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新SAT阅读真题二

Exercise 2

This passage is excerpted from L.M. Mon tgomery. The Gossip of Valley View, "origi nally published in 1910.

It was the ?rst of April, and Julius Barrett, aged fourteen, perched on his father's gatepost, watched ruefully the low descending sun, and counted that

day lost. He had not succeeded in "fooli ng" a sin gle pers on, although he had tried repeatedly. One and all, old and young, of his inten ded victims had bee n too wary for

Julius. Hence, Julius was disgusted and ready for anything in the way of a stratagem or a spoil.

The Barrett gatepost topped the highest hill in Valley View. Julius could see the entire settlement, from "Young" Thomas Everett's farm, a mile to the

west, to Adelia Williams's weather-grey little house on a moon rise slope to the east. He was gaz ing moodily dow n the muddy road whe n Dan

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1 Unit 3-Conversation 1 Kate: Are you on your way to the boathouse? Janet: No. What's happening? Kate: There's a practice race to help choose who will row on the college team. Mark really wants a place on the team, so he has to row well today. And I'm going to watch. Janet: Well, I'd like to, but I have an essay to finish. Kate: That's too bad! I know how you feel. Janet: Maybe I can come later? Kate: Sure. I'm thinking of having lunch in the boathouse bar, and then watching the rowing all afternoon. Janet: How do I get to the boathouse? Kate: It's easy. Can you see where we are on the map? Here, look! Janet: OK, which way round are we standing? ... Yes, got it! Kate: OK, go down Catte Street, and turn right into the High Street. Go along the High Street and turn left into St Aldates. Walk along St Aldates, past Christ Church College until you get to Folly Bridge. Janet: I see. Kate: Then when you get to the bridge, cross over the river ... turn left and walk along the river bank. Keep going along the river ... And you're there! The boathouses are on the right, and the Hertford College Boathouse is the last one along. You can't miss it. Janet: Thanks. I'm looking forward to seeing the rowing. Kate: No problem. We shouldn't miss the rowing —it's a great university tradition! Janet: I know, Mark was telling me. Kate: Like the boat race between Oxford and Cambridge universities every year. Janet: Of course! The great rivals! Kate: The Boat Race has been going for years, maybe nearly 200 years. Janet: And Oxford won it this year! Kate: Yes, but Cambridge was very close behind. Anyway see you later, down by the river. Janet: Bye. Unit 3-Conversation 2 Kate: So the rules are ... the boats follow each other and the one behind has to bump the one in front ... just like that one has done. Janet: Is that Mark's boat? Kate: Yes! Look, his boat is about to bump the one in front! Well done! Mark: Hi you guys! Kate: Fantastic, Mark. You were amazing! Mark: Well,we won the practice race, but I'm worried about getting a place on the team.The problem is that there are at least three other people on the team who have rowed before.And I can't help thinking that they were better than me. Janet: Don't worry, Mark. Everything will be OK. Mark: And then I hurt my knee getting into the boat. Janet: Oh, I'm so sorry! Kate: Too bad, but it's only a scratch. Listen up, Janet is right. No need to get nervous, Mark. You were the strongest looking guy in the boat today. Chill out! Mark: Hey, they're putting the team list on the door. Janet: Let's go over and see. Mark: No, you go! I can't bear to look! Kate: OK. Kate: Hey, Mark, great news! You got a place on the college team! Janet: Congratulations! Kate: That's great, Mark, you deserve it. You trained so hard. Mark: I can't believe it! Unit 3-Outside view Part 1 Narrator: A historic moment, and yet he made it so easy. Usain Bolt became the first man to successfully defend both the 100- and 200-meter Olympic sprint titles, and he went on to anchor Jamaica’s winning run in the four by 100 hundred meters relay in world record time. At the end of that race, Bolt gave a nod to another track star with a “Mobot” gesture, signature of Mo Farah, who became only the seventh person ever to win the 5000 and 10000 double, in front of an ecstatic home crowd. Mo Farah: It’s not going to affect me, I’m the same to old Mo, nothing’s going to change. It just means you’ve got two good medals and…but something you’ve worked so hard for, I’m just going to enjoy it. Narrator: Also a legend in the making, Kenyan David Rudisha, who smashed the 800 meters record which had stood since 1976. Swimmer Michael Phelps broke another long-standing record. He became the world’s most successful Olympian with 22 medals, 18 of them gold, breaking the record set in 1968. His last podium before retiring was an emotional moment. Phelps: Yeah, as soon as I stepped up, ah, onto the podium, I…I could feel the tears starts coming. And, you know, I said to Nathan, I said, “Uh-oh, here they come. This could be…this could be pretty brutal up here.” And they just started coming. And I tried to fight it but then I just…I just decided just to let it go. Part 2 Narrator: Tears too for cyclist Chris Hoy, who became Britain’s most successful Olympian, with six golds. And then there were also moment of anguish and frustration. China’s star hurdler Liu Xiang crash out of his second consecutive Olympics, and Brazil’s footballers once again failed to lift gold. 一 寸 光 阴 不 可 轻

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Unit 10 With a failing memory, you meet a lot of new people.

Lead in > Task 1

1-5AAABA 6-10ABAAA

Basic listening practice

CDABC

Listening in > Task 1

1-5BCDCA

Listening in > Task 2

ABBAB

Listening in > Task 3

Your answer Correct answer

<1> brain brain

<2> nerve connections nerve connections

<3> musical instrument musical instrument

<4> your brain your brain

<5> blood circulation blood circulation

<6> vegetables vegetables

<7> Protect and support Protect and support

<8> healthy healthy

<9> sugar sugar

<10> memory loss 2 / 6 <11> nerve functions

<12> tobacco

<13> Improve Improve

<14> remembering remembering

<15> temporary temporary

Let's talk > Task 1

Your answer Correct answer

<1> memory power memory power

A Chance in a million 百万分之⼀的⼏率

We are less credulous than we used to be. In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by

presenting his readers with a series of coincidences—most of them wildly improbable. Readers happily accepted the fact that

an obscure maidservant was really the hero's mother. A long-lost brother, who was presumed dead, was really alive all the

time and wickedly plotting to bring about the hero's downfall. And so on. Modern readers would find such naive solutions

totally unacceptable. Yet, in real life, circumstances do sometimes conspire to bring about coincidences which anyone but a

nineteenth century novelist would find incredible. When I was a boy, my grandfather told me how a German taxi driver, Franz

Bussman, found a brother who was thought to have been killed twenty years before. While on a walking tour with his wife, he