Taylor, self-improvement was a necessity that arose equally from the ardor with which she sought it, and from the spontaneous tendency of her faculties, which could not receive an impression without making it the source of an accession of wisdom.

Up to the time when I first saw her, her rich and powerful nature had chiefly unfolded itself according to the received type of feminine genius. To her outer circle she was a beauty and a wit, with an air of natural distinction, felt by all who approached her. To her inner circle, she was a woman of deep and strong feeling, of penetrating and intuitive intelligence, and of an eminently meditative and poetic nature. She was married at a very early age to a most upright, brave, and honorable man of liberal opinions and good education, but without the intellectual or artistic tastes which would have made him a companion for her. He was, though, a steady and affectionate friend, for whom she had true esteem and the strongest affection through life, and whom she most deeply lamented when dead.

Shut out by the social disabilities of women from any adequate exercise of her highest faculties in action on the world without, her life was one of inward meditation, varied by familiar interactions with a small circle of friends, of whom one only (long since deceased) was a person of genius, or of capacities of feeling or intellect kindred with her own. Nonetheless, all had more or less of an alliance with her in sentiments and opinions. Into this circle I had the good fortune to be admitted, and I soon perceived that she possessed, in combination, the qualities which in all other persons whom I had known I had been only too happy to find singly.

In her complete emancipation from every kind of superstition resulted not from the hard intellect, but from strength of noble and elevated feeling, and co-existed with a highly reverential nature. In general spiritual characteristics, as well as in temperament and organization, I have often compared her, as she was at this time, to Shelley. But in thought and intellect, Shelley, so far as his powers were developed in his short life, was but a child compared with what she ultimately became. Alike in the highest regions of speculation and in the smaller practical concerns of daily life, her mind was the same perfect instrument, piercing to the very heart and marrow of the matter; always seizing the essential idea or principle.

The same exactness and rapidity of operation, pervading as it did her sensitive as well as her mental faculties, would, with her gifts of feeling and imagination, have fitted her to be a consummate artist, as her fiery and tender soul and her vigorous eloquence would certainly have made her a great orator. Her profound knowledge of human nature and discernment in practical life, would, in the times when such a profession was open to women, have made her eminent among the rulers of mankind. Her intellectual gifts did but minister to a moral character at once the noblest and the best balanced which I have ever met with in life. Her unselfishness was not that of a taught system of duties, but of a heart which thoroughly identified itself with the feelings of others, and often went to excess in consideration for them by imaginatively investing their feelings with the 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40美国高考SAT备考全注意事项 140 SAT 全真模拟试题

intensity of its own.

The passion of justice might have been thought to be her strongest feeling, had it not been for her boundless generosity, and a lovingness ever ready to pour itself forth upon any or all human beings who were capable of giving the smallest feeling in return. The rest of her moral characteristics were such as naturally accompany these qualities of mind and heart: the most genuine modesty combined with the loftiest pride; a simplicity and sincerity which were absolute, towards all who were fit to receive them; the utmost scorn of whatever was mean and cowardly; and a burning indignation at everything brutal or tyrannical, faithless or dishonorable in conduct and character.

7. In line 4, the term“ friendship” refers to the relationship

(A) that the author had with his wife before they were married

(B) between Mrs. Taylor and her group of acquaintances

(C) between Mrs. Taylor and her husband’s grandfather

(D) between the author and his wife’s circle of friends

(E) that the author had with his wife’s first husband

8. As used in line 13, “law” most nearly means

(A) legislation

(B) characteristic

(C) statement

(D) regulation

(E) judgment

9. The reference to“ self-improvement” in lines 12-15 (“Least of all ... wisdom”) is used to emphasize Mrs. Taylor’s

(A) commitment to helping her friends advance

(B) refusal to consider the advice of others

(C) dedication to pursuing personal growth

(D) habitual dependence on the flattery of others

(E) tendency to urge her husband to better himself

10. The author uses the term“ inner circle” (line 18) in order to

(A) explain why Mrs. Taylor married her first husband at an early age

(B) illustrate that Mrs. Taylor participated in different activities with several groups of friends

(C) demonstrate that Mrs. Taylor was equally open with all who knew her, acquaintances and close friends alike

(D) emphasize that Mrs. Taylor was less appealing in person than she was to those who saw her from afar

(E) highlight the fact that Mrs. Taylor’s close friends knew her better than her other acquaintances did

11. In line 27, the phrase“ kindred with” most nearly means

(A) familiar to

(B) joined with

(C) related to

(D) similar to

(E) descendent from

12. In line 27 (“Nonetheless, all ... opinions”), the author points out that Mrs. Taylor’s friends

(A) had trouble understanding her opinions

(B) basically agreed with her beliefs

(C) were highly emotional people

(D) were strategic thinkers

(E) tended to band together as a group

13. The author’s attitude toward Mrs. Taylor can best be characterized as

(A) wistful

(B) intimidated

(C) admiring

(D) unforgiving

(E) critical

14. In paragraph 5 (lines 30-36) (“In her ... principle”), the author uses which of the following techniques to make his point about Mrs. Taylor’s personal qualities?

(A) Analogy

(A) Comparison and contrast

(A) Allegory

(A) Question and answer

(A) Flashback

15. In line 34, the author uses the word“ child” to emphasize that

(A) Shelley’s intellect was less developed than Mrs. Taylor’s

(B) Shelley lived an unusually short life

(C) Shelley behaved like a child around Mrs. Taylor

(D) Shelley’s talents were widely recognized at a young age

(E) Shelley’s intellectual capacity far exceeded that of Mrs. Taylor

16. In lines 34-36 (“Alike in the ... principle”), the author suggests that Mrs. Taylor

(A) tended to focus her concentration on learning about music and culture

(B) would have made a better scholar than most other women of her time period

(C) had difficulty implementing minor tasks and instead excelled at envisioning the larger perspective

(D) tended to approach intellectual issues with a seriousness that was uncharacteristic of her peers

(E) was equally capable of considering theoretical matters and handling mundane details

17. In line 37,“ sensitive” is best understood to mean

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(B) thoughtful

(C) touchy

(D) painful

(E) delicate

18. Mrs. Taylors“ unselfishness” (line 42) was most likely based on

(A) her tendency to reject superstitious beliefs

(B) her ability to relate to the emotions experienced by others

(C) her formal education in ethics and philosophy

(D) her sense of unworthiness in comparison to others

(E) her commitment to behaving as she was taught to behave

19. The references to Mrs. Taylors generosity and lovingness in lines 46-48 (“The passion ... in return”) serve to underscore the author’s point that these qualities were

(A) expressed by Mrs. Taylor in a limited way

(B) overshadowed by Mrs. Taylor’s hatred of cowardice

(C) less significant than her other moral characteristics

(D) expressed toward people who did not return them

(E) even stronger than Mrs. Taylor’s intense passion for justice

S T O P

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答案：

SECTION 7

1. A

2. E

3. B

4. D

5. C

6. E

7. A

8. B

9. C

10. E

11. D

12. B

13. C

14. B

15. A

16. E

17. A

18. B

19. E