Tham khảo tài liệu 'sat virtual reality iii explanations phần 1', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Section 1 Verbal SAT Virtual Reality III 1. D Since the veteran boxer won most of his bouts by knockouts you can assume that he was pretty successful. Unbroken is the only choice that describes his series of wins in a way that suggests success an unbroken series of victories would be a winning streak with no losses. A and B are both contradicted by the rest of the sentence. Choice C able-bodied may seem to fit in a sentence about a boxer but what s an able-bodied series of wins This choice sounds odd when you plug it in. Only D makes sense. 2. E Sitting still for hours and remaining alert to the slightest sound or motion amounts to having E limitless patience and keen powers of observation. Powers of A persuasion C reasoning or D trust have nothing to do with the description of bird watching given. In B powers of concentration are certainly required but it doesn t make sense to speak of patience as skilled. 3. B One of the main things with Sentence Completions is to look for context clues words and ideas in the sentence that strongly suggest the answer you re looking for. Here the first major clue in the sentence is the word everyday. You know you re looking for a word with a similar meaning for the first blank. In the second blank you need something to describe what the everyday objects were transformed into a word to contrast with everyday. That takes you to B . Mundane is almost a synonym for everyday. The second word in B resplendent or extraordinary is a good contrast and fits when plugged into the sentence Weston s camera transformed mundane things into objects of resplendent beauty. C and E can be eliminated because their first words don t work. Everyday things like vegetables are not always small or artificial. In A inexpensive might seem to fit with the idea of everyday items such as vegetables. But A s second word tawdry or cheap and gaudy makes no sense. In D you might imagine that vegetables can be decorative but D s second word functional doesn t .
