2017年5月SAT阅读机经详解

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5月SAT考试第一篇: 小说

阅读第一篇小说节选自A strange and sublime address.主要讲解一个家庭去拜访另外一个家庭，中间交谈中的一些价值冲突。Tradition 和modern的conflict。题目难度倒不是特别大，但是人物挺多的，所以大家很有必要看下引言的介绍（这也是课堂上重点强调）

题目：爷爷为什么站在院子里。

答案：因为听到了the car noise of the visitors。

题目：把茶点比作了什么。

答案：jewel。

题目：词汇题 air

答案：demeanor

题目：Sandeep最终对大人们的态度？

答案：immature

5月SAT考试第二篇：社科

第二篇文章话题为自我评价和别人评价的不一致性。文章用相关系数进行阐述。主要探讨个人是否能较为准确地判断自己在他人眼中的形象, 即自我认知与他人认知的对等性。

题目：全文主旨题：

答案：讲解一个实验和其结论以及implications。

题目：问第一段后面讲解correlation数字的目的(Statistically speaking, you measure relationships like these with a correlation, where perfect correspondence yields a correlation of 1 and no correspondence yields a correlation of 0. The closer the correlation is to 1, the stronger the relationship.)?

答案：给出context，便于解读和理解实验。

题目：词汇题magnitude

答案：strength

题目：目的题？提到这些干嘛？-The same barely-better-than-guessing accuracy is also found in experiments investigating how well speed daters can assess who wants to date them and who does not, how well job candidates can judge which interviewers were impressed by them and which were not, and even how well teachers can predict their course evaluations.

答案：是上文研究结果仍然适用的一些例子

5月SAT考试第三篇：科学

本篇科学类文章主要探讨谷神星(Ceres)作为唯一位于小行星带的矮行星(dwarf planet), 其大小、密度、光谱的特殊性引起科学家对其地位和分类的质疑。文章整体术语较多，有点晦涩难懂，平时如果不喜欢自然科学文章的同学估计会做的非常不顺手。

题目：有什么证据说明Ceres不是来源于小行星带？

答案：和其他大部分小行星成分composition不一样

题目：图表题，问哪个的density最低？

答案：Saturn。

题目：词汇题handle

答案：survive

题目：词汇题raw

答案：original

5月SAT考试第四篇：历史对比文章。

第一篇作者为Henry，第二篇为Pendleton。两个人争论的焦点就是联邦还是邦联。第一篇文章作者主要观点为邦法案虽然有缺点，但是不应该完全被抛弃，第二篇文章主要是对第一篇的回应，觉得联邦宪法非常好，必须采用。这个话题我们在上美史文章时候是专题讲过的。文章的结构类似可汗上history level 3 passage 3. 第二篇文章还对邦联曾今帮助美国独立赢得战争进行回应，认为是美国人民的意志和品质赢得战争，而不是邦联的好处。

题目：对Confederation的看法？

答案：Passage1认为有改进空间但不应该被取代，Passage2认为confederation 是useless。

题目：问Passage1对于这次convention的看法？

答案：只应该改进Confederation而不应该制定新的宪法

题目：词汇题-happy issue中issue的意思

答案：issue=outcome

题目：问Passage1 认为Virginia和其他states有什么区别？

答案：没有social unrest。

题目：问Passage 2对于passage1提到的“we, the people”这个说法的看法？

答案：认为很适合用这个词。

题目：第二篇文章和第一篇文章关系?

答案：观点相反，态度相悖

南京常春藤·爱朗教育独家SAT香港考试团，在第一时间为学员们提供SAT阅读机经并由我们的SAT名师深入研究解读。

5月SAT考试第五篇：科学

本篇科学类文章难度总体适中, 主要探讨科学家在海藻(seaweed)中发现了木质素(lignin), 揭示了植物细胞壁结构的趋同进化，文章中的科学家名字也非常多，一定要注意标记。

题目：问这种植物有什么属性？

答案是：植物的各个部分协同起来能让植物有更多suppleness

题目：词汇题simply

答案：plainly

题目：问对lignin的研究兴趣的说法？

答案是：initially secondary, 因为只是对其他研究兴趣的支持

题目：问最后一段科学家的保留意见是什么？

答案是：认为产生lignin的进化发生在red和green这两种生物在acquire means to make its own food之前。

2017年5月SAT机经阅读文章原文

5月SAT考试第一篇小说文章的阅读原文:

Two boys were playing carrom on the steps of a small, painted shed which had the following words on its wall in large, black letters: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SPORTSMEN. A single table-tennis table inside the shed could be glimpsed through the window. The boys interrupted their game to give Chhotomama directions to the house in a series

of sporadic, enthusiastic gestures. Oh yes, they knew the old couple. And yes, their son and daughter in-law had arrived last night with their first child."

'Is it a girl or a boy?' asked Mamima, rolling down the window."

'A gir,l ' said the boy."

Mamima rolled up her window before the mosquitoes came in. The two boys vanished behind them. When they reached the house, they found that the old man was waiting on the verandah with a lantern in his hand. Moths were shuddering round and round the lantern, though the old man was oblivious to them. He had come out because he had heard the throbbing of the engine in the distance. The night had been silent except for the questioning cry of an owl and the continual orchestral sound of crickets in the bushes. The throbbing of the engine had,

therefore, travelled through the

silence to the old man's listening ear. and to his wife's ear. even when the car was relatively far away and beyond their range of vision. They had pondered over the sound, and finally, he had lit the lantern