Sentence CompletionSAT阅读练习题

时间:2021-08-31

  1. The candidate _____ when asked why he had left his last job; he did not want to admit that he had been ____ .

  A. demurred - promoted

  B. confided - banned

  C. dissembled - dismissed

  D. rejoiced - wrong

  E. hesitated - lauded

  2. Tennyson was a well-loved poet; no other poet since has been so ____ .

  A. lionized

  B. attacked

  C. decried

  D. poetical

  E. abhorred

  3. The parliamentary session degenerated into ____ with politicians hurling ____ at each other and refusing to come to order.

  A. mayhem - banter

  B. disarray - pleasantries

  C. tranquillity - invectives

  D. chaos - aphorisms

  E. anarchy - insults

  4. The admiral ____ his order to attack when he saw the white flag raised by the enemy sailors; he was relieved that he could bring an end to the ____ .

  A. reiterated - hostilities

  B. countermanded - fighting

  C. commandeered - truce

  D. renounced - hiatus

  E. confirmed - aggression