2014年SAT考试模拟试题：（改进句子）

1、Writing > Improving Sentences
　　Part or all of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A.
　　Lady Day, as Billie Holiday was usually called, was the finest jazz singer of her generation, and it was the opinion of her fans, she was the greatest jazz singer of the twentieth century.
　　(A) it was the opinion of her fans, she was
　　(B) the opinion of her fans was of her as
　　(C) her fans had this opinion, she was
　　(D) for her fans, the opinion was of her as
　　(E) in the opinion of her fans, she was
　　正确答案：C
　　Explanation
　　Choice (E) is correct. It avoids the sentence fragment error of the original by replacing the awkward and unnecessary “it was” with the preposition “in” to idiomatically state that Billie Holiday’s fans considered her “the greatest jazz singer of the twentieth century.”
2、　Writing > Improving Sentences
　　Part or all of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A.
　　Enrico Caruso sang opera in Italy before traveling to the United States, then he gave his first performance at the Metropolitan Opera in November 1903.
　　(A) then
　　(B) when
　　(C) and which
　　(D) in that
　　(E) where
　　正确答案：E
　　Explanation
　　Choice (E) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by using the appropriate pronoun “where” to indicate that the “United States” was where Caruso gave “his first performance at the Metropolitan Opera.”
3、Part or all of the following sentence is underlined; beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material. Select the option that produces the best sentence. If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives, select choice A.
　　Modern discus throwers use much the same technique of ancient Greece.
　　(A) of ancient Greece
　　(B) of ancient Greeks
　　(C) as ancient Greeks did
　　(D) as they did in ancient Greece
　　(E) like ancient Greeks
　　正确答案：C
　　Explanation
　　Choice (C) is correct. It avoids the error of the original by comparing what “Modern discus throwers” do to what “ancient Greeks did” (not to “ancient Greece,” a comparison that would not make logical sense).