2014年5月SAT考试语法真题[1]

【网络综合-2014年5月SAT考试语法真题】：
1.When reading a poem, you should read slowly to have given oneself the opportunity to savor the details of its language, form, and sound.

A.to have given oneself

B.to give yourself

C.for oneself to be given

D.for oneself to have

E.so that you had had

答案：B

解析：A选项中oneself使用不恰当，因为句子主语是you（二人称），另外，have given的使用也错，to have done表示已经发生的事情，语义不恰当。B选项to do做目的状语，正确。CD选项中oneself都使用错误。E选项中时态错误，had had是过去完成时，而这里have the opportunity应该是没有发生的事情。

2. The economist estimated that workers in our city spend an average of 40 minutes daily traveling to their jobs and 50 minutes returning home.

A.workers in our city spend

B.a work in our city who spends

C.they who work in our city spends

D.those who work in our city spending

E.our city’s workers having spent

答案：A

解析：that引导estimated的宾语从句，A选项spend time doing something是正确用法，A对。B选项没有主句，只有who引导的从句。C中they spends错误。D中缺谓语动词。E中也缺谓语动词。这里主句的estimated并不影响that从句的时态，因为没有逻辑关系。

3. Neuroscientists have gained new insights into how the brain works by adopting research methods used to study other elaborate systems, this ranges from computer chips to the stock market.

A.systems, this ranges from computer chips to

B.systems with a range from computer chips and

C.systems ranging from computer chips to

D.systems, it ranges over computer chips and

E.systems, they are ranging from computer chips to

答案：C

解析：逗号之前是完整句子，ADE选项run-on。B选项中from...and...错误。C正确，ranging from...to做后置定语，修饰systems，等于which range。

4. Most of the objects in the museum’s ceramics collections are porcelain pieces from Germany, although the collection also includes prices from Turkey, Korea, and Japanese ceramics are also represented.

A.and Japanese ceramics are also represented

B.as well as Japanese ceramics

C.and from Japan

D.and Japan

E.and also from Japan

答案：D

解析：三个国家平行，只能选D最简洁正确。Turkey, Korea, and Japanese。

5. Most states in the United States had enacted child labor laws by 1920, but not until 1938 when the Fair Labor Standards Act established a national minimum working age.

A.but not until 1938 when

B.but it was not until 1938 that

C.not until 1938 did

D.it was, however, not until 1938 that

E.and not until 1938 when

答案：B

解析：逗号之前是完整主句，所以CD选项run-on。A中将not until 1938提前，那么后面需要部分倒装，后面正确的表达应该是did the Fair Labor Standards Act establish a national minimum working age。B是it was not until 时间 that…的正确强调句使用方法。E与A错误一致，而且and应该改为but逻辑更通顺。

6. The largest hot desert in the world, the Sahara covers well over three million square miles, and eleven countries are spanned by it.

A.miles, and eleven countries are spanned by it

B.miles and spanning eleven countries

C.mile and spans eleven countries

D.mile, it spans eleven countries

E.mile, with eleven countries spanned by it

答案：C

解析：A选项表达不简洁，尽量遵循“主语主动一致”。B中and前后不平行，covers和spanning不能平行。C选项用covers和spans平行，简洁明了，C正确。D选项run-on。E选项表达不够简洁和直接。

7. Adopted in 1997, the Kyoto Protocol is what was the international agreement to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of industrialized nations over a five-year period.

A.is what was the international agreement

B.was when it was internationally agreed

C.was where the international agreement was

D.being internationally agreed

E.is the international agreement

答案：E

解析：主语是the Kyoto Protocol，BC选项语义错误。A选项中语序错误，从句中应该使用陈述句语气。D选项没有谓语动词。E正确。SAT