SAT语法练习题型（三）

　　21. Defense attorneys have occasionally argued that their clients‘ misconduct stemmed from a reaction to something ingested, but in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy, the perpetrators are in effect told that they are not responsible for their actions.

　　(A) in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy

　　(B) if criminal or delinquent behavior is attributed to an allergy to some food

　　(C) in attributing behavior that is criminal or delinquent to an allergy to some food

　　(D) if some food allergy is attributed as the cause of criminal or delinquent behavior

　　(E) in attributing a food allergy as the cause of criminal or delinquent behavior

　　22. The voluminous personal papers of Thomas Alva Edison reveal that his inventions typically sprang to life not in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly from previous works.

　　(A) sprang to life not in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly

　　(B) sprang to life not in a flash of inspiration but were slowly evolved

　　(C) did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly

　　(D) did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but had slowly evolved

　　(E) did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but they were slowly evolved

　　23. A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.

　　(A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase

　　(B) numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent

　　(C) numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent

　　(D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent

　　(E) number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase

　　24. The first decision for most tenants living in a building undergoing being converted to cooperative ownership is if to sign a no-buy pledge with the other tenants.

　　(A) being converted to cooperative ownership is if to sign

　　(B) being converted to cooperative ownership is whether they should be signing

　　(C) being converted to cooperative ownership is whether or not they sign

　　(D) conversion to cooperative ownership is if to sign

　　(E) conversion to cooperative ownership is whether to sign

　　25. The end of the eighteenth century saw the emergence of prize-stock breeding, with individual bulls and cows receiving awards, fetching unprecedented prices, and excited enormous interest whenever they were put on show.

　　(A) excited

　　(B) it excited

　　(C) exciting

　　(D) would excite

　　(E) it had excited

　　26. Of all the possible disasters that threaten American agriculture, the possibility of an adverse change in climate is maybe the more difficult for analysis.

　　(A) is maybe the more difficult for analysis

　　(B) is probably the most difficult to analyze

　　(C) is maybe the most difficult for analysis

　　(D) is probably the more difficult to analyze

　　(E) is, it may be, the analysis that is most difficult

　　27. Published in Harlem, the owner and editor of the Messenger were two young journalists. Chandler Owen j and A. Philip Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader.

　　(A) Published in Harlem, the owner and editor of the Messenger were two young journalists. Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader.

　　(B) Published in Harlem, two young journalists, Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader, were the owner and editor of the Messenger.

　　(C) Published in Harlem, the Messenger was owned and edited by two young journalists, A. Philip Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader, and Chandler Owen.

　　(D) The Messenger was owned and edited by two young journalists. Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader, and published in Harlem.

　　(E) The owner and editor being two young journalists, Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph, who would later make his reputation as a labor leader, the Messenger was published in Harlem.

　　28. The rise in the Commerce Department’s index of leading economic indicators suggest that the economy should continue its expansion into the coming months. but that the mixed performance of the index‘s individual components indicates that economic growth will proceed at a more moderate pace than in the first quarter of this year.

　　(A) suggest that the economy should continue its expansion into the coming months, but that

　　(B) suggest that the economy is to continue expansion in the coming months, but

　　(C) suggests that the economy will continue its expanding in the coming months, but that

　　(D) suggests that the economy is continuing to expand into the coming months, but that

　　(E) suggests that the economy will continue to expand in the coming months, but

　　29. In three centuries--from 1050 to 1350--several million tons of stone were quarried in France for the building of eighty cathedrals, five hundred large churches, and some tens of thousands of parish churches.

　　(A) for the building of eighty cathedrals, five hundred large churches, and some

　　(B) in order that they might build eighty cathedrals, five hundred large churches, and some

　　(C) so as they might build eighty cathedrals, five hundred large churches, and some

　　(D) so that there could be built eighty cathedrals, five hundred large churches, and

　　(E) such that they could build eighty cathedrals, five hundred large churches, and

　　30. What was as remarkable as the development of the compact disc has been the use of the new technology to revitalize, in better sound than was ever before possible, some of the classic recorded performances of the pre-LP era.

　　(A) What was as remarkable as the development of the compact disc

　　(B) The thing that was as remarkable as developing the compact disc

　　(C) No less remarkable than the development of the compact disc

　　(D) Developing the compact disc has been none the less remarkable than

　　(E) Development of the compact disc has been no less remarkable as