2017年8月SAT真題閱讀內容回顧

第一篇：文學作品

文章來源：Paul Laurence Dunbar的「The Sport of the Gods」

內容簡介：寫Kitty覺得Martin對大家非常嚴厲，她覺得十分憤怒和不公平，但還是會服從他的instructions。在她唱歌的過程中十分緊張，唱到一半的時候Martin笑了，她就覺得自己唱得肯定非常差，後來她的朋友告訴她其實她唱得很不錯。Martin的笑也是對她的肯定。

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"Now, now," he would shout, "theleft foot on that beat. Bah, bah, stop! You walk like a lot of tin soldiers.Are your joints rusty? Do you want oil? Look here, Taylor, if I did nt knowyou, I d take you for a truck. Pick up your feet, open your mouths, and move,move, move! Oh!" and he would drop his head in despair. "And to thinkthat I ve got to do something with these things in two weeks--two weeks!"Then he would turn to them again with a sudden reaccession of eagerness."Now, at it again, at it again! Hold that note, hold it! Now whirl, and onthe left foot. Stop that music, stop it! Miss Coster, youll learn that step inabout a thousand years, and I ve got nine hundred and ninety-nine years andfifty weeks less time than that to spare. Come here and try that step with me.Dont be afraid to move. Step like a chicken on a hot griddle!" And someblushing girl would come forward and go through the step alone before all therest.

第二篇：歷史文獻（對比文章）

文章來源：Who Should be Allowed to Vote?

Passage 1作者：James Kent

Passage 2作者：David Buel

內容簡介：兩篇文章都是關於Constitution的一個要求：只有擁有財產的男性才能夠獲得選舉權。Passage 1的觀點表示贊同，主題句出現在全文首句：The tendency of uninversal suffrage, is to jeopardize the rights of porperty, and the principles of liberty. Passage 2則表示了反對的觀點，主題句出現在第二段首句：I contend, that by the ture principle of our government, porperty, as such, is not the basis of representation.

第三篇：自然科學

文章來源：Memory in Plants

文章作者：P.H.

內容簡介：植物是否具備記憶力？研究者觀察含羞草為例子，測試從高處丟下來，觀察葉子是否會收攏。實驗結果表明含羞草能夠通過記憶學會不收了葉子作為防禦措施。文章還描述了兩種不同的實驗，以表明不同的含羞草葉子打開的程度不一樣，另外在遇到其他威脅的時候，含羞草還是有相應的反應的。

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More than a century ago Bengali polymath SirJagadish Chandra Bose posited that plants could feel, learn and remember, andmore recent studies have confirmed they can store and recall biological data.But research by Monica Gagliano of the University of Western Australia (UWA)and three fellow scientists goes much further. This study, published inOecologia, offers proof that plants not only learn from experience, butremember what they have learned over relatively long periods.

第四篇：社會科學

文章來源：Why so cynical

文章作者：Detief Fetchenhauer and David Dunning

內容簡介：研究人與人之間的信任，安排了兩組人做實驗。一方選擇另外一方作為自己信任的人，把自己手上的前交給對方。被選擇信任的人得到交給他的錢後，可以選擇將錢變多，分一半給選擇自己的人或者自己獨吞。實驗表明，被選擇的人往往會感激選擇自己的人，把錢分一半給對方。但是選擇的人往往不相信自己選的人會給自己錢。（人與人之間的信任是如何崩塌的）

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They under estimate how often others respond generously to requests for help (Flynn& Lake, 2008) and overestimate how much others』 attitudes and actions aredriven by selfish concerns (Miller, 1999). To be sure, there is contrary evidence showing that people can be roughly realistic in anticipating the altruism of others (Balcetis & Dunning, 2008; Balcetis, Dunning, &Miller, 2008; Epley & Dunning, 2000, 2006), but an increasing body ofevidence suggests that when people are contemplating whether they should relyon the kindness of strangers, they suspect those strangers will prove more selfish than actually is the case.

第五篇：自然科學

文章來源：The deadly dynamics of landsilde

文章作者：Sigma Xi

內容簡介：講述的是一塊會滑動的石頭，石頭為什麼會滑動呢？文章內給出了兩個解釋：一個解釋是說空氣使得這塊石頭滑動了，但是後面又否定了。第二個解釋是說因為是水，並且認為這個解釋的可能性更大。

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Approximately 17,000 years ago, a volume of rock equal to a cube about a half-mile on a sideroared out of a steep canyon in the San Bernardino Mountains in southern California. It originated 1,500 feet above the canyon bottom. Rocks in theslide, already fractured at the start of the event, shattered on impact withthe canyon bottom, forming intricate three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles. Whenthis event, known as the Blackhawk slide, exited from the canyon, it ran outacross a nearly flat valley floor for five miles. Amazingly, the pieces of the jigsaw puzzles stayed together as the slide zoomed along at nearly 75 miles an hour.