刚刚结束的2018年10月亚太区SAT考试,为了保证香港地区SAT考试的相对安全,美国大学理事把所有在香港参加SAT考生集中在亚博,一共启用了7个馆,预计至少有12000名考生参加。下面就让我们一起来看下阅读部分考情分析:
Passage 2 历史类
选自美国黑人作曲家和诗人Edward Henry “duke” Ellington 给洛杉矶的churchgoers的演讲。
文章内容:
关于黑人奴隶在美国社会中的角色。
开始作者从黑人的话语权引入,通过Hughs的一首诗“WE, TOO, SING AMERICA”来展开黑人对美国社会的各种贡献,包括文化,艺术,社会建设。从黑人参加的战争到被以奴隶贩卖到美洲大陆的那一刻,一直为美国社会做着贡献。他们绝不是起着轻微的作用。最后,黑人还是美国社会的injection,是他们不断激励督促的美国的well-being.
点评:前半段的题目稍有难度,后面好理解,难度适中。
原文:
"We, Too, Sing 'America'"
by Duke Ellington
First of all, I should like to extend my sincere appreciation to the Rev. Karl Downs for theopportunity to appear on this very fine program and express myself in a mannernot often at my disposal. Music is my business, my profession and my life …but, even though it means so much to me, I often feel that I’d like to have mysay, on some of the burning issues confronting us, in another language … inwords of mouth.
There is a good deal of talk in the world today. Some view that as a bad sign. One of the Persianpoets, lamenting the great activity of men’s tongues, cautioned them to besilent with the reminder that, “In much of your talking, thinking is halfmurdered.” This is true no doubt. Yet in the day when men are silent becausethey are afraid to speak, indeed, have been forbidden to speak, I view thevolubility of unrestricted with great satisfaction. Here in America, thesilence of Europe, silent that is except for the harsh echoes of the dictators’voices, has made us conscious of our privileges of free speech, and like thedumb suddenly given tongue, or the tongue-tied eased of restraint, we babbleand bay to beat the band. Singly, as individuals, we don’t say much ofconsequence perhaps, but put together, heard in chorus, the blustering half-truths,the lame and halting logic, the painfully sincere convictions of Joe and Mary Doaks … compose a powerfulsymphony, which like the small boy’s brave whistle in the dark, serves noticeon the hobgoblins that we are not asleep, not prey to unchallenged attack. And,so it is, with the idea in mind of adding my bit to the meaningful chorus, thatI address you briefly this evening.
I have been asked totake as the subject of my remarks the title of a very significant poem, “We,Too, Sing America,” written by the distinguished poet and author, LangstonHughes.
In the poem, Mr.Hughes argues the case for democratic recognition of the Negro on the basis ofthe Negro’s contribution to America, a contribution of labor, valor, andculture. One hears that argument repeated frequently in the Race press, fromthe pulpit and rostrum. America is reminded of the feats of Crispus Attucks,Peter Salem, Black armies in the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War,the Spanish-American War, the World War. Further, forgetful America is remindedthat we sing without false notes, as borne out by the fact that there are norecords of Black traitors in the archives of American history. This is all welland good, but I believe it to be only half the story.
We play more than aminority role, in singing “America.” Although numerically but ten percent ofthe mammoth chorus that today, with an eye overseas, sings “America” withfervor and thanksgiving, I say our ten percent is the very heart of the chorus:the sopranos, so to speak, carrying the melody, the rhythm section of the band,the violins, pointing the way.
I contend that the Negro is the creative voice of America, is creative America, and it was a happyday in America when the first unhappy slave was landed on its shores. There, inour tortured induction into this “land of liberty,” we built its most gracefulcivilization. Its wealth, its flowering fields and handsome homes; its prettytraditions; its guarded leisure and its music, were all our creations. Westirred in our shackles and our unrest awakened Justice in the hearts of acourageous few, and we recreated in America the desire for true democracy,freedom for all, the brotherhood of man, principles on which the country hadbeen founded. We were freed and as before, we fought America’s wars, providedher labor, gave her music, kept alive her flickering conscience, prodded her ontoward the yet unachieved goal, democracy — until we became more than a part ofAmerica! We — this kicking, yelling, touchy, sensitive, scrupulously demandingminority — are the personification of the ideal begun by the Pilgrims almost350 years ago. It is our voice that sang “America” when America grew too lazy,satisfied and confident to sing … before the dark threats and fire-lined cloudsof destruction frightened it into a thin, panicky quaver.
We are more than a fewisolated instances of courage, valor, achievement. We’re the injection, theshot in the arm that has kept America and its forgotten principles alive in thefat and corrupt years intervening between our divine conception and our neartragic present.
Passage 3 社科类
选自Cullbum Robert等人的“The Effects of Marine Reserves in Adjecent Fisheries”
文章内容:
Marine Reserves越来越受到人们的关注,它不仅保护和促进finshing management,而且也丰富species diversity,在菲律宾的许多实例中也证实了上述观点。加勒比海的SMMA拥有35%carol reef fish grounds,提高了fish populations。许多人开始认为拥有Marine Reserves比那些没有拥有者更富足,包括年轻人也对此持积极的态度。
Passage 4 社科类
选自Joseph Stromberg的“The Book’s Vocabulary is Different if it was Written during Hard Economic Times”
文章内容:
如果未来考古学家无法从20世纪的文学中追溯人类文明,那么或许他们能从经济的顶峰和萧条时期获取惊奇的发现。英国的一个专栏中描述了literary misery index和economic misery index之间的关系,并通过图表形式进行了展现。美国和英国的情况截然相反。
在美国,文学与经济意见的关系紧密,1940年代是美国文学的萧条时期,紧跟30年代的经济大萧条之后。造成这十年之后的主要原因有两个:第一,写作需要大量的时间,大萧条时期无法出版;第二,小说由作者创造,而作者的儿时记忆与成年后的思想并不完全相符。
相比英国,文学与经济之间的联系并不是那么的明显,因为英国的作家在创作时时根据其周诶的环境来进行选词。
正如Bently所言:“Global rconomics is part of shared emotional experiences in the 20th century.”
Passage 5 科学类
科学双篇
第一篇 选自Publo G“ flora CO2 emission may indicate food abundance to nectar- feeding moth ”
第二篇 选自 Elia Ben Ari的演讲 “better communication through chemistry”
文章内容:
第一篇:
飞蛾有LPO关于CO2感受器,但是飞蛾如何利用它我们还不清楚。因此需要探究。
下面一项研究是关于C类飞蛾的。这类飞蛾雌雄的LPO大小是不一样的。磁性的更发达一些,因此科学家推测,雌性探测CO2水平高的植物说明植物新陈代谢高,更有活力,因此会在此产卵。
M类的飞蛾雌雄的LPO没有什么区别但进食的成年蛾子会更发达一些。因此科学家推断它们会寻找高CO2是为了更好的觅食,找nectar。
第二篇:
是以第一篇的研究继续研究。除了上篇的研究结果,还有飞蛾作为传粉者与花之间的interaction。
有一类D的花,会散发味道和高CO2在开花的时候。科学家发现M类的飞蛾会通过高浓度CO2来找到花。后续的研究发现M类的飞蛾不是知通过二氧化碳来寻找花还需要气味。但雌性缺看似随机。
后发现是因为雌性会将卵产在树叶上,所以雌性靠二氧化碳不仅用于觅食也用于产卵。
点评:实验过程清晰,两篇顺承的关系。题目多两篇文章中的共性问题,要仔细,难度不大。
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