SAT官方每日一题：2011年7月13日

　　2011年7月13日

　　考试类型:Critical Reading > Sentence Completions

　　Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

　　Since the two legislators had a long history of major disagreements, the senator considered his colleague’s enthusiastic assurances that they would be in agreement on a forthcoming piece of legislation -------.

　　A. fatuous

　　B. precious

　　C. sagacious

　　D. meritorious

　　E. ignoble

　　正确答案:A

　　解析:

　　Choice (A) is correct. It makes sense that the senator, in light of his and his colleague’s shared history of non-cooperation, would consider the colleague’s assurances “fatuous,” or complacently foolish.