2017年5月SAT阅读机经详解

2017年5月SAT机经阅读板块深度解析5月SAT考试第一篇: 小说阅读第一篇小说节选自A strange and sublime address.主要讲解一个家庭去拜访另外一个家庭，中间交谈中的一些价值冲突。

Tradition 和modern的conflict。

题目难度倒不是特别大，但是人物挺多的，所以大家很有必要看下引言的介绍（这也是课堂上重点强调）题目：爷爷为什么站在院子里。

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

题目：把茶点比作了什么。

答案：jewel。

题目：词汇题air答案：demeanor题目：Sandeep最终对大人们的态度？答案：immature5月SAT考试第二篇：社科第二篇文章话题为自我评价和别人评价的不一致性。

文章用相关系数进行阐述。

主要探讨个人是否能较为准确地判断自己在他人眼中的形象, 即自我认知与他人认知的对等性。

题目：全文主旨题：答案：讲解一个实验和其结论以及implications。

题目：问第一段后面讲解correlation数字的目的(Statistically speaking, you measure relationships like these with a correlation, where perfect correspondence yields a correlation of 1 and no correspondence yields a correlation of 0. The closer the correlation is to 1, the stronger the relationship.)?答案：给出context，便于解读和理解实验。

题目：词汇题magnitude答案：strength题目：目的题？提到这些干嘛？-The same barely-better-than-guessing accuracy is also found in experiments investigating how well speed daters can assess who wants to date them and who does not, how well job candidates can judge which interviewers were impressed by them and which were not, and even how well teachers can predict their course evaluations.答案：是上文研究结果仍然适用的一些例子5月SAT考试第三篇：科学本篇科学类文章主要探讨谷神星(Ceres)作为唯一位于小行星带的矮行星(dwarf planet), 其大小、密度、光谱的特殊性引起科学家对其地位和分类的质疑。

2017年5月SAT亚太真题阅读（2）第二篇自然科学心理思维智慧：我们怎样获悉他人的所思、所感、所想、所求This passage is adapted from Nicholas Epley,Mindwise: How We Understand WhatOthers Think, Believe, Feel, and Want.©2014 by Nicholas Epley.题目：思维智慧：我们怎样获悉别人的所思、所想、所感、所求【解析】阅读社科文章时，开头一定要仔细读，弄清楚文章谈的话题到底是什么1Knowing your own reputation can be surprisinglydifficult. 2Consider,for instance, a study that analyzeda set of published experiments all sharing the same basic design. In theseexperiments, people working in a group would be asked to predict how the othergroup members would rate them on a series of different traits. Researchers thencompared these predicted ratings to the other group members’ actual ratings onthe very same traits. The traits varied from one experiment to another andincluded qualities like intelligence, sense of humor, consideration,defensiveness, friendliness, and leadership ability. The groups varied in familiarity,with the members of some groups being fairly unfamiliar with one another (suchas having met only once, in a job interview) and the members of other groupsbeing very familiar with one another (such as having lived together for anextended time as roommates).3 If people knew exactlywhat others were thinking, then there would be a perfect correspondence betweenpredicted and actual ratings. If people were clueless, then there would be nocorrespondence between the two. Statistically speaking, you measurerelationships like these with a correlation, where perfect correspondenceyields a correlation of 1 and no correspondence yields a correlation of 0. Thecloser the correlation is to 1, the stronger the relationship.【阐释】首句开门见山，直接给出文章要谈的话题以及作者的一个观点。

2017年5月SAT亚太真题阅读(5)第五篇自然科学植物进化错综复杂的故事This passageis adapted from Catherine Clabby, “A Tangled Tale of PlantEvolution.” ©2009 by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.题目：植物进化的错综复杂的故事【解析】动物、植物、微生物、病毒都是SAT非常喜欢出题的题材。

As ancestors of land plants abandoned their aquaticnurseries for life on shore, they needed the means to seal in water and holdthemselves up to thrive. Lignin, a strengthening and stiffening polymer commonin woody plant cells, contributes to both extremely well.【阐释】提到在陆生植物的祖先所具有的一种柔韧而坚硬的物质Ligin，及其作用。

介绍物质L，背景性信息。

【单词】hold up：to maintain one's position orcondition; endure:【翻译】在陆地植物的祖先逐渐遗弃水中庇护之地，上岸生活过程中，他们得有办法在密闭的水中挺立，才能繁茂生长。

Ligin『木质素』一种柔韧坚硬的聚合物，常见于木本植物细胞中，能极好的满足这两方面的需求。

Lignin production for those tasks was considered a keyadaptive achievement of vascular plants, which descend from green algae. Now a University of British Columbia botanist and some highlyspecialized chemists have strong evidence for lignin in a red alga called Calliarthroncheilosporioides.【阐释】陆地植物是从“水生植物”绿藻进化而来，所以在绿藻中有物质L，是非常正常的。

SAT test 51.For a long time, most doctors maintained that taking massive doses of vitamins was relatively harmless; now, however, some are warning that excessive dosages can be _________.(A) healthy adj. 健康的(B) expensive adj. 昂贵的(C) wasteful adj. 浪费的(D) toxic adj. 有毒的(E) inane adj. 愚蠢的解析：D，在很长的一段时间里，大多数医生认为用大量的维他命是无害的;不过现在有些人警告过量食用会----。

这里however表示转折与前面的harmless是相反的意思。

2. In Jamaica Kincaid's novel Lucy, the west Indian heroine _________ her employers' world, critically examining its assumptions and values.(A) idealizes v. 理想化(B) avoids v. 避开(C) beautifies v. 美化(D) scrutinizes v. 仔细检查(E) excludes v. 排除，解析：E，在牙买加金彩的小说露西，这个西印度群岛英雄----她的雇主的世界，精细的审视他的猜测和价值。

这个句子中前后两句意思是一致的，没有转折词，所以空格所需的东西与examining是同义词，所以D。

3.The frequent name changes that the country has undergone _________ the political turbulence that has attended its recent history.(A) argue against v. 真钞，辩论(B) contrast with v. 对比，差异(C) testify to v. 证明(D) jeopardize v. 危及(E) sustain v. 支撑解析：C，这个国家经历了频繁的国名变更---这个国家的近点史上的政治动乱。

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。

2017年SAT阅读小说大意的技巧讲解：如何阅读SAT文学类篇章？导读：本文2017年SAT阅读小说大意的技巧讲解：如何阅读SAT 文学类篇章？，仅供参考，如果觉得很不错，欢迎点评和分享。

新SAT阅读部分包括一篇文学篇章。

文学篇章通常节选自小说或者就是短篇故事，年代不限。

有时，文章来自古典小说，那么可能会包含一些考生不熟悉的词组，但是大部分的语言，现代读者还是能理解的。

文学部分不会考查考生知道或了解多少文学作品，但是考生要能够阅读各种文学体裁。

增加熟悉程度的方法就是阅读。

本节最后会列出一些书单供读者享用。

另外，文学部分也不会包含图表题，通常也不会出现在双篇章之中。

如何阅读小说的大意(Big Picture)小说的基本要素包括时间，地点，人物，事件等等。

小说通常叙述故事，或描绘场景、事物或人物。

过程中通常充满暗示。

在阅读过程中，既要注意小说的细节描述，也要理解文章的大意(Big picture)。

同时，还要关注作者如何通过语言和文学技巧传达信息。

在阅读小说篇章时，要把握好文本的结构，段落主旨，以及段落关系。

一些文学篇章侧重叙述，narrative, 即讲故事，叙述事件发展过程。

还有一些篇章侧重描述，descriptive, 侧重通过细节描述重要的人物，场合和事物。

其他的大部分文章中，叙述和描述相结合，互相补充和支持。

在一篇叙述文中，描述性的语言能够补充重要人物的细节描述。

而在一篇描述性文章中，叙述性的文字能够帮助刻画主题。

新SAT节选的文章，文章的大意发展(big picture)包括两种，一种是叙述故事矛盾，冲突。

包括事件起因，发展和结尾。

另一种是对比，对比人物或场景。

以下举例说明如何阅读得出小说的大意：例：The following passage is adapted from Leo Tolstoy's 1873 novel, Anna Karenina (translated from the original Russian by Constance Garnett). Prior to this excerpt, one of the major characters, Levin, has realized that he is in love with his longtime friend Kitty Shtcherbatsky.At four o'clock, conscious of his throbbing heart, Levin stepped out of a hired sledge at the Zoological Gardens, and turned along the path to the frozen mounds and the skating ground, knowing that he would certainly find her there, as he had seen the Shtcherbatskys’ carriage at the entrance.It was a bright, frosty day. Rows of carriages, sledges, drivers, and policemen were standing in the approach. Crowds of well-dressed people, with hats bright in the sun, swarmed about the entrance and along the well-swept little paths between the little houses adorned with carving in the Russian style. The old curly birches of the gardens, all their twigs laden with snow, looked as though freshly decked in sacred vestments.He walked along the path towards the skating-ground, and kept saying tohimself—“You mustn't be excited, you must be calm. What's the matter with you? What do you want? Be quiet, stupid,” he conjured his heart. And the more he tried to com- pose himself, the more breathless he found himself. An acquaintance met him and called him by his name, but Levin did not even recognize him. He went towards the mounds, whence came the clank of the chains of sledges as they slipped down orwere dragged up, the rumble of the sliding sledges, and the sounds of merry voices. He walked on a few steps, and the skating-ground lay open before his eyes, and at once, amidst all the skaters, he knew her.He knew she was there by the rapture and the ter-ror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at the opposite end of the ground. There was apparently nothing striking either in her dress or her attitude. But for Levin she was as easy to find in that crowd as a rose among nettles. Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light on all round her. MIs it possible I can go over there on the ice, go up to her?” he thought. The place where she stood seemed to him a holy shrine, unap-proachable, and there was one moment when he was almost retreating, so overwhelmed was he with terror. He had to make an effort to master himself, and to remind himselfthat people of all sorts were moving about her, and that he too might come there to skate. He walked down, for a long while avoiding looking at her as at the sun, but seeing her, as one does the sun, without looking.On that day of the week and at that time of day people of one set, all acquainted with one another, used to meet on the ice. There were crack skaters there, showing off their skill, and learners clinging to chairs with timid> awkward movements, boys, and elderly people skating with hygienic motives. They seemed to Levin an elect band of blissful beings because they were here, near her. All the skaters, it seemed, with perfect self-possession, skated towards her, skated by her, even spoke to her, and were happy, quite apart from her, enjoying the capital ice and the fine weather.Nikolay Shtcherbatsky, Kitty's cousin, in a short jacket and tight trousers, was sitting on a garden seat with his skates on. Seeing Levin, he shouted to him:“Ah, the first skater in Russia! Been here long? First-rate ice—do put your skates on.”首先我们看斜体字部分：The following passage is adapted from Leo Tolstoy's 1873 novel, Anna Karenina (translated from the original Russian by Constance Garnett). Prior to this excerpt, one of the major characters, Levin, has realized that he is in love with his longtime friend Kitty Shtcherbatsky.通过斜体字部分，我们可以得出该小说节选自托尔斯泰的小说《安娜卡列尼娜》，以及节选部分的前情提要。

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备考资料推荐：1、OG的四套题目2、2016年3月/5月/10月新SAT真题，2017年1月份新SAT考试真题3、可汗SAT资料4、普林斯顿资料SAT语法部分备考重点：1、复习之前新OG/真题的语法点;2、每两天做一套题目，题目来源:OG, 可汗，真题。

特别提醒：1)必须背记的语法知识点:句子连接的正确方式，连词副词区分，虚拟语气三原则，标点符号使用规则，逻辑主语常见的考查方式;2)阅读类题型做题步骤:必须看题目，找题目的关键字，对应回文章找相关上下文，分析句子逻辑关系，选择答案。

SAT阅读部分备考重点：1、对号入座自己阅读的问题：a.篇目类型：看得最懵的/花时间最长的/错得最多的;b.题型：看到就觉得紧张的/做题纠结的/对答案“我就知道会错”的;c.习惯：过于主观/看题快/脑洞大…把每道错题的原因都分析出当时为什么会错就知道了;d.时间分配：science/social，science(11-12)，history(13-14)，literature(11-13)，paired(13-14)，谨供参考，请根据自身情况酌情调整。

别忘了留出涂答题卡的时间啊。

2、有答案之后再对应解决：a.篇目类型：精读分析结构，记忆影响做题的生词。

history要注意培养对态度词的敏感程度，literature要注意积累描述词;b.题型：把同类题归类，把每个做题步骤分析清楚，理清思路;c.习惯：做题前回顾一下自己有哪些不好的习惯，做题的时候慢一点，留心一点去改。

特别提醒：审题时请留意题干限制，选项看清楚看完再选;d.时间分配：哪种类型的文章慢了就去做精读，哪种类型的题目时间长就去做同类分析。

2017年5月SAT亚太真题阅读（3）第三篇自然科学 Pluto是否通过Ceres给我们传递了信息This passage is adapted from David Shiga, “HasPluto Sent Us a Message in Ceres?” ©2008 by Reed Business Information,Ltd.题目：Pluto是否通过Ceres给我们传递了信息【解析】Pluto 冥王星。

天文类文章。

Ceres(谷神星) 估计没几个考生认识这个单词，具体意思不重要，根据文章内容推断出一个和Pluto类似的，位于小行星带的星体就可以了。

1DoesPluto have a wayward cousin lurkingin the inner solar system? 2Thedwarf planet Ceres—and other icy chunks—may have been born in thesame realm as Pluto, but travelled all the way to the asteroid belt between theorbits of Mars and Jupiter.3 Ifso, it would be further evidence that a massive upheaval rearranged the earlysolar system.【阐释】第一段，重点细读。

第一段不长，但信息量很大。

下面我们把这段的三句话分析一下，三句话同时也是对应三层意思。

第一层（用1标示）：开门见山。

常见的SAT文章开头，直接说出文章的主题。

a wayward cousin lurking in inner solarsystem。

但有些同学可能并不认识wayward『反常的』这个单词，从而不能一下抓住文章的主题。

没关系，一般SAT都会跟着further explanation。

2017年5月SAT亚太真题阅读（4）第四篇历史双篇弗吉尼亚制宪会议上的发言Passage 1, by Patrick Henry,and Passage 2, by Edmund Pendleton, are adaptedfrom speeches delivered to the Virginia ratifyingconvention in 1788. Both are in response to the proposal by the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia to replace the Articles of Confederation with a new constitution establishing a national government.题目：两篇文章都是关于是否要用“1787年宪法”取代“联邦条例”的演说。

演说是在弗吉尼亚宪法批准会上，演说人1是Patrick Henry; 演说人2是Edmund Pendleton【解析】文章发生在美国“宪法大讨论”时期。

相关背景我们在“制宪”专题中给大家介绍过。

Passage 1Ifa wrong step be now made, the republic may be lost forever. If this newgovernment will not come up to the expectation of the people, and they shall bedisappointed, their liberty will be lost, and tyranny must and will arise.【阐释】Henry不支持用“1787年宪法”取代“联邦条例”。

能读出这个“作者观点”，第一段过关。

【单词】republic：n a state inwhich the supreme power rests in the body of citizens【翻译】如果现在迈出错误的一步，共和可能会永远失去。

2017年5⽉20⽇托福阅读机经⼩范围预测　⽣物类： Title：Extinctions at the End of the Cretaceous It has long been recognized that the dinosaurs disappeared from the fossil record at the end of the Cretaceous period (65 million years ago), and as more knowledge has been gained, we have learned that many other organisms disappeared at about the same time. Themicroscopic plankton (free-floating plants and animals) with calcareous shells suffered massively.The foundation of the major marine food chain that led from the minute plankton to shelled animals to large marine reptiles had collapsed. On land it was not only the large animals that became extinct. The mammals, most ofwhich were small, lost some 35 percent of their species worldwide. Plants were also affected. For example, in North America 79 percent did not survive, and it has been noted that the survivors were often deciduousthey could lose their leaves and shut downwhile others could survive as seeds. As in the sea, it seems that on the land one key food chain collapsed: the one with leaves as its basic raw material. These leaves were the food of some of the mammals and of the herbivorous dinosaurs, which in turn were fed on by the carnivorous dinosaurs. Furthermore, it is most likely that these large dinosaurs had slow rates of reproduction, which always increases the risk of extinction. Crocodiles, tortoises, birds, and insects seem to have been little affected. The two first named are known to be able to survive for long periods without food, and both can be scavengers (feed on dead material). Indeed, with the deaths of so many other animals and with much dead plant material, the food chain based on detritus would have been well-supplied. Many insects feed on dead material; furthermore, most have at least one resting stage in which they are very resistant to damage. In unfavorable conditions some may take a long time to develop: there is a record of a beetle larva living in dead wood for over 40 years before becoming an adult. Some birds were scavengers, but the survival of many lineages is a puzzle. What happened in the biological story just after these extinctionswhat is found in and just above the boundary layer between the deposits of the Cretaceous and those of the Tertiary (65¨C2.6 million years ago), termed the K/T boundary For a very short period the dominant microorganisms in marine deposits were usually diatoms and dinoflagellates(both single-celled types of plankton).The important feature for the survival of both these groups was the ability to form rotective cysts (sacs around organisms) that rested on the sea floor. Above these, in the later deposits, are the remains of other minute plankton, but the types are quite different from those of the Late Cretaceous. In terrestrial deposits a sudden and dramatic increase in fern plant spores marks the boundary in many parts of the world; ferns are early colonizers of barren landscapes. The fern spike (sudden increase), as it istermed, has been found also in some marine deposits (such was the abundance of fern spores blown around the world), and it occurs in exactly the same layer of deposit where the plankton disappear. We can conclude that the major marine and terrestrial events occurred simultaneously. Many theories have been put forward for the extinction of the dinosaurs, but most of them can be dismissed. Since 1980 there have been more focused, but still controversy-ridden, investigations. In that year Louis and Walter Alvarez and colleagues from the University of California published their research on the amounts of various metals in the boundary between Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks (K/T boundary) in Italy, Denmark, and New Zealand. Theyhad found, accidentally, that a rare metal, iridium, suddenly became very abundant exactly at the boundary and then slowly fell away. This phenomenon, known as the iridium spike, has now been identified in K/T boundary deposits in over a hundred other sites in the world. Iridium occurs in meteorites and volcanic material, but in the latter case it is accompanied by elevated levels of nickel and chromium. These other metals are not especially abundant at the K/T boundary. The Alvarezes concluded that the iridium spike was due to a large asteroid that struck Earth 65 million years ago.。

亚太5月新sat首考阅读：如何锁定正确选项亚太5月首场SAT考试完毕，当前针对学员在作阅读的时候，会发生错题的情况究竟原因能够归到什么理由里面。

是文章整体比较难么？不过，因为我们做题的时候是以问题为导向的，并不需要通篇阅读文章，所以即使整篇文章中出现了相对来说非常难以理解的内容，我们还是只要确认题干锁定的具体句子实行理解就好么？或是在篇章中遇到了不能够马上辨识的单词么？上边这些情况，似乎也不尽然，如果是专有名词或者是学术类名词，因为不要求透彻理解这种生词，我们采用缩读的方法就好。

那么也就是大伙常常遇到的一种情况了。

句子也理解了，选项也看懂了，但就是没选对。

于是我们便能够把问题转到另一个面：原句理解和准确选项之间的关系，不是非常的明确。

或者说，大家对于准确选项究竟应该是个什么样儿，还是不确定。

那么，我们现在就跟同学们分享下，究竟答案长成什么样儿才算准确。

【第一】我们要明确整个做题步骤，也就是说要弄懂准确答案的来源。

有这样一个公式，准确答案=题干在原文的强调。

所以我们获知到，最初的准确答案引导是对于题干的准确理解，然后才涉及到原文的精准翻译，最后一步是匹配选项。

【第二】当我们翻译完题干锁定的原句以后，先不要着急回到选项实行匹配。

而是应该首先对于题干锁定句实行解析。

那么这样的解析又有几个步骤？我们首先看下原句的解析方向一共有两个：（一）正向同意改写正向同意改写，其实这样的原句和答案的关系非常的相似，即原句的同意句改写。

选项和原句中的词也有很多雷同的，当然，这样的情况等同于只要锁定就能够答对，基本能够分类成送分题。

如，原句：我是你的SAT阅读老师。

选项：我是你的老师 / 我教你SAT阅读。

成为准确选项。

（二）反向/松散改写这其中还分成两个情况。

【第一种为，相对论】。

相对论，打个比方就是原句的句子和准确选项之间的关系像照镜子。

本质一样，处处相对应。

如，原句：我是你的致赢SAT阅读老师。

选项：你是我的致赢SAT阅读学生。

【导语】在考前最紧张的时刻，联合三⽴在线教育为⼤家整理了SAT阅读说明⽂例题解析，希望对⼤家的备考有所帮助！Informative的⽂章⽬的在于inform the reader，⽂章不会⽀持关于⼀个问题的任何⼀⽅，尽管他们可能会在⽂章中讲其他⼈的观点;Argumentative的⽂章会讲解作者⾃⼰的观点，⽽且作者会⽤其他的信息来⽀持这个观点。

⽂章的主要⽬的是⽤特定的证据以及逻辑框架来⽀持⾃⼰的论断。

2.2如何寻找说明⽂⼤意 (Big picture) 为了寻找⽂章的Big picture, 这⾥强烈建议读者在阅读篇章的过程中mark重要的内容。

对于不同类型的⽂章我们mark的内容当然也是不同的。

Narrative的⽂章：作者的Emotion(或Emotion发展变化的过程) Informative—summary：具体的事物 Informative—analysis: the author’s analysis, tone, opinion Argumentative—Argue for: Main Point, Conclusion/Concession Argumentative—Argue Against: others’ opinion, the author’s opinion Paired Passages—Common, Main Point or Emotion of each passage Informative(说明⽂)的篇章来源包括⼈⽂学，社会科学以及⾃然科学。

现在我们来看Informative类的⽂章如何mark,寻找big picture的例⼦。

例⼀： In many respects living Native Americans remain as mysterious, exotic, and unfathomable to their contemporaries atthe end of the twentieth century as they were to the Pilgrim settlers over three hundred fifty years ago. Native rights, motives, customs, languages, and aspirations are misunderstood by Euro-Americans out of a culpable ignorance that is both self-serving and self-righteous. Part of the problem may well stem from the long-standing tendency of European or Euro-American thinkers to regard Native Americans as fundamentally and profoundly different, motivated more often by mysticism than by ambition, charged more by unfathomable visions than by intelligence or introspection. This idea is certainly not new. Rousseau’s* “noble savages” wandered, pure of heart, through a pristine world. Since native people were simply assumed to be incomprehensible, they were seldom comprehended. Their societies were simply beheld, often through cloudy glasses, and rarely probed by the tools of logic and deductive analysis automatically reserved for cultures prejudged to be “civilized.”And on those occasions when Europeans did attempt to formulate an encompassing theory, it was not, ordinarily, on a human-being-to-human-being basis, but rather through an ancestor-descendant model. Native Americans, though obviously contemporary with their observers, were somehow regarded as ancient, examples of what Stone Age Europeans must have been like. It’s a great story, an international crowd pleaser, but there is a difficulty: Native Americans were, and are, Homo sapiens sapiens. Though often equipped with a shovel-shaped incisor tooth, eyes with epicanthic folds, or an extra molar cusp, Native American people have had to cope, for the last forty thousand years or so, just like everyone else. Their cultures have had to make internal sense, their medicines have had to work consistently and practically, their philosophical explanations have had to be reasonably satisfying and dependable, or else the ancestors of those now called Native Americans would truly have vanished long ago. The reluctance in accepting this obvious fact comes from the Eurocentric conviction that the West holds a monopoly on science, logic, and clear thinking. To admit that other, culturally divergent viewpoints are equally plausible is to cast doubt on the monolithic center of Judeo-Christian belief: that there is but one of everything—God, right way, truth—and Europeans alone knew what that was. If Native American cultures were acknowledged as viable, then European societies were something less than an exclusive club. It is little wonder, therefore, that Native Americans were perceived not so much as they were but as they had to be, from a European viewpoint. They dealt in magic, not method. They were stuck in their past, not guided by its precedents. Such expedient misconception argues strongly for the development and dissemination of a more accurate, more objective historical account of native peoples—a goal easier stated than accomplished. Native American societies were nonliterate before and during much of the early period of their contact with Europe, making the task of piecing together a history particularly demanding. The familiar and reassuring kinds of written documentation found in European societies of equivalent chronological periods do not exist, and the forms of tribal record preservation available—oral history, tales, mnemonic devices, and religious rituals— strike university-trained academics as inexact, unreliable, and suspect. Western historians, culture-bound by their own approach to knowledge, are apt to declaim that next to nothing, save the evidence of archaeology, can be known of early Native American life. To them, an absolute void is more acceptable and rigorous than an educated guess. However, it is naïve to assume that any culture’s history is perceived without subjective prejudice. Every modern observer, whether he or she was schooled in the traditions of the South Pacific or Zaire, of Hanover, New Hampshire, or Vienna, Austria, was exposed at an early age to one or another form of folklore about Native Americans. For some, the very impressions about Native American tribes that initially attracted them to the field of American history are aspects most firmly rooted in popular myth and stereotype. Serious scholarship about Native American culture and history is unique in that it requires an initial, abrupt, and wrenching demythologizing. Most students do not start from point zero, but from minus zero, and in the process are often required to abandon cherished childhood fantasies of superheroes or larger-than-life villains. 读者可以⾃⾏⽤3分钟的时间来寻找⼀下这篇⽂章的Big picture。

SAT阅读考试真题解析（2017年1月21日）针对2017年1月21日SAT阅读部分的真题，今天文都国际小编为同学们做个解析，供大家参考。

第一篇文学1文章梗概小说选自美国心理分析大师Hawthorne的The Blithedale Romance。

节选段落的主人公 Fauntleroy是一个肤浅虚荣的富家子弟。

毫无追求的Fauntleroy 曾经过着奢华的生活，他对待妻女也十分冷漠。

后来由于犯罪，Fauntleroy不得已背井离乡，财产被人瓜分，处境十分悲凉。

文章秉承了Hawthorne一贯的风格，对人物的刻画非常细腻，同时又有强烈的讽刺意味，对比了主人公落魄前后大相径庭的处境。

2考题解析1)主旨题选择对文章的总结, 正确答案是“一个肤浅的人的懦弱性格导致了人生中的失败”。

双子询证题: 前题问及为何Fauntleroy逃走之后很快被遗忘，应选择“他没有留下深刻印象”; 后题应选“Seldom, indeed, was it recalled, even by his closet former intimates. Nor could it have been otherwise. The man laid no real touch on any mortal’s heart.”2)词汇题“His home might almost be styled a palace”, 正确答案called.3)态度题问及Fauntleroy对女儿的态度，正确答案为underappreciated，用daughter 可以定位到文章首段“And there was born to him a child, a beautiful daughter, whom he took from the beneficent hand of God with no just sense of her immortal value.”3解题技巧本次考试的小说选段难度适中，文章中出现的单词略难于OG中的篇章，但定位难度并不高。

2017 年05 月06 日托福考试真题解析托福阅读Passage one主题：Photography and Pictorial Weekly 内容回忆：第一段描述electrotype 这种新兴科技使得杂志能够更快的被打印出来，并使得Pictorial weekly 这种型号较大的新闻杂志发展起来，该杂志往往有很多的illustration 插画。

第二段描述使得pictorial weekly 发展起来的第二个关键因素就在于photography。

daguerreotype 这种早期的相片的出现使得早起相片里常见的人像广为流传，能让艺术家在离肖像模特十分远的地方也能够按照杂志里的图片做出画作。

第三段说明照片对于杂志的影响不单单在于提供了插画的主题上，还使得艺术家在创作插画时会模仿早期相片的感觉。

因为人们觉得，比起艺术作品，相片更能够传递真实感。

第五段说，插画的主题从comic 变得更为formality. 虽然comic 的倾向仍然在部分杂志里有所保留，但是新的趋势是更为注重节制，礼节（propriety ）.词汇题：1.Plentiful- abundant2.Emergence-development3.Routinely-often4.Distinctive-characteristicPassage two主题：Effects of Predation on distribution of species 内容回忆：本文共四段。

第一段讲了有实验表明当被引入了predator 的时候，prey 就会被predator 捕食殆尽，然而因为是人为条件下的结果，我们有理由认为在自然环境中并非如此。

因为predator 会失去自己的food resource 之一，所以会选择将prey 保留到可持续的水平。

第2 段说明了捕食影响物种分布的第一种方式是prey switching。

在某种prey 比较少时，就会转向其它的猎物。

【导语】在考前最紧张的时刻，⽆忧考联合三⽴在线教育为⼤家整理了新SAT阅读历史类⽂章类型解析，希望对⼤家的备考有所帮助！新SAT经过改⾰，加⼊了让众多学⽣觉得既陌⽣⼜头疼的历史⽂献类⽂章(US Founding Documents and The Great Global Conversation)，这类⽂章主要分为两⼤类：⼀类是和⼥权主义有关，⼥权所包含的内容也⾮常⼴泛，⽐如：⼥性选举权，受教育权，经济权⼒等;另⼀类是和建国⽂献(美国历史)有关，⽐如：独⽴战争，解放⿊⼈奴⾪宣⾔，美国宪法等，当然也不排除有时候会涉及到欧洲历史。

虽然很多学⽣都对历史类⽂章犯怵，但是这类⽂章也涵盖着相应的阅读⽅法，如果能学会巧妙的⽂章分析，难题也会随之迎刃⽽解，接下来就以OG中的⼀篇历史类⽂章为例，具体介绍⼀下这类⽂章的分析⽅法，⼀起来学习⼀下吧。

相关⽂章推荐，请点击：讽刺⽂学、⼥性主义和移民⽂化，新SAT阅读考试考什么？sat阅读⽂章书⽬-美国历史篇This passage is adapted from Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s address to the 1869 Woman Suffrage Convention in Washington, DC.⾸先，⽂章开始前是⼩字部分，这部分⼀般会介绍⽂章节选⾃哪个作家的哪本书或者哪篇演讲，主要内容关于什么，那针对本篇的⼩字部分，可以明显的看到“Woman Suffrage”这个字眼，由此我们可以知道本⽂讨论的主题是关于⼥性选举权的。

此外，通过⼩字部分的介绍，我们还可以看出来⽂章的体裁，毫⽆疑问这篇属于论述⽂，所以看⽂章的时候⼀定要学会找论点，论点才是作者最想要表达的重中之重，读懂了论点，全⽂的⼤意也就基本懂了。

I urge a sixteenth amendment, because “manhood suffrage”, or a man’s government, is civil, religious, and social disorganization. The male element is a destructive force, stern, selfish…, Through what slavery, slaughter, and sacrifice,…while mercy has veiled her face and all hearts have been dead alike to love and hope!这是本⽂的第⼀段话，第⼀句提到了“我敦促第16次修正案，因为男性选举权缺乏社会秩序，男性因素是⼀种毁灭性的⼒量”，⽤了⼀系列的形容词具体展开描述，后⾯也没有任何的转折词出现，因此，可以总结出这段的主要论点就是要求赋予⼥性选举权。

2017sat答案近日，备受关注的2017年SAT考试答案已经正式公布。

这批答案的发布，一时间吸引了全球各地考生的关注和热议。

在这次公布的答案中，不仅涵盖了SAT的各个科目和难度级别，还提供了详细的解释和解答方法，帮助考生更好地理解和掌握考试内容。

作为全球各大高校入学考试的重要组成部分，SAT考试一直备受瞩目。

以往的考试中，答案和解答方法往往被保密，这让不少考生感到茫然和无措。

而此次发布的答案则打破了这种局面，为需要帮助和指导的考生提供了极大的方便。

从整体上来看，2017年SAT考试的答案难度较为适中，涉及到的知识点和考查方法都比较常见和典型。

在数学科目中，难度相对较高的几何和三角函数也得到了较为充分的考察和展现。

语文科目中，阅读理解和语法知识同样是考生需要重点关注的一部分。

此外，其中的essay写作部分，则更加注重考生的独立思考和论证能力，要求考生在有限的时间内准确表达自己的观点和充分论证。

对于需要参加SAT考试的学生来说，参考这些答案和解答方法是非常有益的。

一方面，他们可以通过对答案的研究和思考，更好地了解并掌握SAT考试的规律和要求。

另一方面，他们还可以通过这些答案的解释和讲解，进一步提高自己的知识水平和应试能力。

需要注意的是，这些答案和解答方法仅供参考和借鉴，不应视为考试的标准答案。

每年的SAT考试都存在难度和题型的不同，因此考生需保持警觉和谨慎，认真分析和思考每个题目的解法和答案。

更为重要的是，考生需要保持良好的心态和应试状态，以最佳的状态应对每个考题和考场里的挑战。

总之，2017年SAT考试的答案和解答方法的发布，为全球各地的考生提供了极大的帮助和方便。

对于参加SAT考试的学生来说，他们需要充分利用这些答案和解答方法的优势，提高自己的应试能力和考试水平。

而对于全球的教育工作者和教育研究者来说，这些答案和解答方法也提供了有益的参考和借鉴，帮助他们更好地理解和分析SAT考试的现状和趋势，为提高全球教育质量和教育透明度作出更多的贡献。