SAT语法改进段落，是SAT考试的必考题型，下面我们来一起来做一下SAT语法改进段落练习题吧。
SAT语法改进段落题:Improving Paragraphs Test One
Questions 7-12 refer to the following passage, which is a draft of an essay:
(1)Nowadays we tend to use the expression “plain vanilla” in a derogatory sense for something simple and unadorned. (2)But have you ever thought about the ways in which the vanilla bean has improved the taste of what we eat?
(3)One of the most used, and presumably, most appreciated, flavors known to man, worldwide we use more than one thousand tons of vanilla beans every year, mainly to flavor ice cream, cakes and confectionery. (4)Since the 1930s chemical companies have also been making huge amounts of synthetic vanilla essence mainly from the byproducts of the paper pulp industry. (5)In fact, most of the “vanilla flavor” products on the supermarket shelves have never seen a vanilla pod. (6)However, good cooks keep real vanilla pods in their sugar to enhance the taste of their cakes and cookies and would not buy synthetic vanilla.sat
(7)Natural vanilla is the product of a creeper that grows best in hot wet climates. (8)It requires hand pollinating and the growing, harvesting and curing need skill and are labor intensive. (9)With the advent of biotechnology it remains to be seen how long the traditional growing and production methods would survive.
(10)But whatever the source, vanilla has become essential to the human palate. (11)Think about it: do you even know what “plain” ice cream would taste like without vanilla?
7. The writer uses all of the following techniques except
A. rhetorical questions
B. statement of facts
C. speculation
D. address to the reader
E. personal experience
8. Which version of the underlined part best corrects and improves sentence 3 (reproduced below)?
One of the most used, and presumably, most appreciated, flavors known to man, worldwide we use more than one thousand tons of vanilla beans every year, mainly to flavor ice cream, cakes and confectionery.
A. Vanilla is certainly one of the most used, and presumably most appreciated, flavors known to man. Worldwide
B. Vanilla is certainly one of the most used, and presumably most appreciated, flavors known to man, worldwide
C. Vanilla is certainly one of the most used, and presumably most appreciated, flavors known to man worldwide:
D. One of the most used, and presumably most appreciated, flavors known to man worldwide, vanilla
E. Worldwide vanilla is certainly one of the most used, and presumably most appreciated, flavors known to man.
9. The best replacement for the word “it” in sentence 8 is
A. vanilla
B. the pod
C. vanilla flowers
D. the plant
E. pods
10. The change most needed in sentence 9 is
A. change “would” to “will”
B. change “methods” to “method”
C. rewrite to avoid “to be”
D. insert “for” in front of “how”
E. substitute “arrival” for “advent”
11. One reason the writer uses the word “plain” in the last sentence is probably
A. to contrast with “vanilla”
B. to link to the use of the same word in the first sentence
C. to emphasis an opposite
D. to clarify what is meant by flavor
E. to add more force to the argument
12. Which sentence best states the author's contention about vanilla?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 9
D. 10
E. 11
要想SAT语法成绩有所提高，坚持每天做练习是十分必要的，就像这样每天完成SAT语法改进段落练习题，并进行总结，日积月累，成绩就会有明显地提高。
