SAT阅读SPP策略(一).

一．模式简介：

SPP模式，即short pair passage, 双篇短阅读模式。我们首先要明确的是，这两篇文章一定是有或多或少的联系的，否则把他们放在一起就没有任何意义。而将两篇文章罗列在一起进行出题也是SAT考试的一大特色。

双篇文章的阅读主要考查考生对两篇文章关系的理解。这种文章类型要求考生对两篇（一对）相互关联的短文章进行阅读并作答。每篇文章后面有4-5个问题，字数限制在250-350字。这部分相对于前面的单篇阅读难度有所提升。我们建议考生的答题时间为5-6分钟。

二．做题策略：

在作答这种类型的文章题目时，考生可以直接读原文而不需要先去看题目。因为这类文章主要考察的是两篇文章的相互关系，不同点是什么，相同点是什么。把握住出题人的用心，考生上来直接读题目，并探究两篇文章的异同，就可以了。

具体步骤如下：

⑴ 简单阅读两篇文章并作简要笔记

在拿到试题后，考生可以直接对两篇短文章进行阅读。当然我们要有针对性，这样才能节省时间并提高准度。在阅读过程中，有三类句子我们需要特别关注：a. 文章开头第一句；b. 文章最后一句；c. 文章中的转折部分。

在阅读过程中我们需要判断两篇文章的关系。两篇文章可能是相反的关系，也可能是相互补充互相支持的关系，还有可能只有很松散的关系，即某些地方是有相互关系的。但是不管怎样，两篇文章都是平等的关系，都是各家之言，而无所谓对错。

⑵ 迅速扫读题干

在完成对文章的简要阅读后，我们开始对题干进行迅速扫读。之前我们已经为大家介绍过了在这一步中我们要做哪些事情，即首先定位题型，再寻找定位词等。这里不再赘述。

⑶ 审查选项

⑷ 做出选择

（以上两点同样可参见在上一节ssp中的介绍）

三．边练边说

下面我们为大家选出一篇SAT 真题（2009年5月），以讲解刚才提到的做题策略

The passage below are followed by questions based on their content; questions following a pair of related passage may also be based on the relationship between the paired passage ,Answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage and in any introductory material that may be provided

Questions 9-12 are based on the following passage

Passage 1

In a recent survey concerning plagiarism among scholars, two University of Alabama economists asked 1,200 of their colleagues if they believed their work had ever been stolen. A startling 40 percent answered yes. While not a random sample, the responses still represent hundreds of cases of alleged plagiarism. Very few of them will ever be dragged into the sunlight. That’s because academia often discourages victims form seeking justice, and when they do, tends to ignore their complaints. “It’s like cockroaches,” says the author of a recent book about academic fraud. “For every one you see on the floor, there are a hundred behind the stove”

Passage 2

Words belong to the person who wrote them. There are few simpler ethical notions than this, particularly as society directs more and more energy toward the creation of intellectual property. In the past 30 years, copyright laws have been strengthened, fighting piracy has become an obsession with Hollywood, and, in the worlds of academia and publishing, plagiarism has gone from being bad literary manners to something close to a felony. When a noted historian was recently found to have lifted passages from other historians, she was asked to resign form the board of the Pulitzer Prize committee. And why not? If she had robbed a bank, she would have been fired the next day.

9. Both passages discuss which of the following?

(A) Reactions to plagiarism committed by scholars

(B) An increase in plagiarism by college professors

(C) The impact that academic fraud can have on the communication of scholarly ideas

(D) A major change in copyright laws that occurred within the past three decades

(E) Recent and highly publicized cases of plagiarism

10. The “author” (line 10, Passage 1) would likely argue that the historian’s having “lifted passages from other historians” (line 21-22, Passage2) is

(A) a relatively harmless error

(B) an example of academic collaboration

(C) deserving of harsh punishment

(D) far from an isolated incident

(E) a comparatively recent problem

11. The author of Passage 2 would likely respond to the actions attributed to “academia” in lines8-9 in Passage 1 (academia …complaints) by asserting that

(A) these actions are consistent with the approach common in publishing

(B) academic plagiarism has usually been misrepresented in surveys

(C) researchers should not be held accountable for inadvertent mistakes

(D) universities increasingly amnesty to researchers serious offense

(E) colleges should provide amnesty to researchers accused of plagiarism

12. Which best describes the relationship between the two passages?

(A) Passage 1 advocates a strategy that Passage 2 considers outmoded

(B) Passage 1 envisions an idealistic condition that Passage 2 finds impossible

(C) Passage 1 provides a detached analysis to which Passage 2 responds with alarm

(D) Passage 1 describes a state of affairs that Passage 2 views as inexcusable.

(E) Passage 1 emphasizes the causes of a problem and Passage 2 emphasizes its fects.