SAT语法练习题（六）

　　SAT语法练习题

　　51. While Jackie Robinson was a Brooklyn Dodger, his courage in the face of physical threats and verbal attacks was not unlike that of Rosa Parks, who refused to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

　　(A) not unlike that of Rosa Parks, who refused

　　(B) not unlike Rosa Parks, who refused

　　(C) like (Rosa Parks and her refusal

　　(D) like that of Rosa Parks for refusing

　　(E) as that of Rosa Parks, who refused

　　52. The rising of costs of data-processing operations at many financial institutions has created a growing opportunity for independent companies to provide these services more efficiently and at lower cost.

　　(A) The rising of costs

　　(B) Rising costs

　　(C) The rising cost

　　(D) Because the rising cost

　　(E) Because of rising costs

　　53. There is no consensus on what role. if any, is played by acid rain in slowing the growth or damaging forests in the eastern United States.

　　(A) slowing the growth or damaging

　　(B) the damage or the slowing of the growth of

　　(C) the damage to or the slowness of the growth of

　　(D) damaged or slowed growth of

　　(E) damaging or slowing the growth of

　　54. Galileo was convinced that natural phenomena, as manifestations of the laws of physics, would appear the same to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the water as a person

　　standing on land.

　　(A) water as a

　　(B) water as to a

　　(C) water; just as it would to a

　　(D) water, as it would to the

　　(E) water; just as to the

　　55. A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors had elected early retirement rather than face the threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance.

　　(A) had elected early retirement rather than face

　　(B) had elected early retirement instead of facing

　　(C) have elected retiring early instead of facing

　　(D) have elected to retire early rather than facing

　　(E) have elected to retire early rather than face

　　56. Architects and stonemasons, huge palace and temple clusters were built by the Maya without benefit of the

　　wheel or animal transport.

　　(A) huge palace and temple clusters were built by the Maya without benefit of the wheel or animal

　　transport

　　(B) without the benefits of animal transport or the wheel, huge palace and temple clusters were built by the

　　Maya

　　(C) the Maya built huge palace and temple clusters without the benefit of animal transport or the wheel

　　(D) there were built, without the benefit of the wheel or animal transport, huge palace and temple clusters

　　by the Maya

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　　(E) were the Maya who, without the benefit of the wheel or animal transport, built huge palace and temple

　　clusters

　　57. In astronomy the term “red shift” denotes the extent to which light from a distant galaxy has been shifted

　　toward the red, or long-wave, end of the light spectrum by the rapid motion of the galaxy away from the

　　Earth.

　　(A) to which light from a distant galaxy has been shifted

　　(B) to which light from a distant galaxy has shifted

　　(C) that light from a distant galaxy has been shifted

　　(D) of light from a distant galaxy shifting

　　(E) of the shift of light from a distant galaxy

　　58. William H. Johnson‘s artistic debt to Scandinavia is evident in paintings that range from sensitive portraits of

　　citizens in his wife’s Danish home, Kerteminde, and awe-inspiring views of fjords and mountain peaks in the

　　western and northern regions of Norway.

　　(A) and

　　(B) to

　　(C) and to

　　(D) with

　　(E) in addition to

　　59. In 1978 only half the women granted child support by a court received the amount awarded; at least as

　　much as a million and more others had not any support agreements whatsoever.

　　(A) at least as much as a million and more others had not any

　　(B) at least as much as more than a million others had no

　　(C) more than a million others had not any

　　(D) more than a million others had no

　　(E) there was at least a million or more others without any

　　60. According to a recent poll, owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land is still a goal of a

　　majority of young adults, like that of earlier generations.

　　(A) like that of earlier generations

　　(B) as that for earlier generations

　　(C) just as earlier generations did

　　(D) as have earlier generations

　　(E) as it was of earlier generations

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