SAT閱讀分析攻略

為了考出好成績，務必要有充分的準備。這一章從詞彙、語法、閱讀技巧等方面給考生建議和忠告，為他們在備考過程中助一臂之力。
As the proverb says opportunities only favor those who are prepared, your success lies in your persistence and perseverance in getting yourself ready for challenges ahead. The SAT is not a test you can excel without effort. If, by any chance, you breeze through it, the chances are that other students can do it well too.
As the SAT is a norm-referenced test-Norm-referenced tests (NRTs) compare a person's score against the scores of a group of people who have already taken the same exam, your performance in the test is compared with those of the other test-takers, most of whom are native speakers of the English language in the United States. The critical reading part is difficult for American high school students, let alone for our Chinese students to whom English is a second or foreign language. To get 95 percentile in the SAT (2000 or higher out of 2400), you must do all you can to improve your reading skill and comprehension. You must read all the time to enlarge your vocabulary and consolidate your grammar knowledge.
A. Build Up Vocabulary Bank
The SAT critical reading section questions the student's understanding of the vocabulary, content and style of specific reading passages. This section is the most time demanding, with some passages taking up to 15 minutes. Vocabulary plays a key role in both sentence completion and passage comprehension, so it is necessary to boost your knowledge of SAT-level words.
a. Make use of contexts
One way to improve your vocabulary is reading. By reading a great deal, you will encounter new and valuable words. You will learn the meanings of many of these words in context by perceiving a clear connection between a new word and the words that surround it.
b. Find new words' relatives
Once you are a junior or senior, or even just a sophomore, you have already had a fairly large English vocabulary bank. Therefore, mostly probably many new words are not totally new to you. You will know their "relatives" either in meaning, spelling, pronunciation, formation, or usage.
E. figurative
•You may already know the words permanent and annual. They are perennial's relative in word formation and meaning. If you put these two words together, you can get perennial which means all-year-round, or continuing.
Continuing is a relative of perennial in meaning. Which of the five words means continuing or non-stopping? Obviously unceasing is the right choice.
In this way, you learn the word faster and retain it for a longer time.
c. Set up word webs
With unknown words, you may set up word webs, associating new words with other words new or familiar to you in spelling, meaning (similar or opposite) and usage. For instance, demography-census chide-castigate-chastise censure consent-consensus censor-censorious Censure is an SAT word. In meaning, you may associate it with chide, castigate, chastise; in meaning and spelling, censor and censorious can be easily connected with it. Censure, census, and consensus look quite similar and they can be confusing. Why don't you put them together to see how different they are and in what way? Once you know which means what, you can further expand the web to include demography, consent, etc. Learning a word in relation with other words is much easier than memorizing it in isolation. To put it in another way, setting word webs shortens the familiarization process.
d. Remember prefixes, suffixes and roots
With the exception of singular syllable words, many English words consist of a root, a suffix and/or a prefix. A root normally gives you the basic meaning of a word while a suffix may change its parts of speech and a prefix may change its meaning. For instance, the words cacophonous and prescription may look difficult for you, but if you divide them into three parts, you'll find them much easier to
understand and remember.
Though both impassionate and inflammable have the negative prefixes im-and in-, they are synonyms to passionate and flammable respectively. These are just two exceptions to the general rule of negative prefixes.
Remembering English prefixes, suffixes and roots may not solve all your vocabulary problems, it is, nonetheless, one of the useful ways to help you learn and memorize new words.
e. Cramming and rote-learning
While often considered classic and negative, cramming and rote-learning are becoming more and more common among students who would like to augment their vocabulary within a few months or only a few weeks. These ways have proved to be very effective, especially in memorizing new words.
By cramming, I suggest that you go over an SAT glossary, learn 20 to 30 words a day. Towards the end of a week, review all the words, including the sentences in which they appear. To make cramming more meaningful, you may write down all the new words you come across in a text, memorize the text. In this way not only do you get to know the new words, but also how they are used in the context.
Rote-learning sounds simplistic and childish, but if you read aloud new words several times, better still, if you use your index finger to write the word in the air or on the desk at the same time, you are making use of several of your senses (mouth, ears, eyes, finger) which enforce each other to help you learn new words through different channels.
Learning new words, especially when you try to learn many new words within a short period of time, is a constant battle against oblivion. It is said that it takes at least four or five times to encounter a new word before it stays in your memory. Given the fact that learning new words is a time-consuming process, it is better to start now and be persistent and consistent.

為了考出好成績，務必要有充分的準備。這一章從詞彙、語法、閱讀技巧等方面給考生建議和忠告，為他們在備考過程中助一臂之力。
As the proverb says opportunities only favor those who are prepared, your success lies in your persistence and perseverance in getting yourself ready for challenges ahead. The SAT is not a test you can excel without effort. If, by any chance, you breeze through it, the chances are that other students can do it well too.
As the SAT is a norm-referenced test-Norm-referenced test...

SAT，又稱學術水準測驗考試，是一九〇一年以來美國普遍使用的大學入學考試，也是國際學生申請美國大學必須參加的考試之一。經過多年不斷地修改和完善，目前的SAT版本不僅測試考生的知識水準，而且注重考察他們運用知識和獨立思考的能力。
考生要在SAT考試中取得高分並不容易，對母語不是英語的學生來說尤其如此，所以平時持之以恆的努力和考前全力以赴的衝刺都是必要的。為了提高考生平時練習的效率，有目標地進行考前突擊複習，我們特意編寫了SAT考試指導系列。
在編寫過程中，SAT教學專家仔細研究了歷年的SAT考題，並收集了大量美國歷史、文化、新聞及教育方面的素材，以求我們的這套叢書更貼近真題，更有指導性、針對性和時代性。
這套叢書內容包攬了十年來對美國著名大學錄取標準的分析，東西方教育體制的比較，以及指導考生成功進入美國名校的經驗和個案。此外，該叢書還收入了大量由SAT專家撰寫的相關練習和模擬限時考題。
在使用這套叢書的過程中，考生對SAT會從知之甚少到駕輕就熟，從茫然不知所措到坦然從容應對。這個過程幫助他們豐富科學知識，接觸美國文化，提高英語技能，熟悉考試模式，充分認識自我，增強應試能力。
從準備參加SAT考試，到如願以償進入理想的美國大學，是一個短至數月長至數年的過程。這個過程猶如在崎嶇不平的小道上攀登，是對毅力的磨練和恒心的考驗。對正處於個性形成期的學生而言，這個過程對他們將來的人生軌跡和成功有著重要的作用。
SAT 是一項有相當難度的考試，考生在準備考試的過程中，需有堅強的毅力克服重重困難，需有持久的恒心面對種種挑戰。從這個意義上來說，準備SAT 考試就是為將來鍥而不捨勇往直前的人生鋪路，以達到自信自強的目的。
參加SAT 考試，進入理想的美國大學，需要考生的勤奮和努力，也需要家長的支持和培育。家長希望孩子受到良好的教育，更希望孩子敢於面對挫折，經得住生活的考驗，有百折不撓的精神。當孩子複習考試遇到困難時，理解與幫助會給孩子溫暖；鼓勵和鞭策會給孩子動力。敢於參加SAT 考試並為之付出努力本身就是積極向上的態度和行動。
不管結果如何，透過這個過程，孩子會逐漸積累知識，培養毅力。這是不可多得的經歷，是現代教育的理念，也是考生家長的期盼。
SAT 不僅寄託著家長的希望，更孕育著考生的成功！

SAT，又稱學術水準測驗考試，是一九〇一年以來美國普遍使用的大學入學考試，也是國際學生申請美國大學必須參加的考試之一。經過多年不斷地修改和完善，目前的SAT版本不僅測試考生的知識水準，而且注重考察他們運用知識和獨立思考的能力。
考生要在SAT考試中取得高分並不容易，對母語不是英語的學生來說尤其如此，所以平時持之以恆的努力和考前全力以赴的衝刺都是必要的。為了提高考生平時練習的效率，有目標地進行考前突擊複習，我們特意編寫了SAT考試指導系列。
在編寫過程中，SAT教學專家仔細研究了歷年的SAT考題，並收集了大量美國歷史...

Chapter 1 Introduction and Analyses
A. About the SAT Test
B. About the SAT Critical Reading Section
Chapter 2 Preparation
A. Build Up Vocabulary Bank
B. Consolidate Grammar Knowledge
C. Read, Read, Read
Chapter 3 Tactics and Strategies
A. Before the Test
B. During the Test
Chapter 4 Practice Tests
A. Sentence Completion
B. Passage-Based Questions
C. Timed Tests
Answer Key
Explanations of Answer Key
References

Chapter 1 Introduction and Analyses
A. About the SAT Test
B. About the SAT Critical Reading Section
Chapter 2 Preparation
A. Build Up Vocabulary Bank
B. Consolidate Grammar Knowledge
C. Read, Read, Read
Chapter 3 Tactics and Strategies
A. Before the Test
B. During the Test
Chapter 4 Practice Tests
A. Sentence Completion
B. Passage-Based Questions
C. Timed Tests
Answer Key
Explanations of Answer Key
References