新SAT语法样题
Chapter 16
Sample Writing and Language Test Questions
Writing and Language Test
35 MINUTES, 44 QUESTIONS
Turn to Section 2 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.
DIRECTIONS
Each passage below is accompanied by a number of questions. For some questions, you will consider how the passage might be revised to improve the expression of ideas. For other questions, you will consider how the passage might be edited to correct errors in sentence structure, usage, or punctuation. A passage or a question may be accompanied by one or more graphics (such as a table or graph) that you will consider as you make revising and editing decisions.
Some questions will direct you to an underlined portion of a passage. Other questions will direct you to a location in a passage or ask you to think about the passage as a whole.
After reading each passage, choose the answer to each question that most effectively improves the quality of writing in the passage or that makes the passage conform to the conventions of standard written English. Many questions include a “NO CHANGE” option. Choose that option if you think the best choice is to leave the relevant portion of the passage as it is.
SAMPLE 1
Careers Passage with Graphic.
Questions 1-11 are based on the following passage.
A Life in Traffic
A subway system is expanded to provide
adopted to encourage nonmotorized
downtown area, stoplight timing is coordinated. When
The work of transportation planners needs,
traffic count indicates that there is more traffic than
efficiently accommodate, the transportation planner
lane.
officials and other interested organizations and from the local public
health and well-being. Members
many positions in the field, a master’s degree is required.
Transportation planners perform critical work within the broader field of urban and regional planning. As of 2010, there were approximately 40,300 urban and regional planners employed in the United States.
percent of new jobs in all occupations will be related to urban and regional planning. Population growth and concerns about environmental sustainability are expected to spur the need for transportation planning professionals.
Adapted from United Statues Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections Program.“All occupations” includes all occupations in the United States economy.
1.Which choice best maintains the sentence pattern already established in the paragraph?
A.NO CHANGE (To alleviate rush hour traffic jams in a congested downtown area, stoplight timing is
coordinated.)
B.Coordinating stoplight timing can help alleviate rush hour traffic jams in a congested downtown area.
C.Stoplight timing is coordinated to alleviate rush hour traffic jams in a congested downtown area.
D.In a congested downtown area, stoplight timing is coordinated to alleviate rush hour traffic jams. SAMPLE 2
Humanities Passage
Questions 12-22 are based on the following passage.
Dong Kingman: Painter of Cities
stroke of the brush and dab of the sponge transforms thinly sketched outlines into buildings, shop signs, and streetlamps. The street scene Kingman begins composing in this short film is very much in keeping with the urban landscapes for which he is best known.
[1]Kingman was keenly interested in landscape painting from an early age. [2]In Hong Kong, where Kingman completed his schooling, teachers at that time customarily assigned stude nts a formal “school name.” [3]His interest was so keen, in fact, that he was named after it. [4]The young boy
called Dong Moy Shu became Dong Kingman. [5]The name Kingman was selected for its
“king” and “man”;
tradition in a number of ways, in that he chose to focus not as
a peanut vendor pushing his cart on the
a pigeon pecking for crumbs around a an old man tending to a baby outside a doorway. His broader brush strokes and create majestic city skylines, with skyscrapers towering in the background, bridges connecting neighborhoods on either side of a river, and
art
12.
A.NO CHANGE
B.had watched
C.would watch
D.watches