2012年5月北美SAT阅读真题之填空题（二）

1.Dana's colleagues complained that she was both -------and -------: she spoke condescendingly and talked about herself too much.

(A)sympathetic .. disagreeable

(B)proud .. attentive

(C)timid .. dejected

(D)patronizing .. boastful

(E)enthusiastic .. overbearing

2.The -------of new orders meant that enough work had arrived to keep everyone at the plant working overtime. 【更多SAT考试真题下载】

(A)influx (B) instigation (C) abeyance

(D)diminution (E) dearth

3.Many important inventions are the,result of -------; for example, Chinese alchemists accidentally discovered gunpowder while trying to create -------that would make their emperor immortal.

(A)perseverance .. a balm

(B)serendipity .. an elixir

(C)expedience .. a toxin

(D)happenstance .. a bane

(E)fortitude .. a potion

4.A notorious -------, the critic struck readers as being more concerned with the -------of his own literary performance than with the book being reviewed.

(A)narcissist .. success

(B)pragmatist .. scope

(C)egoist .. condemnation

(D)misanthrope .. inadequacy

(E)adversary .. consistency

5. That bison congregate in large herds suggests that they are -------animals, yet individually they appear -------, seemingly indifferent to their circumstances. 【2015年SAT考试时间及考位代报名】

(A)fastidipus .. tractable

(B)taciturn .. impassive

(C)ubiquitous .. finicky

(D)gregarious .. stolid

(E)companionable .. skittish

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