【SAT阅读保高分秘诀】做对题 再避免做错题
SAT阅读的重要前提：词汇量
虽然新SAT取消了老SAT中的词汇填空题，貌似单词量方面学生们应该没有那么大的压力了。但是从目前情况来看的话，阅读中的单词难度其实并没有明显的降低, 例如scrupulous, infringe, phlegmatic等词汇仍然属于中等偏上难度。而词汇的这种硬实力在很大程度上决定着考生在考场上的心里素质，从而影响考试的正常发挥。
虽然中国老师们在培训做题方法上确实很有一套，但是说实话，要看不懂文章的情况下做出题目，这个就不是一个老师能做得到的了。老程是一个游戏迷（曾经的WOWer），举一
个类比，就像一个抗怪的坦克，风骚的跑位固然重要（做题方法），但是你是坦克啊，一身合格的装备是抗怪的第一步（词汇量）。所以在老程介绍阅读方法之前，请务必审视下自己的词汇量是否合格。
SAT阅读做题方法
好的方法分两种，一种是如何做对题，一种是如何避免犯错。
合格的老师教会学生如何做对题，优秀的老师教会学生如何避免犯错误。
一、如何做对题
如何做对题？首先学生需要解决的是通过词汇的积累和对句子的理解，达到对文义的大致了解，然后配合老师介绍的解题方法（题型的分拆纵向讲解）来提高做题的正确率，下面从题型的角度来具体说明：
词汇题：
新SAT阅读中的词汇题的考察比老SAT要丰富些，不仅仅是对单词字面意思的考察（本
义和引申义的取舍，熟词僻义，词组固定搭配等），其中还有一种是词义的辨析（在文法单项中也有涉及）。例如选项中会同时出现unreasonable和incorrect (都可以表示“错误”)，deference和reverence(都可以表示“尊敬”)，infringe和trespass (都可以表示“侵犯”)，这就把对于词汇简单的汉语含义的理解，上升到了美国本土学生的语感以及语境的使用了。
我们先做个类比：如果我们是一个对外汉语的老师，如果一个老外问我们量词之间的区别，“只”、“个”、“头”、“台”等，我们是该说一只鱼还是一条鱼呢？其实对我们普通老百姓而
言，我们靠的就是语言，我们会用带入法，觉得“一条鱼”的说法是make sense的，那么答案就是它了。但是如果换成了英文，这就有点令人着急啦！例如上文提到的unreasonable 和incorrect的区别，除了文中有“合情却不一定合理”的意思外，还有就是unreasonable 这个词的本身就含有absurd (荒谬的)意思，从态度的程度轻重而言的话，这个词是带有一定侮辱性的，从而在上下文中incorrect更合适。
再有上面提及的infringe和trespass区别在于trespass一般指物理性的侵犯，如果用在“权力，风俗习惯等”这种抽象的领域就不太合适了，这些对美国学生就是一个简单的语感
问题，但是对于英语非母语的使用者而言，我们就需要在平时多注意，多积累，多从语境的记忆单词。当然对于考试培训而言，这就要看一个合格的老师如何给学生系统的总结了（毕
竟培训走的是短期速成的路）。其它的词汇题类型：例如“本义和引申义的取舍”，“熟词僻义”等，我们后期会继续解析。
态度题：
态度题最重要的是方向的取舍，正态度，负态度，和中立型态度的判断。这里就不得不提及下历史类的建国文献了。随着时间的推移，很多原本中性的词，会逐渐变成现代汉语中的贬义词或者褒义词，这就给学生做题造成了很大的思维定势障碍。
可汗学院的模拟题上有一道题还是很经典的，“prejudice”这个单词在很多学生眼里是一个标准的贬义词，但是在特定语境的情况下，“偏见”是可以解释为：偏向性的意见或者观点。例如，老程很帅，这就是一种偏向性的意见，所以从理论而言，“偏见”可以指任何带有感情色彩的价值观（这样的例子在SAT的兄弟考试ACT考试中也有出现过）。
还有一种态度题的考察特别需要注意（尤其是在小说中），可能一个单词本身它确实只有负态度的含义，但是在结合特定的上下文场景中，它确实也只有取正态度才能翻译得通的情况下，那么这个时候就一定要优先考虑上下文。例如我们在口语中有时候会情不自禁得冒出一
些“dirty words”,但是在很多时间，这个所谓的“脏话”其实并不是表达负态度，而是一种正态度的情感抒发或者感叹！以上都是一些态度题的直接考法。
大家也不能忽视一些态度题的间接型考法，例如很多态度题是结合修辞型考法的。例如可汗学院上有一篇马克吐温的一篇传记性小说，当中考察了一个“walking”，当时的语境是“船在walking", 这明显是一种修辞性考法，因为答案选的是这个"walking"，作用是表达作者的幽默，大家需要好好品味这个浅浅的幽默（美国人的笑点确实低啊...）。类似的考法不止一次出现过，在另一篇Benjamin Franklin发表的关于美国宪法的文章中也有相似的考法，只不过修辞从拟人变成了类比，作用之一仍然是幽默（那篇文章的笑点就更低了...）。
最后，大家在背诵态度词的时候还需要注意问问自己，这个单词的意思到底是不是真的理解了。例如很多学生背的这个词fatalistic, 都知道中文含义是“宿命论的”意思，再问问自己宿命论的是什么感情色彩呢？下面是韦氏字典上的解释：a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them，从解释中大家可以看出这是一个负态度题。所以在曾经的考场上，它的同义词是可以对应"resigned", 表示“放弃的，绝望的”含义。
二、如何避免犯错
如何避免犯错？这就是我们上面提及的一名优秀的老师应该做的事了。很多学生就算答案做错，也不一定是答案错的很离谱。而是在两个选项间纠结的时候，不知如何取舍，从而耽误了宝贵的时间。这时候一个优秀的老师就不能简单的按照自己的思路思考问题，而得跟着学生的思路走，看看一个孩子是如何思考的，为何会纠结？在态度题中可能是因为态度词的程度强弱没有把握住？在词汇题中可能是因为代入了托福词汇题的做法？在细节题中可能代入了中式逻辑中的推理过度？在功能题中可能没有注意到上下文的逻辑关系，而只是关注了本句话的细节？等等。以上各种现象都是学生在做题过程中会遇到的问题，从而需要老师们去一一解决。
这里简单的就其中一个问题稍作展开：“推理过度”不算严格意义上的错误，因为SAT也是有推理题存在的，关键是如何把握住一个“度”的问题，不该推得时候推理，就是这个“度”过了。例如文中提到一个人走路的声音大，敲门的声音大，那么我们放着“这个人弄出了一些声响”这个选项不选，而去选择“这个人性格上很暴力”，这就是明显的推理过度了。这个
思路极其有可能是受中式语文的逻辑印象，不少语文老师为了追求文章中心大意的所谓的“深远”，而从造成了很多考生放着简单的选项（恰恰是对的选项）不选，而去选择“有深度”的错误答案，这种思路是需要调整的。
请牢记：SAT因为词汇量和文章的深度，确实会让人感觉这是一门有很有深度的考试，这个没有错。但是大家也别忘记了，在官方指南的书上，考官明确说明了SAT在绝大部分的情况下是一门“evidence-based”的考试，也就是一切都得依循着文中的证据。从这个角度说，我们可以简而言之，SAT阅读从内容上而言很有深度，但是从答案上而言，挺幼稚的。
文章背景对于解题的帮助
请大家记住，了解文章的背景仅供辅助做题，绝对不能上来就使用，尤其是在历史类或者科技类文章中，这里简单谈一下历史类中的建国文献背景知识对于做题的帮助。
从目前考过的文章来看的话，历史类文章考察的主题还是相当有限的：女权、国家政体形式、
法案类（独立宣言等）、法律。历史类文章的人物考察的大部分也是经典人物，例如：Thomas Paine, John Adam, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Stanton, Edmund Burke, Henry Thoreau等，提前了解这些经典人物的价值观对于提前预测文章的核心思想会有很大的辅助。例如他们支持美国邦联还是联邦制？对于“恶法”的容忍
度？对于有缺陷的国家政体的容忍度？反对女权主义的政客们他们常见的观点是什么？他们性格上是极端的还是理性的等等，所以从这个角度说SAT不能做到完全的公平。例如去年10月老程在泰国清迈的考场上，当一翻开看到第一篇小说是《简爱》，历史类文章是《常
识》不知道是该哭还是笑，笑得是这两篇文章老程非常熟悉，哭得是这么考真的好么？不是说好的考试很公平么？那么读过的孩子做起来一定要舒心很多，但是反过来一想，书到用时方恨少啊！
最后总结一句，SAT阅读是一门实力结合方法技巧的考试，没有实力，考试等死；没有方
法，事倍功半，祝大家在2017年的SAT考场上取得好成绩！
上海托福培训多少钱?
这个问题是学生和家长在考虑培训学校时主要考虑的问题。每个家长都希望可以省钱，然而，真正选择的时候却不能因为价钱一概而论，而是从多种角度对比分析，选择性价比最高的培训学校。
家长选择培训学校时选择价钱低的学校是毋庸置疑的，除了价钱本身之外，还要考虑以下几点：
一、师资水平的高低影响学员的成绩
考虑价钱的同时，要对比两个学校的师资，优先选择历史悠久的培训学校，该类学校的教师往往经验丰富，并且有过托福考.试经验。教师不仅能给予学生更好的学习知道，在应试注意事项和心理方面也可以给予学生很多宝贵的建议。
三立在线教育师资水平如何？上海三立教育有多名老师为ETS官方考.试机构认证的权威教师，大部分为名校海归或有多年海外工作生活经验的学者，有的则是有多年教学经验的外语专家。
二、培训课程课时的优势
课程价位相同时要注意不同阶段的课时分配情况和课时的多少。一般课程都是有基础班和强化班两种课程，不同的课程价位是不同的，要根据学生的水平看是否符合各阶段课时的分配情况。
三立在线教育培训的课程怎么样？三立在线课程设有“基础班”、“强化班”、“冲刺班”等课程。不同水平的学员可以根据自身条件选择适合自己的课程。同时，还设有1对1课程，对于那些急于出国或者时间上很紧张的学员，建议考虑这些课程。很多学员参加了培训课程后，短时间内都实现了快速提分。
三、高分学员案例的优势
三立在线教育专注留学培训十余年，拥有庞大的师资团队，经验丰富，总结众多高分技巧，培训高分学子数万名。三立教育采取免费为学生定制课程的制度，根据学生水平定制相应的课程，让家长用最少的钱享受最优质的课程。
除外，三立在线教育从事培训行业多年，拥有完善的教学体系，追踪学生的学习状况，及时向教师反映，教师会根据学生的学习情况作出相应的调整，保证学生能拿高分。
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新SAT阅读真题四
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新SAT阅读真题一
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SAT og 5阅读真题解析
SAT test 5 1. 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。 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。从句意可以看后句和前句是因果关系，前面证明了后面。 , clamlike bivalves of prehistoric times, were one of the most _________ forms of life on the Earth: more than 30,000 species have been _________ from fossil records. (A) plentiful adj. 丰富的...subtracted v. 减去 (B) ornate adj. 华丽的...retrieved v. 重新取回 (C) multifarious adj. 多方面的...catalogued v. 登记分类 (D) scarce adj. 缺乏的，罕见的...extracted v. 萃取的 (E) anachronistic adj. 时代错误的...extrapolated v. 推算，推断
2015年SAT阅读理解练习题
在备考SAT阅读的过程中，要进行大量的练习题，这样才能积累更对的考试经验。为了考生更好的备考SAT阅读考试，今天小马过河的小编为大家推荐2015年SAT阅读理解练习题，希望考生认真备考。具体内容如下： The extract is taken from a book written sixty years ago by a British scientist in which heconsiders the relationship between science and society. The pioneers of the teaching of science imagined that itsintroduction into education would remove the conventionality,artificiality, and backward-lookingness which were characteristic;of classical studies, but they were gravely disappointed. So, too, in5 their time had the humanists thought that the study of the classical authors in the original would banish at once the dull pedantry and superstition of mediaeval scholasticism. The professional schoolmaster was a match for both of them, and has almost managed to make the understanding of chemical reactions as dull 10 and as dogmatic an affair as the reading of Virgil's Aeneid. The chief claim for the use of science in education is that it teaches a child something about the actual universe in which he is living, in making him acquainted with the results of scientific 15 discovery, and at the same time teaches him how to think logically and inductively by studying scientific method. A certain limited success has been reached in the first of these aims, but practically none at all in the second. Those privileged members of the community who have been through a secondary or public school 20 education may be expected to know something about the elementary physics and chemistry of a hundred years ago, but they probably know hardly more than any bright boy can pick up from an interest in wireless or scientific hobbies out of school hours. As to the learning of scientific method, the whole thing is palpably 25 a farce. Actually, for the convenience of teachers and the requirements of the examination system, it is necessary that the pupils not only do not learn scientific method but learn precisely the reverse, that is, to believe exactly what they are told and to reproduce it when asked, whether it seems nonsense to them or 30 not. The way in which educated people respond to such quackeries as spiritualism or astrology, not to say more dangerous ones such as racial theories or currency myths, shows that fifty years of education in the method of science in Britain or Germany has produced no visible effect whatever. The only way of learning the 35 method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience, and, until the educational or social systems are altered to make this possible, the best we can expect is the production of a minority of people who are able to acquire some of the techniques of science and a still smaller minority who are able to use and 40 develop them. 1. The author implies that the 'professional schoolmaster' (line 7) has A. no interest in teaching science B. thwarted attempts to enliven education C. aided true learning D. supported the humanists
SAT测试试题
SAT试题
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SAT试题 1.An object that’s moving with constant speed travels once around a circular path.True statements about this motion include which of the following? A.The displacement is zero B. The average speed is zero C. The acceleration is zero D. None of the above A 2.Which of the following must always be true? 1.If an object’s acceleration is constant,then it must move in a straight line 2.If an object’s acceleration is zero,then its speed must remain constant 3.If an object’s speed remains constant,then its acceleration must be zero. A.1 and 2 only B.1 and 3 only C.2 only D.3 only E.2 and 3 only C 4.A frictionless inclined plane of length 20m has a maximum vertical height of 5m. If an object of mass 2 kg is planced on the plame . Which of the following best approximates the net force it feels? A.5N B.10N C.15N D.20N E.30N A 5.A person who weighs 800N steps onto a scale that is on the floor of an elevator car. If the elevator accelerates upward at a rate of 5 m/s2, what will the scale read? A.400N B.800N C.1000N D.1200N E.1600N D 6.A person standing on a horizontal floor feels two forces: the downward pull of gravity and the upward supporting force from the floor. There two forces A. have equal magnitudes and from an action /reaction pair B. have equal magnitudes but do not from an action /reaction pair C. have unequal magnitudes and from an action /reaction pair D. have unequal magnitudes and do not from an action /reaction pair E.None of the above B 7.How long would it take a car,starting from rest and accelerating uniformly in a straight line at 5m/s2,to cover a distance of 200m? A.9s B 10.5s C.12.0s D.15.5s E.20.0s A 8.A rock is dropped off a cliff and strikes the ground with an impact velocity of 30m/s.How high was the cliff? A.15m B.20m C.30m D.45m E.60m D
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Questions 10-14 are based on the following passage. This passage is from the preface to a 1997 book by a United States journalist detailing a disagreement between doctors and family members about a child's medical treatment at a hospital in California. Under my desk I keep a large carton of cassette tapes. Though they have all been transcribed, I still like to listen to them from time to time, Some are quiet and easily understood. They are filled with the voices of American doctors, interrupted occasionally by the clink of a coffee cup or beep of a pager. The rest—more than half of them—are very noisy. They are filled with the voices of the Lees family, Hmong refugees from Laos who came to the United States in 1980. Against a background of babies crying, children playing, doors slamming, dishes clattering, a television yammering, and an air conditioner wheezing, I can hear the mother's voice, by turns breathy, nasal, gargly, or humlike as it slides up and down the Hmong language's eight tones; the father's voice, louder, slower, more vehement; and my interpreter's voice, mediating in Hmong and English, low and deferential in each. The hubbub summons sense-memories: the coolness of the red metal folding chair, reserved for guests, that was always set up when I arrived in the apartment; the shadows cast by the amulet that hung from the ceiling and swung in the breeze on its length of grocer's twine; the tastes of Hmong food. I sat on the Lees' red chair for the first lime on May 19, 1988. Earlier that spring I had come to Merced, California, because I had heard that there were some misunderstandings at the county hospital between its Hmong patients and medical staff. One doctor called them "collisions," which made it sound as if two different kinds of people had rammed into each other, head on, to the accompaniment of squealing brakes and breaking glass. As it turned out, the encounters were messy but rarely frontal. Both sides were wounded, but neither side seemed to know what had hit it or how to avoid another crash. I have always felt that the action most worth watching occurs not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. These places have interesting frictions and incongruities, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one. This is especially true when the apposition is cultural. When I first came to Merced, I hoped that the culture of American medicine, about which I knew a little, and the culture of the Hmong, about which I knew nothing, would somehow illuminate each other if I could position myself between the two and manage not to get caught in the crossfire. But after getting to know the Lees family and their daughter's doctors and realizing how hard it was to blame anyone, I stopped analyzing the situation in such linear terms. Now, when I play the tapes late at night, I imagine what they would sound like if I could splice them together, so the voices of the Hmong and those of the American doctors could be heard on a single tape, speaking a common language. 10. In line 17, "summons" most nearly means (A) sends for (B) calls forth (C) requests (D) orders (E) convenes 11. It can be inferred from lines 27-33 that "collisions" was NOT an apt description because the (A) clash between Hmong patients and medical staff was indirect and baffling (B) Hmong patients and the medical staff were not significantly affected by the encounters (C) medical staff was not responsible for the dissatisfaction of the Hmong patients (D) misunderstandings between the Hmong patients and the medical staff were easy to resolve (E) disagreement reached beyond particular individuals to the community at large
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