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2015年1月新SAT样题(阅读部分)
2015年1月新SAT样题（阅读部分）一、文章来源：1.本样题由CB于2015年1月10日发布，北京明志教育整理；2.本样题共分为4部分，分别为：（1）数学部分（2）阅读部分（3）文法部分（4）写作部分本文档是阅读部分；3.更多信息，请登录明志教育官网新SAT资讯版块查看链接地址：/news.html4.北京明志教育将于1月底发布样题详细解析，敬请期待；二、使用说明1.此次发布的样题共5篇文章，主题如下:(1)与女仆的情感关系（文学小类）(2)交通阻塞（社会科学类）(3)海龟的磁场定位（自然科学类）(4)弹劾尼克松总统（政治类）(5)动物的智商（对比阅读-自然科学类）2.文档最后一页(第15页)附有题目的正确答案3.为排版美观，本文档文章行号与原机考行号不一致，行号定位题在文中用蓝色加下划线标注，寻证题用括号（）标注。
4.分析本样题可得出新SAT阅读趋势（1）背景知识变难（2）增加寻证题（3）增加图表信息（4）增加较为专业的学科文章（5）行号定位被弱化第一篇文章主题：与女仆的情感关系（文学小说）Questions1-5are based on the following passage.This passage is adapted from Edith Wharton,Ethan Frome,originally published in1911.Mattie Silver is Ethan’s household employee.（Mattie Silver had lived under Ethan’s roof for a year,and from early morning till they met at supper he had frequent chances of seeing her;but no moments in her company were comparable to those when,her arm in his,and her light step flying to keep time with his long stride,they walked back through the night to the farm.）（He had taken to the girl from the first day,when he had driven over to the Flats to meet her,and she had smiled and waved to him from the train,crying out,“You must be Ethan!”as she jumped down with her bundles,houseworkwhile he reflected, looking over her slight person:“She don’t look much on housework,but she ain’t a fretter, anyhow.”）（But it was not only that the coming to his house of a bit of hopeful young life was like the lighting of a fire on a cold hearth.）The girl was more than the bright serviceable creature he had thought her.（She had an eye to see and an ear to hear:he could show her things and tell her things,and taste the bliss of feeling that all he imparted left long reverberations and echoes he could wake at will.）It was during their night walks back to the farm that he felt most intensely the sweetness of this communion.He had always been more sensitive than the people about him to the appeal of natural beauty.His unfinished studies had given form to this sensibility and even in his unhappiest moments field and sky spoke to him with a deep and powerful persuasion.But hitherto the emotion had remained in him as a silent ache,veiling with sadness the beauty that evoked it.He did not even know whether any one else in the world felt as he did,or whether he was the sole victim of this mournful privilege.Then he learned that one other spirit had trembled with the same touch of wonder:that at his side,living under his roof and eating his bread,was a creature to whom he could say:“That’s Orion down yonder;the big fellow to the right is Aldebaran,and the bunch of little ones—like bees swarming—they’re the Pleiades...”or whom he could hold entranced before a ledge of granite thrusting up through the fern while he unrolled the huge panorama of the ice age,and the long dim stretches of succeeding time.The fact that admiration for his learning mingled with Mattie’s wonder at what he taught was not the least part of his pleasure.And there were other sensations,less definable but more exquisite,which drew them together with a shock of silent joy:the cold red of sunset behind winter hills,the flight of cloud-flocks over slopes of golden stubble,or the intensely blue shadows of hemlocks on sunlit snow.When she said to him once:“It looks just as if it was painted!”it seemed to Ethan that the art of definition could go no farther,and that words had at last been found to utter his secret soul....As he stood in the darkness outside the church these memories came back with the poignancy of vanished things.Watching Mattie whirl down the floor from hand to hand he wondered how he could ever have thought that his dull talk interested her.To him,who was never gay but in her presence,her gaiety seemed plain proof of indifference.The face she lifted to her dancers was thesame which,when she saw him,always looked like a window that has caught the sunset.He even noticed two or three gestures which,in his fatuity,he had thought she kept for him:a way of throwing her head back when she was amused,as if to taste her laugh before she let it out,and a trick of sinking her lids slowly when anything charmed or moved her.1.Over the course of the passage,the main focus of the narrative shifts from the(A)reservations a character has about a person he has just met to a growing appreciation that character has of the person’s worth.(B)ambivalence a character feels about his sensitive nature to the character’s recognition of the advantages of having profound emotions.(C)intensity of feeling a character has for another person to the character’s concern that that intensity is not reciprocated.(D)value a character attaches to the wonders of the natural world to a rejection of that sort of beauty in favor of human artistry.2.In the context of the passage,the author’s use of the phrase“her light step flying to keep time with his long stride”(line4)is primarily meant to convey the idea that(A)Ethan and Mattie share a powerful enthusiasm.(B)Mattie strives to match the speed at which Ethan works.(C)Mattie and Ethan playfully compete with each other.(D)Ethan walks at a pace that frustrates Mattie.3.The description in the first paragraph indicates that what Ethan values most about Mattie is her(A)fitness for farm labor.(B)vivacious youth.(C)receptive nature.(D)freedom from worry.4.Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?(A)Lines1–5(“Mattie...farm”)(B)Lines5–10(“He had...anyhow”)(C)Lines10–11(“But it...hearth”)(D)Lines12–15(“She had...will”)5.The author includes the descriptions of the sunset,the clouds,and the hemlock shadows(lines 34–36)primarily to(A)suggest the peacefulness of the natural world.(B)emphasize the acuteness of two characters’sensations.(C)foreshadow the declining fortunes of two characters.(D)offer a sense of how fleeting time can be.第二篇文章主题：交通阻塞（社会科学类）Questions6–8are based on the following passage and supplementary material.This passage is adapted from Richard Florida,The Great Reset.©2010by Richard Florida.In today’s idea-driven economy,the cost of time is what really matters.With the constant pressure to innovate,it makes little sense to waste countless collective hours commuting.So,the most efficient and productive regions are those in which people are thinking and working—not sitting in traffic.The auto-dependent transportation system has reached its limit in most major cities and muting by car is among the least efficient of all our activities—not to mention among the least enjoyable,according to detailed research by the Nobel Prize–winning economist Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues.Though one might think that the economic crisis beginning in2007would have reduced traffic(high unemployment means fewer workers traveling to and from work),the opposite has been true.Average commutes have lengthened,and congestion has gotten worse,if anything.The average commute rose in2008to25.5minutes,“erasing years of decreases to stand at the level of2000,as people had to leave home earlier in the morning to pick up friends for their ride to work or to catch a bus or subway train,”according to the U.S.Census Bureau,which collects the figures.And those are average mutes are far longer in the big West Coast cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco and the East Coast cities of New York, Philadelphia,Baltimore,and Washington,D.C.In many of these cities,gridlock has become the norm,not just at rush hour but all day,every day.The costs are astounding.In Los Angeles,congestion eats up more than485million working hours a year;that’s seventy hours,or nearly two weeks,of full-time work per commuter.In D.C., the time cost of congestion is sixty-two hours per worker per year.In New York it’s forty-four hours.Average it out,and the time cost across America’s thirteen biggest city-regions is fifty-one hours per worker per year.Across the country,commuting wastes4.2billion hours of work time annually—nearly a full workweek for every commuter.The overall cost to the U.S.economy is nearly$90billion when lost productivity and wasted fuel are taken into account.At the Martin Prosperity Institute,we calculate that every minute shaved off America’s commuting time is worth$19.5billion in value added to the economy.The numbers add up fast:five minutes is worth$97.7 billion;ten minutes,$195billion;fifteen minutes,$292billion.It’s ironic that so many people still believe the main remedy for traffic congestion is to build more roads and highways,which of course only makes the problem worse.New roads generate higher levels of“induced traffic,”that is,new roads just invite drivers to drive more and lure people who take mass transit back to their cars.Eventually,we end up with more clogged roads rather than a long-term improvement in traffic flow.The coming decades will likely see more intense clustering of jobs,innovation,and productivity in a smaller number of bigger cities and city-regions.Some regions could end up bloated beyond the capacity of their infrastructure,while others struggle,their promise stymied by inadequate human or other resources.Adapted from Adam Werbach,“The American Commuter Spends38Hours a Year Stuck in Traffic.”©2013by The Atlantic.6.The passage most strongly suggests that researchers at the Martin Prosperity Institute share which assumption?(A)Employees who work from home are more valuable to their employers than employees who commute.(B)Employees whose commutes are shortened will use the time saved to do additional productive work for their employers.(C)Employees can conduct business activities,such as composing memos or joining conference calls,while commuting.(D)Employees who have lengthy commutes tend to make more money than employees who have shorter commutes.7.As used in line42,“intense”most nearly means(A)emotional.(B)concentrated.(C)brilliant.(D)determined.8.Which claim about traffic congestion is supported by the graph?(A)New York City commuters spend less time annually delayed by traffic congestion than the average for very large cities.(B)Los Angeles commuters are delayed more hours annually by traffic congestion than are commuters in Washington,D.C.(C)Commuters in Washington,D.C.,face greater delays annually due to traffic congestion than do commuters in New York City.(D)Commuters in Detroit spend more time delayed annually by traffic congestion than do commuters in Houston,Atlanta,and Chicago.第三篇文章主题：海龟的磁场定位（自然科学类）Questions9–14are based on the following passage and supplementary material.This passage is adapted from Ed Yong,“Turtles Use the Earth’s Magnetic Field as Global GPS.”©2011by Kalmbach Publishing Co.（In1996,a loggerhead turtle called Adelita swam across9,000miles from Mexico to Japan, crossing the entire Pacific on her way.）Wallace J.Nicholstracked this epic journey with a satellite tag.But Adelita herself had no such technology at her disposal.How did she steer a route across two oceans to find her destination?Nathan Putman has the answer.By testing hatchling turtles in a special tank,he has found that they can use the Earth’s magnetic field as their own Global Positioning System(GPS).By sensing the field,they can work out both their latitude and longitude and head in the right direction. Putman works in the lab of Ken Lohmann,who has been studying the magnetic abilities of loggerheads for over20years.In his lab at the University of North Carolina,Lohmann places hatchlings in a large water tank surrounded by a large grid of electromagnetic coils.In1991,he found that the babies started in the opposite direction if he used the coils to reverse the direction of the magnetic field around them.They could use the field as a compass to get their bearing. Later,Lohmann showed that they can also use the magnetic field to work out their position.For them,this is literally a matter of life or death.Hatchlings born off the sea coast of Florida spend their early lives in the North Atlantic gyre,a warm current that circles between North America and Africa.If they’re swept towards the cold waters outside the gyre,they die.Their magnetic sense keeps them safe.（Using his coil-surrounded tank,Lohmann could mimic the magnetic field at different parts of the Earth’s surface.）If he simulated the field at the northern edge of the gyre,the hatchlings swam southwards.If he simulated the field at the gyre’s southern edge,the turtles swam west-northwest. These experiments showed that the turtles can use their magnetic sense to work out their latitude—their position on a north-south axis.Now,Putman has shown that they can also determine their longitude—their position on an east-west axis.He tweaked his magnetic tanks to simulate the fields in two positions with the same latitude at opposite ends of the Atlantic.If the field simulated the west Atlantic near Puerto Rico,the turtles swam northeast.If the field matched that on the east Atlantic near the Cape Verde Islands,the turtles swam southwest.In the wild,both headings would keep them within the safe,warm embrace of the North Atlantic gyre.Before now,we knew that several animal migrants,from loggerheads to reed warblers to sparrows, had some way of working out longitude,but no one knew how.By keeping the turtles in the same conditions,with only the magnetic fields around them changing,Putman clearly showed that they can use these fields to find their way.（In the wild,they might well also use other landmarks like the position of the sea,sun and stars.）Putman thinks that the turtles work out their position using two features of the Earth’s magnetic field that change over its surface.They can sense the field’s inclination,or the angle at which it dips towards the surface.At the poles,this angle is roughly90degrees and at the equator,it’sroughly zero degrees.They can also sense its intensity,which is strongest near the poles and weakest near the Equator.Different parts of the world have unique combinations of these two variables.（Neither corresponds directly to either latitude or longitude,but together,they provide a “magnetic signature”that tells the turtle where it is.）Orientation of Hatchling Loggerheads Tested in Magnetic FieldsAdapted from Nathan Putman,Courtney Endres,Catherine Lohmann,and Kenneth Lohmann,“Longitude Perception and Bicoordinate Magnetic Maps in Sea Turtles.”©2011by Elsevier Inc. Orientation of hatchling loggerheads tested in a magnetic field that simulates a position at the west side of the Atlantic near Puerto Rico(left)and a position at the east side of the Atlantic near the Cape Verde Islands(right).The arrow in each circle indicates the mean direction that the group ofhatchlings swam.Data are plotted relative to geographic north9.The passage most strongly suggests that Adelita used which of the following to navigate her 9,000-mile journey?(A)The current of the North Atlantic gyre(B)Cues from electromagnetic coils designed by Putman and Lohmann(C)The inclination and intensity of Earth’s magnetic field(D)A simulated“magnetic signature”configured by Lohmann10.Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?(A)Lines1–2(“In1996...way”)(B)Lines23–24(“Using...surface”)(C)Lines41–42(“In the wild...stars”)(D)Lines49–51(“Neither...it is”)11.As used in line3,“tracked”most nearly means(A)searched for.(B)traveled over.(C)followed.(D)hunted.12.Based on the passage,which choice best describes the relationship between Putman’s andLohmann’s research?(A)Putman’s research contradicts Lohmann’s.(B)Putman’s research builds on Lohmann’s.(C)Lohmann’s research confirms Putman’s.(D)Lohmann’s research corrects Putman’s.13.The author refers to reed warblers and sparrows(line37)primarily to(A)contrast the loggerhead turtle’s migration patterns with those of other species.(B)provide examples of species that share one of the loggerhead turtle’s abilities.(C)suggest that most animal species possess some ability to navigate long distances.(D)illustrate some ways in which the ability to navigate long distances can help a species.14.It can reasonably be inferred from the passage and graphic that if scientists adjusted the coils to reverse the magnetic field simulating that in the East Atlantic(Cape Verde Islands),the hatchlings would most likely swim in which direction?(A)Northwest(B)Northeast(C)Southeast(D)Southwest第四篇文章主题：弹劾尼克松总统（政治类）Questions15–19are based on the following passage.This passage is adapted from a speech delivered by Congresswoman Barbara Jordan of Texas on July25,1974,as a member of the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives.In the passage,Jordan discusses how and when a United States president may be impeached,or charged with serious offenses,while in office.Jordan’s speech was delivered in the context of impeachment hearings against then president Richard M.Nixon.Today,I am an inquisitor.An hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that I feel right now.My faith in the Constitution is whole;it is complete;it is total.And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution,the subversion, the destruction,of the Constitution.“Who can so properly be the inquisitors for the nation as the representatives of the nation themselves?”“The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men.”*And that’s what we’re talking about.In other words,[the jurisdiction comes]from the abuse or violation of some public trust.(It is wrong,I suggest,it is a misreading of the Constitution for any member here to assert that for a member to vote for an article of impeachment means that that member must be convinced that the President should be removed from office.)The Constitution doesn’t say that. The powers relating to impeachment are an essential check in the hands of the body of the legislature against and upon the encroachments of the executive.(The division between the two branches of the legislature,the House and the Senate,assigning to the one the right to accuse and to the other the right to judge—the framers of this Constitution were very astute.)They did not make the accusers and the judges...the same person.We know the nature of impeachment.We’ve been talking about it a while now.It is chiefly designed for the President and his high ministers to somehow be called into account.It is designed to“bridle”the executive if he engages in excesses.“It is designed as a method of national inquest into the conduct of public men.”*The framers confided in the Congress the power,if need be,to remove the President in order to strike a delicate balance between a President swollen with power and grown tyrannical,and preservation of the independence of the executive.The nature of impeachment:a narrowly channeled exception to the separation of powers maxim. The Federal Convention of1787said that.It limited impeachment to high crimes and misdemeanors,and discounted and opposed the term“maladministration.”“It is to be used only for great misdemeanors,”so it was said in the North Carolina ratification convention.And in the Virginia ratification convention:“We do not trust our liberty to a particular branch.We need one branch to check the other.”...The North Carolina ratification convention:“No one need be afraid that officers who commit oppression will pass with immunity.”“Prosecutions of impeachments will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community,”said Hamilton in the Federalist Papers,number65.“We divide into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused.”*I do not mean political parties in that sense.(The drawing of political lines goes to the motivation behind impeachment;but impeachment must proceed within the confines of the constitutional term“high crime[s]and misdemeanors.”)Of the impeachment process,it was Woodrow Wilson who said that“Nothing short of the grossest offenses against the plain law of the land will suffice to give them speed and effectiveness.Indignation so great as to overgrow party interest may secure a conviction;but nothing else can.”Common sense would be revolted if we engaged upon this process for petty reasons.(Congress has a lot to do:appropriations,tax reform,health insurance,campaign finance reform,housing,environmental protection,energy sufficiency,mass transportation.)Pettiness cannot be allowed to stand in the face of such overwhelming problems.So today we’re not being petty.We’re trying to be big,because the task we have before us is a big one.*Jordan quotes from Federalist No.65,an essay by Alexander Hamilton,published in1788,on the powers of the United States Senate,including the power to decide cases of impeachment against a president of the United States.15.The stance Jordan takes in the passage is best described as that of(A)an idealist setting forth principles.(B)an advocate seeking a compromise position.(C)an observer striving for neutrality.(D)a scholar researching a historical controversy.16.The main rhetorical effect of the series of three phrases beginning in line4(“the diminution, the subversion,the destruction”)is to(A)convey with increasing intensity the seriousness of the threat Jordan sees to the Constitution.(B)clarify that Jordan believes the Constitution was first weakened,then sabotaged,then broken.(C)indicate that Jordan thinks the Constitution is prone to failure in three distinct ways.(D)propose a three-part agenda for rescuing the Constitution from the current crisis.17.As used in line29,“channeled”most nearly means(A)Worn.(B)sent.(C)constrained.(D)siphoned.18.In lines37–41(“Prosecutions...sense”),what is the most likely reason Jordan draws a distinction between two types of“parties”?(A)To counter the suggestion that impeachment is or should be about partisan politics(B)To disagree with Hamilton’s claim that impeachment proceedings excite passions(C)To contend that Hamilton was too timid in his support for the concept of impeachment(D)To argue that impeachment cases are decided more on the basis of politics than on justice19.Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?(A)Lines11–14(“It...office”)(B)Lines16–19(“The division...astute”)(C)Lines42–44(“The drawing...misdemeanors”)(D)Lines50–52(“Congress...transportation”)第五篇文章：动物的智商（对比阅读——自然科学）Questions20–24are based on the following passages.Passage1is adapted from Susan Milius,“A Different Kind of Smart.”©2013by Science News. Passage2is adapted from Bernd Heinrich,Mind of the Raven:Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds.©2007by Bernd Heinrich.Passage1In1894,British psychologist C.Lloyd Morgan published what’s called Morgan’s canon,the principle that suggestions of humanlike mental processes behind an animal’s behavior should be rejected if a simpler explanation will do.Still,people seem to maintain certain expectations,especially when it comes to birds and mammals.“We somehow want to prove they are as‘smart’as people,”zoologist Sara Shettleworth says.We want a bird that masters a vexing problem to be employing human-style insight.New Caledonian crows face the high end of these expectations,as possibly the second-best toolmakers on the planet.Their tools are hooked sticks or strips made from spike-edged leaves,and they use them in the wild to winkle grubs out of crevices.Researcher Russell Gray first saw the process on a cold morning in a mountain forest in New Caledonia,an island chain east of Australia.Over the course of days,he and crow researcher Gavin Hunt had gotten wild crows used to finding meat tidbits in holes in a log.Once the birds were checking the log reliably,the researchers placed a spiky tropical pandanus plant beside the log andhid behind a blind.A crow arrived.It hopped onto the pandanus plant,grabbed the spiked edge of one of the long straplike leaves and began a series of ripping motions.Instead of just tearing away one long strip, the bird ripped and nipped in a sequence to create a slanting stair-step edge on a leaf segment with a narrow point and a wide base.The process took only seconds.Then the bird dipped the narrow end of its leaf strip into a hole in the log,fished up the meat with the leaf-edge spikes,swallowed its prize and flew off.That was my‘oh wow’moment,”Gray says.After the crow had vanished,he picked up the tool the bird had left behind.“I had a go,and I couldn’t do it,”he recalls.Fishing the meat out was tricky.It turned out that Gray was moving the leaf shard too forcefully instead of gently stroking the spines against the treat.The crow’s deft physical manipulation was what inspired Gray and Auckland colleague Alex Taylor to test other wild crows to see if they employed the seemingly insightful string-pulling solutions that some ravens,kea parrots and other brainiac birds are known to employ.Three of four crows passed that test on the first try.Passage2For one month after they left the nest,I led my four young ravens at least once and sometimes several times a day on thirty-minute walks.During these walks,I wrote down everything in their environment they pecked at.In the first sessions,I tried to be teacher.I touched specific objects—sticks,moss,rocks—and nothing that I touched remained untouched by them.They came to investigate what I had investigated,leading me to assume that young birds are aided in learning to identify food from the parents’example.They also,however,contacted almost everything else that lay directly in their own paths.They soon became more independent by taking their own routes near mine.Even while walking along on their own,they pulled at leaves,grass stems,flowers,bark,pine needles,seeds,cones,clods of earth,and other objects they encountered.I wrote all this down,converting it to numbers.After they were thoroughly familiar with the background objects in these woods and started to ignore them,I seeded the path we would later walk together with objects they had never before encountered.Some of these were conspicuous food items:raspberries,dead meal worm beetles,and cooked corn kernels.Others were conspicuous and inedible:pebbles,glass chips,red winterberries.Still others were such highly cryptic foods as encased caddisfly larvae and moth cocoons.The results were dramatic.The four young birds on our daily walks contacted all new objects preferentially. They picked them out at a rate of up to tens of thousands of times greater than background or previously contacted objects.The main initial criterion for pecking or picking anything up was its novelty.In subsequent trials,when the previously novel items were edible,they became preferred and the inedible objects became“background”items,just like the leaves,grass,and pebbles,even if they were highly conspicuous.These experiments showed that ravens’curiosity ensures exposure to all or almost all items in the environment.20.Within Passage1,the main purpose of the first two paragraphs(lines1–8)is to(A)offer historical background in order to question the uniqueness of two researchers’findings.(B)offer interpretive context in order to frame the discussion of an experiment and its results.(C)introduce a scientific principle in order to show how an experiment’s outcomes validated that principle.(D)present seemingly contradictory stances in order to show how they can be reconciled empirically.21.According to the experiment described in Passage2,whether the author’s ravens continued to show interest in a formerly new object was dictated primarily by whether that object was(A)edible.(B)plentiful.(C)conspicuous.(D)natural.22.The crows in Passage1and the ravens in Passage2shared which trait?(A)They modified their behavior in response to changes in their environment.(B)They formed a strong bond with the humans who were observing them.(C)They manufactured useful tools for finding and accessing food.(D)They mimicked the actions they saw performed around them.。
新sat机考阅读题目
新sat机考阅读题目
新SAT考试的阅读部分包括阅读理解和文学分析两个部分，每
部分都有5篇阅读材料，每篇材料后面有几道相关的问题。
阅读理
解部分主要考察考生对于现实世界和历史事件的理解能力，而文学
分析部分则主要考察考生对于文学作品的理解能力。
在阅读理解部分，考生需要通过阅读文章来回答问题，这些文
章可能是来自社会科学、自然科学、历史或文学方面的。
文章内容
可能涉及到科学实验、历史事件、社会现象等，要求考生能够理解
文章的主旨、作者观点、论证方式等。
问题类型包括细节理解、主
旨概括、推断引申、作者态度等。
考生需要通过阅读文章和问题，
准确理解文章的意思，抓住文章的中心思想，合理推断答案。
在文学分析部分，考生需要阅读文学作品的摘录或整篇文章，
对文学作品的结构、语言运用、主题等方面进行分析。
问题类型包
括对文学作品的主题、语言运用、情感色彩等方面进行分析和理解。
考生需要通过阅读文学作品，理解作者的写作意图，把握作品的情
感和主题，正确回答相关问题。
总的来说，新SAT考试的阅读部分要求考生具备较强的阅读理
解能力和文学分析能力，能够准确理解文章或文学作品的意思，抓
住关键信息，理清思路，正确回答相关问题。
考生可以通过多读书、多练习阅读理解题目来提高自己的阅读能力。
2015年1月新SAT官方新样题第一时间解读：阅读第二篇
2015年1月新SAT官方新样题第一时间解读：阅读第二篇北京新东方美本本地项目刘琼歌新SAT考试中，五篇文章中有一篇是双篇对比(paired passages)，重点考察学生分析多篇文本的能力（Analyzing multiple texts）。
这篇文章题材属于Science这一类，考察重点是“动物是否拥有类似人类的思维能力”这一老生常谈的话题，北京新东方美本本地项目刘琼歌老师发现在旧SAT中也有类似的文章（2008年1月短双“是否应该以人类动机解读黑猩猩的行为”）。
在题目设计上，五个题目依次考察了文章结构（text structure）,隐含语义（implicit meanings：draw reasonable inferences and logical conclusions from text）, 双篇对比求同（Analyzing multiple texts: synthesize information and ideas from paired texts），双篇对比求异（Analyzing multiple texts: synthesize information and ideas from paired texts）和双篇逻辑关系（Analyzing multiple texts: analyzing claims and counterclaims）这五个考点。
刘琼歌老师经过对比分析发现，这五个题目在考点设计上与旧SAT类似，只是选项由旧SAT的五个减为四个，且答错不再倒扣分数。
整体上说，新SAT的文章复杂度和题目难度并没有显著增强。
【文章大意】这两篇文章通过观察和实验研究鸟类是否拥有与人类类似的认知能力。
Passage 1第一段心理学家Morgan提出一条原则“如果有更加简单的解释，就不应该认为动物行为体现了类似人类的思维过程。
”第二段则指出，人类似乎很“想”证明动物跟人一样“聪明”。
sat考试题及答案
sat考试题及答案SAT考试题及答案1. 阅读理解阅读下列段落，并回答以下问题：在19世纪末，随着工业化的迅速发展，城市化进程也加快了步伐。
城市中的工厂和机器制造了大量的烟雾和噪音，给居民的日常生活带来了极大的不便。
此外，由于城市人口的激增，住房问题也变得日益严重，许多家庭不得不挤在狭小的空间内生活。
尽管如此，城市化也带来了一些积极的变化，比如提供了更多的就业机会和改善了交通设施。
问题：19世纪末城市化进程加快的主要原因是什么？A. 环境污染B. 住房紧张C. 工业化发展D. 交通设施改善答案：C2. 数学问题解下列方程：3x - 5 = 2x + 7答案：x = 123. 写作技巧根据以下提示，写一篇不少于300字的短文：提示：描述一次你参加的社区服务活动，并解释这次活动如何影响了你对社区服务的看法。
答案示例：上个周末，我参加了社区组织的清洁公园活动。
我们的任务是捡拾公园内的垃圾，保持环境的整洁。
这次活动让我意识到，即使是小小的行动，也能对社区产生积极的影响。
在活动中，我遇到了很多志同道合的人，我们一起努力，让公园变得更加美丽。
这次经历让我更加相信，每个人都可以通过参与社区服务来贡献自己的力量，共同创造一个更好的生活环境。
4. 词汇题选择下列句子中划线单词的正确同义词：The professor's lecture was so profound that it left a lasting impression on the students.A. shallowB. superficialC. deepD. trivial答案：C5. 语法题将下列句子改写为正确的语法形式：Although they were tired, they continued working.答案：Although they were tired, they continued to work.。
sat-practice-test-1-answers
Answer Explanations SAT® Practice Test #1© 2015 The College Board. College Board, SAT, and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board. 5KSA09Answer ExplanationsSAT Practice Test #1Section 1: Reading T estQUESTION 1.Choice B is the best answer. In the passage, a young man (Akira) asks amother (Chie) for permission to marry her daughter (Naomi). The requestwas certainly surprising to the mother, as can be seen from line 47, whichstates that prior to Akira’s question Chie “had no idea” the request was coming.Choice A is incorrect because the passage depicts two characters engagedin a civil conversation, with Chie being impressed with Akira’s “sincerity”and finding herself “starting to like him.” Choice C is incorrect becausethe passage is focused on the idea of Akira’s and Naomi’s present lives andpossible futures. Choice D is incorrect because the interactions betweenChie and Akira are polite, not critical; for example, Chie views Akira with“amusement,” not animosity.QUESTION 2.Choice B is the best answer. The passage centers on a night when a youngman tries to get approval to marry a woman’s daughter. The passage includesdetailed descriptions of setting (a “winter’s eve” and a “cold rain,” lines 5-6);character (Akira’s “soft, refined” voice, line 33; Akira’s eyes “sh[ining] withsincerity,” line 35); and plot (“Naomi was silent. She stood a full half minutelooking straight into Chie’s eyes. Finally, she spoke,” lines 88-89).Choice A is incorrect because the passage focuses on a nontraditional mar-riage proposal. Choice C is incorrect because the passage concludes withoutresolution to the question of whether Akira and Naomi will receive permis-sion to marry. Choice D is incorrect because the passage repeatedly makesclear that for Chie, her encounter with Akira is momentous and unsettling,as when Akira acknowledges in line 73 that he has “startled” her.1QUESTION 3.Choice C is the best answer. Akira “came directly, breaking all tradition,”(line 1) when he approached Chie and asked to marry her daughter, and he“ask[ed] directly,” without “a go-between” (line 65) or “mediation,” becausedoing otherwise would have taken too much time.Choices A, B, and D are incorrect because in these contexts, “directly” doesnot mean in a frank, confident, or precise manner.QUESTION 4.Choice A is the best answer. Akira is very concerned Chie will find his mar-riage proposal inappropriate because he did not follow traditional protocol anduse a “go-between” (line 65). This is clear in lines 63-64, when Akira says toChie “Please don’t judge my candidacy by the unseemliness of this proposal.”Choice B is incorrect because there is no evidence in the passage that Akiraworries that Chie will mistake his earnestness for immaturity. Choice C is incor-rect because while Akira recognizes that his unscheduled visit is a nuisance, hislarger concern is that Chie will reject him due to the inappropriateness of hisproposal. Choice D is incorrect because there is no evidence in the passage thatAkira worries Chie will underestimate the sincerity of his emotions.QUESTION 5.Choice C is the best answer. In lines 63-64, Akira says to Chie, “Pleasedon’t judge my candidacy by the unseemliness of this proposal.” This revealsAkira’s concern that Chie may say no to the proposal simply because Akiradid not follow traditional practices.Choices A, B, and D do not provide the best evidence for the answer to theprevious question. Choice A is incorrect because line 33 merely describesAkira’s voice as “soft, refined.” Choice B is incorrect because lines 49-51reflect Chie’s perspective, not Akira’s. Choice D is incorrect because lines71-72 indicate only that Akira was speaking in an eager and forthright matter.QUESTION 6.Choice D is the best answer because Akira clearly treats Chie with respect,including “bow[ing]” (line 26) to her, calling her “Madame” (line 31), andlooking at her with “a deferential peek” (line 34). Akira does not offer Chieutter deference, though, as he asks to marry Naomi after he concedes that heis not following protocol and admits to being a “disruption” (line 31).Choice A is incorrect because while Akira conveys respect to Chie, there isno evidence in the passage that he feels affection for her. Choice B is incor-rect because neither objectivity nor impartiality accurately describes howAkira addresses Chie. Choice C is incorrect because Akira conveys respectto Chie and takes the conversation seriously.2QUESTION 7.Choice D is the best answer. The first paragraph (lines 1-4) reflects on howAkira approached Chie to ask for her daughter’s hand in marriage. In theselines, the narrator is wondering whether Chie would have been more likelyto say yes to Akira’s proposal if Akira had followed tradition: “Akira camedirectly, breaking all tradition. Was that it? Had he followed form—had heasked his mother to speak to his father to approach a go-between—wouldChie have been more receptive?” Thus, the main purpose of the first para-graph is to examine why Chie reacted a certain way to Akira’s proposal.Choice A is incorrect because the first paragraph describes only one aspect ofJapanese culture (marriage proposals) but not the culture as a whole. Choice Bis incorrect because the first paragraph implies a criticism of Akira’s individualmarriage proposal but not the entire tradition of Japanese marriage proposals.Choice C is incorrect because the narrator does not question a suggestion.QUESTION 8.Choice B is the best answer. In line 1, the narrator suggests that Akira’sdirect approach broke “all tradition.” The narrator then wonders if Akira had“followed form,” or the tradition expected of him, would Chie have beenmore receptive to his proposal. In this context, following “form” thus meansfollowing a certain tradition or custom.Choices A, C, and D are incorrect because in this context “form” does notmean the way something looks (appearance), the way it is built (structure),or its essence (nature).QUESTION 9.Choice C is the best answer. Akira states that his unexpected meeting withChie occurred only because of a “matter of urgency,” which he explains as “anopportunity to go to America, as dentist for Seattle’s Japanese community”(lines 41-42). Akira decides to directly speak to Chie because Chie’s responseto his marriage proposal affects whether Akira accepts the job offer.Choice A is incorrect because there is no evidence in the passage that Akira isworried his parents will not approve of Naomi. Choice B is incorrect becauseAkira has “an understanding” with Naomi (line 63). Choice D is incorrect;while Akira may know that Chie is unaware of his feelings for Naomi, this isnot what he is referring to when he mentions “a matter of urgency.”QUESTION 10.Choice B is the best answer. In lines 39-42, Akira clarifies that the “mat-ter of urgency” is that he has “an opportunity to go to America, as dentistfor Seattle’s Japanese community.” Akira needs Chie’s answer to his marriageproposal so he can decide whether to accept the job in Seattle.3Choices A, C, and D do not provide the best evidence for the answer to theprevious question. Choice A is incorrect because in line 39 Akira apologizesfor interrupting Chie’s quiet evening. Choice C is incorrect because lines58-59 address the seriousness of Akira’s request, not its urgency. Choice Dis incorrect because line 73 shows only that Akira’s proposal has “startled”Chie and does not explain why his request is time-sensitive.QUESTION 11.Choice A is the best answer. Lines 1-9 include examples of how manypeople shop (“millions of shoppers”), how much money they spend (“over$30 billion at retail stores in the month of December alone”), and the manyoccasions that lead to shopping for gifts (“including weddings, birthdays,anniversaries, graduations, and baby showers.”). Combined, these examplesshow how frequently people in the US shop for gifts.Choice B is incorrect because even though the authors mention that“$30 billion” had been spent in retail stores in one month, that figure isnever discussed as an increase (or a decrease). Choice C is incorrect becauselines 1-9 provide a context for the amount of shopping that occurs in the US,but the anxiety (or “dread”) it might cause is not introduced until later in thepassage. Choice D is incorrect because lines 1-9 do more than highlight thenumber of different occasions that lead to gift-giving.QUESTION 12.Choice B is the best answer. Lines 9-10 state “This frequent experienceof gift-giving can engender ambivalent feelings in gift-givers.” In the sub-sequent sentences, those “ambivalent” feelings are further exemplified asconflicted feelings, as shopping is said to be something that “[m]any relish”(lines 10-11) and “many dread” (line 14).Choices A, C, and D are incorrect because in this context, “ambivalent” doesnot mean feelings that are unrealistic, apprehensive, or supportive.QUESTION 13.Choice D is the best answer. In lines 10-13, the authors clearly state thatsome people believe gift-giving can help a relationship because it “offers apowerful means to build stronger bonds with one’s closest peers.”Choice A is incorrect because even though the authors state that someshoppers make their choices based on “egocentrism,” (line 33) there isno evidence in the passage that people view shopping as a form of self-expression. Choice B is incorrect because the passage implies that shoppingis an expensive habit. Choice C is incorrect because the passage states thatmost people have purchased and received gifts, but it never implies that peo-ple are required to reciprocate the gift-giving process.4QUESTION 14.Choice A is the best answer. In lines 10-13, the authors suggest that peoplevalue gift-giving because it may strengthen their relationships with others:“Many relish the opportunity to buy presents because gift-giving offers apowerful means to build stronger bonds with one’s closest peers.”Choices B, C, and D do not provide the best evidence for the answer to theprevious question. Choice B is incorrect because lines 22-23 discuss howpeople often buy gifts that the recipients would not purchase. Choice C isincorrect because lines 31-32 explain how gift-givers often fail to considerthe recipients’ preferences. Choice D is incorrect because lines 44-47 suggestthat the cost of a gift may not correlate to a recipient’s appreciation of it.QUESTION 15.Choice A is the best answer. The “deadweight loss” mentioned in the secondparagraph is the significant monetary difference between what a gift-giverwould pay for something and what a gift-recipient would pay for the sameitem. That difference would be predictable to social psychologists, whoseresearch “has found that people often struggle to take account of others’perspectives—their insights are subject to egocentrism, social projection,and multiple attribution errors” (lines 31-34).Choices B, C, and D are all incorrect because lines 31-34 make clear thatsocial psychologists would expect a disconnect between gift-givers and gift-recipients, not that they would question it, be disturbed by it, or find it sur-prising or unprecedented.QUESTION 16.Choice C is the best answer. Lines 41-44 suggest that gift-givers assumea correlation between the cost of a gift and how well-received it will be:“. . . gift-givers equate how much they spend with how much recipients willappreciate the gift (the more expensive the gift, the stronger a gift-recipient’sfeelings of appreciation).” However, the authors suggest this assumption maybe incorrect or “unfounded” (line 47), as gift-recipients “may not construesmaller and larger gifts as representing smaller and larger signals of thought-fulness and consideration” (lines 63-65).Choices A, B, and D are all incorrect because the passage neither statesnor implies that the gift-givers’ assumption is insincere, unreasonable, orsubstantiated.QUESTION 17.Choice C is the best answer. Lines 63-65 suggest that the assumption madeby gift-givers in lines 41-44 may be incorrect. The gift-givers assume thatrecipients will have a greater appreciation for costly gifts than for less costly5gifts, but the authors suggest this relationship may be incorrect, as gift-recipients “may not construe smaller and larger gifts as representing smallerand larger signals of thoughtfulness and consideration” (lines 63-65).Choices A and D are incorrect because lines 53-55 and 75-78 address thequestion of “why” gift-givers make specific assumptions rather than address-ing the validity of these assumptions. Choice B is incorrect because lines55-60 focus on the reasons people give gifts to others.QUESTION 18.Choice D is the best answer. Lines 53-55 state that “Perhaps givers believethat bigger (i.e., more expensive) gifts convey stronger signals of thought-fulness and consideration.” In this context, saying that more expensive gifts“convey” stronger signals means the gifts send, or communicate, strongersignals to the recipients.Choices A, B, and C are incorrect because in this context, to “convey” some-thing does not mean to transport it (physically move something), coun-teract it (act in opposition to something), or exchange it (trade one thingfor another).QUESTION 19.Choice A is the best answer. The paragraph examines how gift-giversbelieve expensive gifts are more thoughtful than less expensive gifts andwill be more valued by recipients. The work of Camerer and others offersan explanation for the gift-givers’ reasoning: “gift-givers attempt to signaltheir positive attitudes toward the intended recipient and their willingness toinvest resources in a future relationship” (lines 57-60).Choices B, C, and D are incorrect because the theory articulated by Camererand others is used to explain an idea put forward by the authors (“giversbelieve that bigger . . . gifts convey stronger signals”), not to introduce anargument, question a motive, or support a conclusion.QUESTION 20.Choice B is the best answer. The graph clearly shows that gift-givers believethat a “more valuable” gift will be more appreciated than a “less valuablegift.” According to the graph, gift-givers believe the monetary value of a giftwill determine whether that gift is well received or not.Choice A is incorrect because the graph does not suggest that gift-givers areaware of gift-recipients’ appreciation levels. Choices C and D are incorrectbecause neither the gift-givers’ desire for the gifts they purchase nor the gift-givers’ relationship with the gift-recipients is addressed in the graph.6QUESTION 21.Choice A is the best answer. Lines 69-75 explain that while people are oftenboth gift-givers and gift-receivers, they struggle to apply information theylearned as a gift-giver to a time when they were a gift-receiver: “Y et, despite theextensive experience that people have as both givers and receivers, they oftenstruggle to transfer information gained from one role (e.g., as a giver) andapply it in another, complementary role (e.g., as a receiver).” The authors sug-gest that the disconnect between how much appreciation a gift-giver thinks agift merits and how much appreciation a gift-recipient displays for the gift maybe caused by both individuals’ inability to comprehend the other’s perspective.Choices B and C are incorrect because neither the passage nor the graphaddresses the idea that society has become more materialistic or that there isa growing opposition to gift-giving. Choice D is incorrect because the pas-sage emphasizes that gift-givers and gift-recipients fail to understand eachother’s perspective, but it offers no evidence that the disconnect results onlyfrom a failure to understand the other’s intentions.QUESTION 22.Choice B is the best answer. Lines 2-4 of the passage describe DNA as“a very long chain, the backbone of which consists of a regular alternation ofsugar and phosphate groups.” The backbone of DNA, in other words, is themain structure of a chain made up of repeating units of sugar and phosphate.Choice A is incorrect because the passage describes DNA on the molecularlevel only and never mentions the spinal column of organisms. Choice C isincorrect because the passage describes the backbone of the molecule ashaving “a regular alternation” of sugar and phosphate, not one or the other.Choice D is incorrect because the nitrogenous bases are not the main struc-tural unit of DNA; rather, they are attached only to the repeating units of sugar.QUESTION 23.Choice D is the best answer. The authors explain that hydrogen bonds jointogether pairs of nitrogenous bases, and that these bases have a specificstructure that leads to the pairing: “One member of a pair must be a purineand the other a pyrimidine in order to bridge between the two chains” (lines27-29). Given the specific chemical properties of a nitrogenous base, itwould be inaccurate to call the process random.Choice A is incorrect because lines 5-6 describe how nitrogenous basesattach to sugar but not how those bases pair with one another. Choice B isincorrect because lines 9-10 do not contradict the student’s claim. Choice Cis incorrect because lines 23-25 describe how the two molecules’ chains arelinked, not what the specific pairing between nitrogenous bases is.7QUESTION 24.Choice D is the best answer. In lines 12-14 the authors state: “the first fea-ture of our structure which is of biological interest is that it consists not ofone chain, but of two.”Choices A and B are incorrect because lines 12-14 explicitly state that it isthe two chains of DNA that are of “biological interest,” not the chemicalformula of DNA, nor the common fiber axis those two chains are wrappedaround. Choice C is incorrect because, while the X-ray evidence did helpWatson and Crick to discover that DNA consists of two chains, it was notclaimed to be the feature of biological interest.QUESTION 25.Choice C is the best answer. In lines 12-14 the authors claim that DNA mol-ecules appear to be comprised of two chains, even though “it has often beenassumed . . . there would be only one” (lines 15-17). The authors support thisclaim with evidence compiled from an X-ray: “the density, taken with the X-rayevidence, suggests very strongly that there are two [chains]” (lines 18-19).Choices A, B, and D are incorrect because the authors mention density andX-ray evidence to support a claim, not to establish that DNA carries geneticinformation, present a hypothesis about the composition of a nucleotide, orconfirm a relationship between the density and chemical formula of DNA.QUESTION 26.Choice B is the best answer. The authors explain that “only certain pairs ofbases will fit into the structure” (lines 25-26) of the DNA molecule. Thesepairs must contain “a purine and the other a pyrimidine in order to bridgebetween the two chains” (lines 27-29), which implies that any other pairingwould not “fit into the structure” of the DNA molecule. Therefore, a pairof purines would be larger than the required purine/pyrimidine pair andwould not fit into the structure of the DNA molecule.Choice A is incorrect because this section is not discussing the distancebetween a sugar and phosphate group. Choice C is incorrect because thepassage never makes clear the size of the pyrimidines or purines in relationto each other, only in relation to the space needed to bond the chains ofthe DNA molecule. Choice D is incorrect because the lines do not make animplication about the size of a pair of pyrimidines in relation to the size of apair consisting of a purine and a pyrimidine.QUESTION 27.Choice D is the best answer. The authors explain how the DNA moleculecontains a “precise sequence of bases” (lines 43-44), and that the authors canuse the order of bases on one chain to determine the order of bases on theother chain: “If the actual order of the bases on one of the pair of chains were8given, one could write down the exact order of the bases on the other one,because of the specific pairing. Thus one chain is, as it were, the comple-ment of the other, and it is this feature which suggests how the deoxyribo-nucleic acid molecule might duplicate itself” (lines 45-51). The authors usethe words “exact,” “specific,” and “complement” in these lines to suggest thatthe base pairings along a DNA chain is understood and predictable, and mayexplain how DNA “duplicate[s] itself” (line 51).Choice A is incorrect because the passage does not suggest that most nucle-otide sequences are known. Choice B is incorrect because these lines are notdiscussing the random nature of the base sequence along one chain of DNA.Choice C is incorrect because the authors are describing the bases attachedonly to the sugar, not to the sugar-phosphate backbone.QUESTION 28.Choice C is the best answer. Lines 6-7 state that “Two of the possible bases—adenine and guanine—are purines,” and on the table the percentages of ade-nine and guanine in yeast DNA are listed as 31.3% and 18.7% respectively.Choices A, B, and D are incorrect because they do not state the percentagesof both purines, adenine and guanine, in yeast DNA.QUESTION 29.Choice A is the best answer. The authors state: “We believe that the baseswill be present almost entirely in their most probable forms. If this is true,the conditions for forming hydrogen bonds are more restrictive, and the onlypairs of bases possible are: adenine with thymine, and guanine with cytosine”(lines 31-35). The table shows that the pairs adenine/thymine and guanine/cytosine have notably similar percentages in DNA for all organisms listed.Choice B is incorrect. Although the choice of “Yes” is correct, the explana-tion for that choice misrepresents the data in the table. Choices C and D areincorrect because the table does support the authors’ proposed pairing ofnitrogenous bases in DNA molecules.QUESTION 30.Choice A is the best answer because it gives the percentage of cytosine(17.3%) in sea urchin DNA and the percentage of guanine (17.7%) in seaurchin DNA. Their near similar pairing supports the authors’ proposal thatpossible pairings of nitrogenous bases are “adenine with thymine, and gua-nine with cytosine” (line 35).Choices B, C, and D do not provide the best evidence for the answer to theprevious question. Choice B (cytosine and thymine), Choice C (cytosine andadenine), and Choice D (guanine and adenine) are incorrect because theyshow pairings of nitrogenous bases that do not compose a similar percent-age of the bases in sea urchin DNA.9QUESTION 31.Choice D is the best answer. The table clearly shows that the percentage of ade-nine in each organism’s DNA is different, ranging from 24.7% in E.coli to 33.2%in the octopus. That such a variability would exist is predicted in lines 41-43,which states that “in a long molecule many different permutations are possible.”Choices A and B are incorrect because the table shows that the percentage ofadenine varies between 24.7% and 33.2% in different organisms. Choice C isincorrect because lines 36-38 state that adenine pairs with thymine but doesnot mention the variability of the base composition of DNA.QUESTION 32.Choice B is the best answer. In this passage, Woolf asks women a series ofquestions. Woolf wants women to consider joining “the procession of edu-cated men” (lines 56-57) by becoming members of the workforce. Woolfstresses that this issue is urgent, as women “have very little time in which toanswer [these questions]” (lines 48-49).Choice A is incorrect because Woolf argues against the tradition of only“the sons of educated men” (lines 82-83) joining the workforce. Choice C isincorrect because Woolf is not highlighting the severity of social divisionsas much as she is explaining how those divisions might be reduced (withwomen joining the workforce). Choice D is incorrect because Woolf doesnot question the feasibility of changing the workforce dynamic.QUESTION 33.Choice A is the best answer. Throughout the passage, Woolf advocates formore women to engage with existing institutions by joining the workforce:“We too can leave the house, can mount those steps [to an office], pass inand out of those doors, . . . make money, administer justice . . .” (lines 30-32).Woolf tells educated women that they are at a “moment of transition” (line 51)where they must consider their future role in the workforce.Choice B is incorrect because even though Woolf mentions women’s tradi-tional roles (lines 68-69: “while they stirred the pot, while they rocked thecradle”), she does not suggest that women will have to give up these traditionalroles to gain positions of influence. Choice C is incorrect because thoughWoolf wonders how “the procession of the sons of educated men” impactswomen’s roles, she does not argue that this male-dominated society has hadgrave and continuing effects. Choice D is incorrect because while Woolf sug-gests educated women can hold positions currently held by men, she does notsuggest that women’s entry into positions of power will change those positions.QUESTION 34.Choice C is the best answer. Woolf uses the word “we” to refer to herselfand educated women in English society, the “daughters of educated men”10(line 64). Woolf wants these women to consider participating in a chang-ing workforce: “For there, trapesing along at the tail end of the procession[to and from work], we go ourselves” (lines 23-24). In using the word “we”throughout the passage, Woolf establishes a sense of solidarity among edu-cated women.Choice A is incorrect because Woolf does not use “we” to reflect on whetherpeople in a group are friendly to one another; she is concerned with generat-ing solidarity among women. Choice B is incorrect because though Woolfadmits women have predominantly “done their thinking” within traditionalfemale roles (lines 64-69), she does not use “we” to advocate for more can-dor among women. Choice D is incorrect because Woolf does not use “we”to emphasize a need for people in a group to respect one other; rather, shewants to establish a sense of solidarity among women.QUESTION 35.Choice B is the best answer. Woolf argues that the “bridge over the RiverThames, [has] an admirable vantage ground for us to make a survey” (lines 1-3).The phrase “make a survey” means to carefully examine an event or activity.Woolf wants educated women to “fix [their] eyes upon the procession—theprocession of the sons of educated men” (lines 9-11) walking to work.Choice A is incorrect because while Woolf states the bridge “is a place tostand on by the hour dreaming,” she states that she is using the bridge “toconsider the facts” (lines 6-9). Woolf is not using the bridge for fancifulreflection; she is analyzing “the procession of the sons of educated men”(lines 10-11). Choice C is incorrect because Woolf does not compare thebridge to historic episodes. Choice D is incorrect because Woolf does notsuggest that the bridge is a symbol of a male-dominated past, but rather thatit serves as a good place to watch men proceed to work.QUESTION 36.Choice D is the best answer. Woolf writes that the men who conduct theaffairs of the nation (lines 15-17: “ascending those pulpits, preaching, teach-ing, administering justice, practising medicine, transacting business, mak-ing money”) are the same men who go to and from work in a “procession”(line 10). Woolf notes that women are joining this procession, an act thatsuggests the workforce has become less exclusionary: “For there, trapesingalong at the tail end of the procession, we go ourselves” (lines 23-24).Choice A is incorrect because the procession is described as “a solemn sightalways” (lines 17-18), which indicates that it has always been influential.Choice B is incorrect because the passage does not indicate that this proces-sion has become a celebrated feature of English life. Choice C is incorrectbecause the passage states only that the procession is made up of “the sons ofeducated men” (lines 10-11).11。
新SAT阅读真题原文解析
新SAT阅读真题原文解析新SAT阅读真题原文来啦~和小编一起来看看SAT阅读都考了哪些内容吧!Unfortunately or fortunately, Nawab hadmarried early in life a sweet woman of unsurpassed fertility, whom he adored,and she proceeded to bear him children spaced, if not less than nine monthsapart, then not that much more. And all daughters, one after another afteranother, until finally the looked-for son arrived, leaving Nawab with acomplete set of twelve girls, ranging from toddler to age eleven, and one oddpiece. If he had been governor of the Punjab, their dowries would have beggaredhim. For an electrician and mechanic, no matter how light-fingered, thereseemed no question of marrying them all off. No moneylender in his right mindwould, at any rate of interest, advance a sufficient sum to buy the necessaryitems for each daughter: beds, a dresser, trunks, electric fans, dishes, sixsuits of clothes for the groom, six for the bride, perhaps a television, and onand on and on.Another man might have thrown up hishands—but not Nawabdin. The daughters acted asa spur to his genius, and helooked with satisfaction in the mirror each morning at the face of a warriorgoing out to do battle. Nawab of course knew that he must proliferate hissources of revenue—the salary he received from K. K. Harouni for tending thetube wells would not even begin to suffice. He set up a one-room flour mill,run off a condemned electric motor—condemned by him. He tried his hand atfish-farming in a pond at the edge of one of his master’s fields. He boughtbroken radios, fixed them, and resold them. He did not demur even when asked tofix watches, although that enterprise did spectacularly badly, and earned himmore kicks than kudos, for no watch he took apart ever kept time again.K. K. Harouni lived mostly in Lahore andrarely visited his farms. Whenever the old man did visit, Nawab would placehimself night and day at the door leading from the servants’ sitting area intothe walled grove of ancient banyan trees where the old farmhouse stood.Grizzled, his peculiar aviator glasses bent and smudged, Nawab tended thehousehold machinery, the air-conditioners, water heaters, refrigerators, andpumps, like an engineer tending the boilers on a foundering steamer in anAtlantic gale. By his superhuman efforts, he almost managed to maintain K. K.Harouni in the same mechanical cocoon, cooled and bathed and lighted and fed,that the landowner enjoyed in Lahore.Harouni, of course, became familiar with thisubiquitous man, who not only accompanied him on his tours of inspection butcould be found morning and night standing on the master bed rewiring the lightfixture or poking at the water heater in the bathroom. Finally, one evening atteatime, gauging the psychological moment, Nawab asked if he might say a word.The landowner, who was cheerfully filing his nails in front of a cracklingrosewood fire, told him to go ahead.“Sir, as you know, your lands stretch fromhere to the Indus, and on these lands are fully seventeen tube wells, and totend these seventeen tube wells there is but one man, me, yourservant. In yourservice I have earned these gray hairs”—here he bowed his head to show thegray—“and now I cannot fulfill my duties as I should. Enough, sir, enough. Ibeg you, forgive me my weakness. Better a darkened house and proud hungerwithin than disgrace in the light of day. Release me, I ask you, I beg you.”The old man, well accustomed to these sortsof speeches, though not usually this florid, filed away at his nails and waitedfor the breeze to stop.“What’s the matter, Nawabdin?”“Matter, sir? Oh, what could be the matter inyour service? I’ve eaten your salt for all my years. But, sir, on the bicyclenow, with my old legs, and with the many injuries I’ve received when heavymachinery fell on me—I cannot any longer bicycle about like a bridegroom fromfarm to farm, as I could when I first had the good fortune to enter yourservice. I beg you, sir, let me go.”“And what is the solution?” Harouni asked,seeing that they had come to the crux. He didn’t particularly care one way orthe other, except that it touched on his comfort—a matter of great interest tohim.“Well, sir, if I had a motorcycle, then Icould somehow limp along, at least until I train up some younger man.”The crops that year had been good, Harounifelt expansive in front of the fire, and so, much to the disgust of the farmmanagers, Nawab received a brand-new motorcycle, a Honda 70. He even managed toextract an allowance for gasoline.The motorcycle increased his status, gave himweight, so that people began calling him Uncle and asking his opinion on worldaffairs, about which he knew absolutely nothing. He could now range farther,doing much wider business. Best of all, now he could spend every night with hiswife, who early in the marriage had begged to live not in Nawab’s quarters inthe village but with her family in Firoza, near the only girls’ school in thearea. A long straight road ran from the canal headworks near Firoza all the wayto the Indus, through the heart of the K. K. Harouni lands. The road ran on thebed of an old highway built when these lands lay within a princely state. Somehundred and fifty years ago, one of the princes had ridden that way, going to awedding or a funeral in this remote district, felt hot, and ordered thatrosewood trees be planted to shade the passersby. Within a few hours, he forgotthat he had given the order, and in a few dozen years he in turn was forgotten,but these trees still stood, enormous now, some of them dead and loomingwithout bark, white and leafless. Nawab would fly down this road on his newmachine, with bags and streamers hanging from every knob and brace, so that thebike, when he hit a bump, seemed to be flapping numerous small vestigial wings;and with his grinning face, as he rolled up to whichever tube well neededservicing, with his ears almost blown off, he shone with the speed of hisarrival.。
SATOG1阅读难度分析（一）-智课教育出国考试
SATOG1阅读难度分析（⼀）-智课教育出国考试智课⽹ S A T 备考资料SATOG1阅读难度分析（⼀）-智课教育出国考试在这⾥⼩编在做题之后，总结了OG1中阅读的难度分析，希望和⼤家⼀起分享学习，SATOG1阅读难度分析(⼀)希望对⼤家的SAT备考有借鉴意义。
SATOG中的阅读是⾮常好的SAT阅读备考资料，相信⼩伙伴们已经将⾥⾯的题⽬做的滚⽠烂熟了，在这⾥⼩编在做题之后，总结了OG1中阅读的难度分析，希望和⼤家⼀起分享学习，SATOG1阅读难度分析(⼀)希望对⼤家的SAT备考有借鉴意义。
Section2Q6-7难度等级：☆☆☆⽂章⼤意：这篇⽂章主要讲述了⼀系列⼤⾃然中美丽壮观的景⾊，作者不由感叹作为⼈类的美好，能够感受这⼀切美好的景⾊。
这篇⽂章主要是⼀系列景⾊的描写，其中有⼀些抽象的表达是不太好理解的，⽂中⼜2运⽤了很多的⽐喻，，因此考⽣们在阅读的时候要注意这些特殊的表达形式。
Section2 Q8-9难度等级：☆☆⽂章⼤意：这篇⽂章主要介绍了Augusta Ada King出名的原因，她在计算机科学领域取得了卓越的成就，指出她在⽂学，戏剧以及影视⽅⾯的卓越影响⼒，并激励着⼥性⾛向了计算机科学领域。
此外她的出⾝也给是她备受瞩⽬的原因之⼀。
Section2 Q10-15独⽴长⽂章难度等级：☆☆☆⽂章⼤意：这篇⽂章节选⾃⼀篇⿊⼈作家的回忆录，作者在⽂中叙述了⾃⼰作为⼀名美国⿊⼈对于美国⿊⼈和⾮洲⿊⼈关系的看法，认为两者之间有着不可切断的联系。
第⼀段中作者借⽤谚语引出⼀个民族的⾃我认同感是切不断的，不会随着时间的流逝⽽消失。
第⼆，三段中作者指出美国⿊⼈⼀直以来都在追根溯源。
即使美国⿊⼈和⾮洲⿊⼈隔海相望，但他们内⼼渴望互相了解的愿望却从来没有停⽌过。
第四段作者最后由怀疑到⾃豪，更加坚定了⿊⼈之间不可切断的联系。
这篇⽂章总体来看篇幅不算太长，共考察了6道题⽬，其中值得注意是第15题，这道题⽬考查的是写作⼿法题，问题是作者使⽤了什么写作⼿法来表达⾃⼰的观点的，这种题型在原⽂章是⽆法直接找到答案的，需要考⽣们⾃⼰从⽂中进⾏总结，broad generalization 是指对⼈物以及事件的描述很泛地⼀笔带过，不会追究其细节。
2007考研英语真题英语一阅读部分
Text 1①If you were to examin e the birthcertif icate s of everysoccer player in 2006's WorldCup tournam en t, you wouldmost likely find a noteworthyquirk: elitesoccer player s are more likely to have been born in the earlie r months of the year than in the laterm onths. ②If you then examin ed the Europe an nation al y ou thteamsthat feed the WorldCup and profes sional ranks, you wouldfind this strang e phenom enonto be even more pronou n ced.①What might accoun t for this strang e phenom enon?②Here are a few guesse s: a) certai n astrol ogi cal signsconfer superi or soccer skills; b) winter-born babies tend to have higher oxygen capaci ty, whichi ncreases soccer stamin a; c) soccer-mad parent s are more likely to concei ve childr en in spring time, at the annu al peak of soccer mania; d) none of the above.①Anders Ericss on, a 58-year-old psychologyprofes sor at Florid a StateUniversity, says he believ es strong ly in“none of the above.”②Ericss on grew up in Sweden, and studie d nuclear engineering untilh e reali z ed he wouldh ave more opportunity to conduct his own resear ch if he switch ed to psychol ogy.③His firstexperiment, nearly 30 yearsago, involv ed memory: traini ng a person to hear and then repeat a random seri es of numbers. ④“With the first subjec t, afterabout 20 hoursof traini ng, his digitspan had risenf rom 7 to 20,”Ericss on recall s. ⑤“He kept improv ing, and afterabout 200 hoursof traini ng he had risento over 80 number s.”①This succes s, couple d with laterresear ch showin g that memory itself is not geneti cally determ in ed, led Ericss on to conclu de that the act of memori zingis more of a cognitive exerci se than an intuitive one. ②In otherwords, whatev er inborn differ ences two people may exhibi t in theirabiliti es to memori ze, thosediffer ences are swampe d by how well each person“encode s”the inform ation.③And the best way to learnhow to encode inform ation meanin g full y, Ericss on determ ined, was a proces s knownas delibe ratepractice.④Delibe ratepracti ce entail s more than simply repeating a task. ⑤Rather, it involv es settin g specif ic goal s, obtain ing immedi ate feedba ck and concen trati ng as much on techni que as on outcom e.①Ericss on and his colleaguesh ave thus takento studyi ng expert performersin a wide rangeof pursuits, including soccer. ②They gather all the data they can, not just performance statis tics and biogra ph ical detail s but also the result s of theirown labora toryexperiments with high achiev ers. ③Theirwork makes a rather startl ing asserti on: the traitwe common ly call talent is highly overra ted. ④Or, put another way, expert perform ers—whethe r in memory or surgery, ballet or comput er progra mming—are nearly always made, not born.21.The birthd ay phenom enonf oundamongsoccer player s is mentio n ed to __________.[A] stress the import anceof profes sional traini ng[B] spotli ght the soccer supers tars of the WorldCup[C] introdu ce the topicof what makesexpert performance[D]explai n why some soccer teamsplay better than others22.The word“mania”(Line 4, Paragr aph 2) most probably means__________.[A] fun[B] craze[C] hysteri a[D] excite m ent23.According to Ericss on, good memory __________.[A] depend s on meanin gful proces singof inform ation[B] result s from intuitive rather than cognitive exerci ses[C] is determ inedby geneti c rather than psychol ogic al factor s[D] requir es immedi ate feedba ck and a high degree of concen trati on24.Ericss on and his colleaguesbeliev e that __________.[A] talent is a domina tingf actor for profes sional succes s[B] biogra phical data provid e the key to excell ent performance[C] the role of talent tendsto be overlo oked[D] high achiev ers owe theirsucces s mostly to nurtur e25.Whichof the following prover bs is closes t to the messag e the text triesto convey?[A]“Faithwill move mounta i ns.”[B]“One reapswhat one sows.”[C]“Practi ce makesperfec t.”[D]“Like father, like son.”Text 2①For the past severa l years, the Sunday newspa per supple m ent Parade has featur ed a column called “Ask Marily n.”②People are invite d to queryMarily n vos Savant, who at age 10 had tested at a men tal level of someon e about 23 yearsold; that gave her an IQ of 228—the highes t scoreever record ed. ③IQ testsask you to comple te verbal and visual analog i es, to envisi on paper afteri t has been folded and cut, and to deduce numeri cal sequen ces, amongother simila r tasks.④So it is a bit confusing when vos Savant f ields such querie s from the averag e Joe (whoseIQ is 100) as, What's the differ encebetwee n love and fondness? Or what is the nature of luck and coinci dence? ⑤It's not obviou s how the capaci ty to visual ize object s and to figure out numeri cal pattern s suitsone to answer questi ons that have eluded some of the best poets and philos opher s.①Clearl y, intelligenc e encomp asses more than a scoreon a test. ②Just what does it mean to be sm art?③How much of intell igenc e can be specif ied, and how much can we learnabouti t from neurol ogy, genetics,comput er scienc e and otherfields?①The defini ng term of intelligenc e in humans still seemsto be the IQ score, even though IQ testsare not givenas oftenas they used to be. ②The test comesprimarily in two forms: the Stanfo rd-Binet I ntelligenc e Scaleand the Wechsl er Intell igenc e Scales (both come in adultand childr en's versio n). ③Generally costin g severa l hundre d dollar s, they are usuall y givenonly by psychologis ts, althou gh variati onsof them popula te bookst ores and the WorldWide Web. ④Superh igh scores like vos Savant's are no longer possible, becaus e scorin g is now basedon a statis tical popula tiondistri butio n amongage peers, rather than simply dividi ng the mental age by the chronol ogic al age and multip l ying by 100. ⑤Otherstandardize d tests, such as the Schola sticAssess m ent T est (SA T) and the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), captur e the main aspect s of IQ tests.①Such standardize d testsm ay not assess all the import ant elemen ts necess ary to succee d in school and in life, argues Robert J. Sternb erg. ②In his articl e“How Intelligent Is Intell igenc e Testin g?”, Sternb erg notes th at traditi onal testsbest assess analytical an d verbal skills but fail to measur e creati vityand practical knowle dge, compon ents also critic al to proble m solvin g and life succes s. ③Moreov er, IQ testsdo not necess arily predic t so well once popula tions or situati onschange. ④Resear ch has foundthat IQ predicted leader shipskills when the testswere givenunderl ow-stress conditi ons, but underhigh-stress conditi o n s, IQ was negati velycorrel atedwith leadership—that is, it predic ted the opposi te. ⑤Anyone who has toiled throug h SA T will testif y that test-taking skill also matter s, whether it's knowin g when to guessor what questions to skip.26.Whichof the following may be requir ed in an intell igenc e test?[A] Answering philos ophic al questi ons.[B] Foldin g or cuttin g paperi nto differ ent shapes.[C] Tellin g the differ ences betwee n certai n concep ts.[D] Choosi ng wordsor graphs simila r to the givenones.27.What can be inferr ed aboutintelligenc e testin g from Paragr aph 3?[A] People no longer use IQ scores as an indica tor of intell igenc e.[B] More versio n s of IQ testsare now availa ble on the Intern et.[C] The test conten ts and formats for adults and childr en may be differ ent.[D] Scientistsh ave define d the import ant elemen ts of humanintell igence.28.People nowada ys can no longer achiev e IQ scores as high as vos Savant's becaus e __________.[A] the scores are obtain ed throug h differ ent computation al proced u res[B] creati vityrather than analytical s kills is emphasizedn ow[C] vos Savant's case is an extrem e one that will not repeat[D] the defini ng charac teris tic of IQ testsh as change d29.We can conclu de from the last paragr aph that __________.[A] test scores may not be reliable indica torsof one's ability[B] IQ scores and SAT result s are highly correl ated[C] testin g involv es a lot of guessw ork[D] traditional testsare out of date30.What is the author's attitu de toward s IQ tests?[A] Suppor tive.[B] Skepti cal.[C] Impartial.[D] Biased.Text 3①During the past genera tion, the Americ an middle-classf amily that once couldcount on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure has been transf ormed by econom ic risk and new realiti es. ②Now a pink slip, a bad diagno sis, or a disapp earin g spouse can reduce a family from solidl y middle classto newlypoor in a few months.①In just one genera tion, millio n s of mother s have gone to work, transf ormin g basicf amily econom ics.②Schola rs, policy maker s, and critic s of all stripe s have debate d the social implic ation s of thesechange s, but few have looked at the side effect:family risk has risenas well. ③Today's famili es have budget ed to the limits of theirn ew two-payche ck status. ④As a result, they have lost the parach u te they once had in timesof financi al setbac k—a back-up earner (usuall y Mom) who couldg o into the workfo rce if the primary earn er got laid off or fell sick. ⑤This“added-worker effect”couldsuppor t the safety net offere d by unempl o yment insura n ce or disabi lityinsura n ce to help famili es weathe r bad times.⑥But today, a disruptionto family fortun es can no longer be made up with extraincome from an otherw ise-stay-at-home partne r.①During the same period, famili es have been askedto absorb much more risk in thei rreti rem en tincome. ②Steelw orker s, airlin e employ ees, and now thosein the auto indust ry are joinin g millio n s of families who must worryaboutintere st rates, stockm arket fluctu ation, and the harshreality that they may outlive theirretire mentm oney.③For much of the past year, Presid ent Bush campai gnedto move Social Security to a saving s-accoun t model, with retire es tradin g much or all of theirguaran teedpaymen ts for paymen ts depending on investm ent return s. ④For younger famili es, the pictur e is not any better. ⑤Both the absolu te cost of health care and the shareof it borneby famili es have risen—and newlyf ashio n able health-saving s plansare spreading from legisl ative hallsto Wa-Mart worker s, with much higher deducti bles and a larg enew dose of investment risk for famili es' future health care.⑥Even demogr aphic s are workin g agains t the middle classf amily, as the odds of having a weak elderl y parent—and all the attend ant need for physic al and financial assist ance—h ave jumped eightf old in just one genera tion.①From the middle-classf amily perspe ctive, much of this, unders tanda bly, looksf ar less like an opportunity to exerci se more financial respon sibil ity, and a good deal more like a fright ening accele ratio n of the wholesale shift of financi al risk onto theiralread y overbu rdene d should ers. ②The financial fallou t has begun, and the politi cal fallou t may not be far behind.31.Today's double-income famili es are at greate r financial risk in that __________.[A] the safety net they used to enjoyh as disapp eared[B] theirchance s of beinglaid off have greatl y increa sed[C] they are more vulner ableto change s in family econom ics[D] they are depriv ed of unempl oymen t or disabi lityinsura n ce32.As a result of Presid ent Bush's reform, retire d people may have __________.[A] a higher senseof securi ty[B] less secure d paymen ts[C] less chance to invest[D] a guaran teedfuture33.According to the author, health-saving s planswill __________.[A] help reduce the cost of health care[B] popula rizeamongthe middle class[C] compen satef or the reduce d pensio n s[D] increase the famili es' investment risk34.It can be inferr ed from the last paragr aph that __________.[A] financial riskstend to outwei gh politi cal risks[B] the middle classm ay face greate r politi cal challe n ges[C] financial proble m s may bringabout politi cal proble m s[D] financial respon sibil ity is an indica tor of politi cal status35.Whichof the following is the best titlef or this text?[A] The Middle Classon the Alert[B] The Middle Classon the Cliff[C] The Middle Classin Confli ct[D] The Middle Classin RuinsText 4①It neverrainsbut it pours.②Just as bosses and boards have finall y sorted out theirworst accountingand compli ancetroubl es, and improv ed theirfeeble corpor ation govern ance, a new proble m threat e ns to earn them—especi allyin Americ a—the sort of nastyh eadli nes that inevit ablyl ead to headsrollin g in the executive suite: data insecu rity.③Left, untiln ow, to odd, low-level IT staffto put right, and seen as a concern only of data-rich industriessuch as bankin g, telecoms and air travel, inform ation protec tioni s now high on the boss's agenda in businesses of everyv ariety.①Severa l massiv e leakag es of custom er and employ ee data this year—from organi zatio n s as divers e as Time Warner, the Americ an defens e contra ctor Scienc e Applic ation s Intern ation al Corp and even the Universityof Califo rnia, Berkel ey—have left manage rs hurrie dly peerin g into theirintric ate IT system s and business processes in search of potenti al vulner abili ties.①“Data is becomi ng an assetwhichn eedsto be guarde d as much as any otherasset,”says Haim Mendel son of Stanfo rd Univer sity's busine ss school. ②“The ability to guardcustom er data is the key to market value, whichthe boardi s respon sible for on behalf of shareh older s.”③Indeed, just as thereis the concept of Generally Accept ed Accoun tingPrinci ples(GAAP), perhap s it is time for GASP, Generally Accept ed Securi ty Practi ces, sugges ted Eli Noam of New Y ork's Columbia Busine ss School. ④“Settin g the proper investmentl evelf or securi ty, redund ancy, and recovery is a managementi ssue, not a techni cal one,”he says.①The mystery is that this should come as a surpri se to any boss.②Surely it should be obviou s to the dimmes t executive that trust, that most valuable of econom ic assets, is easily destro y ed and hugely expensive to restor e—and that few things are more likely to destro y trust than a compan y lettin g sensitive person al data get into the wrongh ands.①The curren t stateof affair s may have been encour aged—though not justif i ed—by the lack of leg alpenalty (in Americ a, but not Europe) for data leakag e. ②Until Califo rniarecently passed a law, American firmsdid not have to tell anyone, even the victim, when data went astray.③That may change fast: lots of propos ed data-securi ty legisl ation is now doingthe rounds in Washin g ton,D.C.④Meanwh ile, the theftof inform ation aboutsome 40 millio n credit-card accoun ts in Americ a, disclo sed on June 17th, oversh adowed a hugely import ant decisi on a day earlie r by Americ a's Federa l TradeCommis sion(FTC) that puts corporate Americ a on notice that regula torswill act if firmsf ail to provid e adequa te data securi ty.36.The statem ent“It neverrainsbut it pours”is used to introdu ce __________.[A] the fierce busine ss competition[B] the feeble boss-boardrelati ons[C] the threat from news report s[D] the severi ty of data leakag e37.According to Paragr aph 2, some organi zatio n s checktheirsystem s to find out __________.[A] whethe r thereis any weak point[B] what sort of data has been stolen[C] who is respon sible for the leakag e[D] how the potential spiescan be locate d38.In bringi ng up the concep t of GASP the author is making the pointthat __________.[A] shareh older s' intere sts should be properly attend ed to[B] inform ation protec tionshould be givendue attention[C] busine ss should enhanc e theirl evel of accoun tingsecuri ty[D] the market valueof custom er data should be emphasized39.According to Paragr aph 4, what puzzle s the author is that some bosses fail to __________.[A] see the link between trust and data protec tion[B] percei ve the sensitivity of person al data[C] realiz e the high cost of data restor ation[D] appreci atethe econom ic valueof trust40.It can be inferr ed from Paragr aph 5 that __________.[A] data leakag e is more severe in Europe[B] FTC's decisi on is essential to data securi ty[C] Califo rniatakesthe lead in the securi ty legisl ation[D] legal penalty is a majorsoluti on to data leakag e。
(完整版)全国英语等级考试一级真题
第二节完形填空阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的［A］、［B］、［C］三个选项中选择能填入相应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡1上将该项涂黑。
It (Example:0) 8 o’clock 41，and the last bus42at the second bus stop.A middle aged woman got out,and the conductor was going to ring the bell for43to start the bus again,just at that moment he saw a small child44at the bus stop.“What’s wrong with you?” the bus conductor said to the boy.“Well,my mother gave me ten pence to go home by bus after school,but I45the money after I finished playing football with my classmates,” the child answered, “so I have to walk all the way home.”“That’s OK.” said the conductor. “Come on.We’ll take you home.”The child thanked him,46the bus and sat down near the door.The conductor rang the bell,then the bus started. “How47are you living?” asked the conducto r.The child told him the name of the place where he lived.It was about two miles away,and48would have cost him two pence if the child had had the money to pay for it.The conductor went to give some other people on the bus their tickets,and when he came back a few minutes49,he saw that child crying again.“And what’s the matter with you now?” he asked. “Aren’t you on your way home?”“Yes,I am,” answered the child, “but what about my change?You haven’t given it to me,have you?You should give me50.”例：0.［A］is［B］are［C］was答案：［C］41.［A］in the morning［B］in the afternoon［C］at noon42.［A］just had left［B］have just left［C］has just stopped43.［A］the driver［B］the conductor［C］the old woman44.［A］to cry［B］crying ［C］to be crying45.［A］had forgot［B］has dropped［C］lost46.［A］got on［B］got up［C］getting on47.［A］long［B］far［C］soon48.［A］the seat［B］the chair［C］the ticket49.［A］later［B］late［C］after50.［A］ten pence［B］eight pence［C］two pence第三部分阅读理解第一节词语配伍从右栏所给选项中选出与左栏各项意义相符的选项，并在答题卡1上将该项涂黑。
2017年5月SAT亚太真题阅读(1)
2017年5月SAT亚太真题阅读（1）第一篇小说一个奇怪而庄严的地址This passage is adapted from Amit Chaudhuri, A Strange and Sublime Address. ©1991 by Amit Chaudhuri. A ten-year-old boy named Sandeep travels with his mother, his aunt(Mamima), and his uncle (Chhotomama) to visit family in Calcutta, India.题目：一个奇怪而庄严的地址（题目对预判小说内容不重要）【解析】引言提到四个人物。
主人公Sandeep：ten-year old boy；Mother；Aunt（Mamima）；Uncle（Chhotomama）四个人事件：Visit family in India○1Two 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. ○2The 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.【阐释】首段分两层。
SAT Practice Test填空1
Practice Test 1Section 21. The of Maria Irene Fornes’ play Mud—a realistic room perched on a dirt pile—challenges conventional interpretations of stage scenery.(bingo+修饰解释模式+破折号)(A) appeal(B) plot(C) mood(D) setting(E) rehearsal解析：空格填入一个名词，表示“MIF 的戏剧Mud”的…。
逻辑同义，破折号构成修饰解释模式，所以空格应该体现“一个栖息在肮脏的一堆上的空间（a realistic room perched on a dirt pile）”和“传统的舞台背景的诠释（challenges conventional interpretations of stage scenery）。
选项：A 吸引力。
B 情节。
C 情绪。
D 背景。
E 预演，排练。
答案为D。
”翻译：MIF 的戏剧Mud 的背景是一个栖息在肮脏的一堆上的空间，它挑战了传统的舞台背景的诠释。
拓展：Maria Irene Fornes 是古巴裔美国戏剧作家，出生在古巴，15 岁移居到美国，先锋派戏剧作家，Mud 是她1983 年的作品。
2. Ironically, an affluent society that purchases much more food than it actually needs suffers because of that , since in conditions of affluence diseases relate to overeating and a poor nutrition seem to .(A) lavishness… adapt(B) overabundance…thrive(C) corpulence…vex(D) practicality…awaken(E) commonness…abound解析：空格1 填入一个名词，表示因为空格 1 所以“社会需要比他实际需要更多的事物（purchases much more food than it actually needs）。
2020年中考英语复习【阅读理解题】专题训练卷1附答案详析
2020年中考英语复习【阅读理解题】专题训练卷1姓名1．"I will think of it．"It is easy to say this，but do you know what great things have come from thinking？Sir Isaac Newton was sitting in his garden when he saw an apple fall from a tree．He began to think and tried to find out why the apple fell．Then he discovered how the sun，moon，and stars are kept in their places．A boy named James Watt sat quietly by the fire，watching the lid of the kettle move up and down．He wanted to find out why the steam in the kettle moved the lid．From that time he went on thinking and thinking．And when he became a man，he improved the steam engine（蒸汽机）so much that it could easily do the work of many horses．James Ferguson was a poor boy．Once，seeing the inside of a watch，he wondered．"Why should I not make a watch？"But how could he get the materials to make the mainspring（钟表的主发条）？He soon found he could make it with whalebone（鲸骨）．He then made a wooden clock which kept good time．His motto（座右铭）was"I will think of it．"And he made his thoughts useful to himself and the world．Boys and girls，when you have a difficult lesson to learn，don't lose heart，and don't ask someone for help before helping yourselves．Think，and by thinking you will learn how to think to some purpose．1．From the passage，we know that some great things come from．A．listening B．reading C．speaking D．thinking2．The idea of Isaac Newton's discovery was from．A．the falling of an apple B．the cleaning of a gardenC．the falling of a tree D．the moving of a lid3．The achievement of James Watt was that he．A．kept thinkingB．found the steam in the kettleC．improved the steam engine muchD．watched the lid move up and down4．The right order of the following sentences is．①James Ferguson made a wooden clock．②James Ferguson saw the inside of a watch．③James Ferguson made the mainspring with whalebone．A．③②①B．②③①C．②①③D．③①②5．What is the main idea of the passage？A．Learn to ask for help．B．A difficult lesson to learn．C．It is easy to say"I will think of it．"D．Think，and by thinking you will learn how to think to some purpose．2．We can't remember clearly since when we started to take our mobiles to a dinner table．This happens a lot，especially when we eat out．Once a dish comes，instead of lifting our chopsticks，we take out our mobiles and click．Later，we post the photos onto Weibo or Wechat，waiting to be"liked"．Then we check our mobiles from time to time during the meal，to see whether we get"liked"or not．We just cannot leave our mobiles for only a meal．Does that sound familiar to you？Do you do that often？If not，how do you feel when others do that when having dinner with you？A recent study suggests that what we are used to doing is not so good．Spending time taking photos of food makes the food less pleasant．To test this，some researchers did an experiment．Some people were asked to take photos before they could enjoy food．As a result，it showed that the more photos they took，．So，why not stop taking photos and just enjoy the food in front of you？Besides the scientific result，there are also some other bad influences of taking photos of food before meals．After posting the photos onto the Internet，one will not be able to control himself and check his mobile many times．"Does everyone like my photos？I hope a lot of people like them!"It seems that your mobile secretly calls your name all the time，even when you are with real people．So，next time you go out to have dinner with your family or friends，how about not taking photos of food？Let the food be delicious as it is and share your life with people around you．Trust me，it will be a wonderful time．1．From the passage，what happens a lot at the dinner table nowadays？A．People talk about their Weibo or WeChat．B．People learn from each other how to cook dishes．C．People like taking photos with friends or families．D．People take photos of food and post them before eating．2．Which of the following can be put in the in Paragraph3？A．the less cheerful they becameB．the less delicious the food seemed to themC．the more interested they were in the foodD．the more"liked"they got on Weibo or Wechat3．What does the fourth paragraph talk about？A．The reasons for checking your mobiles．B．The ways of posting the photos onto the Internet．C．The tips（提示）of making others like your photos on the Weibo．D．Some other bad influences of taking photos of food before meals．4．Which of the following is the writer's opinion？A．We take out our mobiles and click when a dish comes．B．We check our mobiles from time to time during the meal．C．Spending time taking photos of food makes the food less pleasant．D．Some people were asked to take photos before they could enjoy food．5．What can we learn from the passage？A．Take photos of food in order to have a wonderful life．B．Take photos of delicious food and share them with others．C．Remember to have dinner with our family and friends at home．D．Enjoy the life with people around us instead of taking photos of food．3．Should Children Be Allowed to Get Bored？Children need time to stand and stare．They should be allowed to get bored so that they can develop their ability to be creative．Children are expected by their parents to be reading a textbook all the time．However，research shows that it may hamper the development of their imagination，while boredom can give them opportunities to develop creativity．Boredom is often linked with loneliness，but a writer named Meera Syal said boredom had helped here in developing her mind．She told researchers about her childhood．Having few things to do，Syal often talked with her neighbors．She also tried to do things like learning to bake cakes．"But importantly，I thought and wrote a lot，because I was bored，"Syal said．She kept a diary，filling here time with short stories and poems she made up．Grayson Perry，an artist，grew up in a family with little money．He enjoyed himself by making up stories，drawing pictures for his stories and reading many books in the library．Bored but free，he spent hours looking out of the window，watching the changing clouds and seasons．Perry filled up his free time with what he liked．He became creative，because he could think freely．Dr．Belton is an expert on the effects of emotions on learning．"Boredom could be an uncomfortable feeling，"she said．"But some young people cannot deal with that boredom creatively．So sometimes they may break a classroom window，or drive a car out for a mad race．"Usually，when children have nothing to do，they would turn on the TV，the computer，or the phone．Their time on these things has increased，yet they need to have time to think about their experiences through play or just watching the world around them．It is this kind of thinking that can inspire the imagination．On the other hand，the TV or phone may cut short the thinking process．That can be harmful to the development of creativity．"For developing the ability to be creative，"Dr．Belton advised，"perhaps we need to stand and stare，and stay off﹣line from time to time．" 1．What does the word"hamper"in Paragraph2probably mean？A．Slow down．B．Keep up with．C．Go beyond．D．Give rise to．2．The writer talks about Syal and Perry to．A．stress the great differences between themB．introduce a popular writer and a famous artistC．suggest good ways of going through boredomD．show effects of boredom on developing creativity3．What can we learn from the passage？A．Boredom provides children with space to think freely．B．It's much better for children to be busy than be bored．C．Boredom helps children deal with difficulties properly．D．It's boring for children to think about their experiences．4．I stopped to watch my little daughter busy playing in her room．In one hand was a plastic phone．In the other hand was a toy broom．I listened as she was speaking to her imaginary friend and I'll never forget the words she said，even though it was pretended（假装）．She said，"Surie's in the corner because she's not been very good．She didn't listen to a word I said or do the things she should．"In the corner I saw her baby doll all dressed in pink．It was obvious she'd been put there to sit alone and think．My daughter continued her"conversation"as I sat down on the floor．She said，"I'm all fed up．I just don't know what to do with her anymore．She cries whenever I have to work and wants to play games，too．She never lets me do the things that I just have to do．She tries to help me with the dishes，but her arms just cannot reach and she doesn't know how to fold towels．I don't have the energy to teach．I have a lot of work to do and a big house to keep clean，I don't have the time to sit and play．Don't you know what I mean？"And that day I thought a lot about making some changes in my life，as I listened to her innocent（天真的）words that cut me like a knife．I hadn't been paying enough attention to my most dear．But how my attitude has changed，because，in my heart，I realize I've seen the world in a different light through my little darling's eyes．So，let the cobwebs（蜘蛛网）have the corners and the dust bunny rabbit rule the floor．I'm not going to worry about keeping up with them anymore．I'm going to fill the house with memories of a child and her mother，for we have only one childhood，and we will never get another．1．What does the underlined word"She"in Paragraph3refer to（指的是）？A．The daughter's motherB．Suzie's daughterC．Suzie's baby dollD．The daughter's baby dool2．How did mother feel when she heard the"conversation"？A．WorriedB．DisappointedC．RegretfulD．Sad3．What's the purpose of the story？A．The mother should be angry with her daughterB．The mother should spend enough time with her daughterC．The mother shouldn't change her attitude to her daughterD．The mother shouldn't pay attention to her daughter's words．参考答案与试题解析1．"I will think of it．"It is easy to say this，but do you know what great things have come from thinking？Sir Isaac Newton was sitting in his garden when he saw an apple fall from a tree．He began to think and tried to find out why the apple fell．Then he discovered how the sun，moon，and stars are kept in their places．A boy named James Watt sat quietly by the fire，watching the lid of the kettle move up and down．He wanted to find out why the steam in the kettle moved the lid．From that time he went on thinking and thinking．And when he became a man，he improved the steam engine（蒸汽机）so much that it could easily do the work of many horses．James Ferguson was a poor boy．Once，seeing the inside of a watch，he wondered．"Why should I not make a watch？"But how could he get the materials to make the mainspring（钟表的主发条）？He soon found he could make it with whalebone（鲸骨）．He then made a wooden clock which kept good time．His motto（座右铭）was"I will think of it．"And he made his thoughts useful to himself and the world．Boys and girls，when you have a difficult lesson to learn，don't lose heart，and don't ask someone for help before helping yourselves．Think，and by thinking you will learn how to think to some purpose．21．From the passage，we know that some great things come from D．A．listening B．reading C．speaking D．thinking22．The idea of Isaac Newton's discovery was from A．A．the falling of an apple B．the cleaning of a gardenC．the falling of a tree D．the moving of a lid23．The achievement of James Watt was that he C．A．kept thinkingB．found the steam in the kettleC．improved the steam engine muchD．watched the lid move up and down24．The right order of the following sentences is B．①James Ferguson made a wooden clock．②James Ferguson saw the inside of a watch．③James Ferguson made the mainspring with whalebone．A．③②①B．②③①C．②①③D．③①②25．What is the main idea of the passage？DA．Learn to ask for help．B．A difficult lesson to learn．C．It is easy to say"I will think of it．"D．Think，and by thinking you will learn how to think to some purpose．【分析】本文是一篇夹叙夹议的教育文化类阅读，说明"我将要思考它"说起来容易，真正做起来就能成就很多伟大的事情，文章举例了牛顿发现万有引力，瓦特发明蒸汽机，詹姆斯用鲸骨制作钟表的主发条，并且从此把"我要思考它"作为自己的座右铭．最后发出倡导，当我们遇到困难的时候，不要灰心，在你自己能解决问题之前不要寻求他人的帮助，自己多思考，通过思考你将学会如何去达到一些目的．【解答】21．D细节理解题，根据第一段"It is easy to say this，but do you know what great things have come from thinking？可知，一些伟大的事情来自于思考，所以选D．22．A细节理解题，根据文章第二段，牛顿发现万有引力是根据他看到苹果从树上落下来，他开始思考为什么苹果落下来，到发现万有引力．所以选A23．C细节理解题，从文章From that time he went on thinking and thinking．And when he became a man，he improved the steam engine（蒸汽机）so much that it could easily do the work of many horses．所以瓦特的成就是改善了蒸汽机，所以选C．24．B内容理解排序题，根据文章第四段的内容，当他看到钟表内部的结构，就在想为什么自己不能制作一个手表呢，不久他先用鲸骨做了一个主发条，然后他作了一个木制的闹钟．所以排列顺序是②③①，故选B．25．D考查文章主旨题，根据文章最后一句，Think，and by thinking you will learn how to think to some purpose．可知，文章主要大意就是通过思考，你将会学会怎样达到某个目的．【点评】阅读理解题通常从细节，文章主旨，推测词组大意几个方面考查学生对文章的理解，做题时注意找到文章出处，做到有理有据．2．We can't remember clearly since when we started to take our mobiles to a dinner table．This happens a lot，especially when we eat out．Once a dish comes，instead of lifting our chopsticks，we take out our mobiles and click．Later，we post the photos onto Weibo or Wechat，waiting to be"liked"．Then we check our mobiles from time to time during the meal，to see whether we get"liked"or not．We just cannot leave our mobiles for only a meal．Does that sound familiar to you？Do you do that often？If not，how do you feel when others do that when having dinner with you？A recent study suggests that what we are used to doing is not so good．Spending time taking photos of food makes the food less pleasant．To test this，some researchers did an experiment．Some people were asked to take photos before they could enjoy food．As a result，it showed that the more photos they took，．So，whynot stop taking photos and just enjoy the food in front of you？Besides the scientific result，there are also some other bad influences of taking photos of food before meals．After posting the photos onto the Internet，one will not be able to control himself and check his mobile many times．"Does everyone like my photos？I hope a lot of people like them!"It seems that your mobile secretly calls your name all the time，even when you are with real people．So，next time you go out to have dinner with your family or friends，how about not taking photos of food？Let the food be delicious as it is and share your life with people around you．Trust me，it will be a wonderful time．61．From the passage，what happens a lot at the dinner table nowadays？DA．People talk about their Weibo or WeChat．B．People learn from each other how to cook dishes．C．People like taking photos with friends or families．D．People take photos of food and post them before eating．62．Which of the following can be put in the B in Paragraph3？A．the less cheerful they becameB．the less delicious the food seemed to themC．the more interested they were in the foodD．the more"liked"they got on Weibo or Wechat63．What does the fourth paragraph talk about？DA．The reasons for checking your mobiles．B．The ways of posting the photos onto the Internet．C．The tips（提示）of making others like your photos on the Weibo．D．Some other bad influences of taking photos of food before meals．64．Which of the following is the writer's opinion？CA．We take out our mobiles and click when a dish comes．B．We check our mobiles from time to time during the meal．C．Spending time taking photos of food makes the food less pleasant．D．Some people were asked to take photos before they could enjoy food．65．What can we learn from the passage？DA．Take photos of food in order to have a wonderful life．B．Take photos of delicious food and share them with others．C．Remember to have dinner with our family and friends at home．D．Enjoy the life with people around us instead of taking photos of food．【分析】本篇文章讲述了现在常见的社会现象﹣﹣在吃饭前拿手机拍照"消毒"，拍完照片放在网络上，而且不时地看手机，想着别人会不会喜欢自己的美食照片，会有多少人点赞．专家认为这种行为是不好的．一方面花时间拍照，食物变得没那么好吃；另一方面，眼前的人会忽视，因为拍照片的人就像被手机不停地"呼唤"，看有多少人点赞．专家呼吁，让食物美味如初，享受与眼前人的相聚时刻．【解答】61．D细节理解题．从原文第一句We can't remember clearly since when we started to take our mobiles to a dinner table．以及整个文章的讲述可知，指的是D的内容；62．B细节理解题．As a result，it showed that the more photos they took，________．从关键词as a result 以及前面的句子Spending time taking photos of food makes the food less pleasant．可知，拍过多的照片，食物变得越不好吃．所以答案为B．the less delicious the food seemed to them；63．D内容归纳题．找到本段中心句Besides the scientific result，there are also some other bad influences of taking photos of food before meals．可知，全段是谈论吃饭前拍照的一些其他的坏的影响，故答案为D；64．C推测作者观点题．排除法．题目的关键词是opinion（观点），而ABD选项都是现象的描述，并非观点，因此答案为C．65．D主旨归纳题．根据本文最后一句Let the food be delicious as it is and share your life with people around you．Trust me，it will be a wonderful time．可知作者的写作目的﹣﹣享受与眼前人一起的生活，而不是饭前拍照．Enjoy the life with people around us instead of taking photos of food．故答案为D．【点评】首先浏览全文，概括主旨大意，理清写作结构，浏览题目，抓住关键词，快速得出答案．3．Should Children Be Allowed to Get Bored？Children need time to stand and stare．They should be allowed to get bored so that they can develop their ability to be creative．Children are expected by their parents to be reading a textbook all the time．However，research shows that it may hamper the development of their imagination，while boredom can give them opportunities to develop creativity．Boredom is often linked with loneliness，but a writer named Meera Syal said boredom had helped here in developing her mind．She told researchers about her childhood．Having few things to do，Syal often talked with her neighbors．She also tried to do things like learning to bake cakes．"But importantly，I thought and wrote a lot，because I was bored，"Syal said．She kept a diary，filling here time with short stories and poems she made up．Grayson Perry，an artist，grew up in a family with little money．He enjoyed himself by making up stories，drawing pictures for his stories and reading many books in the library．Bored but free，he spent hours looking out of the window，watching the changing clouds and seasons．Perry filled up his free time with what he liked．He became creative，because he could think freely．Dr．Belton is an expert on the effects of emotions on learning．"Boredom could be an uncomfortable feeling，"she said．"But some young people cannot deal with that boredom creatively．So sometimes they may break a classroom window，or drive a car out for a mad race．"Usually，when children have nothing to do，they would turn on the TV，the computer，or the phone．Their time on these things has increased，yet they need to have time to think about their experiences through play or just watching the world around them．It is this kind of thinking that can inspire the imagination．On the other hand，the TV or phone may cut short the thinking process．That can be harmful to the development of creativity．"For developing the ability to be creative，"Dr．Belton advised，"perhaps we need to stand and stare，and stay off﹣line from time to time．"53．What does the word"hamper"in Paragraph2probably mean？AA．Slow down．B．Keep up with．C．Go beyond．D．Give rise to．54．The writer talks about Syal and Perry to D．A．stress the great differences between themB．introduce a popular writer and a famous artistC．suggest good ways of going through boredomD．show effects of boredom on developing creativity55．What can we learn from the passage？AA．Boredom provides children with space to think freely．B．It's much better for children to be busy than be bored．C．Boredom helps children deal with difficulties properly．D．It's boring for children to think about their experiences．【分析】应该允许孩子无聊吗？孩子需要时间发呆放空，他们应该被允许感到无聊，那样他们才可以发展创造力．父母期望孩子一直读教科书，然而研究表明，它会妨碍孩子想象力的发展，而无聊可以给他们发展创造力的机会．无聊常与孤独有关，但是一个叫Meera Syal的作家说，无聊对发展她的思想有帮助．她告诉研究者们，她的孩提时代几乎无事可做，她经常与邻居聊天．她也试图去做一些事情，像烤蛋糕．"但是重要地是，我想了很多，写了很多，因为我很无聊．"Syal说．她坚持写日记，用短故事和诗来打发时间．Grayson Perry，一名艺术家，在一个贫穷家庭长大．他通过编故事、为他的故事配图、在图书馆里看书来愉悦自己．无聊但很空闲，他花几个小时眺望窗外，看云彩的变化和季节的变换．Perry用他喜欢的事情来填满他的空闲时间，他变得有创造力，因为他可以自由地思考．Belton博士是一个研究情感对学习的影响的专家．"无聊可能是一种不舒服的感受，"她说，"但是一些年轻人不能创造性地处理那种无聊．"所以有时他们会砸坏教室的窗子或者开快车来发泄．通常，当孩子们没有事可做时，他们会打开电视、电脑或打电话，他们花费在这些事情上的时间增加了，但他们仍需要时间通过玩或者观察周围的世界来考虑他们的感受．这就是那种可以激发他们想象力的思考．另一方面，电视或电话可能会短暂地打断这个思考过程，那对他们创造力的发展会有害．"为了发展创造力，"Belton博士说，"或许我们需要发呆放空，并且不时地远离网络．"【解答】53．A词义猜测题．根据research shows that it may hamper the development of their imagination，while boredom can give them opportunities to develop creativity．可以进行词义猜测，while（然而），表示同一方面两个不同事物的对比，存在相反的情况，根据while boredom can give them opportunities to develop creativity（然而无聊可以给他们开发创造力的机会），可知是就"无聊的影响"这一方面来说的，而且后面说到的是好的影响，可以推测前面说到的是相反的情况﹣﹣不好的影响．BCD选项都有积极的含义，B．Keep up with，和…并驾齐驱；C．Go beyond．超越；D．Give rise to．提升，唯有A选项slow down是"减慢"的意思，有负面的影响，意为"妨碍；牵制，减慢"．故答案为A．54．D推理判断题．根据原文"…Meera Syal said boredom had helped her in developing her mind．"和"He became creative，because he could think freely．"可知作者谈论这两个人是为了表明无聊在发展创造力方面的影响，故选D．55．A主旨大意题．本文主要是说，无聊给孩子提供了自由思考的空间，故选A．【点评】本文主要是说无聊给孩子提供了自由思考的空间，孩子需要发展创造力．题止涉及到词义猜测、推理判断和主旨大意题，要在抓住关键句子的基础上进行合理地分析才能得出正确答案，切记不能乱猜，一定做到有理有据．4．I stopped to watch my little daughter busy playing in her room．In one hand was a plastic phone．In the other hand was a toy broom．I listened as she was speaking to her imaginary friend and I'll never forget the words she said，even though it was pretended（假装）．She said，"Surie's in the corner because she's not been very good．She didn't listen to a word I said or do the things she should．"In the corner I saw her baby doll all dressed in pink．It was obvious she'd been put there to sit alone and think．My daughter continued her"conversation"as I sat down on the floor．She said，"I'm all fed up．I just don't know what to do with her anymore．She cries whenever I have to work and wants to play games，too．She never lets me do the things that I just have to do．She tries to help me with the dishes，but her arms just cannot reach and she doesn't know how to fold towels．I don't have the energy to teach．I have a lot of work to do and a big house to keep clean，I don't have the time to sit and play．Don't you know what I mean？"And that day I thought a lot about making some changes in my life，as I listened to her innocent（天真的）words that cut me like a knife．I hadn't been paying enough attention to my most dear．But how my attitude has changed，because，in my heart，I realize I've seen the world in a different light through my little darling's eyes．So，let the cobwebs（蜘蛛网）have the corners and the dust bunny rabbit rule the floor．I'm not going to worry about keeping up with them anymore．I'm going to fill the house with memories of a child and her mother，for we have only one childhood，and we will never get another．59．What does the underlined word"She"in Paragraph3refer to（指的是）？DA．The daughter's motherB．Suzie's daughterC．Suzie's baby dollD．The daughter's baby dool60．How did mother feel when she heard the"conversation"？CA．WorriedB．DisappointedC．RegretfulD．Sad61．What's the purpose of the story？BA．The mother should be angry with her daughterB．The mother should spend enough time with her daughterC．The mother shouldn't change her attitude to her daughterD．The mother shouldn't pay attention to her daughter's words．【分析】我停下来，注视着正在她的房间里忙着玩耍的小女儿．她一手拿着一个塑料电话，另一只手拿着一个玩具扫帚．我听到了她跟她假想中的"小朋友"在谈话，而她说的每一个字都让我永远牢记，即使那是假装的．女儿说："苏西就在角落里，因为她表现的不好．她连一个字都不肯听我说，也不干她该做的事情．"我看到她的娃娃在角落里，浑身上下都穿着粉红色的衣服．很显然，她是被放在那里的，让她独自坐在那儿反思．当我在地板上坐下来的时候，女儿还在继续她的"谈话"．她说："我受够了，我不知道还能拿她怎么办？每当我工作时，她就开始哭闹，还想要玩游戏．她从来不让我去干我该干的事情．她想帮我刷碗，但她的手够不到，毛巾怎么叠也不知道．我没有时间去教她，我还有一大堆的事情要去处理，这么间大房子要去打扫．我没有时间去坐下来陪她玩﹣﹣你明白我的意思吗？"那天，我想了很多改变了我的生活的事情．当我听着女儿那些天真的话语时，我心如刀割．我没有给予我最爱的人足够的关注．不过现在，我的态度发生了转变，因为我从心里意识到…我透过亲爱的小女儿的眼睛，从另一个角度看到了这个世界．所以，就让蜘蛛网呆在墙角，让地板铺满灰尘吧，我再也不为这些琐事操心了．我要让房间里充满一个孩子和她母亲的回忆…因为我们每个人都只有一个童年，一旦失去就再也找不回了．【解答】59．答案：D．词义理解题．根据She said，"Surie's in the corner because she's not been very good．She didn't listen to a word I said or do the things she should．"In the corner I saw her baby doll all dressed in pink．It was obvious she'd been put there to sit alone and think．可知她是在和自己的玩具娃娃在说话，故选D．60．答案：C．推理判断题．根据And that day I thought a lot about making some changes in my life，as I listened to her innocent（天真的）words that cut me like a knife．I hadn't been paying enough attention to my most dear．可知小女孩的妈妈很后悔，没有更多的关注自己的女儿，故选C．61．答案：B．主旨大意题．根据I'm going to fill the house with memories of a child and her mother，for we have only one childhood，and we will never get another可知本文是要告诉我们妈妈要更多的关注自己的孩子，故选B．【点评】要善于抓住每段的主题句，阅读时，要有较强的针对性．对于捕获到的信息，要做认真分析，仔细推敲，理解透彻，只有这样，针对题目要求，才能做到稳、准．。
SAT真题练习1
美联英语提供：SAT真题练习1/test/liuxue.aspx?tid=16-73675-01. The bearded dragon lizard is a voracious eater, so ______ that it will consume as many insects as possible.A. abstemiousB. cannibalisticC. slovenlyD. insatiableE. unpalatable2. Because drummer Tony Williams paved the way for later jazz-fusion musicians, he is considered a ______ of that style.A. connoisseurB. revivalistC. beneficiaryD. disparagerE. progenitor3. Some fans feel that sports events are ______ only when the competitors are of equal ability, making the outcome of the game ______.A. successful…assuredB. exciting…uncertainC. dull…foreseenD. boring…quest ionableE. interesting…predictable4. The politician's speech to the crowd was composed of nothing but ______, a bitter railing against the party's opponents.A. digressionsB. diatribesC. platitudesD. machinationsE. acclamations5. Latoya's _____ is shown by her ability to be ______: she can see her own faults more clearly than anyone else can.A. perceptiveness…self-centeredB. objectivity…restrictiveC. cynicism…self-destructiveD. open-mindedness…complacentE. insightfulness…self-critical6. Favoring economy of expression in writing, the professor urged students towarda ______ rather than an ______ prose style.A. spare…ornateB. terse…opinionatedC. personal…academicD. baroque…embellishedE. repetitive…intricate7. The consumer advocate claimed that while drug manufacturers ______ the supposed advantages of their proprietary brands, generic versions of the same medications are often equally ______.A. tout…efficaciousB. research…innocuousC. market…prohibitiveD. laud…counterp roductiveE. extract…prescriptive8. Alfred Schnittke's musical compositions are ______: phrases are clipped, broken into sections, and split apart by long rests.A. uniformB. cautiousC. garnishedD. fragmentedE. improvisationalSECTION 7The passages below are followed by questions based on their content; questions following a pair of related passages may also be based on the relationship between the paired passages. Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passages and in any introductory material that may be providedQuestions 9-20 are based on the following passages. The passages below discuss the possibility of locating intelligent life on other planets. Passage 1 has been adapted from a 1999 book on the history of the universe. Passage 2 was excerpted from a 2000 book on the scientific quest for extraterrestrial life.Passage 1Generations of science-fiction movies have conditioned us to consider bug-eyed monsters, large-brained intellectual humanoids, and other rather sophisticated extraterrestrial Line creatures as typical examples of life outside Earth. The reality, however, is that finding any kind of life at all, even something as simple as bacteria, would be one of the most exciting discoveries ever made.The consensus within the scientific community seems to be that we eventually will find not only life in other parts of10 the galaxy but also intelligent and technologically advanced life. I have to say that 1 disagree. While 1 believe we will find other forms of life in other solar systems (if not in our own), I also feel it is extremely unlikely that a large number of advanced technological civilizations are out15 there, waiting to be discovered. The most succinct support for my view comes from Nobel laureate physicist Enrico Fermi, the man who ran the first nuclear reaction ever controlled by human beings. Confronted at a 1950 luncheon with scientific arguments for the ubiquity of20 technologically advanced civilizations, he supposedly said, "So where is everybody?" This so-called Fermi Paradox embodies a simple logic. Humanbeings have had modern science only a few hundred years, and already we have moved into space. It is not25 hard to imagine that in a few hundred more years we will be a starfaring people, colonizing other systems. Fermi's argument maintains that it is extremely unlikely that many other civilizations discovered science at exactly the same time we did. Had they acquired science even a thousand30 years earlier than we. they now could be so much more advanced that they would already be colonizing our solar system. If, on the other hand, they are a thousand years behind us, we will likely arrive at their home planet before they35 even begin sending us radio signals. Technological advances build upon each other, increasing technological abilities faster than most people anticipate. Imagine, for example, how astounded even a great seventeenth-century scientist like Isaac Newton would be by our current global40 communication system, were he alive today. Where are those highly developed extraterrestrial civilizations so dear to the hearts of science-fiction writers? Their existence is far from a foregone conclusion. Passage 2 Although posed in the most casual of circumstances, 45 the Fermi Paradox has reverberated through the decades and has at times threatened to destroy the credibility of those scientists seriously engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SET!) research program. One possible answer to Fermi's question ("If there are 50extraterrestrials, where are they?") is that extraterrestrials have in fact often visited Earth, andcontinue to do so. This is the answer of those who believe inthe existence of unidentified flying objects, or UFO's. But few scientists, even those engaged in SET1, take the UFO claims55 seriously. "You won't find anyone around here who believes in UFO's." says Frank Drake, a well-known SETI scientist. If one discounts the UFO claims, yet still believes that there are many technological civilizations in the galaxy, why have they not visited us? Drake's answer60 is straightforward: "High-speed interstellar travel is so demanding of resources and so hazardous that intelligent civilizations don't attempt it." And why should they attempt it, when radio communication can supply all the information they might want?65 At first glance, Drake's argument seems very persuasive. The distances between stars are truly immense. To get from Earth to the nearest star and back, traveling at 99 percent of the speed of light, would take 8 years. And SETI researchers have shown that, to accelerate70 a spacecraft to such a speed, to bring it to a stop, and to repeat the process in the reverse direction, would take almost unimaginable amounts of energy. Astronomer Ben Zuckerman challenges Drake's notion that technological beings would be satisfied with75 radio communication. "Drake's implicit assumption is that the only thing we're going to careabout is intelligent life. But what if we have an interest in simpler life-forms? If you turn the picture around and you have some advanced extraterrestrials looking at the Earth, until80 the last hundred years there was no evidence of intelligent life but for billions of years before that they could have deduced that this was a very unusual world and that there were probably living creatures on it. They would have had billions of years to come investigate." Zuckerman contends85 that the reason extraterrestrials haven't visited us is that so few exist.9. Passage 1 suggests that the Fermi Paradox depends most directly on which assumption?(A) Extraterrestrial civilizations may not wish to be discovered by human beings. •(B) Extraterrestrial civilizations would most likely have discovered technology at about the same time human beings discovered it.(C) Extraterrestrial technology would develop at roughly the same rate as human technology.(D) Extraterrestrial civilizations would inevitably use technology for aggressive ends.(E) Science is a more powerful form of human knowledge than are art and literature.10. Which statement about the Fermi Paradox is supported by both passages?(A) It articulates a crucial question for those interested in the existence of extraterrestrials.(B) It clarifies the astronomical conditions required to sustain life on other planets.(C) It reveals the limitations of traditional ideas about the pace of technologicalchange.(D) It demonstrates the scientific community's fascination with the concept of interstellar travel. (E) It suggests that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations may be uninterested in our culture.11. In line 17, "ran" most nearly means(A) fled(B) accumulated(C) traversed(D) managed(E) incurred12. In line 57, "claims" most nearly means(A) demands(B) assertions(C) rights(D) territories(E) compensations13. The author of Passage 1 mentions Isaac Newton (lines 37-40) in order to(A) emphasize the rapid rate of technological innovation(B) acknowledge (he impact of a profound thinker(C) criticize the inflexibility of Newton's contemporaries(D) speculate about New ton's influence on current research(E) highlight the value of scientific curiosity14. The claim made in Passage 1 that a "consensus" exists (lines 8-11) would most likely be interpreted by the author of Passage 2 as(A) evidence of compromise in the scientific community(B) an attack on SETI researchers(C) support for Fermi's analysis(D) a revelation of an unexpected truth(E) an oversimplification of a complex debate15. The author of Passage 1 mentions '"monsters," "humanoids," and "creatures" (lines 2-4) primarily to(A) question the literary value of science fiction(B) contrast fictional notions with a scientific perspective(C) offer examples of the human fear of the unknown(D) criticize science fiction for being unduly alarmist(E) suggest that scientific research has been influenced by science fiction16. In lines 44-48, the author of Passage 2 indicates that the Fermi Paradox has been(A) thoroughly misunderstood(B) surprisingly influential(C) overwhelmingly perplexing(D) intermittently popular(E) frequently misquoted17. Both the author of Passage 1 and Ben Zuckerman (line 73, Passage 2) imply thatresearchers seeking life on another planet should focus on which of the following?(A) Seasonal variations in color due to plant life(B) Evidence of the most basic forms of life(C) Signs of artificially created structures(D) Signals that might be radio communications(E) Changes in geological surface features18. Which statement best describes a significant difference between the two passages?(A) Passage 1 analyzes a literary form, while Passage 2 argues that literature has little bearing on science.(B) Passage 1 presents an argument, while Passage 2 surveys current opinion in a debate.(C) Passage 1 concludes by rejecting the Fermi Paradox, while Passage 2 opens by embracing it. (D) Passage 1 describes a phenomenon, while Passage 2 details a belief system that would reject such a phenomenon.(E) Passage I defends a viewpoint, while Passage 2 questions that viewpoint's place in scientific research.19. In line 63, "radio communication" is cited as a(A) complex interaction(B) technological relic(C) common occurrence(D) practical alternative(E) dramatic advance20. How would Frank Drake (line 56, Passage 2) most likely respond to the statement by the author of Passage 1 about humans "colonizing other systems" (line 26)?(A) The means to accomplish such a project may be beyond our reach.(B) Interstellar colonization is as morally problematic as was colonization on Earth.(C) We would do better to study indigenous life-forms rather than search for extraterrestrial creatures.(D) Humans would be wise to consider that they themselves arc subject to colonization.(E) Funding for such an undertaking would pose a thorny political issue for any government.Questions 21-24 are based on the following passages.Passage 1 Food has always been considered one of the most salient markers of cultural traditions. When I was a small child, food was the only thing that helped identify my family as Filipino American. We ate pansit lug-lug (a noodle dish) and my father put pads (salty fish sauce) on everything. However, even this connection lessened as I grew older. As my parents became more acculturated, we ate less typically Filipino food. When I was twelve, my mother took cooking classes and learned to make French and Italian dishes. When I was in high school, we ate chicken marsala and shrimp fradiablo more often than Filipino dishes likepansitlug-lug.Passage 2 JeanAnthelme Brillat-Savarin—who in 1825 confidently announced, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are"—would have no trouble describing cultural identities of the United States. Our food reveals us as tolerant adventurers who do not feel constrained by tradition. We "play with our food" far more readily than we preserve the culinary rules of our varied ancestors. Americans have no single national cuisine. What unites American eaters culturally is how we eat, not what we eat. As eaters, Americans mingle the culinary traditions of many regions and cultures. We are multiethnic eaters.21. The two passages differ in their discussions of food primarily in that Passage 1(A) considers specific dishes eaten by particular people, whereas Passage 2 comments on a culture's general attitude toward eating(B) contrasts the cuisines of different cultures, whereas Passage 2 emphasize culinary practices common to all cultures(C) presents an abstract theory of food, whereas Passage 2 offers a historical analysis of consumption(D) emphasizes the role of nostalgia in food preferences, whereas Passage 2 rejects that approach as overly sentimental(E) outlines some popular choices in cuisine, whereas Passage 2 underscores those that are more unusual22. Which of the following statements best captures the relationship between the two passages? (A) Passage 1 notes problems for which Passage 2 proposessolutions.(B) Passage 1 presents claims that are debunked by Passage 2.(C) Passage 2 furnishes a larger context for the experiences described in Passage I.(D) Passage 2 provides an update of the situation depicted in Passage 1.(E) Passage 2 uses material presented in Passage 1to correct a popular misconception.23. Unlike the author of Passage 2, the author of Passage 1 makes significant use of(A) direct quotation(B)sociological analysis(C) hypothetical assumptions(D) historical sources(E) personal experience24. The author of Passage 2 would most likely regard the mother's willingness to "make French and Italian dishes" (lines 9-10, Passage 1) as(A) laughably pretentious(B) understandably conservative(C) typically American(D) a regrettable compromise(E) a surprising attitudeSAT真题/test/liuxue.aspx?tid=16-73675-0。
SATOG2阅读填空解析(一)-智课教育出国考试
智 课 网 S A T 备 考 资 料SATOG2阅读填空解析（一）-智课教育出国考试SAT考试的复习是个长期的过程，既要坚持背单词，做题相结合，下面为大家详细介绍SATOG2阅读填空解析，仅供大家参考。
SAT阅读考试是中国考生相对比较头痛的一个考试项目，所以对于想要拿到SAT阅读高分的考生来说，多掌握一些词汇是十分必要的。
下面就为大家介绍一下SATOG2阅读填空解析，供大家参考。
Section 41.The movie's plot was ________: once you knew what befell the hero, you could _________the fate of the villain.(A) convincing adj. 令人确信的...misinterpret v. 误解(B) misleading adj. 误导性的...anticipate v. 预期(C) predictable adj. 可预言的...foresee v. 预见(D) ironic adj. 讽刺的...endorse v. 认可，拥护(E) spellbinding adj. 吸引...ignore v. 忽视答案：C解析：解释说明关系plot是predictable的，因为once you know what befell on the hero, you could foresee the fate of the villain.翻译：电影的情节是________:当你知道了英雄经历了什么，你就可以________恶人的命运。
2.A certain additive put in gasoline to reduce air pollution is actually _________groundwater, a finding that shows that even the most well-intentioned fixes can sometimes_________.(A) liquefying v. 液化...founder n. 创始人 v. 破坏(B) contaminating v. 污染...backfire v. 产生反效果(C) purifying v. 净化...boomerang v. 产生事与愿违的结果(D) saturating v. 使饱和...reciprocate v. 互换(E) polluting v. 污染...prevail v. 盛行答案：B解析：并列递进关系翻译：在汽油里加入某种添加物为了减少空气污染实际上是在_____ ____地下水，一项发现显示最善意的修补有时候_________。
2023年北京市普通高中第一次学业水平合格性考试英语试题及答案
机密★本科目考试启用前2023年北京市第一次普通高中学业水平合格性考试英语试卷一、听力理解（共25小题；每小题1分，共25分）第一节（共20小题；每小题1分，共20分）听下面十段对话或独白，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
每段对话或独白你将听两遍。
听第1段材料，回答第1题。
1.What sport does the man prefer?A.Swimming.B.Jogging.C.Mountain climbing.听第2段材料，回答第2题。
2.What is the possible relationship between the two speakers?A.Boss and secretary.B.Doctor and patient.C.Teacher and student.听第3段材料，回答第3题。
3.What gift will the speakers prepare for Lily?A.A schoolbag.B.A watch.C.A dictionary.听第4段材料，回答第4题。
.4.What is the man doing?A.Doing a survey.B.Giving a suggestion.C.Asking the way.听第5段材料，回答第5题至第6题。
5.Which language is the woman better at?A.German.B.French.C.Chinese.6.What does the woman suggest the man do?A.Start from ABC.B.Watch interesting movies.C.Remember lots of words.听第6段材料，回答第7题至第8题。
7.What time is it now in Beijing?A.4:00pm.B.6:00 am.C.10:00 am.8.Where does the conversation take place?A.In an office.B.In an airport.C.In a hotel.听第7段材料，回答第9题至第11题。
公共英语一级阅读理解测试试题及答案
公共英语一级阅读理解测试试题及答案It looked like a typical business meeting.Six men, neatly dressed in white shirts and ties filed into the boardroom of a small Jakarta pany and sat down at a long table.But instead of consulting files or hearing reports, they closed their eyes and began to meditate, consulting the spirits of ancient Javanese kings.Mysticism touches almost every aspect of life in Indonesia and business is no exception.One of the meditators said his weekly meditation sessions are aimed mainly at bringing the peace of mindthat makes for good decision-making.But the insight gained from mystic munication with spirits of wise kings has also helped boost the profits of his five panies.Mysticism and profits have e together since the 13th century introduction of Islam to Indonesia by Indian Moslem merchants.Those devout traders, called ‘Wali Ullah’ or‘those close to God, ’ energetically spread both trade and religion by adapting their appeals to the native mysticism of Java.Legends attribute magic power of foreknowledge to the Wali Ullah.These powers were believed to be gained through meditation and fasting.Businessman Hadisiko said his group fasts and meditates all night every Thursday to bee closer to God and to contact the spirits of the great men of t he past.‘If we want to employ someone at the managerial level, we meditatetogether and often the message es that this man can’t hole onto money or he is untrustworthy.Or maybe the spirits will tell us he should be hired.’ Hadiziko hastened to add that his panies also hold modern personnel management systems and that formal qualifications are essential for a candidate even to be considered.Perspective investments also are considered through mystic meditation.‘With the mind relaxed and open, it is easier to be objective in judging the risk of a new venture.Meditation and contact with the wisdom of the old leaders sharpens your owninsight and intuition.Then you have to apply that intuition to the information you have and work hard to be suessful.’ Mystic meditation helped reverse a business slide his panies experienced in the mid-1980.Operating with normal business procedures, he lost more than $ 3 millions in that year alone.Meditation brought back his peace ofmind.Putting the right persons in the right jobs and gaining confidence in his business decisions were the keys to a turning around that has brought expansion and profitability.The mysticism in Handspike’s boardroom is part of a growing movement in Indonesia called Kebatinan - the ‘search for the inner self.’One of his managers, Yusuf Soemado, who studied business administration at Harvard University, pared the idea of mystic management to western system of positivethinking.‘Willpower and subconscious mind are recognized as important factors in business.Such approaches as psycho-cyberics, Carnegie’s think and growth rates, or the power of positive thinking are western attempts to tap the same higher intelligence that we contact through meditation,’ he said.1.What is the most important factor in their doing business?[A] Mysticism.[B] Religion.[C] Meditation.[D] Investment.2.Whom do they consult?[A] The spirits of ancient Javanese kings.[B] Wali Ullah.[C] Old Kings.[D] Carnegie.3.Why did Hadisike hasten to add ‘his panies also hold modern personnel management systems…’?[A] He thought Mysticism was not so good as expected.[B] To show they too focused on qualifications.[C] To show they hired qualified persons.[D] To show the possibility of bination of thescientific management with religion.4.Aording to the passage, the function of the meditation is[A] to gain profit from the god.[B] to gain peace of mind to make decision.[C] to gain foreknowledge.[D] to gain objective conclusion.5.What does ‘operating with normal business procedures’ refer to?[A] Adopting the western way of doing business.[B] Ordinary way of doing business without meditation and fasting.[C] Contact with God.[D] Putting right persons in the right jobs.Vocabulary1.file into 鱼贯而入，排队进去2.Jakarta 雅加达3.meditate 沉思，冥想，反省4.Java 爪哇5.Javanese 爪哇的6.mysticism 神秘主义7.boost 促进，增加，提高8.devout 虔诚的，热诚的9.appeal (to) 向……呼吁，求助于，魅力10.legend 传说，神话11.fasting 禁食，斋戒12.hold onto 抓紧，保住13.personnel management system 人事管理制度14.perspective investment 远景投资15.venture (商业)投机，风险16.sharpen 使……敏锐/锋利，磨尖17.business slide 买卖/企业滑坡，下滑18.turn around (生意)好转，转变19.subconscious 下意识的，潜意识的20.cyberics 控制论21.Carnegie 卡耐基22.tap 开拓，选择难句译注1.Mysticism touches almost every aspect of life in Indonesia and business is no exception.「参考译文」在印尼神秘主义似乎涉及到印尼生活的各个方面，商业也不例外。
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Questions 10-14 are based on the following passage.This passage is from the preface to a 1997 book by a United States journalist detailing a disagreement between doctors and family members about a child's medical treatment at a hospital in California.Under my desk I keep a large carton of cassette tapes. Though they have all been transcribed, I still like to listen to them from time to time,Some are quiet and easily understood. They are filled with the voices of American doctors, interrupted occasionally by the clink of a coffee cup or beep of a pager. The rest—more than half of them—are very noisy. They are filled with the voices of the Lees family, Hmong refugees from Laos who came to the United States in 1980. Against a background of babies crying, children playing, doors slamming, dishes clattering, a television yammering, and an air conditioner wheezing, I can hear the mother's voice, by turns breathy, nasal, gargly, or humlike as it slides up and down the Hmong language's eight tones; the father's voice, louder, slower, more vehement; and my interpreter's voice, mediating in Hmong and English, low and deferential in each. The hubbub summons sense-memories: the coolness of the red metal folding chair, reserved for guests, that was always set up when I arrived in the apartment; the shadows cast by the amulet that hung from the ceiling and swung in the breeze on its length of grocer's twine; the tastes of Hmong food.I sat on the Lees' red chair for the first lime on May 19, 1988. Earlier that spring I had come to Merced, California, because I had heard that there were some misunderstandings at the county hospital between its Hmong patients and medical staff. One doctor called them "collisions," which made it sound as if two different kinds of people had rammed into each other, head on, to the accompaniment of squealing brakes and breaking glass. As it turned out, the encounters were messy but rarely frontal. Both sides were wounded, but neither side seemed to know what had hit it or how to avoid another crash.I have always felt that the action most worth watching occurs not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. These places have interesting frictions and incongruities, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one. This is especially true when the apposition is cultural. When I first came to Merced, I hoped that the culture of American medicine, about which I knew a little, and the culture of the Hmong, about which I knew nothing, would somehow illuminate each other if I could position myself between the two and manage not to get caught in the crossfire. But after getting to know the Lees family and their daughter's doctors and realizing how hard it was to blame anyone, I stopped analyzing the situation in such linear terms. Now, when I play the tapes late at night, I imagine what they would sound like if I could splice them together, so the voices of the Hmong and those of the American doctors could be heard on a single tape, speaking a common language.10. In line 17, "summons" most nearly means(A) sends for(B) calls forth(C) requests(D) orders(E) convenes11. It can be inferred from lines 27-33 that "collisions" was NOT an apt description because the(A) clash between Hmong patients and medical staff was indirect and baffling(B) Hmong patients and the medical staff were not significantly affected by the encounters(C) medical staff was not responsible for the dissatisfaction of the Hmong patients(D) misunderstandings between the Hmong patients and the medical staff were easy to resolve(E) disagreement reached beyond particular individuals to the community at large12. Which of the following views of conflict is best supported by lines 37-40 ("These . . . one") ?(A) Efforts to prevent conflicts are not always successful.(B) Conflict can occur in many different guises.(C) In most conflicts, both parties are to blame.(D)Y ou can understand two parties that have resolved their conflicts better than two parties that are currently in conflict.(E)Y ou can learn more about two parties in conflict as an observer than as an involved participant.13. According to lines 41-46 ("When I .. . crossfire"), the author's initial goal was to(A) consider the perspectives of both the American doctors and the Lees family to see what insights might develop(B) serve as a counselor to the county hospital's Hmong patients in order to ease their anxieties(C) work out a compromise between the American doctors and the Lees family(D) acquire a greater knowledge of how the American medical culture serves patients(E) try to reduce the misunderstandings between the American doctors and the Lees family and promote good will14. At the end of the passage, the author suggests that it would be ideal if the(A) differences between the Lees-family and the American doctors could be resolved quickly(B) concerns and opinions of the Lees family and the American doctors could be merged(C) American doctors could take the time to learn more about their Hmong patients(D) Hmong patients could become more vocal in defense of their rights(E) Hmong patients could get medical treatment consistent with their cultural beliefs。