SAT模拟考试试题3(含答案).pdf

SAT Practice Test#3IMPORTANT REMINDERS：oA No.2 pencil is requiredfor the test.Do not use amechanical pencil or pen.Sharing any questionswith a nyoneis a violationof the SAT ProgramsTest Security andFairness policies andmay result in your scoresbeing canceled.Requests to cancelscores must be receivedin writing by theWednesday followingthe test date.(This cover is representative of what youll see on test day.)THISTEST BOOK MUST NOT BETAKEN FROMTHE ROOM.UNAUTHORIZEDREPRODUCTION OR USE OF ANY PARTOFTHISTEST BOOK IS PROHIBITED.2015 The College Board.College Board,SAT,and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College BoardTest begins on the next page.Reading Test65 MINUTES,52 QUESTIONSTurn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.|DIRECTIONS|Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions.After readingeach passage or pair,choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated orimplied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics(such as a table orgraph).Questions 1-10 are based on the followingpassage.This passage is adapted from“A Good Man is Hard to Find/*ashort story by American writer Flannery OConnor(1925-1964).Bailey didnt look up from his reading so thegrandmother wheeled around them and faced thechildrens mother,a young woman in slacks,whose faceline wasasbroad and innocentasacabbageand washed5 around with a green head-kerchief that had two pointson the top like rabbif sears.She was sitting on the sofa,feeding the baby his apricots out of a jar.The child renhave been to Florida before/the old lady said.You allought to take them somewhere else for a change so theyio would see different parts of the world and bebroad.They never have been to east Tennessee.”The childrens mother didnt seem to hear her butthe eight-year-old boy,John Wesley,a stocky child whowore glasses on his full face,said,zzIf you dont want tois go to Florida,why dontcha stay at home?”He and hislittle sister,June Star,were reading the funny papers onthe floor.“She wouldnt stay at home tobe queen for a day,“June Star said without raising her yellow head./zNever20 has before/Yesz and whatwould you do if this fellow,TheMisfit,caught you?,/the grandmother asked.Id smack his face/John Wesley said confidently.“She wouldntstay at home for a million bucks/725 June Star said.z/Afraid shed miss something.She has togo everywhere we go.”“All right,Miss/the grandmother said.Z/Justremember that the next time you want me to curl yourhair.June Star said her hair was naturally curly.30 The next morning the grandmother was the firstone in the car,ready to go.She had her big black valisethat looked like the head of a hippopotamus in onecorner,and underneath it she was hiding a basket withPitty Sing,the cat,in it.She didnt intend for the cat35 tobe left alone in the house for three days because hewould miss her too much and she was afraid he mightbrush against one of her gas burners and accidentallyasphyxiate himself.Her son,Bailey,didnt like to arriveat a motel with a cat.40 She sat in the middle oftheback seat withjohnWesley and June Star on either side of her.Bailey andthe childrens mother and the baby sat in front andthey leftAtlanta at eight forty-five with the mileage onthe car at 55,890.The grandmother wrote this down45 because she thought it would be interesting to say howmany miles they had been when they got back.It took them twenty minutes to reach the outskirtsofthecity.Theold lady settled herself comfortably,removing her white cotton gloves and putting themso up with her purse on the shelf in front of the backwindow.The childrens mother still had onslacks andstill had her head tied up in a green kerchief,but thegrandmother had on a navy blue straw sailor hat witha bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy blue55 dress with a small white dot in the print.Her collarsand cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace andather neckline she had pinned a purple spray of clothviolets containing a sachet.In case of an accident,Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal.CONTINUE】anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at6。once that she was a distinguished lady.She said she thought it was going to be a goodday for driving,neither too hot nor too cold,and shecautioned Bailey that the speed limit was fifty-five milesan hour and that the patrolmen hid themselves behind65 billboards and small clumps of trees and sped out afteryou before you had a chance to slow down.She pointedout interesting details of the scenery:Stone Mountain,the blue granite tha t in some places came up to bothsides of the highway,the brilliant red clay banks slightly70 streaked with purple,and the various crops that maderows of green lace-work on the ground.The trees werefull of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of themsparkled.The children were reading comic magazinesand their mother had gone back to sleep.34As used in line 23,“confidently most nearly meansA)calmly.B)optimistically.C)assertively.D)haughtily.Based on the passage,it is reasonable to infer thatA)the grandmother has travelled with the familybefore.B)June Star usually reads the funny papers with JohnWesley.C)thegrandmotherregularly quarrels with June Star.D)John Wesley has a personal relationship with TheMisfit.Which choice best describes what happens in thepassage?A)Several characters agree to travel to StoneMountain in Tennessee.B)Two characters disagree over Florida andTennessee as destinations.C)Several characters resolve to eventually embark ona future journey.D)Several characters discuss and then embark on ajourney to Florida.5Which choi ce provides the best evidence for the answerto the previous question?A)Lines 15-17(He and his.on the floor)B)Lines21-23(Z/Yes,and.said confidently)C)Lines24-26(/zShewouldnt.everywherewego)D)Lines27-29(Z/AI1 right.naturally curly)2The main purpose of the first and second paragraphs is：to A)provide the characters personal motives.：B)establish the characters and their relationships.：C)analyze the complicated relationships in the family.D)make a contrast between the grandmother andJune Star.:Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal.CONTINUE】As used in line 60,“distinguished most nearly meansA)preeminent.B)famed.C)unique.D)respectable.Which choice provides the best evidence for the answerto the previous question?A)Lines 48-51(/zThe old lady.back window)B)Lines 51-55(The childrens.in the print)C)Lines 55-58(Her collars and.a sachet)D)Lines 58-60(Z/In case of.distinguished lady)7The primary reason that the grandmother hides PittySing in the car isA)to prevent asphyxiation.B)the caf s loneliness.C)her sons feelings.D)for travel safety.QAccording to the passage,it can be best concluded thatthe grandmotherA)is concerned with how the public views her.B)cares about clothing for practicality and comfort.C)dresses to compete with the childrens mother.D)utilizes clothing for personal expression.The descriptions of the children and the mother in lines73-74 primarily serve what effect?A)They indicate that the mother and childrenpurposefully insulted the grandmother.B)They suggest that the mother and children were notas enthused as the grandmother.C)They provide a fairly detailed description of thecharacters and setting of the story.D)They allude to the probable boring events that thefamily will encounter on the trip.Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal.5CONTINUE】Questions 11-20 are based on the followingpassage.This passage is adapted from an article on WIRED Magazine,titledMixed Feelings,published in 2004 by Sunny Bains.Below,the authordiscusses how sensory perception interacts withthe human mind.Direction isnt something humans can detectinnately.Some birds can,of course,and for them its noless important than taste or smell are for us.In fact,lotsU ne of animals have extra senses.Sunfish see polarized5 light.Loggerhead turtles feel Earths magnetic field.Bonnethead sharks detect subtle changes in smallelectrical fields.And other critters have heightenedversions of familiar senses.Bats hear frequenciesoutside our auditory range,and some insects see10 ultraviolet light.We humans getjust five senses.But why?Canour senses be modified?Expanded?Given the rightprosthetics,could we feel electromagnetic fields or hearultrasound?The answers to these questions,accordingis to researchers ata handful of labs around the world,appear to be yes.It turns out that the tricky bit isnt the sensing.The world isfull of gadgets that detect things humanscannot.The hard partis processing the input.20 Neuropsychologists dont know enough about how thebrain interprets data.The science of plugging thingsdirectly into the brainartificial retinas or cochlearimplantsremains primitive.So heres the solution:Figure out how to change the25 sensory data(the electromagnetic fields,the ultrasound,the infrared)into something that the humanbrain isalready wired to accept,like touch or sight.The brain,it turns out,is dramatically more flexible than anyonepreviously thought,as if we had unused sensory ports30 just waiting for the right plug-ins.Now its time to buildthem.Howdo we sense the world around us?Itseemslike a simple question.Eyes collect photons of certainwavelengths,transduce them into electrical signals,and35 send them to the brain.Ears do the same thing withvibrations in the air in the form of soundwaves.Touchreceptors pick up pressure,heat,cold,and pain.Smellsarechemicalscontactingreceptorsinsidethenose.Taste is buds of cells on the tongue.40 Theres a reasonably well-accepted sixth sense(or fifth and a half,at least)called proprioception.Anetwork of nerves,in conjunction with the inner ear,tells the brain where the body and all its parts are andhow theyre oriented.This is how you know when45 youre upside down,or how you can tell the car youreriding in is turning,even with your eyes closed.When computers sense the world,theydoitinlargely the same way we do.They have some kind ofperipheral sensor,builttopickupradiation,sound,or50 chemicals.The sensor is connected to a mechanism thatcan change analog data about the world into electrons,bits,or a digital form that computers can understand,li ke recording live music onto a CD.It then pipes thedata into the computer.55 Butbeforeallthathappens,programmers andengineers make decisions about which data is pertinentand which isnt.They know the bandwidth and thedata rate the transducer and computer are capable of,and they constrain the sensor to provide only the most60 relevant information.The computer can see only whatits been told to look for.The brain,by contrast,has to integrate all kinds ofinformation from all five and a half senses all the time,and then generate a complete picture ofthe world.65 So its constantly making decisions about what to payattention to,what to generalize or approximate,andwhat to ignore.In other words,ifs flexible.In February,a team of German researchersconfirmed that the auditory cortex of macaques can70 process visual information.Similarly,our visual cortexcan accommodate all sorts of altered data.More than50 years ago,Austrian researcher Ivo Kohler gavepeople goggles that severely distorted their vision:Thelenses turned the world upside down.After several75 weeks,subjects adjusted.Their vision was still tweaked,buttheir brains were processing the images so theydappearnormal.In fact,when people took the glasses offat the end ofthe trial,everything seemed to move anddistort in the opposite way.Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal.6CONTINUE】Which choice describes the central issue addressed inthe passage?A)Humans only have five senses,while many animalshave far more.B)How humans process data is key to modifyingsensory perception.C)How humans use senses to detect data is the key tomodifying perception.D)Humans will benefit from studies focused on howproprioception works.The author uses the word“primitive in line 23 mainlyto emphasizeA)the failure of technology.B)the refusal to properly research.C)a lack of understanding.D)an inability to understand.The author claims that which of the following iscurrently necessary in order to improve human sensoryperception?A)Build sensory data detectorsB)Study how proprioception worksC)Map how brains process dataD)Construct plug-ins for sensory dataWhich choice provides the best evidence for the answerto the previous question?A)Lines20-21(Neuropsychologistsdata)B)Lines27-31(The.buildthem,/)C)Lines 32-33(zzHowquestion)D)Lines40-44(Theres.oriented)As used in line 34,“transduce most nearly meansA)conform.B)transplant.C)convert.D)translate.According to the passage,the primary differencebetween computers and human brains is thatA)brains process data from all senses simultaneously.B)computerscannotbe told which information toprocess.C)brains have to integrate proprioception atall times.D)computers have deficient capabilities due toengineers.Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal.7CONTINUE】Which choice provides the best evidence for the answerto the previous question?A)Lines 48-50(Theychemicals)B)Lines 57-60(Theyinformation)C)Lines 62-67(The to ignore)D)Lines 68-70(In.information)As used in line 56,“pertinent most nearly meansA)relevant.B)precise.C)inopportune.D)identical.The main purpose of the last paragraph is toA)introduce research about auditory sense detection.B)clear up confusion about how auditory cortexesfunction.C)demonstrate how sensory data processes can bemanipulated.D)emphasize uniformity between macaques andhumans.EilThe author would likely attribute the effects of taking offthe goggles described in lines 77-79 toA)the insufficiency of human senses.B)incomplete understanding by scientists.C)similarities among human senses.D)the flexibility of the human brain.Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal.8CONTINUE】Questions 21-30 are based on the followingpassage.This passage is adapted from an article by a biologist who hasdone research in Mongolia.Mongolia,a landlocked Central Asian countrywith a population of approximately three millionpeople,boasts a stunning array ofbiological diversity.line It is the most sparsely populated sovereign country in5 the world and contains negligible amounts of arableland.Since approximately one-third of its populationis still nomadic or semi-nomadic,the availability ofgrassy steppes for roaming horses is highly significant.Since opening itself to foreign trade and developmentio following its transition to democracy in 1990,Mongoliahas faced serious and growing threats to its wildlife.Wildlife habitats and populations are increasinglyfragmented by the development of infrastructureassociated with ever-spreading mining projects,and15 revenues from mining and development make itincreasingly difficult to devote land to protected areasfor wildlife.The privatization oflivestock in the early 1990shas created incentives for increasing herd size