5月5日SAT考试回忆及解析阅读篇

5月的SAT考试已经落下帷幕，这是SAT改革后在全球范围内的第26场考试，整体难度适中，不过，这一次又不出意外的重复了，本次2018年05月亚太阅读重复2018年04月北美（加场）当然，鉴于2018年04月的北美加场，只有极少数中国美高学生参加，且只是有回忆内容，并没有漏出实际真题，因此2018年05月的亚太考试，还是很公平的，并不存在泄题事件。

粗略算来，这已经是SAT考试在近两年（2017-2018年）的第三次重复，分别是：

1、2017年01月亚太 重复 2016年06月北美；

2、2018年03月北美 重复 2017年06月北美；

3、2018年05月亚太 重复 2018年04月北美（加场）；

（如有遗漏，欢迎补充）

但由此可以推断，CB的老毛病，即重复使用套题的习惯，依旧存在，预计在未来1-2年时间内，还会继续重复可能的题目。因此，除踏实备考外，考前尽量集齐所有出现过的SAT套题，并且完成2-3遍，也是应有之义。

下面来看看本次考试完整版回忆和解析：

阅读篇

Passage 1原文：

Young Tchartkoff was an artist of talent, which promised great things: his work gave evidence of observation, thought, and a strong inclination to approach nearer to nature.

"Look here, my friend," his professor said to him more than once, "you have talent; it will be a shame if you waste it: but you are impatient; you have but to be attracted by anything, to fall in love with it, you become engrossed with it, and all else goes for nothing, and you won't even look at it. See to it that you do not become a fashionable artist. At present your colouring begins to assert itself too loudly; and your drawing is at times quite weak; you are already striving after the fashionable style, because it strikes the eye at once. Have a care! Society already begins to have its attraction for you: I have seen you with a shiny hat, a foppish neckerchief. . . . It is seductive to paint fashionable little pictures and portraits for money; but talent is ruined, not developed, by that means. Be patient; think out every piece of work, discard your foppishness; let others amass money, your own will not fail you."

The professor was partly right. Our artist sometimes wanted to enjoy himself, to play the fop, in short, to give vent to his youthful impulses in some way or other; but he could control himself withal. At times he would forget everything, when he had once taken his brush in his hand, and could not tear himself from it except as from a delightful dream. His taste perceptibly developed. He did not as yet understand all the depths of Raphael, but he was attracted by Guido's broad and rapid handling, he paused before Titian's portraits; he delighted in the Flemish masters. The dark veil enshrouding the ancient pictures had not yet wholly passed away from before them; but he already saw something in them, though in private he did not agree with the professor that the secrets of the old masters are irremediably lost to us. It seemed to him that the nineteenth century had improved upon them considerably, that the delineation of nature was clearer, more vivid, and closer. It sometimes vexed him when he saw how a strange artist, French or German, sometimes not even a painter by profession, but only a skilful dauber, produced, by the celerity of his brush and the vividness of his colouring, a universal commotion, and amassed in a twinkling a funded capital. This did not occur to him when fully occupied with his own work, for then he forgot food and drink and the entire world. But when dire want arrived, when he had no money wherewith to buy brushes and colours, when his implacable landlord came ten times a day to demand the rent for his rooms, then did the luck of the wealthy artists recur to his hungry imagination; then did the thought which so often traverses Russian minds, to give up altogether, and go downhill, utterly to the bad, traverse his. And now he was almost in this frame of mind.

"Yes, it is all very well, to be patient, be patient!" he exclaimed, with vexation; "but there is an end to patience at last. Be patient! But what money have I to buy a dinner with to-morrow? No one will lend me any. If I did bring myself to sell all my pictures and sketches, they would not give me twenty kopeks for the whole of them. They are useful; I feel that not one of them has been undertaken in vain; I have learned something from each one. Yes, but of what use is it? Studies, sketches, all will be studies, trial-sketches to the end. And who will buy, not even knowing me by name? Who wants drawings from the antique, or the life class, or my unfinished love of a Psyche, or the interior of my room, or the portrait of Nikita, though it is better, to tell the truth, than the portraits by any of the fashionable artists? Why do I worry, and toil like a learner over the alphabet, when I might shine as brightly as the rest, and have money, too, like them?"

题目：Topic

题：大意题：the passage mainly concerns， (答案：the struggle the artist’s values)

第二题：段落目的题，the main purpose of the first paragraphis ，(答案：to present the main character’s artistic traits)

第三题&第四题：询证题，the professor’s view of great art is， (答案：it should be artistic accomplished and not garish)

第五题：词汇题，fashionable， (答案：trendy)

第六题：细节推断题，the professor and the artist differs in their views concerning whether， (答案：gaining money is detrimental to artistic integrity)

第七题：词汇题，考want， (答案：need)

第八题&第九题：询证题，问the artist’s view of high artistic standard is that ，(答案：it is laborious and does not get the deserved compensation)

第十题：段落目的题，问the purpose of the last paragraph，(答案：to catalogue the frustrations of the young artist)

Passage2 原文:

The phenomenon of false memories is common to everybody — the party you’re certain you attended in high school, say, when you were actually home with the flu, but so many people have told you about it over the years that it’s made its way into your own memory cache. False memories can sometimes be a mere curiosity, but other times they have real implications. Innocent people have gone to jail when well-intentioned eyewitnesses testify to events that actually unfolded an entirely different way.

What’s long been a puzzle to memory scientists is whether some people may be more susceptible to false memories than others — and, by extension, whether some people with exceptionally good memories may be immune to them. A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences answers both questions with a decisive no. False memories afflict everyone — even people with the best memories of all.

To conduct the study, a team led by psychologist Lawrence Patihis of the University of California, Irvine, recruited a sample group of people all of approximately the same age and divided them into two subgroups: those with ordinary memory and those with what is known as highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM). You’ve met people like that before, and they can be downright eerie. They’re the ones who can tell you the exact date on which particular events happened — whether in their own lives or in the news — as well as all manner of minute additional details surrounding the event that most people would forget the second they happened.

Word recall was also hazy. The scientists showed participants word lists, then removed the lists and tested the subjects on words that had and hadn’t been included. The lists all contained so-called lures — words that would make subjects think of other, related ones. The words pillow, duvet and nap, for example, might lead to a false memory of seeing the word sleep. All of the participants in both groups fell for the lures, with at least eight such errors per person—though some tallied as many as 20. Both groups also performed unreliably when shown photographs and fed lures intended to make them think they’d seen details in the pictures they hadn’t. Here too, the HSAM subjects cooked up as many fake images as the ordinary folks.

“What I love about the study is how it communicates something that memory-distortion researchers have suspected for some time, that perhaps no one is immune to memory distortion,” said Patihis.

What the study doesn’t do, Patihis admits, is explain why HSAM people exist at all. Their prodigious recall is a matter of scientific fact, and one of the goals of the new work was to see if an innate resistance to manufactured memories might be one of the reasons. But on that score, the researchers came up empty.

“It rules something out,” Patihis said. “[HSAM individuals] probably reconstruct memories in the same way that ordinary people do. So now we have to think about how else we could explain it.” He and others will continue to look for that secret sauce that elevates superior recall over the ordinary kind. But for now, memory still appears to be fragile, malleable and prone to errors — for all of us.

题目：Topic

题：词汇题 curiosity。

第二题&第三题：细节信息加证据，考段结尾，false memory有害（damaging）。

第四题：词汇题 exact。

第五题：考察实验设计，问它设置的那些干扰词有什么特点（criticallure）。

第六题：考倒数第二段主旨，别的科学家不意外。

第七题：考第6题的证据。

第八题：跟原文无关的图表，很简单，读记忆力强组的Y轴。

第九题：跟原文无关的图表题，结合两个图标考对照组的两个Y值。

第十题：跟原文有关的图表题，图表信息支持了文章核心主旨，记忆力跟错误记忆的。