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1、SAT备考资料387You must use a No. 2 pencil and marks must be complete. Do not use a mechanical pencil. It ts very important that you fill in the entire circle darkty and completely. It you change your response, erase as completely as possible. Incomplete marks or erasures may affect your score.o 0 00 J13

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4、me and address appear on this answer sheet.By signing below. I agree not to share any specific test questions or essay topics with anyone by any form of communication, including, but not limited to: email, text messages, or use of the Internet.DateSignatureSPECIAL QUESTIONS1 0oo2 00OOO3 ooo4 00005 0

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6、your ESSAY.The essay gives you an opportunity to show how effectively you can develop and express ideas. You should, therefore, lake care to develop your point of view, present your ideas logically and clearly, and use language precisely.Your essay must be written on the lines provided on your answe

7、r sheetyou will receive no other paper on which to write. You will have enough space if you write on every line, avoid wide margins, and keep your handwriting to a reasonable size. Remember that people who are not familiar with your handwriting will read what you write. Try to write or print so that

8、 what you are writing is legible to those readers.Important Reminders: A pencil is required for the essay. An essay written in ink will receive a score of zero,Do not write your essay in your test book. You will receive credit only for whal you write on your answer sheet. An ofT-topic essay will rec

9、eive a score of zero. If your essay does not reflect your original and individual work, your test scores may be canceled.You have twenty-five minutes (o write an essay on the topic assigned below.Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.Sometimes it

10、 is necessary to challenge whal people in authority claim to be true. Although some respect for authority is, no doubL necessary in order for any group or organization to function, questioning the people in charge-even if they arc experts or leaders in their fields-makes us better thinkers, h forces

11、 all concerned to defend old ideas and decisions and lo consider new ones. Sometimes it can even correct old errors in thought and put an end to wrong actions.Assignment: Is it important to question the ideas and decisions of people in positions of authority? Plan and write an essay in which you dev

12、elop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.BEGIN WRITING YOUR ESSAY ON PAGE 2 OF THE ANSWER SHEET.If you finish before time is called, you may check your work on this section only.Do not turn

13、to any other section in the test.389Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegalSECTION 2Time 25 minutes24 QuestionsTurn to Section 2 (page 4) of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that somet

14、hing has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five words or seis of words labeled A through E. Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best Uts (he meaning of the sentence as a whole.Example:Hoping tothe dispute, negotiators proposeda compromise that they felt would be

15、to bothlabor and management.(A) enforce . useful(B) end .divisive(C) overcome unattractive(D) extend satisfactory(E) resolve .acceptable 3 Kates impulsive nature and sudden whims led her friends to label her.1. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn s - proved keenest when he accurately predicted that his books wou

16、ld someday appear in his native Russia.(A) foresight (B) nostalgia (C) folly(D) despair (E) artistry2. The simple and direct images in Dorothea Langes photographs providereflection of a bygonesocial milieu.(A) capricious (B) bombaslic (C) loquacious (D) dispassionate (E) decorous4. Neurosurgeon Alex

17、a Canady maintained that choosing a career was a visceral decision rather thanjudgment; that is, it was not so much rational as.(A) an emotional. intellectual(B) a chance .random(C) an intuitive impulsive(D) a deliberate . instinctive(E) an intentional. logical5. Creative business stratagems frequen

18、tly becomeas a result of, their versatility and adaptabilitydestroyed by their transformation into rigid policies.(A) streamlined . infighting(B) mitigated . jingoism(C) ossified bureaucratization(D) politicized . innovation(E) venerable . legislationDirections: For each question in this section, se

19、lect the best answer from among the choices given and fill in the corresponding circle on the answer sheet(A) an intricate (B) a candid(C) an ostentatious (D) a fictional(E) a convolutedGO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE390Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal.The passages below are

20、followed by questions based on their content; questions following a pair of related passages may also be based on the relationship between the paired passages. Answer the questions on the basis of what is siaied or implied in the passages and in any introductory material that may be provided.Questio

21、ns 6-7 are based on the following passage.Whistling and moaning, a 50-mile-an-hour wind whipped among the telescope domes atop Kitt Peak. A few feet below, turning gray in the dusk, slid a river of clouds that had been rising and dropping all day. High above, comet Hale-Bopp hung like a feathery fis

22、hing lure, its tail curving off a bit. as if blown to the side by the punishing wind. One by one, stars winked on in a darkening sky. Nearby, wild horses wandered past. They never glanced skyward at the gossamer swath of Hale-Bopp nor al the wondrous spectacle that is (he night sky on a clear night,

23、 comet or no.It felt good to be human.6. In line 12, the author implies that being human includesQuestions 8-9 are based on the following passage.In 1843 Augusta Ada King published an influentialset of notes describing Charles Babbages conception ofan analytical enginethe first design for an automat

24、icUfte computer. Kings notes, which included her program for5 computing a series of figures called Bernoulli numbers,established her importance in computer science. However,her fascinating life and lineage (she was the daughter ofthe tlamboyant poet Lord Byron)-and her role as afemale pioneer in her

25、 fieldhave turned her into an10 icon. She has inspired biographies, plays, novels, and even a feature film. And whereas many women have helped to advance computer science, only King has had a computer language named after her: Ada.8. The passage is primarily concerned withVJA B c D Emaking occasiona

26、l mistakes enjoying the company of others reflecting on past experiences appreciating natures beauty seeking joy through simplicity7. The rhetorical device primarily featured in this passage is(A) appeal to emotion(B) metaphorical language(C) extended analogy(D) flashback(E) ironyexplaining Augusta

27、Ada Kings interest in computer science(A) providing a character analysis of Augusta Ada Kingsummarizing how and why Augusta Ada King is celebrated(B) tracing the development of the modern-day computerencouraging more women to pursue careers in computer science9. The author of the passage would most

28、likely disagree with which of the following statements about Augusta Ada King?(A) Her family history plays no pari in the fascination she arouses.(B) Her contributions to computer science were markedly original.(C) Interest in her has spread throughout popular culture.(D) She was well known in the f

29、ield of computer science long after she had completed her work.(E) Her life was remarkable even apart from her contributions to computer science.GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE391Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal,Questions 10-15 are based on the following passage.The following

30、 passage is adapted from a 1999 memoir. The author, the son of a Black American woman and a Congolese man, has lived in both the United States and Africa: he was raised in Boston. Massachusetts, and Dar es Salaanh Tanzania. Here, he offers his views on the historical relationship between Black Ameri

31、cans and Black Africans.A Kikongo proverb states. A tree cannot stand without its roots.M 1( seems such obvious wisdom now. a well-woni cliche in our era in which everything truly insightful has Une already been said. But all cliches derive their endurance 5 from their truth, and my ancestors who co

32、ined this adage were sending a clear and powerful message to their descendants: a people cannot flourish without their lifegiving foundations in the past. The ties between those who came before and those who live now must be10 maintained and nurtured if a people is to survive. Its a truth that my gr

33、andmother understood when she made a point of directing me to “tell the others* about her. And its a truth that has been well recognized by successive generations of Black people in America. Another Kikongo15 proverb reminds us that one can only steal a sleeping baby: once awake, she will look for h

34、er parents.,* This is a maxim that conveys the seemingly instinctive pull of one s heritage, our inborn curiosity in our origins, the quest we all share for self-identification and self-20 knowledge.Black Americans have managed to sustain links with the continent of their origin, against tremendous

35、odds. Through ingenuity and dogged determination, in calculated symbolism and unwitting remembrance, for over 300 years 25 Black Americans have kept various ties to Africa intact.The bond has frayed and stretched, it has become twisted and contorted, but through it all. it has not been broken. And f

36、or as long as Black people in America have reached back to Africa to offer and receive reassurance, reaffir- 30 mation. fraternity, and strength. Africans have reached to Black people in the Americas, *those who were taken J for the same reasons.We have sought to understand each other ever since we

37、were separated so long ago. For centuries, wc have 35 gazed al one another across the transatlantic divide like a child seeing itself in the mirror for the first time. And. unable for so long to reach behind (he glass and touch the strangely familiar face wc saw staring back, wc filled in all that w

38、e did not know with all that we could imagine.40 When we finally met, in Africa and America, we were someiimcs disappointed. Shadowy imaginings do not usually hold up in the light of real experience. We wondered if we hadnt been mistaken, if the kinship we could feel more than describe was really th

39、ere, if the roots45 that had once bound us together had not already withered and died. But time and again we were reminded of what we shared. Africa has left her mark on all of us. And when we have reached out to one another through literature, politics, music, and religion, whenever we ve made cont

40、act, the50 world has been forced to take note.10. The primary purpose of this passage is toshow the impact Black Americans have had on African societies(A) discuss Africans* efforts to embrace American culturepoint out the ambivalent feelings one community has for another(B) emphasize the significan

41、ce of an ongoing relationshipexamine the cultural ties between two nations11. The “message (line 6) is best characterized asveiled criticism cautionary advice a questionable proposition a nostalgic recollection an optimistic prediction12. The proverb in lines 15-16 primarily serves tooffer insight i

42、nto young children s behavior(A) emphasize the vulnerability of childrenshow peoples inherent interest in iheir history(B) demonstrate the complexity of familial relationswarn those who seek to undermine the family13. In context. ,Shadowy* (line 41) primarily serves to suggest somethinggloomy secret

43、 sinister concealed unsubstantiatedGO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE392In lines 42-50 (“We wondered . note,*), there is a shift in feeling from(A) fear to courage(B) anger to forgiveness(C) uncertainty to despair(D) regret to determination(E) doubt to pride15. The author primarily makes use of which of the fol

44、lowing to convey his point?(A) Hypothetical scenarios(B) Broad generalizations(C) Historical facts(D) Personal anecdotes(E) Scholarly analysesUnauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal.GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE393Questions 16-24 are based on the following passages.The fallowing p

45、assages, adapted from books published in 1992 and 20()lt respectively, discuss a famous painting by Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).Passage 1It hung in Napoleons bedroom until moving to the Louvre in 1804. It caused traffic jams in New York for seven weeks as 1.6 million people jost

46、led to see it. In Une Tokyo viewers were allowed ten seconds each. The 5 object of all this attention was the worlds most famous portrait, the Mona Lisa.Historically, its subject was nobody special, probably the wife of a Florentine merchant named Giocondo. But her portrait set the standard for High Renaissance paintings 10 in many important ways. The use of perspective, which creates the illusion of depth behind Mona Lisas head, and triangular composition established the importa