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SAT test 5

1.For a long time, most doctors maintained that taking massive doses of vitamins was relatively harmless; now, however, some are warning that excessive dosages can be _________.

(A) healthy adj. 健康的

(B) expensive adj. 昂贵的

(C) wasteful adj. 浪费的

(D) toxic adj. 有毒的

(E) inane adj. 愚蠢的

解析：D，在很长的一段时间里，大多数医生认为用大量的维他命是无害的;不过现在有些人警告过量食用会----。这里however表示转折与前面的harmless是相反的意思。

2. In Jamaica Kincaid's novel Lucy, the west Indian heroine _________ her employers' world, critically examining its assumptions and values.

(A) idealizes v. 理想化

(B) avoids v. 避开

(C) beautifies v. 美化

(D) scrutinizes v. 仔细检查

(E) excludes v. 排除，

解析：E，在牙买加金彩的小说露西，这个西印度群岛英雄----她的雇主的世界，精细的审视他的猜测和价值。这个句子中前后两句意思是一致的，没有转折词，所以空格所需的东西与examining是同义词，所以D。

3.The frequent name changes that the country has undergone _________ the political turbulence that has attended its recent history.

(A) argue against v. 真钞，辩论

(B) contrast with v. 对比，差异

(C) testify to v. 证明

(D) jeopardize v. 危及

(E) sustain v. 支撑

解析：C，这个国家经历了频繁的国名变更---这个国家的近点史上的政治动乱。从句意可以看后句和前句是因果关系，前面证明了后面。

4.Brachiopods, clamlike bivalves of prehistoric times, were one of the most _________ forms of life on the Earth: more than 30,000 species have been _________ from fossil records.

(A) plentiful adj. 丰富的...subtracted v. 减去

(B) ornate adj. 华丽的...retrieved v. 重新取回

(C) multifarious adj. 多方面的...catalogued v. 登记分类

(D) scarce adj. 缺乏的，罕见的...extracted v. 萃取的

(E) anachronistic adj. 时代错误的...extrapolated v. 推算，推断

解析：C，腕足类就像远古时代的双壳蚌一样，是地球上—生物形式的一种：30000多种已经从化石记录上---。从后面的species 可以看出与前面的空格是同义词，多样性的种类。后面可以看出从化石记录中登记了。

5 Some interactive computer games are so elaborately contrived and require such _________ strategies that only the most __________ player can master them.

(A) byzantine adj. 错综复杂的...adroit adj. 熟练的，机敏的

(B) nefarious adj. 极坏的，恶毒的...conscientious adj. 认真的，勤奋的

(C) devious adj. 迂回的，狡猾的ckadaisical adj. 无精打采的

(D) onerous adj. 困难的，繁重...slipshod adj. 穿着不整齐的，潦草的

(E) predictable adj. 可预言的pulsive adj. 强制的，强迫的

解析：A，一些电脑互动的游戏设计的如此精致巧妙需要----策略只有那些最—玩家能够驾驭他们。这里前面空格与elaborately 是同义词，所以A。

Questions 6-7 are based on the following passage.

The critic Edmund Wilson was not a self-conscious

letter writer or one who tried to sustain studied mannerisms.

Nor did he resort to artifice or entangle himself in

circumlocutions. The young, middle-aged, and old Wilson

5 speaks directly through his letters, which are informal for

the most part and which undisguisedly reflect his changing