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下面为大家整理的是10道SAT阅读完成句子的练习题及答案解析。同学们可以利用小假期检测一下自己的学习，查漏补缺。希望对大家有所帮助。
1.To some scholars of medieval Britain, the legendary King Arthur is a genuine historical figure, while to others he and his Round Table are nothing more than ------- of myth and romance.
(A) harbingers
(B) trifles
(C) spoilers
(D) figments
(E) inventors
2.Often inattentive when it comes to schoolwork, Maya was uncharacteristically ------- when she wrote her personal essay; rather than taking her typical ------- approach, she paid extremely close attention to every last detail.
(A) thorough . . cautious
(B) painstaking . . precise
(C) inconsiderate . . thoughtful
(D) nonchalant . . efficient
(E) meticulous . . careless
3.The dramatist was ------- over his lack of funds and his inability to sell any of his plays, and his letters to his wife reflected his unhappiness.
(A) despondent
(B) supercilious
(C) prudent
(D) encouraged
(E) fortified
4.With the 1969 film The Learning Tree, Gordon Parks proved what a truly ------- artist he was: he not only directed the film and composed its musical score, but also adapted its screenplay from his own novel.
(A) complacent
(B) protean
(C) lauded
(D) clairvoyant
(E) harried
5.Although the conference speakers disliked one another and might have been expected to-------, it turned out that on several substantive issues they were in complete ------- and were able to avoid petty squabbling.
(A) argue . . disagreement
(B) bristle . . apathy
(C) debate . . dissonance
(D) concur . . denial
(E) bicker . . accord
6.The jellyfish’s slow pulsing action propels it in a graceful, seemingly ------- drift, but its tentacles contain a poison potent enough to stun a swimming human.
(A) sinister
(B) rhythmic
(C) murky
(D) harmless
(E) patient
7.Laboratories have been warned that provisions for animal protection that in the past were merely ------- will now be mandatory;------- of this policy will lose their federal research grants.
(A) comprehensive . . adversaries
(B) nominal . . advocates
(C) disregarded . . proponents
(D) recommended . . violators
(E) compulsory . . resisters
8.Bolstered by his unflagging determination and ------- physical preparation, Tom Whittaker became the first amputee to successfully climb to the summit of Mount Everest.
(A) fortuitous
(B) assiduous
(C) heedless
(D) expeditious
(E) pedantic
9.Explorer David Livingstone has ------- reputation: some historians revile him as a proponent of imperialism, while others ------- him as a founder of African Nationalism.
(A) a substantial . . exalt
(B) a sketchy . . vilify
(C) an illustrious . . dismiss
(D) a dichotomous . . praise
(E) a pristine . . castigate
10.Currently rising temperatures in the Arctic and Antarctic are ------- of a still warmer world that could result from an excess of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the burning of oil, gas, and coal.
(A) polarities
(B) harbingers
(C) vestiges
(D) counterexamples
(E) aftereffects
