本期專欄將解析2021年8月SAT文法中的合并題，帶大家一覽新考題。

　　題型：Which choice most effectively combines the sentences at the underlined portion?

　　考核點(diǎn)：考生須將兩個(gè)獨(dú)立句子合并為一句，合并部分已在原文下標(biāo)。這類題型不僅考核語法，且注重措辭簡潔度。

　　2021年8月亞太卷

　　原文：As a result, machine translations are often laughably awkward and outright misleading. They are especially awkward and misleading when ambiguous words or phrases are used.

　　題目：Which choice most effectively combines the sentences at the underlined portion?

　　A. misleading ambiguous words and phrases especially cause these two things when they

　　B. misleading – it is especially awkward and misleading when ambiguous words or phrases

　　C. misleading, and this happens especially when ambiguous words or phrases

　　D. misleading especially when ambiguous words or phrases

　　解析：后一句中的awkward and misleading前一句已出現(xiàn)，不可以再重復(fù)，因此排除AB選項(xiàng);同時(shí)，C選項(xiàng)中的this指代前一整句話，也是不必要的，排除，因此答案選D最為簡潔。

　　句意：因此，機(jī)器翻譯往往令人啼笑皆非，尤其是在使用模棱兩可的詞語或短語時(shí)，會(huì)產(chǎn)生徹頭徹尾的誤導(dǎo)。

　　原文：Her film’s episodic, dreamlike plot and lingering close-up cameras shots of characters and food dishes served to memorialize a way of life. They did this instead of advancing the story.

　　題目：Which choice most effectively combines the sentences at the underlined portion?

　　A. life, instead of having the story advance.

　　B. life rather than advance the story.

　　C. life they did it rather than advancing the story.

　　D. life this was done instead of advancing the story.

　　解析：特別注意其中包含代詞的選項(xiàng)，如C中的they/it、D中的this，合并句子時(shí)都是不必要的贅述，排除;AB兩個(gè)選項(xiàng)中B相較于A措辭更簡潔，選B。

　　句意：她的電影的情節(jié)如夢如幻，對(duì)人物和食物的特寫鏡頭揮之不去，是對(duì)一種生活方式的紀(jì)念，而不是對(duì)故事的推進(jìn)。

　　原文：He decided that the NMAAHC should use the experiences of African Americans as a lens. He made this decision with the thought that through such a lens one can view American culture as a whole.

　　題目：Which choice most effectively combines the sentences at the underlined portion?

　　A. lens through which to view

　　B. lens; through this lens, one views

　　C. lens, with the view of

　　D. lens, and through it, to view

　　解析：排除含有指代的選項(xiàng)，包括B(this lens)、D(it)，C選項(xiàng)使用view的名詞用法卻使句意不符合原文，因此答案選A。

　　句意：他決定，NMAAHC應(yīng)該將非裔美國人的經(jīng)歷作為一個(gè)鏡頭，通過它來看待整個(gè)美國文化。

　　原文：Beginning that December, a research team launched a study. The team wanted to determine whether deer did in fact use the underpasses over three annual migratory cycles (lasting until May 2011).

　　題目：Which choice most effectively combines the sentences at the underlined portion?

　　A. study to determine

　　B. study determining

　　C. study whose goal was the determination of

　　D. study that was initiated to determine

　　解析：首先，表目的優(yōu)先選擇to do。B選項(xiàng)中的determining沒有目的含義，排除;C選項(xiàng)雖然能體現(xiàn)目的，但不如to do來得簡潔，且determine直接用動(dòng)詞更好;D選項(xiàng)中的initiated和launched詞義重復(fù)。

　　句意：從那年12月開始，一個(gè)研究小組啟動(dòng)了一項(xiàng)研究，以確定鹿是否真的在三個(gè)年度遷徙周期(持續(xù)到2011年5月)中使用地下通道。