SAT语法考点练习题：平行结构

　　10. The tornado ripped through the central part of town, toppling small buildings, uprooting trees,

　　(A) power lines were snapped

　　(B) power lines snapping

　　(C) snapping power lines

　　(D) snapped power lines

　　(E) power lines snapped

　　11. Anyone who has high motivation or is reasonably intelligent can learn to play a competent game of chess

　　(A) has high motivation or is reasonably intelligent

　　(B) has either high motivation or else intelligence in reasonable amounts

　　(C) is highly motivated or who has reasonable intelligence instead

　　(D) is highly motivated or reasonably intelligent

　　(E) has high motivation or else reasonable amounts of intelligence

　　12. Having Florence Nightingale as their leader and a growing awareness of the need for cleanliness helped to bring about the establishment of standards of hygiene in hospitals

　　(A) Having Florence Nightingale as their leader

　　(B) Having the leadership of Florence Nightingale's

　　(C) Florence Nightingale as the Leader

　　(D) To be led by Florence Nighfingale

　　(E) The leadership of Florence Nightingale

　　13. Just as Ireland has produced many famous writers and the Netherlands an abundance of famous painters, so Finland has provided a large number of famous architects.

　　(A) so Finland has provided a large number of famous architects

　　(B) Finland provides famous architects, and by large numbers

　　(C) Finland's contribution is to provide famous architects in a large number

　　(D) and so then, for Finland, a large number of famous architects is provided

　　(E) and like them Finland has provided a large number of famous architects

　　14. Readers of the novice writer's recent book have said that it is at once frustrating because of its chaotic structure but its originality is still a deloght.

　　(A) but its originality is still a delight

　　(B) although it is delightfully original

　　(C) and it is delightful in its originality

　　(D) while being so original as to delight them

　　(E) and delightful because of its originality

　　15. The price of gold has been influenced by continued inflation and because people have lost faith in the dollar

　　(A) because people have lost faith

　　(B) because of the loss of faith

　　(C) by people which have lost faith

　　(D) losing faith

　　(E) loss of' faith

　　16. Giraffes born with very long necks were able to stay alive when food was scarce and were therefore able to pass this desirable trait on to their offspring.

　　(A) and were therefore able to pass this desirable trait on to their offspring

　　(B) and this desirable trait was passed on as a result to its offspring

　　(C) so that their offspring could have this desirable trait passed to them

　　(D) so, therefore, this desirable trait would be inherited by their offspring

　　(E) and therefore have this desirable trait inherited in their offspring

　　17. Activist Mumeo Oku campaigned to improve the lot of womeh in Japan by exposing faulty household products, she successfully demanded that these products be recalled.

　　(A) exposing faulty household products, she successfully demanded that these products be recalled

　　(B) exposing faulty household products and successfully demanding their recall

　　(C) her exposing faulty household products and Successful demand of their recall

　　(D) exposing faulty household products, although successfully demanding that these products be recalled

　　(E) exposing faulty household products whose recall she was successful in demanding

　　18. The spirit of the honor code to which each student subscribes requires academic honesty, respectful behavior, and demands responsibility in action.

　　(A) requires academic honesty, respectful behavior, and it demands responsibility in action

　　(B) requires academic honesty, respectful behavior, and responsible action

　　(C) require academic work that is honest, behavior that is respectful, and action of a responsible nature

　　(D) requires academic work that is honest, being respectful in behavior, and demands responsible action

　　(E) require academic honesty, respectful behavior, and the demands of responsible action

　　19. Today the primary role of advertising may be to appeal and persuade rather than what it once did,educating and informing.

　　(A) what it once did, educating and informing

　　(B) what it once did, which was educating and informing

　　(C) what it once was, education and information

　　(D) educating and informing, what it once did

　　(E) what it once was, to educate and inform

　　20. At the beginning of George Eliot's novel Silas Marner, a linen weaver has been driven by a false charge of theft away, from his home and taking refuge in the village of Raveloe.

　　(A) taking refuge in the village of Raveloe

　　(B) has taken refuge in the village of Raveloe

　　(C) the village of Raveloe

　　(D) being in the village of Raveloe

　　(E) Raveloe, a village that is his refuge

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