sat阅读题型讲解

? 一定不要让自己的主观判断、个人偏好和大众理解来影响你的选择。文章里必定会有提

示信息帮助你作出准确推断。 例二：

Some people like to act like things come easy to them. Take Cynthia Procter, for instance. If there?s a test tomorrow, she?ll say something like, “Oh, I guess I?ll watch television tonight.” When I pass her house, she is practicing the scales on the piano over and over. Then in music class she always lets herself get bumped around so she falls accidentally on purpose onto the piano stool and is so surprised to find herself sitting there that she decides just for fun to try out the ole keys. And what do you know－Chopin’s waltzes just spring out of her fingertips. A regular prodigy.

Question: Which best describes the tone of sentences “And……prodigy”? (A) Sardonic (B) Anxious (C) Nonchalant (D) Reverent

(E) Amazed

解析：如果凭常识猜测，能从指尖流淌出肖邦华尔兹舞曲的钢琴手一定是受人尊敬(reverent)或让人惊叹的(amazed), 但是一定要注意整段的主旨句：Some people like to act like things come easy to them. (有些人喜欢装作凡事都能易如反掌) ，这句话和下面的例子都体现出Cynthia是一个背地里暗自刻苦，人前却装出怡然自得的虚伪钢琴手。所以，从a regular prodigy可以看出作者是在讽刺Cynthia并没有特殊才华，只是一个普通的好琴手罢了。所以正确答案应该是(A)，表明作者讽刺的态度。 ?

当题目中出现infer（推断）的时候，考生就要格外小心了。这些推断题目全部都可以从原文找到推断的论据。

所谓推断，是做出有根据的推测和结论。比如：以下的段落据推断(infer)，可以得知所有的例子都是来自于作者自己的生活 （正确选项：personal experience）。比如 “I?ve counted…my mailbox”, “promised me prizes”和 “I wrote this con artist”都说明这段文字是基于作者的个人生活来描写的。 例三： (Excerpt)

“Don?t think”, Gabriel wrote, “that I have come to believe our land is a paradise. I know all too well that life is a struggle everywhere. But I cannot conceal from you the sorrow that your words have caused me, and a few paragraphs in your letter have struck me with the impact of cold water.”

“In the first paragraph, Father, you wrote just as stirring the air with a fan will never split mountains, fits of lyrical passion will not solve arduous problems. Those words caused me to tear up an ?Ode to the Patria? which I had written. In the ode, I sang the glories of my land, basing it upon its natural opulence and upon the romanticism of a great cloud of loving sentiment. I tore it up, convinced that it was like the breeze of a fan, spending its force in the void of futility.”

Question:

(A) Juan voiced doubts about Gabriel?s economic decisions. (B) Juan encouraged Gabriel to consider practicing law in Spain. (C) Gabriel sought his father?s advice on affairs of the heart. (D) Gabriel displayed a clear reluctance to accept criticism. (E) Gabriel expressed some loftily idealistic thoughts.

解析：(A), (B)是明显的错误选项，因为本段文字是Gabriel给父亲的回信，和Juan无关。选段的内容可以用几个关键词句串起来，Gabriel一直相信祖国是美好的 （always come to believe our land is a paradise）, 虽然她知道现实是充满挣扎痛苦的 （I know all too well that life is a struggle）。父亲的信里面描绘的残酷现实让她很难受 (strike me with the impact of cold water)，她撕毁了为家乡写的颂歌 （Ode to the Patrica）, 里面表达了她的爱国之情 （glories of the land）,但是这些美景都已经成为泡沫烟影了( in the void of futility)。所以选项(E)准确表达了原文信息，即表达了一些高尚的理想主义想法。

Practice: Section A－C

Directions: Carefully read the passage below and answer the questions that follow the passage. Answer the questions based on the content of the passage: both what is stated and what is implied in the passage as well as any introductory material before the passage.

This passage is adapted from a work about travel published in 1814.

In the early period of human history, when voyages and travels were not undertaken from the view of amusement or instruction, or from political or commercial motives, the discovery of adjacent countries was chiefly affected by war, and of distant regions by commerce.

The wars of the Egyptians with the Scythians, mentioned in the pristine pages of history, must have opened faint sources of information concerning the neighboring tribes. Under the Grecian empire of Alexander and his successors, the progress of discovery by war is first marked on the page of history; and science began to attend the banners of victory.

The opulence of nature was now to be disclosed; and Greece was astonished at the miracles of India. The Romans not only inherited the Grecian knowledge, but, extending the arms to the North and West, accumulated discoveries upon regions dimly descried by the Greeks, through the obscurity in which the Phoenicians enveloped their commercial advantages.

1. The primary purpose of this passage is to A. criticize a strategy B. justify an undertaking C. explain a phenomenon D. defend an approach E. provoke a response

2. The main idea of this passage is

A. the search for scientific information engendered the desire to travel

B. the wealth of the western world was mostly derived from looting conquered regions C. the systematic conquest of weaker tribes decimated the ancient world D. the Greeks were the leaders in the fields of science in the classic world E. an increase in knowledge was a corollary of warfare

3. The author suggests that science and warfare

A. are equally important motivations for nations to undertake exploration B. are mutually exclusive

C. are painful reminders of mankind?s desire to destroy that which is unfamiliar D. are related in that scientific knowledge is increased by contact predicated on conquest E. are obscure historical processes rather than commercial enterprises

Answers:

1. C 写作目的题目就是考察考生是否理解作者的写作意图。首先排除最明显的错误选项，作者在批评什么吗？没有，所以排除A。 作者在澄清什么立场吗？作者只是在讨论战争和探索发现之间的关系，但是他没有尝试澄清什么，所以B是错误选项。选项D是不正确的

是因为作者没有辩护什么，他仅仅在陈述他的立场。选项E明显错误是因为作者没有试图从读者那里得到答案。C选项即是正确答案。不要被phenomenon（现象）所误导，在SAT考试中它的意思是任何事件，发生的事情或者可观察的事实。事实上，作者正是在解释一件已经发生的事件。

2. E 找到文章的主旨，要先试图用几个字综合归纳一下文章。作者试图说明探索和知识的增长都是战争的自然结果。正在国家征服其他领土的时候，他们同时也吸收了当地的科技发明和文化发现。注意一下错误选项都有从原文引用的词语和句子。如果不仔细阅读，很可能掉进陷阱里去，所以要了解言外