由于出国考试的特殊性，我们不能按照传统中国考试中的填空题解题步骤和顺序进行解题。按照SAT填空题的特点，解答SAT填空题应按照以下步骤进行：

　　第一步：抓句子主干

　　在SAT考试填空题中的句子往往或有复杂的结构，或有冗繁的修饰部分，但是有些结构和修饰部分是对于解题关系不大的。对于参加考试的中学生来讲，在阅读题干的时候应该尽可能的将句子结构简化，这样能够对题目的解答产生巨大的帮助！

　　为了简化句子结构，我们将逐一分析SAT填空中影响句子阅读障碍的因素：

　　（1）插入语成分

　　9. Yellow fever, the disease that killed 4,000 Philadelphians in 1793, and so ______ Memphis, Tennessee, that the city lost its charter, has reappeared after nearly two decades in ______ in the Western Hemisphere.

　　A. terrorized...contention B. ravaged...secret C. disabled...quarantine

　　D. corrupted...quiescence E. decimated...abeyance

　　10. The border between the two properties, never ______ by legal means, had long been the subject of ______ between the antagonistic neighbors.

　　A. determined…concord B. undermined…hostility C. verified…consonance

　　D. quantified…diversion E. established…disputation

　　（2）倒装句

　　11. Freedom of expression is not necessarily a _____ force: communities that encourage it often feel less threatened by social unrest than do those in which dissent is______.

　　A. revolutionary…promoted B. positive…prohibited C. successful…protested

　　D. divisive…restricted E. militant…fostered

　　12. ______ as Mario’s misdeed was, his grandmother, always blind to his faults, pretended to be unaware of it.

　　A. accidental B. apt C. random D. flagrant E. covert

　　（3）省略句

　　13. The most frustrating periods of any diet are the inevitable ______, when weight loss _______ if not stops.

　　A. moods…accelerates B. feasts…halts C. holidays…contracts

　　D. plateaus…slows E. meals…ceases

　　（4）主语从句

　　14. It is ironic that the ______ insights of the great thinkers are voiced so often that they have become mere ______

　　A. original…clichés B. banal…beliefs C. dubious…habits

　　D. philosophical…questions E. abstract…ideas

　　15. If it is true that morality cannot exist without religion, then does not the erosion of religion herald the ______ of morality?

　　A. regulation B. basis C. belief D. collapse E. value

　　（5）定语从句

　　16. The disjunction between educational objectives that stress independence and individuality and those that emphasize obedience to rules and cooperation with others reflects a ______ that arises from the values on which these objectives are based.

　　A. conflict B. redundancy C. gain D. predictability E. wisdom

　　（6）宾语从句

　　17. The poet W.H. Auden believed that the greatest poets of his age were almost necessarily irresponsible, that the possession of great gifts ______ the ______ to abuse them.

　　A. negates…temptation B. controls…resolution C. engenders…propensity

　　D. tempers…proclivity E. obviates…inclination

　　（7）非谓语动词结构

　　18. No longer considered ______, the belief that all of Puerto Rico’s indigenous Taino people perished centuries ago appears to be a ______ now that modern Taino descendants have come forward.

　　A. conclusive…reality B. tenable…misconception C. mythical…possibility

　　D. erroneous…delusion E. hypothetical…digression

　　19. With its large circulation, Essence magazine has enjoyed ______ only recently challenged by new publications aggressively seeking female African American readers.

　　A. an aggregation B. an inclination C. a prognosis

　　D. a retrenchment E. a preeminence

　　（8）否定加比较

　　20. The director complained that the sitcom’s theme song was downright ______, having no more pep and vigor than a ______.

　　A. tedious…jingle B. inchoate…lullaby C. lugubrious…dirge

　　D. facetious…ballad E. sprightly…eulogy

　　21. Although nothing could be further from the truth, freight railroads have been ______ of ______ the nation’s shift from oil to coal by charging exorbitant fees to transport coal.

　　A. accused... impeding B. accused... impeding C. guilty… delaying

　　D. conscious... contributing to E. wary... interfering wit

　　（9）until句型

　　22. The governor’s imposition of martial law on the once-peaceful community was the last straw, so far as the lawmakers were concerned: the legislature refused to function until martial law was ______

　　A. reaffirmed B. reiterated C. inaugurated D. rescinded E. prolonged

　　23. We had not realized how much people ______ the library’s old borrowing policy until we received complaints once it had been ______.

　　A. enjoyed…continued B. disliked…administered C. respected..imitated

　　D. ignored…lauded E. appreciated…superseded