本期,我们将梳理2021年5月亚太SAT文法考题中的措辞简洁题
2021年5月
亚太SAT文法考题
Strolling down a stone path surrounded by Japanese dogwood trees, visitors to the Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden might notice hundreds of paper tags 1 gently swaying from the Japanese dogwood trees’ branches.
1.
A) NO CHANGE
B) gently blowing and swaying from the branches of the trees.
C) swaying gently from the tree branches.
D) or pieces of paper that sway gently from the tree branches.
答案:C
解析: A选项,the Japanese dogwood trees在第 一句话中已经出现,涉嫌重复,排除;B选项,blowing和swaying含义接近,都表示挂在树枝上“晃动摇曳”,重复,故排除;D选项,pieces of paper重复hundreds of paper tags,排除;只有C选项中不管动词swaying还是名词tree branches,之前都未出现过,没有同义词,因此本题选C。
原文释义:沿着一条被日本山茱萸树环绕的石板路漫步,来到史密森学会的赫什霍恩博物馆和雕塑园的游客可能会注意到数百个纸质标签在树枝上轻轻摇曳。
2021年5月
亚太SAT文法考题
Under his supervision, the HST focused on a small patch of sky for a 18 total of 100 hours and captured hundreds of images.
18.
A) NO CHANGE
B) sum total equaling
C) total that equaled
D) sum, or total, of
答案:A
解析:a total of 共计,是最简洁的表述;BD选项中,sum的含义是“总数”,和total重复;再看C项,很赘述,理解为“等于100小时的一个总数”,那当然不如“共计100小时”来的简洁。
原文释义:在他的监督下,HST聚焦于一小片天空共100个小时,拍摄了数百张图片。
2021年5月
亚太SAT文法考题
At the same time, 28 a group of marketing executives was simultaneously asked which message would be most effective with the target group.
28.
A) NO CHANGE
B) while the target group was asked the same thing, a group of marketing executives was asked
C) a group of marketing executives was collectively all asked together
D) a group of marketing executives was asked
答案:D
解析:A选项,simultaneously 含义重复at the same time,都表示“同时”,故排除;B选项,the target group在本句末尾出现了一次,信息重复;C选项,collectively表“共同地”,all表“全部”,together表“共同”,此三个单词含义完全重复;因此,答案选D,最为简洁。
原文释义:同时,一组营销主管被问及哪种信息对目标群体最有效。
小结
在碰到措辞简洁这类考题时,考生往往是因为照顾不全面而难以选出正确的答案,所以我们除了甄别选项自己内部含义重复的措辞,还要照顾到下划线之外的内容,都可能存在和选项内容重复的信息。
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