实例全面讲解SAT阅读答题技巧之排除法（四）

SAT阅读对于大部分的考生来说都是相对较难的部分，那么如何攻克SAT阅读考试呢？下面小站教育特别为大家整理了SAT阅读考试的技巧，尤其是对排除法做出了全面的解析。

定义：对文中提到的两个事物，或者一个事物的不同方面，进行了无端的比较或者错误的比较。

例题：【OG TEST 4 P579】

85 Ironically, Mary Kingsley and other women travelers were opposed to or simply uninterested in the late Victorian campaigns to extend women's political rights. Thus, when Mary Kingsley returned from West Africa in 1895, she was chagrined to discover that she was being hailed as a "new 90 woman" because of her travels. Despite her often out- spoken distaste for the "new women" agitating for greater freedom,the travel books that she and others had written still suggested, as Paul Fussell has argued, "an implicit celebration of freedom."

19. In Passage 2, Mary Kingsley's attitude toward women's rights campaigns (lines 85-90) suggests

(A) a single-minded dedication to equality between the sexes

(B) a way in which dedication to one cause can lead to antagonism toward another

(C) a striking inconsistency between her identity as a British citizen and her identity as a woman

(D) an understanding of the link between women's struggle for freedom and the struggles of other groups

(E) a contradiction between her personal motives and the way her actions are interpreted

讲解：正确选项是E.
选项C/D 都是无端比较。原文没有对英国公民和女性性别进行比较，也没有对女性争取自由和其他群体争取自由进行比较。

一、主旨题的错误选项类型

定义：主旨题的正确选项应该必须含有主题词和作者的主要观点，因此含有错误的主题词或者文中细节内容的选项都是错误选项。

例题: 【OG Test 4 P591】

This passage is from a book of nature writing published in 1991.

In North America, bats fall into mainly predictable categories: they are nocturnal, eat insects, and are rather small...Having studied them intimately, I now know that bats are sweet-tempered, useful, and fascinating creatures. The long-standing fear that many people have about bats tells us less about bats than about human fear.

Things that live by night live outside the realm of "normal" time. Chauvinistic about our human need to wake by day and sleep by night, we come to associate night dwellers with people up to no good, people who have the jump on the rest of us and are defying nature, defying their circadian rhythms...Though we are at the top of our food chain, if we had to live alone in the rain forest, say, and protect ourselves against roaming predators, we would live partly in terror, as our ancestors did. Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.

Bats have always figured as frightening or supernatural creatures in the mythology, religion, and superstition of peoples everywhere…

16. The author's main point in the passage is that

(A) there are only a few kinds of bats

(B) humans are especially vulnerable to nocturnal predators

(C) bat saliva may have medicinal uses

(D) only myth and literature have depicted the true nature of the bat

(E) our perception of bats has its basis in human psychology

讲解：
这篇是OG Test 4 第591页的一篇关于Bats的文章。以上节选的是斜体字和文章各个自然段的首尾句。作者在第一自然段的首句告诉我们这篇文章的主题词是Bats，然后一步一步深入分析，在其后每段的首尾句表达了他的观点，即在神话宗教迷信中，蝙蝠常常被描述为令人恐惧和超自然的生物，这来源于人们内心的害怕。
接下来我们来看看5个选项，选项A 是过分绝对，选项B 是主题词错误，选项C是无中生有，选项D是过分绝对，只有选项E既符合主题词，又表达了作者的主要观点，故而是正确选项。

回到上文“概念混淆”的例题，问如果改成了“different jobs by Chinese American women”选不选呢？结果还是不选，因为主题词错误。文章的主题词应该是二战。