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10月北美SAT考情來了！閱讀也有加試，這次CB偏心了嗎？

Category: SAT-SAT2, 留學(xué)考試 Date: 2017年10月11日上午10:29

10月份北美SAT考試也考完了，在今年10月的亞洲考區(qū)，很多同學(xué)表示閱讀時(shí)間緊張，沒有做完題目，那么北美的難度又是如何？各題材和亞洲考題有什么不同？CB這次在亞洲、北美設(shè)置題目難度偏心了嗎？這篇文章將為大家回顧北美考情，文末附上北美寫作真題的詳細(xì)分析，大家可以參考學(xué)習(xí)。

此次北美地區(qū)的考試有兩點(diǎn)值得我們關(guān)注：

1、美東的考試中閱讀出現(xiàn)了加試。四部分結(jié)束后，閱讀加試20分鐘，16個(gè)題目，這是改革后的SAT首次出現(xiàn)這種情況。

2、數(shù)學(xué)加試在8月26號北美考試出現(xiàn)以后慢慢成為常態(tài)化。在紐約考試的考生反饋，數(shù)學(xué)加試（可用計(jì)算器）20分鐘。可以預(yù)見在不遠(yuǎn)的將來，加試會(huì)是SAT常態(tài)化的事情。

下面來看具體的考情回顧。

本次考情回顧來自：公眾號青島大學(xué)SAT中心（SAT-USA）郭奕銘老師

閱讀部分

Passage 1 小說類：關(guān)于作者和叔叔去自家商店（墨水和鋼筆）看經(jīng)營狀況，聽老板講墨水和鋼筆的學(xué)問，延伸到人生意義。

這篇文章跟亞太考區(qū)的小說選材有異曲同工之妙，亞太小說節(jié)選自：Barbara的Flight Behaviors。故事里面母子兩位主要人物去郊區(qū)看蝴蝶。但是兒子眼睛看不見，文章主要講解母親的一些內(nèi)心思考。看來CB這次小說的選題，偏向性非常明顯，在亞太和北美傾向性一致

Passage 2 社科類：北美閱讀的第二篇依舊是社科類。主要講述了學(xué)者提出目前網(wǎng)絡(luò)的廣泛使用會(huì)改變?nèi)祟惖挠洃浤Ｊ剑ㄍㄟ^四組社會(huì)實(shí)驗(yàn)佐證），這跟亞太考區(qū)社科類文章關(guān)于凱恩斯經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)和布雷頓森林體系相比較，個(gè)人認(rèn)為要簡單一些。

Passage 3 科學(xué)類：講了一種魚（guppy）在實(shí)驗(yàn)室環(huán)境和自然環(huán)境下，繁殖能力和后代生長狀態(tài)會(huì)受捕食者數(shù)量的影響（捕食者越多，后代會(huì)越多，但重量會(huì)小）。這跟亞太考區(qū)的第三篇科學(xué)關(guān)于(Gold in trees may hint at buried treasure)同屬于實(shí)驗(yàn)結(jié)論類文章，文章結(jié)構(gòu)簡單和觀點(diǎn)清晰，算是較為簡單的文章題材。

Passage 4 歷史類：北美第四篇的歷史和亞太考區(qū)依舊一致：關(guān)于女權(quán)和奴隸制，不同的是亞太考區(qū)是以雙篇的形式出現(xiàn)，北美是單獨(dú)文章，女權(quán)和奴隸制是歷史類文章比較鐘愛的題材。

Passage 5 科學(xué)類（雙篇）：北美第五篇是科學(xué)（雙篇），主要講述了抗體和抗原。第一篇講的是新抗體的研制比較困難，而抗原容易有抗藥性；第二篇講一種抗體研制的原理。本篇科學(xué)類文章難度總體適中, 跟亞太考區(qū)的關(guān)于海底生物的選材也差不多。

注：此次考試閱讀部分進(jìn)行了加試，考察了雙篇科學(xué)，主要探討關(guān)于原始火星，其實(shí)是wet not warm 的假設(shè)。

?語法部分

Passage 1：國家為了緩解交通保護(hù)環(huán)境，促進(jìn)大家使用公共交通，準(zhǔn)備推行BUS免費(fèi)政策，文章主要從經(jīng)濟(jì)、社會(huì)角度討論這項(xiàng)政策的利弊。

Passage 2：隨著數(shù)碼相機(jī)的普及，早先的拍照技術(shù)慢慢消失。文章主要介紹了目前某些攝影家依然會(huì)用wet plate photography，討論了這項(xiàng)技術(shù)的原理和利弊。

Passage 3：主要講解城市建筑師的underground work

Passage 4：暫缺。

?數(shù)學(xué)部分

數(shù)學(xué)部分難度適中，與往常題目難度持平，沒有所謂的簡單很多。所有知識(shí)點(diǎn)和平時(shí)訓(xùn)練的完全一致，但之后的復(fù)習(xí)需要多關(guān)注以下涉及知識(shí)點(diǎn)。

涉及到的知識(shí)點(diǎn)：

1、三個(gè)函數(shù)的交點(diǎn)問題（圖像題）

2、不等式組的最優(yōu)解和可行域（圖像問題；實(shí)際問題）

3、復(fù)雜圖像的平移問題

4、參照方程式的恒成立和恒不成立問題（考察了四道題）

寫作部分

US needs full-employment agenda

BY REPS. JOHN CONYERS (D-MICH.)
AND FREDERICA WILSON (D-FLA.) —?02/03/14 06:05 PM EST

本次10月7日考試的試題文如下（已根據(jù)真題回憶對原文刪改）

1 In the wake of an unprecedented period of high unemployment and amid turmoil overseas, a president stood before a joint session of Congress for his annual State of the Union address, offering a bold vision to expand economic opportunity, strengthen the middle class and reduce inequality.

2 The year was 1944. The president was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

3 The “Second Bill of Rights,” unveiled during the State of the Union 70 years ago, was not a constitutional amendment but a statement of principles for America’s economic future. It was centered on a commitment to achieving a crucial national objective: full employment.

4 With 50 million people, including 13 million children, now living below the poverty line and both parties seeking to address the national opportunity deficit in 2014, America’s political leaders should take a cue from FDR’s 1944 State of the Union. Congress should commit to do everything in its power to create the economic conditions for America to return to full employment. Getting every American working and contributing to the tax base will not only help eliminate poverty but also reduce the national debt and ultimately create the conditions for the free market to function well.

5 In the decades following FDR’s speech, Congress took serious action to realize the vision of a full-employment society. It passed the Employment Act in 1946, giving the federal government tools and a formal calling to “promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power.” It passed a range of legislation to promote full employment through additional investments in transportation, health, education and research in the 1960s. Finally, in 1978, it passed the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act, calling on the president to work with the private sector to reduce unemployment to specific target levels.

6 Contrast these efforts with the inaction in today’s Congress. With nearly 30 million American workers either unemployed or underemployed, each and every lawmaker should enshrine job creation as Priority No. 1. Yet Congress has actually made unemployment worse. The economic consulting firm Macroeconomic Advisers estimated that the fiscal showdowns and budget cuts that have consumed Congress over recent years have cost the country up to $700 billion in economic growth and more than 2 million jobs.

7 As collapsed bridges, contaminated water and falling positions in global education rankings demonstrate, there are plenty of public projects our country needs to undertake. This is why we’ve been advocating for legislation — including the 21st Century Full Employment and Training Act and the American Jobs Act of 2013 — to create new opportunities to solve public problems while hiring educators, infrastructure-builders, first responders and medical researchers. There are good ideas in both parties for closing the skills gap, spurring infrastructure investment and reducing unemployment. But we need political will to pass a serious jobs bill.

8 This week, we’re announcing the creation of the Full Employment Caucus in Congress. As co-founders, we will regularly host expert economists and policymakers to discuss proven job-creation proposals and implement strategies for their adoption.

9 Achieving full employment isn’t only about helping jobless people. When we return to full employment, investors and businesspeople have more customers. When we return to full employment, workers have power to bargain for higher wages. Finally, when we return to full employment, crime declines as desperate people gain a paycheck and a purpose.

10 We’re founding this caucus to strength America’s economy and restore dignity for the tens of millions of Americans who have suffered the physical and emotional pain of joblessness.

11 Both President Obama’s State of the Union address and the Republican response echoed FDR’s emphasis 70 years ago on expanding economic opportunity, creating jobs and boosting wages. It’s time for Congress to pass a comprehensive jobs bill to realize that vision.

本次北美SAT考試寫作文章分析和寫作思路來自：公眾號PLUSAcademy（NSAT_1600），普樂思教育。

一、文章分析

Topic：美國要提供更多的全職崗位

P1-3：通過refers to history, 在在文章起到hook的作用. 1944年,面臨前所未有的高的失業(yè)率和動(dòng)蕩的海外局勢,羅斯福總統(tǒng)大膽地?cái)U(kuò)大經(jīng)濟(jì)機(jī)會(huì),提高中產(chǎn)階級的地位,減少社會(huì)的不平等

P4：使用statistic,?With 50 million people, including 13 million children, now living below the poverty line?這么多人在生活在貧困線以下,這么大的數(shù)據(jù)讓讀者感到shocking, alarming .起到appeal to readers’ sympathy的效果.既然讓每一個(gè)美國人擁有全職工作not only help eliminate poverty but also reduce the national debt and ultimately create the conditions for the free market to function well.,讀者從情感上會(huì)覺得要推行full- employment.

P5：再次使用historical facts.?強(qiáng)調(diào)Congress?為了實(shí)現(xiàn)full-employment society做了很多:passed the Employment Act in 1946;It passed a range of legislation....... in the 1960s;in 1978, it passed the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act.這些事實(shí)可以讓讀者看到Congress的決心,同時(shí)也預(yù)示著為了改變?nèi)缃竦默F(xiàn)狀,我們也應(yīng)該效仿歷史.

P6：Contrast.?通過對比的關(guān)系,過去的Congress made great effort to realize full-employment society,?然而現(xiàn)在,nearly 30 million American workers either unemployed or underemployed Congress卻無所作為,然而讓現(xiàn)在的情形變得更糟糕.這種對比關(guān)系,起到appeal to readers’ dissatisfaction to Congress?的效果.

P7：Analogy.?有很多問題等著我們解決,如橋梁倒塌,水被污染,國際教育地位下降等.reducing unemployment也是一件我們必須要解決的public problem,如同其他問題一樣,我們必須嚴(yán)肅對待,所以呼吁Congress要立法.

P8：成立Full Employment Caucus

P9：Parallel structure,強(qiáng)調(diào)full employment?的好處:investors and business people have more customers;workers have power to bargain for higher wages; crime declines as desperate people gain a paycheck and a purpose.

氣勢強(qiáng)烈,增強(qiáng)了表達(dá)效果;?另外,當(dāng)讀者看著這些benefits是,會(huì)從logicreason去贊同作者要現(xiàn)實(shí)full-employment.

P10：憂國憂民.strength America’s economy and restore dignity for the tens of millions of Americans who have suffered the physical and emotional pain of joblessness.

P11：Echo with the beginning.奧巴馬政府都在致力于解決失業(yè)問題,Congress也應(yīng)該通過job bill.

二、寫作思路

如果使用analysis order，?我們的寫作文章結(jié)構(gòu)可以這樣來布局：

Evidence

historical facts

P1-3, P5都是在講述歷史證據(jù)。強(qiáng)調(diào)Congress?為了實(shí)現(xiàn)full-employment society做了很多:passed the Employment Act in 1946;It passed a range of legislation....... in the 1960s;in 1978, it passed the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act.這些事實(shí)可以讓讀者看到Congress的決心,同時(shí)也預(yù)示著為了改變?nèi)缃竦默F(xiàn)狀,我們也應(yīng)該效仿歷史.

statistic

P4: 使用statistic,?With 50 million people, including 13 million children, now living below the poverty line?這么多人在生活在貧困線以下,這么大的數(shù)據(jù)讓讀者感到shocking, alarming .起到appeal to readers’ sympathy的效果.既然讓每一個(gè)美國人擁有全職工作not only help eliminate poverty but also reduce the national debt and ultimately create the conditions for the free market to function well.,讀者從情感上會(huì)覺得要推行full- employment.

P6：如今政府的不作為已經(jīng)導(dǎo)致了這么嚴(yán)重的經(jīng)濟(jì)損失he fiscal showdowns and budget cuts that have consumed Congress over recent years have cost the country up to $700 billion in economic growth and more than 2 million jobs.?這么龐大的數(shù)據(jù),讓讀者再次感到alarming,意識(shí)到情形的緊迫性.

Reasoning

P6 Contrast：通過對比的關(guān)系，過去的Congress made great effort to realize full-employment society,?然而現(xiàn)在,nearly 30 million American workers either unemployed or underemployed Congress卻無所作為,然而讓現(xiàn)在的情形變得更糟糕.這種對比關(guān)系,起到appeal to readers’ dissatisfaction to Congress?的效果.

P7 Analogy：有很多問題等著我們解決,如橋梁倒塌,水被污染,國際教育地位下降等.reducing unemployment也是一件我們必須要解決的public problem,如同其他問題一樣,我們必須嚴(yán)肅對待,所以呼吁Congress要立法.

P9：當(dāng)讀者看著這些benefits是,會(huì)從logicreason去贊同作者要現(xiàn)實(shí)full-employment.

Stylistic and persuasive elements

1)?P9 Parallel structure

強(qiáng)調(diào)full employment?的好處:investors and business people have more customers;workers have power to bargain for higher wages; crime declines as desperate people gain a paycheck and a purpose.氣勢強(qiáng)烈,增強(qiáng)了表達(dá)效果.

2) Appeal to emotion

P10憂國憂民.strength America’s economy and restore dignity for the tens of millions of Americans who have suffered the physical and emotional pain of joblessness.