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1、SAT Practice Test#6IMPORTANT REMINDERS：t tA No.2 pencil is requiredfor the test.Do not use amechanical pencil or pen.Sharing any questionswithanyonelsa violationof the SAT ProgramsTest Security andFairness policies andmay result in your scoresbeing canceled.Requests to cancelscores must be receivedi
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3、marks of the College BoardTest begins on the next page.Reading Test65 MINUTES,52 QUESTIONSTurn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to answer the questions in this section.DIRECTIONSEach passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions.After readingeach passage or pair,choose the
4、best answer to each question based on what is stated orimplied in the passage or passages and in any accompanying graphics(such as a table orgraph).Questions 1-10 are based on the followingpassage.The passage below is an excerpt from the novel The Joy LuckClub,published in 1989 by Amy Tan.For the ta
5、lent show,I was to play a piece calledPleading Child“from Schumanns Scenes frontChildhood.It was a simple,moody piece that soundedline more difficult than it was.1 was supposed to memorize5 the whole thing,playing the repeat parts twice to makethe piece sound longer.But I dawdled over it,playinga fe
6、w bars and then cheating,looking up to see whatnotes followed.I neverreally listened to what I wasplaying.I daydreamed about being somewhere else,io about being someone else.The part I liked to practice best was the fancycurtsy:right foot out,touch the rose on the carpet witha pointed foot,sweep to
7、the side,left leg bends,look upand smile.15 My parents invited all the couples from thejoyLuck Club to wi tness my debu t.Auntie Lindo andUncle Tin were there.Waverly and her two olderbrothers had also come.The first two rows were filledwith children both younger and older than I was.The20 littlest
8、ones got to go first.They recited simple nurseryrhymes,squawked out tunes on miniature violins,twirled Hula Hoops,pranced in pink ballet tutus,andwhen they bowed or curtsied,the audience would sighin unison,Awww/and then clap enthusiastically.25 When my turn came,I was very confident.Iremember my ch
9、ildish excitement It was as ifl knew,without a doubt,tha t the prodigy side of me reallydid exist.I had no fear whatsoever,no nervousness.I remember thinking to myself,This is it!This is it!I30 looked out over the audience,atmy mothers blankface,my fathers yawn,Auntie Lindos stiff-lipped smile,Waver
10、lys sulky expression.I had on a white dresslayered with sheets of lace,and a pink bow in my PeterPanhaircut.As I satdown I envisioned peoplejumping35 to their feet and Ed Sullivan rushing up to introduce meto everyone on TV.And I started to play.It was so beautiful.I was socaught up in how lovely I
11、looked that at first I didntworry howl would sound.So it was a surprise to me40 when I hit the first wrong note and I realized somethingdidnt sound quite right.And then I hit another andanother followed that.A chill started at the top of myhead and began to trickle down.Yeti couldnt stopplaying,as t
12、hough my hands were bewitched.I kept45 thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back,likea train switching to the right track.I played this strangejumble through two repeats,the sour notes staying withme all the way to the end.When I stood up,I discovered my legs wereso shaking.Maybe I had just b
13、een nervous and theaudience,like Old Chong,had seen me go through theright motions and had not been able to hear anythingwrong at all.I swept my right foot out,went down onmy knee,looked up and smiled.The room was quiet,55 except for Old Chong,who was beaming and shouting,“Bravo!Bravo!Well done!But
14、then I saw my mothersface,her stricken face.The audience clapped weakly,and as I walked back to my chair,with my wholeUnauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal.CONTINUEface quivering as I tried not to cry,I heard a little boy60 whisper loudly to his mother,/zThat was awful/an
15、d themother whispered back,Well,she certainly tried.”And now I realized how many people were inthe audience,the whole world it seemed.I was awareof eyes burning into myback.Ifelt the shame of my65 mother and father as they sat stiffly throughout the restof the show.We could have escaped during inter
16、mission.Prideand some strange sense ofhonor musthave anchoredmyparentstotheirchairs.Andsowewatcheditall:70 the eighteen-year-old boy with a fake mustache whodid a magic show and juggled flaming hoops whileriding a unicycle.The breasted girl with white makeupwho sang from Madama Butterfly and got hon
17、orablemention.And the eleven-year-old boy who won first75 prize playing a tricky violin song that sounded like abusy bee.2The passage can be best summarized asA)a recounting of an embarrassing anecdote.B)an explanation of a life-changing experience.C)a description of the narrators childhood.D)a crit
18、ique of the narrators mischievous personality.In line 26,“childish most nearly meansA)strange.B)inconsiderate.C)foolish.D)exaggerated.ElThe repetition of This is it!in line 29 most likely servestoA)increase the feeling of anxiety.B)emphasize the narrators level of excitement.C)reinforce the narrator
19、s arrogance.D)introduce tension into the narrative.Over the course of the passage,the narrators attitudeshifts fromA)childish excitement to undeserved fear.B)genuine interest to angry embarrassment.C)unqualified superiority to abject self-loathing.D)overconfidence to unexpected disappointment.Unauth
20、orized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal.CONTINUEQParagraph six,lines 49 to 61,best serves to provideA)a further illustration of the narrators delusionaloptimism.B)a detailed characterization of other people in thestory.C)a sudden contrast from previous expectations andexcitement.
21、D)an explanation for the narrators disappointment inherself.From the description of Old Chong in paragraph six,itcan be inferred thatA)Old Chong has low expectations of the childrensperformances.B)Old Chong does not like to embarrass children inpublic.C)Old Chong is a very caring father figure to th
22、enarrator.D)Old Chong enjoyed the performance because hedidnt hear any mistakes.7Which choice provides the best evidence for the answerto the previous question?A)Lines 50-53(z,Maybe I had just.anything wrongat air)B)Lines 53-54(Z/I swept my.up and smiled,)C)Lines54-56(The room was quiet.Welldone,)D)
23、Lines 57-61(The audience clapped.she certainlytried)As used in line 64,“burning“most nearly meansA)B)C)D)glowing,baking.raging.glaring.ElWhat is the main purpose of the statements in lines 69-76(And so we.like a busy bee)？A)Toshow how the other contestants are morediligent than the narratorB)To demo
24、nstrate a characteristic mentioned aboutthe narrators parentsC)To mock the other childrens performancesD)Toexplain the narrators sense ofjealousy andbitterness皿From the passage,it can be most reasonably concludedthatA)the narrator is lazy and does not try to succeed inanything.B)the narrator assumed
25、 she was skillful at playing thepiano.C)the narrator is overconfident because she has noparticular talents.D)the narrator does not care abou timpressing herparents.Which choice provides the best evidence for the answerto the previous question?A)Lines 8-10(I never really.being someone else)B)Lines32-
26、36(I had on.everyone on TV)C)Lines 37-41(/yAnd I started.sound quite righf7)D)Lines 63-66(I was aware of.the rest of theshow)5Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal.CONTINUEQuestions 12-21 are based on the followingpassage.This passage was adapted from a speech given by Su
27、san B.Anthony in 1872 after she was arrested for voting in the 1872Presidential Election.Susan B.Anthony was at the forefront offighting for womens right to vote in American politics.Friends and fellow citizens;I stand before youtonight under indictment for the alleged crime ofhaving voted at the la
28、st presidential election,withoutUne having a lawful right to vote.It shall be my work this5 evening to prove to you tha t in thus doing,I not onlycommitted no crime,but,instead,simply exercised mycitizens rights,guaranteed to me and all United Statescitizens by the by the Constitution,beyond the pow
29、erof any State to deny.io Our democratic-republican government is basedon the idea of the natural right of every individualmember thereof to a voice and a vote in makingand executing the laws.We assert the province ofgovernment to be to secure the people in the enjoyment15 of their inalienable right
30、.Wethrow to the winds theold dogma tha t government can give righ ts.Noonedenies that before governments were organized eachindividual possessed the right to protect his own life,liberty and property.When 100 to 1,000,000 people20 enter into a free government,they do notbarter awaytheir natural righ
31、ts;they simply pledge themselves toprotect each other in the enjoyment of them throughprescribed judicial and legislative tribunals.They agreeto abandon the methods of brute force in the adjustment25 of their differences and adopt those of civilization.The Declaration of Independence,the United Stat
32、esConstitution,the constitutions of the several states andthe organic laws o fthe territories,all alike propose toprotect the people in the exercise of their God-given30 rights.Notoneof them pretends to bestow rights.The preamble of the Constitution says:We,the people of the United States,in order t
33、o forma more perfect union,establish justice,insure domestictranquility,provide for the common defense,promote35 the general welfare,and secure the blessings of liberty toourselves and our posterity,do ordain and establish thisConstitution for the United States of America.It was we,the people;not we
34、z the white malecitizens;nor we,the male citizens;but we,the whole40 people,who formed the Union.And we formed it,notto give the blessings of liberty,but to secure them;notto the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity,butto the whole people women as well as men.And it is adownrightmockery t
35、otalktowomenoftheirenjoyment45 of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the useof the only means of securing them provided by thisdemocratic-republican governmenttheballot.Charles Sumner,inhisbraveprotestsagainst theFourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments,insisted thatso as soon as by the Thirt
36、eenth Amendment the slavesbecame free men,the original powers of the UnitedStates Constitution guaranteed to them equal rights-the right to vote and to be voted for.When,in 1871,1asked that senator to declare the power of the United55 States Constitution to protect women in their rightto vote-as he
37、had done forblack men-he handed mea copy of all his speeches during that reconstructionperiod,and said:Put sex where I have race or/zcolor/and6。you have here the best and strongest argument I canmake for woman.There is not a doubt but womenhave the constitutional right to vote,and I will nevervote f
38、or a Sixteenth Amendment to guarantee it tothem.I voted for both the Fourteenth and Fifteenth65 under protest;would have insisted that the power ofthe original Constitution to protect all citizens in theequal enjoyment of their rights should have vindicatedthrough the courts.But,friends,when in acco
39、rdance with Senator70 Sumners counsel I went to the ballot-box lastNovember,and exercised my citizens right to vote,thecourts did not wait for me to appeal to them theyappealed to me,and indicted me on the charge ofhaving voted illegally.75 Though the words persons,“people,“inhabitance,“electors,”ci
40、tizens,“are all usedindiscriminately in the national and state constitutionsthere was always a conflict ofopinion,prior to thewar,as to whether they were synonymous terms,but80 whatever room there was for doubt,under the oldregime,the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendmentsettled that question forever
41、 in its first sentence.All persons bom or naturalized in the United Sates,and subject to thejurisdiction85 thereof,are citizens of the United States,and of the statewherein they reside.The only question left to be settled now is:Arewomen persons?And I hardly believe any of ouropponentswill have the
42、hardihood tosaytheyarenot.90 Being persons,then,women are citizens and no statehas a right to make any law,or to enforce any old law,that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.6CONTINUEUnauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal.The main purpose of the passage is toA)arg
43、ue that women are considered persons andshould thus be protected by the US Constitution.B)present evidence that the US Constitution isshamefully stripping away the basic rights ofwomen.C)criticize men for neglecting the voting rights ofwomen guaranteed under the US Constitution.D)contend that women
44、already have the right to votebased on the US Constitution.Anthonys speech is delivered from the perspective ofA)an angry feminist deceived by a sexist system.B)a passionate activist who believes her argument isjustified.C)a criminal who is mistreated too harshly anddeserves sympathy.D)an eager citi
45、zen who demanded too much toosoon.As used in line 13,“province“most nearly meansA)responsibility.B)region.C)administration.D)power.The author mentions the preamble of the Constitutionmainly in order toA)explain that the male writers of the Constitutionforgot to consider womens rights.B)serve as evid
46、ence for her central argument onwomens voting rights.C)assert that womenhave a central role in providingdomestic justice and tranquility.D)argue that the preamble needs to be changed sothat women can have equal rights.Which choice provides the best evidence for the answerto the previous question?A)L
47、ines26-30(The Deci a rati on bestow rights)B)Lines 38-43(/zIt was we.well as men)C)Lines48-53(CharlesSumner.voted for)D)Lines 59-64(zzPut/sex,.it to them)As used in line 44,“mockery most nearly meansA)consternation.B)sham.C)insult.D)critique.The author references African Americans primarily inorder
48、toA)illustratethatthestrugglesofwomenandblacksinAmerica share the same history.B)argue that African Americans should support herargument.C)state that African Americans are central in helpingwomen gain voting rights.D)demonstrate that womens rights should be justifiedlike those of African Americans.B
49、ased on the speech,the relationship between thegovernment and its people is most analogous toA)a teachergivingrewards to thebeststudents inclass.B)a referee enforcing rules in order to protect theplayers safety.C)a mother providing and caring for her children sothat they will grow up healthy.D)a sch
50、ool providing skills and knowledge to itsstudents so they can better function in society.Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page is illegal.7CONTINUEWhich choice provides the best evidence for the answerto the previous question?A)Lines 10-15(Z/Ourdemocratic.inalienableright,)B)Lines 1