12月SAT阅读必做的30道真题.

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2008年1月

9

7-19

The following passage address the issue of accuracy in the translation of poetry. Passage 1 discusses epic poems composed in ancient Greek and attributed to Homer. Passage 2 considers a tenth-century poem written in Anglo-Saxon, an early form of English.

2008年5月

7

19-24

Passage 1 is adapted from a 1998 essay, Passage 2, adapted from an 1885 novel, is about a self-made businessman named Lapham, who manufactures house paint. In the passage, Lapham is being interviewed by Bartley, a journalist.

2008年10月

3

13-24

The following passage is from a 1992 publication in which the author, a physicist, discusses “reality” and the models that human beings use to understand the universe.

2008年10月

6

11-16

The passage is adapted from a contemporary book about jewelry.

2008年10月

9

7-19

The following passages discuss an important issue in urban life.

2009年1月

3

17-24

This passage from a 1992 book discusses the Bajau people of Southeast Asia, who are often rerred to as sea nomads.

2009年5月

5

10-15

The following passage is by an Italian writer and chemist. Here he discusses a former college classmate whom he first met in 1939.

2009年5月

8

7-20

Passage 1 is adapted from a 1998 book; Passage 2 is adapted from a 2005 article by a well-known United States writer.

2009年10月

7

16-24

This passage was written by a geologist and published in 2001.

2009年10月

9

7-18

This passage was written in 1971 by a woman who is a professor of art history.

2010年1月

9

7-18

In Passage 1, an experienced fiction writer provides advice to her daughter, a beginning author. In Passage 2, a literary critic analyzes some attitudes among twentieth-century novelists.

2010年5月

2

13-24

These passages discuss string theory, the as-yet-unproven idea that all matter in the universe is made up of “strings” so small that they have not been detected by instruments. The passages were adapted from books published in 2000 and 2006, respectively.

2010年5月

8

7-19

The following passage is from a nineteenth-century British novel. The narrator is Gabriel Betteredge, the butler of Lady Julia Verinder, owner of a stolen diamond called the Moonstone.

2010年10月

9

7-20

The passage is adapted from a 2004 book about prominent film critic Pauline Kael, written by an editor and critic who knew her personally.

2011年1月

4

10-16

These passages discuss Leroy “Satchel” Paige (1906-1982), a star professional baseball pitcher who continued to play successfully even when he was much older than any other player. Passage 1 is adapted from a 1994 biography; Passage 2 from Paige’s autobiography.

2011年1月

4

17-25

In the following passage, adapted from a 2002 novel, a young woman named Harriet Cleve is thinking about a house, now in ruins, that once belonged to her family.

2011年1月

9

7-19

In this passage adapted from a 1999 memoir by a published writer, the author rlects on one of her childhood experiences with her grandmother in the 1950s.

2011年5月

3

13-25

After segregationist practices barred Black American singer Marian Anderson from a scheduled Washington, D. C., performance in 1939, the federal government sponsored her in a public concert on Easter Sunday. In this adaptation from a 2003 novel, Delia, a Black American voice student, arrives for that concert.

2011年10月

3

13-24

These two passages discuss nuclear power in the United States. In 1979 the most serious nuclear plant accident in American history occurred at Three Mile Island in Middletown, Pennsylvania. No physical harm came to workers or people in the community, but sweeping changes in the nuclear industry resulted. Passage 1 is from a collection of essays published in 1982; Passage 2 is from a 2005 article.

2011年10月

8

7-19

The following is adapted from the introduction to a 2003 biography of civil rights activist Ella Baker (1903-1986).

2012年1月

2

13-24

Passage 1 is adapted from a 2000 book written by a historian; Passage 2 is adapted from a 1990 autobiography of a well-known African American photographer.

2012年1月

4

10-15

This passage is from a novel about an aspiring young writer living in London in 1950.

2012年5月

7

16-24

The following passage is from a novel, published in 2005, about a British family.

2012年5月

9

7-19

These two passages are adapted from books published in 2000 and 2004, respectively.

2012年10月