8 月北美 SAT 考試已經結束瞭，這場考試對早申十分重要，好在目前我們收到的反饋都還不錯，大部分同學反應比較簡單，當然，這與大傢暑期的刻苦復習是非不開的，先預祝每個小夥伴都能取得理想的分數。
加試
這次考試中，選擇不考作文的同學碰到瞭加試。加試時長 20 分鐘，從閱讀、語法、數學的三種題型中選擇一種，其中，大部分同學遇到的數學部分，都是允許使用計算器的。
閱讀
閱讀整體難度一般，但行號題有變少趨勢，比如第一篇除瞭詢證和詞匯題之外其他細節題幾乎全是靠關鍵字定位，其他部分的細節題即使有行號，也問的比較細，需要不斷對比找出答案。
這次 8 月閱讀部分對大傢的閱讀能力和把握關鍵位置的能力有更高要求。這也很可能是接下來新 SAT 閱讀的趨勢，在接下來的復習中，大傢要註意訓練把握關鍵位置的能力。 歷史雙篇依舊是相對難度較高的一篇，一直建議閱讀能力不是特別強，或者不是要追求特別高分的把雙篇放在最後做 ; 科學三篇難度從易到難排列，重點句還是那些經典位置，但是整體還是問得細，題目和選項文字長，與近期真題難度接近。 文章順序為：文學作品 - 歷史文獻 ( 對比文章 ) - 自然科學 - 社會科學 - 自然科學。下面依次來看。
第一篇：文學作品
文章來源：Paul Laurence Dunbar 的 "The Sport of the Gods" 內容簡介：寫 Kitty 覺得 Martin 對大傢非常嚴厲，她覺得十分憤怒和不公平，但還是會服從他的 instructions。在她唱歌的過程中十分緊張，唱到一半的時候 Martin 笑瞭，她就覺得自己唱得肯定非常差，後來她的朋友告訴她其實她唱得很不錯。Martin 的笑也是對她的肯定。 文章節選：
"Now, now," he would shout, "theleft foot on that beat. Bah, bah, stop! You walk like a lot of tin soldiers.Are your joints rusty? Do you want oil? Look here, Taylor, if I did n't knowyou, I 'd take you for a truck. Pick up your feet, open your mouths, and move,move, move! Oh!" and he would drop his head in despair. "And to thinkthat I 've got to do something with these things in two weeks--two weeks!"Then he would turn to them again with a sudden reaccession of eagerness."Now, at it again, at it again! Hold that note, hold it! Now whirl, and onthe left foot. Stop that music, stop it! Miss Coster, you'll learn that step inabout a thousand years, and I 've got nine hundred and ninety-nine years andfifty weeks less time than that to spare. Come here and try that step with me.Don't be afraid to move. Step like a chicken on a hot griddle!" And someblushing girl would come forward and go through the step alone before all therest.
第二篇：歷史文獻 ( 對比文章 )
文章來源：Who Should be Allowed to Vote? Passage 1 作者：James Kent Passage 2 作者：David Buel 內容簡介：兩篇文章都是關於 Constitution 的一個要求：隻有擁有財產的男性才能夠獲得選舉權。Passage 1 的觀點表示贊同，主題句出現在全文首句：The tendency of uninversal suffrage, is to jeopardize the rights of porperty, and the principles of liberty. Passage 2 則表示瞭反對的觀點，主題句出現在第二段首句：I contend, that by the ture principle of our government, porperty, as such, is not the basis of representation.
第三篇：自然科學
文章來源：Memory in Plants 文章作者：P.H. 內容簡介：植物是否具備記憶力 ? 研究者觀察含羞草為例子，測試從高處丟下來，觀察葉子是否會收攏。實驗結果表明含羞草能夠通過記憶學會不收瞭葉子作為防禦措施。文章還描述瞭兩種不同的實驗，以表明不同的含羞草葉子打開的程度不一樣，另外在遇到其他威脅的時候，含羞草還是有相應的反應的。 文章節選：
More than a century ago Bengali polymath SirJagadish Chandra Bose posited that plants could feel, learn and remember, andmore recent studies have confirmed they can store and recall biological data.But research by Monica Gagliano of the University of Western Australia ( UWA ) and three fellow scientists goes much further. This study, published inOecologia, offers proof that plants not only learn from experience, butremember what they have learned over relatively long periods.
第四篇：社會科學
文章來源：Why so cynical 文章作者：Detief Fetchenhauer and David Dunning 內容簡介：研究人與人之間的信任，安排瞭兩組人做實驗。一方選擇另外一方作為自己信任的人，把自己手上的前交給對方。被選擇信任的人得到交給他的錢後，可以選擇將錢變多，分一半給選擇自己的人或者自己獨吞。實驗表明，被選擇的人往往會感激選擇自己的人，把錢分一半給對方。但是選擇的人往往不相信自己選的人會給自己錢。 ( 人與人之間的信任是如何崩塌的 ) 文章節選：
They under estimate how often others respond generously to requests for help ( Flynn& Lake, 2008 ) and overestimate how much others ’ attitudes and actions aredriven by selfish concerns ( Miller, 1999 ) . To be sure, there is contrary evidence showing that people can be roughly realistic in anticipating the altruism of others ( Balcetis & Dunning, 2008; Balcetis, Dunning, &Miller, 2008; Epley & Dunning, 2000, 2006 ) , but an increasing body ofevidence suggests that when people are contemplating whether they should relyon the kindness of strangers, they suspect those strangers will prove more selfish than actually is the case.
第五篇：自然科學
文章來源：The deadly dynamics of landsilde 文章作者：Sigma Xi 內容簡介：講述的是一塊會滑動的石頭，石頭為什麼會滑動呢 ? 文章內給出瞭兩個解釋：一個解釋是說空氣使得這塊石頭滑動瞭，但是後面又否定瞭。第二個解釋是說因為是水，並且認為這個解釋的可能性更大。 文章節選：
Approximately 17,000 years ago, a volume of rock equal to a cube about a half-mile on a sideroared out of a steep canyon in the San Bernardino Mountains in southern California. It originated 1,500 feet above the canyon bottom. Rocks in theslide, already fractured at the start of the event, shattered on impact withthe canyon bottom, forming intricate three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles. Whenthis event, known as the Blackhawk slide, exited from the canyon, it ran outacross a nearly flat valley floor for five miles. Amazingly, the pieces of the jigsaw puzzles stayed together as the slide zoomed along at nearly 75 miles an hour.
語法
這次考試難度偏容易，基礎語法點考察的題目偏多，而涉及文章閱讀部分的考察題目較少，主要把語法的基礎點都掌握好，拿到高分甚至滿分不是難事。
數學
數學題目也偏容易，大傢隻要做到細心即可。目前反映 " 題目中有個別不確定 " 的同學，基本都是碰到瞭生詞。
寫作
作文部分的閱讀難度不高，相對好寫。 文章選自：the wall street journal 作者：Peter Downs。 文章題目：Can't find skilled workers? Start an apprentice program 原文鏈接：http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24016 文章內容： 1 One key element to a competitive workforce almost entirely overlooked in the U.S. is apprenticeships. These days, American businesses typically want someone else — trade schools, community colleges, universities or even the federal government — to train their future employees. If potential future job seekers haven't been provided with the training they need, many businesses expect job seekers to take all the responsibility on themselves, often taking on serious debt without any guarantee of future employment.
2 Worse, in the face of greater competition, many American employers are slashing training budgets and running employment software that rejects every applicant who doesn't already have the perfect combination of training and experience to perform the job on day one. Then employers lament that job applicants don't already know how to do the jobs that they want them to do. So shortsighted is this attitude that some construction companies that don't support apprenticeship programs complain that companies that do have such programs aren't training enough new workers. Yes, you read that right.
3 This sense of entitlement contrasts sharply with attitudes in some of the world's most competitive countries, where businesses are highly involved in preparing future workers through apprenticeships. In Switzerland, 70% of young people age 15-19 apprentice in hundreds of occupations, including baking, banking, health care, retail trade and clerical careers. In Germany, 65% of youth are in apprenticeships; in Austria 55%. All three countries have youth unemployment rates less than half of America's 16%.
4 Last year, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, the Slovak Republic and Spain all asked Germany to help them set up similar systems. In 1997, Britain introduced a program called Modern Apprenticeships, based on the German model, and enrollment has increased every year. It now stands at 858,900. In 2012, the U.K. added apprenticeship programs for commercial pilots, lawyers, engineers and accountants that are considered the equivalent of a college education.
5 The U.S. is headed in the opposite direction. The number of apprenticeship programs has fallen by one-third in the last decade. With only 330,578 registered apprentices in 2013, the U.S. had less than 40% of the number in Britain, a country one-fifth as populous.
6 There are glimmers of hope that the U.S. — or at least some savvy industries — might be starting to embrace apprenticeship. In St. Louis, technology entrepreneur Jim McKelvey convinced several large employers last year — including Enterprise, Monsanto and Rawlings — that it doesn't take a college education to become good at computer programming. What it takes is working with an experienced programmer.
7 These employers joined with Mr. McKelvey to set up what is essentially an apprenticeship program called LaunchCode. The program takes people with basic programming skills, pays them $15 an hour, and pairs them with experienced programmers for two years to give them the training to secure jobs as coders.
8 Some employers think apprenticeships could also work in other high-tech, high-growth industries. In recent years, the U.S. Office for Apprenticeships has registered new apprenticeship programs in information technology, health care, biotechnology and geospatial technology.
9 There is evidence that such apprenticeships can do more than just train young people for future careers: They can also improve student academic performance. In the few U.S. school districts that have offered apprenticeships, high-school juniors and seniors who have been apprentices have improved in the classroom.
10 In the Bayless School District in suburban St. Louis, for example, students who entered the district's Middle Apprenticeship Program with the Carpenters' Union had better attendance than before entering the program. The mean grade point average for these students was 1.7 at the end of their sophomore year, before they entered the apprenticeship program. By senior year, it was 3.13. They graduated with better attendance and better grades than did a group of similar students who weren't in the program.
11 To the extent that the American business community is involved in education reform, they are typically investing in faddish reforms such as banning tenure, that, even if passed, would do little to ensure the competitiveness of the nation's workforce. If this same money and effort went into pushing for a two-track education system — college or apprenticeship — it would do far more to produce students prepared to compete in the 21st-century economy.
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