Test 01
Passage 1. The Strangeness of Beauty.......................................................................... 1
Passage 2. Money Can’t Buy Love.................................................................................. 5
Passage 3. Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid....... 10
Passage 4. Three Guineas............................................................................................. 14
Passage 5. Space Mining: the Next Gold Rush?........................................................ 19
Passage 6. Whey to Go................................................................................................... 24
Passage 7. Dark Snow.................................................................................................... 27
Passage 8. Coworking: A Creative Solution................................................................. 30
Passage 9. The Consolations of Philosophy................................................................ 33
Test 02
Passage 1. The Professor............................................................................................... 36
Passage 2. Can Economics Be Ethical?....................................................................... 40
Passage 3. The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains............................................... 43
Passage 4. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Address........................................................... 47
Passage 5. How 500-Meter-High Undersea Waves Form Is Revealed................... 52
Passage 6. Librarians Help Navigate in the Digital Age............................................. 56
Passage 7. Tiny Exhibit, Big Impact.............................................................................. 59
Passage 8. Environmentalist Otters.............................................................................. 62
Passage 9. A Quick Fix in a Throwaway Culture........................................................ 65
Test 03
Passage 1. The Schartz-Metterklume Method............................................................. 68
Passage 2. Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile......................... 72
Passage 3. Feather.......................................................................................................... 77
Passage 4. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman...................................................... 82
Passage 5. Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder Is Possibly Caused by a
Dietary Pyrethrum Deficiency..................................................................... 88
Passage 6. Shed Some Light on the Workplace......................................................... 93
Passage 7. Transforming the American West through Food and Hospitality......... 96
Passage 8. How Do You Like Those Apples?............................................................. 99
Passage 9. More than One Way to Dress a Cat....................................................... 102
Test 04
Passage 1. The Balloonist............................................................................................ 105
Passage 2. The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City.................. 110
Passage 3. Frankenstein’s Cat.................................................................................... 115
Passage 4. Reflections on the Revolution in France................................................ 120
Passage 5. Source of Mysterious Medieval Eruption Identified.............................. 124
Passage 6. Ghost Mural................................................................................................ 129
Passage 7. The Hype of Healthier Organic Food..................................................... 132
Passage 8. You Are Where You Say.......................................................................... 135
Passage 9. Creating Worlds: A Career in Game Design......................................... 138
Test 05
Passage 1. The Folded Leaf........................................................................................ 141
Passage 2. Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism........................................................ 146
Passage 3. Why Organic Agriculture May Not Be So Sustainable........................ 151
Passage 4. Why You Shouldn’t Trust Internet Comments...................................... 156
Passage 5. The Art and Science of Remembering Everything............................... 161
Passage 6. Prehistoric Printing.................................................................................... 166
Passage 7. Thomas Nast, the Crusading Cartoonist............................................... 169
Passage 8. Rethinking Crowdfunding in the Arts...................................................... 172
Passage 9. An Evolving American Tradition.............................................................. 175
Test 06
Passage 1. Nawabdin Electrician................................................................................ 179
Passage 2. Public Trust in the News.......................................................................... 184
Passage 3. Decoding a Flower’s Message................................................................ 188
Passage 4. Address to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois.............. 193
Passage 5. What Tech Is Next for the Solar Industry?............................................ 197
Passage 6. A Necessary Resource for Science........................................................ 202
Passage 7. A Little to the Left, but Not Too Much!................................................... 205
Passage 8. The Physician Assistant Will See You Now.......................................... 208
Passage 9. Gold into Silver: The “Reverse Alchemy” of Superhero Comics
History........................................................................................ 211
Test 07
Passage 1. Silas Marner............................................................................................... 214
Passage 2. How Technology Is Destroying Jobs...................................................... 219
Passage 3. Why Birds Fly in a V Formation.............................................................. 224
Passage 4. Enfranchisement of Women.................................................................... 229
Passage 5. How the Higgs Boson Was Found.......................................................... 234
Passage 6. NASA: A Space Program with Down-to-Earth Benefits...................... 239
Passage 7. Professional Development: A Shared Responsibility.......................... 243
Passage 8. The Evolution of Slow Food..................................................................... 247
Passage 9. Was the Hoax a Hoax?............................................................................ 250
Test 08
Passage 1. The Angel’s Game.................................................................................... 254
Passage 2. Why Null Results Rarely See the Light of Day..................................... 258
Passage 3. Salt Stretches in Nanoworld.................................................................... 262
Passage 4. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates................................................................. 266
Passage 5. What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses.............................. 270
Passage 6. Compost: Don’t Waste This Waste........................................................ 274
Passage 7. A Lion’s Share of Luck............................................................................. 277
Passage 8. Court Reporting: Humans VS. Machines.............................................. 280
Passage 9. Fire in Space.............................................................................................. 284
Test 09
Passage 1. The Bonesetter’s Daughter..................................................................... 287
Passage 2. How the Web Affects Memory................................................................. 291
Passage 3. What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live...... 294
Passage 4. A Speech at the Second Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women... 299
Passage 5. A New Antibiotic Found in Dirt Can Kill Drug-Resistant Bacteria...... 305
Passage 6. Survival in the Hostile Environment of NW Rora-1.............................. 310
Passage 7. Free Public Transportation...................................................................... 313
Passage 8. Wet Plate Photography: An Old Technique Makes a New Splash.... 315
Passage 9. Digging up Cities....................................................................................... 318
Test 10
Passage 1. The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia: A Novel........................................... 320
Passage 2. The Conundrum......................................................................................... 325
Passage 3. Pleasant to the Touch............................................................................... 329
Passage 4. March of the Flag...................................................................................... 334
Passage 5. Life under the Sun..................................................................................... 339
Passage 6. How a Cat in a Hat Changed Children’s Education............................ 344
Passage 7. Keep Student Volunteering Voluntary.................................................... 346
Passage 8. Marsupials Lend a Hand to Science...................................................... 349
Passage 9. An Employee Benefit That Benefits Employers.................................... 351
附錄
附錄一:SAT數(shù)學(xué)常見詞匯 ......................................................................................... 353
附錄二:SAT數(shù)學(xué)常見概念........................................................................................... 359