下面我们以五个单词来讲述SAT考试对单词的要求。

　　一、PRAGMATIC

　　第一类：正确选项类

　　(1) 2008.01-S2-5: Because all members of this organization are idealists, they___ any assertion that political enterprises should be purely_____。

　　A. ignore, universal

　　B. criticize, visionary

　　C. condemn, benevolent

　　D. denounce, pragmatic

　　E. condone, indulgent

　　(2) 2008.01-S5-15:(原文太长，略摘抄)Q：The friend’s attitude toward the acquisition of knowledge as described in lines 16-37 is best characterized as

　　A. open-minded

　　B. pragmatic

　　C. delighted

　　D. disillusioned

　　E. apathetic

　　(3) OG-P729-S5-10: (原文太长，略摘抄)Q：Which of the following best characterizes Alice Barber Stephens?

　　A. materialist and aesthete

　　B. perfectionist and egotist

　　C. pragmatist and activist

　　D. dreamer and revolutionary

　　E. celebrity and philanthropist

　　(4) OG-P404-S5-14: (原文太长，略摘抄)Q: “It was a terrible mistake” (line 36) because the narrator:

　　A. had no other souvenirs of Cumberland

　　B. allowed pragmatic concerns to override her fondness for the painting

　　C. did not realize how valuable the painting would become to collectors

　　D. felt that she had betrayed Sheila Fell’s trust

　　E. was unable to appreciate the smaller Sheila Fell painting

　　(5) OG-P668-S5-21: I require my writing students to turn in taped readings of their work。

　　Q: In Passage 2, the author’s reasons for setting the requirement described in lines 60-61 are best characterized as both

　　A. rigorous and presumptuous

　　B. pragmatic and pedagogical

　　C. capricious and creative

　　D. provocative and unprecedented

　　E. arbitrary and idiosyncratic

　　(6)OG-P810-S9-11: But how free can artists be to do what we love if we must spend most of our days doing something else to make a living?

　　Q: The author of passage 1 presents an argument in lines 24-26 (“But how…living?) that can most accurately be called

　　A. historical

　　B. political

　　C. pragmatic

　　D. idealistic

　　E. facetious

　　(7)2006.01-S7-23: And why should they attempt it, when radio communication can supply all the information they might want?

　　Q: “radio communication” is cited as a

　　A. complex interaction

　　B. technological relic

　　C. common occurrence

　　D. practical alternative

　　E. dramatic advance

　　第二类：错误选项类

　　(1)OG-P854-24: In this sense, a theoretical world in which there was no medium to get in the way was only a “hairbreadth” away from the real one。

　　Q: The author uses the expression “get in the way” (lines 87-88) to

　　A. emphasize the difficulty created by too much information

　　B. question the value of elaborate experimental procedures

　　C. illustrate a pragmatic approach to a theoretical dilemma

　　D. argue that Galileo was many years ahead of his time

　　E. suggest the limits of Galileo’s physics of motion

　　(2)2007.10-S4-9: (文章太长，略摘抄)Q: The author of Passage 2 would most likely regard the view expressed in Passage 1 as

　　A. endearing

　　B. discerning

　　C. insincere

　　D. naïve

　　E. pragmatic

　　讲评：不要以为只要出现了pragmatic就是正确选项，所以要正确理解这个单词的意思，pragmatic是表示“从实际出发的，实用主义的”，正好和idealistic(理想主义的，从主观出发的)是反义词，通过这些考题请考生们自己总结哪些情况下才是“pragmatic“？哪些又不是。而且pragmatic和practical意思是一样的，那么这两个单词是什么关系呢？在这里我们引出“ct与g互变”(我的单词体系中“形变体”的一种，其他如t,d,s互变，f,v互变，u,v,w互变等)，下面再举一些“ct与g互变”的例子：

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