Sentence CompletionSAT阅读练习题

　　1. The candidate _____ when asked why he had left his last job; he did not want to admit that he had been ____ .

　　A. demurred - promoted

　　B. confided - banned

　　C. dissembled - dismissed

　　D. rejoiced - wrong

　　E. hesitated - lauded

　　2. Tennyson was a well-loved poet; no other poet since has been so ____ .

　　A. lionized

　　B. attacked

　　C. decried

　　D. poetical

　　E. abhorred

　　3. The parliamentary session degenerated into ____ with politicians hurling ____ at each other and refusing to come to order.

　　A. mayhem - banter

　　B. disarray - pleasantries

　　C. tranquillity - invectives

　　D. chaos - aphorisms

　　E. anarchy - insults

　　4. The admiral ____ his order to attack when he saw the white flag raised by the enemy sailors; he was relieved that he could bring an end to the ____ .

　　A. reiterated - hostilities

　　B. countermanded - fighting

　　C. commandeered - truce

　　D. renounced - hiatus

　　E. confirmed - aggression